Nao Kamiya

**Nao Kamiya** (神谷 奈緒, ***Nao Kamiya***?) is one of the characters available in *THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls* and *THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage*. Her theme color is iris and her idol type is cool.

## Bio

### Personality

Nao is a girl commonly labeled with the term "tsundere", as she hides her shyness behind insults and bitterness, and can easily get flustered or defensive. Loving cute clothes and wanting to be an idol used to be a secret she kept to herself, but opening up about it was very difficult for her. When she wears her very first idol costume, she tells her Producer to not laugh at her, but he actually thinks she looks great in the outfits. Nao is seen as very confident and prideful when wearing cool, boyish outfits. Her casual outfits usually consist of a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, so dresses aren't her forte, but her Producer usually gives her jobs to dress up in cute clothes, much to her (apparent) dismay, however, she is actually very happy that she gets to try more unique outfits, and overtime, as she wears more feminine outfits, she becomes more confident in wearing them. Nao gets flustered easily, blushing and stuttering over her words, but she still has a high level of preservation and keeps pushing herself to be the best version of herself.

Outside of work, Nao is also an anime otaku, especially with girlish children's anime like *Pretty Cure*. As a result, she became close friends with Hina Araki and the two are often seen sharing manga with each other. She is very friendly and can strike up a conversation with anyone, though she is easy to tease, especially by her friend Karen.

### Relationships

* Karen Hojo & Rin Shibuya: Close friends and unitmates in Triad Primus. All three of them went to the same middle school, went to different high schools, reconnected at the agency, and became friends. While she is the oldest of the three, Rin and Karen like to tease her about topics like love and cute things. Besides Triad Primus, Nao and Rin form the initial *Cinderella Girls* unit Black Gothic Dress, and Nao and Karen are also part of Caskets.
* Anastasia: Friends and unitmates in both Caskets and NEX-US.
* Hina Araki & Nana Abe: Close friends and fellow otakus. They form the unit Nijiiro Dreamer, a group about unabashedly being proud of what you love. They have made a doujinshi together, with Nao being in charge of costume design.
* Mizuki Kawashima & Koume Shirasaka: Friends and unitmates in Caskets.
* Kyoko Igarashi & Aiko Takamori: Friends and unitmates in Trichromatic Nature.
* Makino Yagami & Hina Araki: Friends and unitmates in ∫nTegrαl.
* Yui Ohtsuki: Friends.
* Rina Fujimoto: Friends.

## History

Nao first met the Producer while she and her friend were going to a movie. She accidentally mistakes the Producer as her friend, causing her to get flustered and to call him a "tissue man". While the Producer explains that he is not a "tissue man", Nao says that he's just pestering her so he can take her to a bar, to which she says she's underaged. The Producer says that's not the case and asks to scout her. Nao gets flustered even more, not believing that she got chosen to wear shiny costumes and perform in live shows. But she reluctantly agrees, saying she's only becoming an idol to help the Producer out.

## Trivia

* Nao is one of twelve idols in *iDOLM@STER* to be from Chiba, along with Miu Yaguchi, Mio Honda, Yuu Ohta, Azusa Miura, Eri Mizutani, Fuka Toyokawa, Umi Kousaka, Ryu Kimura, Saki Mizushima, Nao Okamura, and, presumably, Nana Abe. Hatsu Kamegaya from *Idol Incidents* is also from Chiba.
* She shares the same birthday as Shika.
* Nao has an interest in the American band Nirvana. She used to wear a parody shirt of them on her initial *Cinderella Girls* normal card, but it has since been replaced with a non-copyrighted design.
* Most of her boyish clothes in her wardrobe come from family members, which is why she's not confident in wearing cuter clothes. However, it is rumored that her wardrobe consists of boyish clothes, cute clothes, and anime shirts she only wears at home.
* She has a strong theme of rain and rainbows, which appears in many of her cards.

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