Machida

> "*If triumph is what you seek, then you must abandon everything to archieve it!! That's because... the Goddess of Victory will show no favor to those who don't give it their all!!*"
> ― Machida[source]
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**Machida** (町田, *Machida*) is a background character of the *Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro* manga series. She is a high school student and schoolmate of Senpai at Kainan Art Preparation School as well as a member of its "Triumvirate" alongside Aihara and Hashimoto, whom later become known as the "Big Four" after Senpai join them.

Her first name is currently unknown.

## Appearance

Machida is an attractive, average-statured high schooler with long blonde hair kept mostly loose, albeit the flanks are held in twin tails. Her left ear is pierced and she occasionally wear a circular earring on it. She has a light complexion and large, bright brown eyes. Machida has a lean, busty and well-proportioned physique, despite not an athletic one, and her height is slightly above shoulder-level with Senpai. She usually sports an apathic expression, but can be seen smirking when she feels at ease with someone, or lashing out in anger due to her fiercy temper.

She seems to prefer comfort over style, as she usually wears loose t-shirts, sweatpants and sneakers as well as going barefoot in her art class whenever possible. However, she was also later seen wearing a black goth-style dress with leather combat boots and a choker.

### Gallery

Machida's first outfitMachida's second outfitMachida's third outfit
## Personality

Machida is an extremely passionate, dedicated and hard-working girl, as she's known to always be the first one coming to Kainan Art Preparation School every morning, thus her painting skills being praised by both students and teachers, with Senpai describing Machida's art as "leagues ahead of his" and "too good". Machida is not very open towards other people, as she is hesitant when Senpai approached her and is a little harsh to him at first; however, she seems flattered by his praise for her artistic skills, and afterwards quickly get along with him. Also, she's fiercly competitive and her willingness to go any distance in order to achieve her goals made her quite prone to put herself in difficult situations without thinking. Machide is so determinated about her artistic goal that, in order to pursue it, she dedicated herself completely to art, claiming to be willing to throw away everything else in her life for it. She also stated that her talent is the result of hard work and practice rather than being "a natural" or "a genius".

She is very level-headed, seems indifferent to praise, and openly dislikes the nickname "Triumvirate" given to her, Aihara and Hashimoto, preferring not to hear it, and is mostly nonchalant about "Big Four"; despite this somewhat prickly exterior she kindly smiles when Senpai compliments her skills or gave her kind words in a moment of discomfort. According to Arihara, Machida is all about meritocracy, also, among her friends and teachers, she's known - and feared - for having a temper and tendency to "lash out" when challenged.

Despite seemingly aggressive and prone to act on instinct, however, she's also very respectful of other people's privacy, as proven when she decide not to bother Nagatoro and Senpai while they had lunch together on the roof. Moreover, she's perfectly capable of understanding her errors and apologize to those she wronged.

## Biography

### Early life

Machida was born in Hayama, Kanagawa, where she became a student at an unknown high school, developing an interest for art and eventually joining the courses of Kainan Art Preparation School for at least a couple of years, becoming one of the top students, and getting the nickname of "Kainan Arts Oil Painting Triumvirate" alongside Aihara and Hashimoto.

Due to her commitment on focusing only in her artistic career, Machida never ever had a boyfriend nor any significant relationships with the opposite sex.

Machida also got acquainted with Sana Sunomiya when the latter was attending Kainan while at her last year of high school; however, while the aforementioned got so impressed by her skills to start considering them far superior to hers, Machida took a deep dislike for the older girl, considering her "an exibithionist" and "her natural enemy" due to her natural talent.

### Story arcs

#### Kainan's Big Four

Somewhat in August before Kainan's mock exam, she gained once again the first place in the cram school's evauation; later, she discussed about the course's newcomer, Senpai, calling him an amateur for joining it so late in his school career. The following day, wanting to step out of his confort zone, Senpai approached Machida asking her to sit behind her and to show him how she did due to really like her painting style. At first hesitant, the girl than gladly accepted and, by the end of the day, Senpai made friends with the "Triumvirate" and walk home with them. However, seeing the four - especially Machida pacing an hand on the boy's shoulder -, Nagatoro gets jealous and steps, in thanking them for looking after him, right before being introduced to them as his kōhai. As the pair walk away Aihara and Hashimoto comment on Nagatoro being Senpai's girlfriend, while Machida remarks that there is more to Hachiouji than meets the eye.

The following day, due to Senpai's improving scores and friendship with the Triumvirate, the teacher declared that from that moment on they would have been the school's "Big Four". As they shared drink to celebrate the moment, Hashimoto and Aihara asked Senpai about his girlfriend, prompting him to admit Nagatoro was not; right at that moment the girl came into the room - having been paying a visit to him - and is visibly sad to confirm his statement. Both Hashimoto and Aihara got flirty with Nagatoro, immediately causing Machida to scold them due to being close to their entrance exams, which she considered a matter of pass or fail and to whom she had thrown away everything else. Hearing this, Nagatoro is stunned, recognizing Orihara's passion in Machida, however Senpai confess that he simply can't throw everything away for it and declared his intention to beat her at their upcoming entrance exam.

