Nanami Tomori

* TYBW
* Pre-Timeskip
* Hell Arc

### Relatives

Shinji Hirako (Boyfriend), Rina Hirako (Daughter), Kohana Hirako (Daughter), Sayaka Hirako (Daughter)

## Debut & Voice Actors

### Manga Debut

Volume 11, Chapter 89: *Masterly And Farewell*

### Japanese Voice Actor

Hayami Saori

Nanami Tomori (友利 七海, *Tomori Nanami*) is the co-lieutenant of the 4th division along with Kiyone Kotetsu serving under Captain Isane Kotetsu. She used to be part of the 5th divison as their 3rd seat until Echoing Jaws of Hell Arc.

## Appearance

Nanami is a petite shinigami. She has pale skin covered with acne, spreading all across her face, mostly on the bottom of her cheeks, along with dark purple eyes. She has pink messy fluffy hair, usually tied into two low pigtails. On her left pigtail, she wears a strawberry shaped hair tie gifted by Shinji Hirako, as she reminds him of a strawberry because of her pink hair and acne. Her bangs are quite long, reaching right under her nose. Only a strand of hair remains on her forehead, the rest being put aside. Nanami wears the standard Shinigami uniform, adding a white tasuki to it in order to tie her sleeves, not to be bothered by them.

When she joined the Gotei 13, Nanami wore her hair way longer, reaching her back. She cut them shoulder lenght after Shinji's returns as a captain to match him.

After the Quincy War, she cuts her hair shorter, in a bob cut and now wears the strawberry on the side of her bangs. After becoming a lieutenant, she ties the insignia to her tasuki on her shoulder.

## Personality

Nanami is an extremely cheerful, bubbly and often ditzy girl who comes off as easily excitable, always seen wearing a smile. She is very energetic and cannot stay at the same place for more than 5 minutes. She is rather clueless and lacks of common sense, always doing silly things, such as opening a Garganta in her barracks. She tends to skips her duties as a Shinigami to wander in the World of the Living to experience human things, such as camping (one of her favourite hobbies). Very teasing, she also loves doing silly pranks to others, specially to her closest friends, often leading her into trouble. Despite getting scolded by her superiors everytime, she doesn't care at all and keeps acting the way she wants.

She can be pretty capricious and childlike if things doesn't go her way. Nanami is also an extremely honest person and won't hesitate to say rude words if she estimates it necessary.

Nanami's childish behavior is disliked by many people among the Gotei 13. They consider her being too loud, selfish and inconsiderate. Also, she has an extremely high competitive spirit and will argue endlessy with someone, only because they disagree about a silly matter.

The truth is that Nanami actually craves for attention and wants to be recognized. She cares about her friends more than anyone else and is always up to hang out and spend time with them. Her friends will say that despite her chaotic attitude, she's actually a very sweet person who simply enjoys life a bit too much.

## History

### Human life

Nanami was born during the Edo Period, on August 3rd 1699. She was the second daughter of a family from the high nobility. She lived a peaceful and wealthy life, growing up within a loving family.

Nanami was already very energetic back then and often got in troubles because of her disruptive behavior. Nevertheless, her presence would always make people feel happy thanks to her sunshine personality and was extremely apprecied among everyone.

Her death was a mere accident. Running after an animal, she fell down the river when she was 8 and drowned.

### Rukongai

After dying, Nanami wandered around the river where she drown. She didn't understand what happened, and what could possibly be that chain linked to her heart. After being sent to the Soul Society, she lived in the province of Junrinan in the 1st District of West Rukongai, where Toshirou Hitsugaya and Momo Hinamori will also reside decades later. Nanami was known as a troublemaker out there. She would often wander everywhere, even in far away districts. As a wandering soul, and despite her low Reiatsu, she was able to control over it and to use a little bit of Kidō already.

