Nico Wakatsuki

**Nico Wakatsuki** (若 (わか) 月 (つき) ニコ, *Wakatsuki Niko*?) is the main female protagonist of the *Witch Watch* series.

She is the Witch of Thousand, a type of witch that is born every 1000 years.

## Etymology

* Nico's surname **Wakatsuki** means "*young/immature*" (若) (**waka**) and "*moon*" (月) (**tsuki**).

## Appearance

She wears a bell necklace that contains an alert spell to alert her to danger.

Nico wears linen smocks when she is at home or when she goes out with her friends, at special events she has been seen going out in yukata or in casual clothes when she goes out with Moi.

She has also been seen wearing her high school uniform.

## Personality

Nico is a very kind person who wants to use her magic to help people in need regardless of whether she knows them or not, she is usually very friendly with most people and tries not to hurt anyone.

Due to this kindness, she does not usually think about the consequences of her spells, which is why she always causes disasters.

Nico tends to think more about her than herself, being able to learn spells if it makes people happy. She doesn't usually hold grudges towards people who hurt her in the past like Keigo's case.

She usually shows a jealous personality when someone tries to get close to Morihito and is very close to him due to her love for him.
Her love for Morihito causes her personality to change to that of a lovesick person.

## History

During her childhood Nico meets Morihito who would become her best friend and first love, after forging friendship with Morihito she would leave the city to spend time training her magic.

During her training she would meet Kanshi who would become one of her closest friends being the first one she would tell about her crush on Morihito.

Some time later her mother would have a vision that would indicate that bad things would happen to Nico, knowing this Nico would choose Morihito as a familiar and return to the city to meet him and live together, although at first they find it difficult to coexist after some events they learn to live together.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Ibuki Wakatsuki

She and her mother have a good relationship. Nico fully trusts her mother.

### Friends

#### Morihito Otogi

Morihito is Nico's best friend and love interest. Nico would meet Moi after he saved her from a lot of garbage from that moment on, both would become friends due to their similar conditions. Nico would start calling him **Moihito** which will later be shortened as **Moi** because she did not know how to pronounce his name correctly, a nickname that he would keep to this day, being considered a special way of calling Morihito. Currently both live together because Morihito must protect her from danger. Nico is romantically interested in him, becoming jealous if another girl talks to him or gets close to him. Both are very close and are usually the only ones who know what the other person is thinking. Currently, Nico wants to declare her feelings to Morihito.

#### Kanshi Kazamatsuri

Kanshi is Nico's second childhood friend, they met in the mountains during Nico's special training since they both used to play together. After Nico returned to her city, Kanshi would follow her to make sure she was not in danger. Kanshi is her best friend after Moi, so Nico often tells him about her love problems with Morihito.

#### Keigo Magami

Keigo was just a classmate to Nico so they didn't talk much until it was revealed that he is a werewolf and would become Nico's familiar, they started spending more time together. Along with Kanshi, Nico often tells him about her love problems with Morihito, showing great confidence in him.

#### Wolf

Due to Wolf's personality, they often have problems but despite that they both have a good relationship.

#### Nemu Miyao

Nico would meet Nemu during the **Dogs and Raindrops prophecy**, from that moment they would both become friends and then best friends. As with Kanshi, Keigo and Miharu, Nemu knows about her crush on Moi and often helps her with her relationship.

#### Miharu Kiryu

Miharu and Nico would meet during their trip to Kanhachiya Mountain, after Miharu moved in with them, Nico and Miharu became good friends, coming to be considered as her younger brother. Miharu knows that Nico has feelings for Morihito so with the help of Kanshi, Keigo and Nemu try to help her.

#### Momo Kuramochi

Nico would become friends with Momo since they met since they are both kind people. Nico admires Momo for her mature personality so she considers her as an older sister.

#### Kara Minami

They would meet at Asurano High School, from that moment they both became good friends. Kara knows that she is a witch and that she has familiars living in her house so she often visits her.

#### Kukumi Ureshino

As with Kara, both would meet in high school and since then they would become good friends.

### Enemies

#### Komugi Kurowa

Initially being classmates, Nico and Komugi had a good friendship since Nico used to help her with her problems. Some time later, Komugi would reveal herself as a warlock in charge of kidnapping Nico in order to revive Jura, revealing that she had been pretending to get along with Nico.

## Abilities

Nico is a rare, powerful witch with a thousand spells at her command; the type of witch who is born only once every thousand years.
Unlike normal witches, Nico can use various spells so she uses unique names to remember them. Some are shown below:

* **Broomflight**: Nico owns her own broom which she can use to fly and hover in the air, however the weight of three people at once is too much for the broom to handle.

* **Super Light**: Nico can make objects drastically lighter in terms of weight. When cast on people this spell also lightens their mood, changing their personality. A drawback of this spell is that the objects become temporarily heavier after the spell wears off.

* **Embiggen**: Nico can make objects bigger. Casting it through the palm of her hand makes the entire target bigger, and funneling the magic through a single finger allows her to enlarge only part of an object. Repeating the spell on the same target returns it to its normal size.

* **Pulp Fashion**: Nico can create clothing from pictures and other media, but since pictures only show one side of the outfit, the other side of the reconstructed clothes will be transparent.

* **Doublit**: Nico can double herself at the cost of halving her physical size and her brainpower. Each of her halved selves can perform the spell again, allowing her to create four child-sized copies of herself.

* **Ensmallen**: Nico can make objects smaller.

* **Witch Recovery**: Nico can repair objects, even a letter that has been shredded into pieces.

* **Slime Lotion Gel Amoebas**: Nico makes the ground around her incredibly slippery, like an ice-skating rink.

* **Kwi-Quick**: Nico can increase the speed and perception of speed of her target. By using it at ten times strength, a person will experience ten days in a single day.

* **Feelingram**: Nico can create a diagram above someone's head that will describe their emotional attachment.

*See more: List of Magic Spells*

## Equipment

* **Grimoire**: Like all witches, Nico has a grimoire where she keeps her spells.

* **Magic Broom**: Like all witches, Nico has a broom that allows her to fly high.

## Trivia

* Nico's name was originally translated as "Niko" in the manga's first five chapters due to Japanese localization, but was changed to "Nico" from chapter 6 onwards.

## References

1. ↑ Twitter Official Account
2. ↑ Witch Watch Manga: Chapter 12, Page 1
3. ↑ Witch Watch Official Twitter