Minase Nagisa

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**Minase Nagisa**「水みな瀬せ 渚なぎさ?」is Mukai Naoya's girlfriend. She is one of the female protagonist of *Kanojo mo Kanojo* series.

Attracted by Naoya's seriousness, Nagisa asked him out despite his current relationship with Saki Saki. Her determination in turn captivated Naoya, and with his audacity to two-time being permitted by his girlfriend herself, Nagisa joined in being Naoya's girlfriend. Nagisa then becomes the caring caretaker in the relationship.

## Appearance

Nagisa is a young teenager girl with short blue hair and blue eyes. She is commonly seen to tie her hair with blue ribbon. While in her school uniform, she wears a blue bowtie.

She has a smaller stature compared to Saki, but has a noticeably larger bust which Saki both admires and is envious of.

## Personality

Nagisa is shown to be sweet, persistance, selfless, pacifist and considerate. She is also hardworking, in order to make up for her abilities and shortcomings.

Despite her considerate personality, she would resort to underhanded tactics, even to the point of cheating, to preserve her relationship with Mukai Naoya. Nagisa has been shown to be naive with the lack of talent in singing and sports.

## Background

Nagisa initially was a girl of plain personality, up until her seeing Mukai Naoya and his dedication for Saki Saki. Impressed by the dedication one person could present, Nagisa starts dedicating herself in practice of sports and housework, and as she entered high school, has changed her hairstyle and used contact lenses instead of glass. Long practice of housework and physical workout however has caused her academic ability to fall behind.

She eventually confessed to Naoya, but since he was already dating Saki, he proposed he dates both, which she accepted, helping him to convince Saki to accept too, moving in with them. Because of the months she dedicated herself in order to won Naoya's heart, she skipped many classes, being a complete stranger on her own class.

## Relationships

* **Mukai Naoya**: Moved by this dedication for Saki, Nagisa starts to work hard too. She put a lot of effort in order to win his heart, falling in love for him to the point of accept the two time relationship since she could stay close to him. She finally kissed Naoya after seeing his determination to pass all the school exams and get a perfect score. She did so to cheer him up and to thank him for believing in her.

* **Saki Saki**: Nagisa and Saki have a friendly relationship, although they are initially rivals in love. Nagisa holds admiration of Saki, however her view is more objective since it states facts regarding her role as an important childhood friend to Mukai Naoya. Eventually Saki expresses her desire to personally date Nagisa as well and changes their dynamic from love rivals to mutual lovers, much to Nagisa's own surprise.

* **Hoshizaki Rika**: Nagisa initially recognizes her as a threat to her relationship with Naoya. As time went on, Nagisa became more passive with her, and rarely step in to interfere with her attempts on Naoya.

* **Kiryuu Shino**: Nagisa in initially not accepted by Shino due to being the third girl that interfered with her best friend's relationship. However as time went on, the two get on better terms.

## Etymology

* **Minase** means "water" (水) (**mina**) and "swift current, rapids" (瀬) (**se**).
* **Nagisa** means "beach, shore, water's edge" (渚).

## Trivia

* In chapter 108, Nagisa finally kissed Naoya being the last of the heroines to do so.

## References

1. ↑ Volume 4
2. ↑ Chapter 132