She met Ikkaku Madarame that way. The two of them would often fight and try to surpass each other. To that day, they're still rivals and always arguing about who's the strongest between them.

She also met Shinji Hirako for the first time back when she lived in the Rukongai. Lieutenant back then, he was in duty to get rid of Hollows who showed up there. Stubborn as ever, and way too confident about her poor Kidō techniques, Nanami tried to kill the Hollows by herself and rejected Shinji, literally trying to blast him with a Kidō technique. The two of them will not meet again for another 90 years.

She decides to become a Shinigami some time after.

### Shin'ō Academy

Nanami always have been a lazy person. She was academically very bad and never was the kind to make efforts to improve herself. She would constantly fail every theoric test.

She was naturally gifted with an outstanding physical strenght, and so, managed to master Hakuda quite easily.

Nanami's Reiatsu always have been quite low, but had an astonishing control over it. Fully hiding her Reiatsu was as easy as breathing for her. Thanks to that, she excelled really quickly at Kidō and Kaidō.

However, she did very bad at Zanjutsu. She wasn't even able to hold her Asauchi properly. It took her 40 more years to achieve her Shikai after her graduation.

After graduating from the academy, she joined the 4th division serving under Captain Retsu Unohana.

### Debut as a Shinigami: 4th division

Around 100 years after dying, Nanami finally joined the Gotei 13. Her Kidō and Kaidō abilities quickly allowed her to become a seated officer among 4th division.

Nanami was particulary close to her Captain Unohana. She had a huge respect and admiration towards her. Unohana was always very kind and fair to Nanami. Nanami considered her as a mother figure.

Her relationship with Seinosuke Yamada was a bit different. The both of them mutually despised each other. Both having a confident and quite arrogant personality, they would always get in conflict. Nanami had one specific goal: taking his seat as the 4th division's lieutenant. Nanami only being the 11th seat, Seinosuke would always look down on her, thing that never missed to piss off Nanami. She will never admit it, but she learned a lot from him, specially for Kidō spells and is somewhat grateful about it.

### Transfer to the 5th division

Nanami loved being in the 4th division. She loved her captain and division as a whole. Unohana felt the same towards Nanami. But she noticed that, if Nanami stayed in the 4th division, she would never grow up as a Shinigami and as a being. At that time, Nanami didn't even learned her Zanpakutō's name.

That's how Nanami ended up being transfered to the 5th division, serving captain under Shinji Hirako. Even 90 years after their first meeting, they somehow remembered each other. The two of them didn't get along at first at all and had very low opinions about each other. Gradually, they're going to appreciate each other's presence. Still arguing over everything, they slowly got closer. Nanami would love to annoy, tease and flirt with him. After unwillingly falling in love, they start dating a few decades before Turn Back the Pendulum events.

## Plot

### The execution

*TW/Miscarriage*

During Turn Back The Pendulum events, Nanami was not present and stayed at the 5th barracks. She also hasn't been used for Aizen's experiments. She only knew what happened after learning about Shinji and the others's sentence to be executed as Hollows.

Nanami is someone who completely gets controlled by her emotion and is extremely hot-headed. She stormed at the Central 46 chamber to make herself heard and nearly killed one of its members out of rage. She was arrested and sentenced to death soon after. While being jailed in the Senzaikyu, she learned that Shinji and the others vanished before their sentence, but couldn't do anything but wait for her own execution.

A few days before her execution, she received an unexpected visit. Nanami knew about Shinji's suspicions about Aizen. She also understood that everything happened because of him. Yet, Aizen stood here, in front of her, claiming her execution was revoked and she was free again. For long, Nanami didn't understand how Aizen could possibly have had such a impact on her sentence, until she discovered his Zanpakutō's true ability.

There was one reason why Aizen couldn't let Nanami get killed. The very first existence of a being born from a Shinigami and a Hollow. Nanami indeed got pregnant a few days before Turn Back The Pendulum events, when Shinji's soul already had been mixed with a Hollow soul.

