Azusa Nakano

## Azusa Nakano キンバリー・シャンド *Nakano Azusa*

**Azusa Nakano** is one of the main protagonists of the K-ON! series, she plays the guitar like Yui Hirasawa does, but she owns a fender mustang which she nicknames "Muttan" ("Mud Stain", as referred to by Yui). As of "K-ON! The Movie", she is 17 years old.

When the Miraculous is inhabited by the OC, Plaggette, Azusa becomes **Kuronyan**, a cat-themed superhero who helps Master Bug and friends 'during particularly different missions' in the first season and beyond.

## Bio

### *K-ON! RETOLD* series

Azusa Nakano is one of the main protagonists of K-ON! She is a guitarist and also became both the main guitarist and lead vocalist of Houkago Tea Time due to Ritsu, Mio, Tsumugi and Yui all graduating. She is strict to Yui multiple times, and she joined the Light Music Club with her mustang typed fender guitar, which she nicknamed "Muttan" while Yui nicknamed it "Mud Stain", she has good experience playing it and was given the nickname "Azu-nyan" by Yui Hirasawa.

She also gets a tan very easily, seen twice during a trip to the beach and also once during a music festival (even after applying sunscreen). The manga shows that she tans in mere seconds. She often suffers from this, like not being able to take a bath due to the sunburn, not being recognized by friends due to her drastic change in appearance or needing to hide the tan lines by wearing a longer skirt at school.

She hates seeing Yui slacking off and goofing around but still cares for her. The anime shows that Azusa is very fond of animals, yet she is distanced or even nervous in front of them at first.

In the manga, Azusa was revealed to be terrible at singing, her inability to sing for the new Light Music Club left Azusa feeling sorry for herself by slumping on a table while lamenting that she can't sing as well as Yui does. Despite her sorry state, both Sumire Saitō and Nao Okuda joins their group. Over time, she began to learn the vocals taught by Sawako, and after a while, Azusa was able to master singing the vocals thanks to Sawako's help.

Also, while nowhere as strong as Mugi, Azusa still possesses remarkable physical strength for her size, being able to drag a crying and screaming Yui (6 centimeters taller and 4 kilograms heavier than she is) behind her back to study for her remedial-exams with ***one*** hand.

### *Kimberly's Adventures* series

In "*One Bad Bugbear*", she stopped Liam's rampage as Deathcutter by hugging him which caused him to revert back to his normal self, he passes out from exhaustion. But Monzy was still rampaging and dark digivolves into Callismon, Azusa commands Venus to digivolve and calm Monzy down, with the help of Gato-chan, Reina and Marinette's Tentomon (nicknamed "Bugsy"), they digivolved to their Ultimate forms, minus Reina who became Sakuyamon.

After Venus and Gato-chan soothed Monzy's anger, he stopped his rampage and realized what had happened. As Azusa told him what he did to Juliana, this caused Monzy to tear up and dedigivolved into an exhausted Bearmon, and started to cry, as he was consoled by Azusa for his mistakes, but then Monzy dies from his wounds, and reverts to a Digi-Egg.

## Personality

Azusa is in some ways similar to Mio. Both can get embarrassed and shy (like when Sawako brings in new costumes) and mostly, they are the only ones who are assiduous and anxious to move the band to practice.

Azusa can be considered to be a tsundere since she tries to hide her feelings for Yui with harshness and easily gets embarrassed when she is petted, hugged or otherwise teased by her.

Azusa can't stand being lonely. At the graduation of the original club members, she begged them under tears to not graduate before her since she didn't want to be lonely, despite knowing her request was selfish and immature.

She is shown to have good self-defense, which she learned from Ui's book. When Yui crosses the line though, (by trying to kiss her for example), Azusa will not hold back using violence to stop her, like slapping her face before the school concert or elbowing her in the stomach (when she mistakenly thought Yui was about to kiss her instead of her guitar).

Azusa has a very thoughtful side and often worries with herself being capable of being good enough at the guitar or being a good president for the Light Music Club. However, she does not let her personal worries bother her in times where her leadership is needed and she does all in her might to help her friends out, so in the end, she quickly became just the kind of president her underclassmen needed.

She is also very stern towards Yui and Ritsu, when she became the President after Ritsu graduated, she has a tendency to be more aggressive towards Sawako and more stern, like the time when Sawako tried to con Azusa, but backfired when Azusa scolded at her.

She once showed her embarrassment side when Sumire tried to start calling her "Azu-nyan" much like Yui did, but she bluntly flat out refused, much to Sumire's disappointment.

Azusa later revealed to have an affectionate side, when she hugged Nao Okuda, to try to imitate what Yui did.

## Known Monster

### Pokémon

Meowstic (nicknamed Snowbelle) is Azusa's first known Pokémon she owns.
She first appeared in From Before to Afterschool Teatime!. In TBA, Azusa reveals that Snowbelle was previously an Espurr at the time she first her, before she evolved. She is Level 75, has a Timid nature, and her characteristic is "Good endurance".
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