After hearing it, Machida lashed out in anger with Aihara and Hashimoto ineffectively trying to calm her down. Then Kainan's teachers entered the room explaining they need a new person to be the model for the rough sketch portion of the first day of mock exam, thus proposing it to Nagatoro, who glady accept. Later, as Senpai become worried the girl would have had to nude model and was reassured by the teacher that it won't be the case due to making someone underage do it being a crime, Aihara and Hashimoto deduced the pair have done it before. This ultimately caused Machida to snap proposing a bet to Senpai: the one who gain the lower score at mock exam would have posed nude for the other.

At first stunned, the boy tried to explain that he didn't wanted to bet anything nor pick a fight with her, however when Machida start question his seriousness about getting the first place, he promptly accept her bet.

On August 26th, Machida has the mock exam and, during lunch break, hearing Nagatoro and Senpai would have had handmade bentos together, she stood up with an angry look, causing Aihara and Hashimoto to offer to take care of her while the pair had their bentos, despite Machida claimed she was simply going to eat. Later, she go to the roof in order to smoke a cigarette but, noticing Senpai and Nagatoro intent on talking, started to go back so as not to disturb them, however she stopped after overhearing the boy claiming that he stopped abandoned everything and instead wanting to stuck with what he cared the most due to that making him a better artist; words that deeply affected Machida.
After lunch break she finished her sketching session and, seeing Senpai's painting, recognized its superiority, thus apologizing for claiming that her life philosohpy was the only right one; however she told him that despite her loss on the first day of the mock exam, she would have make up for it during the second.

On the following day, she has lunch break with Aihara, Hashimoto and Senpai, who explained his plan to confess to Nagatoro if he get first place just like the latter planned to share a kiss with him if winning agains Orihara. The trio playfully laugh it off as overcomplicating the matter, then they noticed the similarities between his paining styles and Sunomiya's, whom he explain was his mentor, causing Machida to burst out in anger. Later at the end of mock exam, she parted amicably with Senpai; when the results were published, she score the third place after him and Aihara.

Seeing Senpai depressed, Machida tried to confort him alongside Hshimoto and Aihara himself, but to no avail; however they were subsequently joined by the Sunomiya girls who managed to restore the boy's spirit eventually leading for them all to go cheering for Nagatoro at the tournament. However, during their trip, "her natural enemy" reminded her of the bet she lose about posing nude.

After arriving at the stadium, she and the rest of the group joined Sakura, Yoshi, Rabi-chan and Nekoba in the stand to watch Orihara's match. Machida deemed the latter as way stronger than Nagatoro, causing Hashimoto and Aihara to compare their dynamic to that between her and the older Sunomiya; however hearing this Senpai stated that Nagatoro would have had a comeback that very same day, and thus the same thing would have happened for Machida too on the following year's mock exam. Later at lunch break, Machida and the whole gang rejoined the judokas deciding where to eat.

Later on she assisted at the match between Nagatoro and Orihara, where the former eventually score a full point and managed to win.

## Appearances

### *Manga*

* Chapter 128
* Chapter 129
* Chapter 130
* Chapter 131
* Chapter 132
* Chapter 133
* Chapter 134
* Chapter 135
* Chapter 137
* Chapter 138 (cameo)
* Chapter 140 (cameo)
* Chapter 141
* Chapter 142 (cameo)

## Trivia

* Her surname is revealed in Chapter 128 to be Machida (町田, *Machida*), a common Japanese surname lieterally meaning "town ricefield".
	+ Her name might be a reference to Machida Station in Tokyo prefecture.
* Given that she seem to be few inches taller than Nagatoro (150 cm) her height could be estimated as approximately 160 cm.
* Chapter 129 confirmed that she's the same grade of Senpai also, in Chapter 131, Kainan's teacher said the challenge between her and the boy about drawing each other nude was "ok" due to both of them being not underage; confirming she's 18.
* Machida is the fifth character after Rabi-chan, Shikki, Aihara and Hashimoto whose name was revealed on her first appearance.
* The character has a slight visual resemblance to Asuka Langley Soryu from *Neon Genesis Evangelion*, especially how Nanashi draws her on his fan illustrations on Pixiv.
* She's a smoker and her cigarette brand of choice seem to be Marlboro albeit the logo not being cleary visible.
* Machida and Sunomiya are the only characters, outside Nagatoro and Senpai, to have somewhat taken part to the putting that aside joke.

## References

 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 131, page 5.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 129, page 15.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 129, page 22.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 19.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 17-19.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 18.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 18.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 129, page 15.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 6.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 132, page 1.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 9.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 7.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 15-16.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 10.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 16.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 17.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 1-4.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 6.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 18-19.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 22-23.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 129, page 24.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 134, page 9.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 7.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 129, page 15.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 17.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 137, page 21.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 10.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 5-6.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 19-21.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 134, page 11.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 132, page 17.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 133, page 8.
33. ↑ Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Official Fanbook, The Town in Which Nagatoro-san Live.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 5-6.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 7.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 129, page 23-24.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 131, page 18.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 134, page 9.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 9-10.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 128, page 13-24.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 129, page 14-27.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 130, page 1-23.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 131, page 1-4.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 132, page 1-10.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 132, page 17-24.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 133, page 4-11.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 134, page 3-13.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 134, page 26.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 135, page 2-26.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 137, page 15-23.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 140, page 3.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 141, page 1-22.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 142, page 1.
54. ↑ Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Official Fanbook, Main Character Introduction: Nagatoro.
 Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: Chapter 132, page 17.