Aizen made sure Nanami wouldn't speak a word about him and she had no choice but to rejoin the 5th division under Aizen's orders. Without any surprise, the baby did not survive as Nanami wasn't able to sustain a Hollow.

Despite developping a strong separation anxiety and sickening hatred toward Aizen, Nanami is going to mostly recover from the events. During 100 years, she will never stop loving Shinji and will wait for him to come back, full of hope.

## Powers and abilities

**Healer master**: As the lieutenant of the 4th division, Nanami excels in healing techniques. She can provide medical attention very carefully and quickly. However, Nanami can be very abrupt during her treatments

**Kidō expert**: Nanami is highly proficient in Kidō spells. She can use high-level Kidō in rapid succession without incantations. She can also use various spells to create unique combination. She also learned to use her Kidō abilities in order to open a Senkaimon or a Garganta by herself.

**Hakuda expert** : Nanami is known to have an outstanding physical strenght. She is a highly proficient hand-to-hand fighter even when unarmed.

**Average Spiritual Power**

**Swordsman**

## Zanpakutō

**Oboroguruma** (朧車, *Hazy Cart*): In its sealed form, Oboroguruma is a normal katana, with a crimson handle. Its guard is shaped as an hydrangea flower. Its sheath is black, with a red rope tied under the guard, creating a little loop. It is kept sheathed on the left side of her waist.

**Shikai**: Oboroguruma's release command is **"Erase, Oboroguruma"** (消去, *shōkyo*). In order in initiate it, Nanami places her katana horizontally in front of her. The blade then lenghtens and forms a huge naginata with blades on both on its sides.

***Shikai special ability***: When released, Oborogurama seems to be spreading an intense mist all around the place. That mist is actually an illusion created by Oboroguruma. Once someone is caught in the mist illusion, their perception of Reiatsu is completely disturbed. Nanami can arrange the Reiatsu felt by her opponent: erase it completely, fool them by creating doubles of her own Reiatsu or even fakely intensify it. Nanami also often uses this ability in order to slip away from Soul Society to go slack off in the World of the Living by erasing her presence through the Dangai.

**Bankai**: Unknown

**Inner World**: TBA.

## Relationships

### Canon characters

**Shinji Hirako**: They met for the first time in Rukongai back when Shinji was a lieutenant. They meet again properly when Nanami is transfered to the 5th division some decades after joining the Gotei 13. They did not get along at first, both thinking of each other as an arrogant brat. Due to constantly arguing, they somehow get close to each other. A few decades before Turn Back The Pendulum, they start dating. Nanami is very attached to Shinji and is extremely clingy to him, especially as she knows he reacts like a gremlin to her affection. Despite not showing his feelings much, Shinji cares a lot about Nanami and constantly worries about her.

**Ikkaku Madarame**: TBA.

**Retsu Unohana**: TBA.

**Momo Hinamori**: TBA.

**Sosuke Aizen**: TBA.

### Non-Canon characters

**Haya Kankitsurui** *(belongs to @citruya on Instagram)*: TBA.

**Floriande Felicjenne Nihilismi** *(belongs to @fairyieli.art on Instagram)*: TBA.

**Tora Mokuzai** *(belongs to @redtrooper\_ on Instagram)*: TBA.

**Teruko Ikegami**: TBA.

## Trivia

* Nanami loves to go camping. She keeps all of her equipment in the 5th division barracks, always pissing off Shinji.
* She is a glutton. She has a thing specially for sweet things.
* She oftens sneaks in the Hueco Mundo, in order to visit her friend Floria.
* Nanami and Shinji own a guinea pig named Gerogero.
* Nanami's name is inspired by Momozono Nanami from Kamisama Hajimemashita.
* The main inspirations for Nanami's chara design and personality are Nadeshiko Kagamihara from Yuru Camp and Setoguchi Hina from the HoneyWorks series.