Naru Narusegawa

Naru in the anime

**Naru Narusegawa** (成瀬川 なる, *Narusegawa Naru*) is one of the *tsundere* characters in Love Hina.

## Appearance

Naru has long straight brown hair with parted bangs, hair intakes, and a curved hair antenna split into two halves. She has brown eyes. Aside from that, she is often described as very “beautiful”.

She often wears thick glasses, sweaters, and braids when going to cram school to deter attention from guys, whom she classifies as pointless distractions. Her school clothes makes her almost indistinguishable to what she normally looks like.

Her studies resulted in a decline in her social activities as well as damaging her eyesight to such a degree that, when not using contacts, she has to wear glasses with thick lenses in order to see clearly.

## Personality

Naru is the unofficial "leader" of the girls living at the Hinata House and possesses both physical beauty and intelligence. She is the most reliable and compassionate member of the household, and will stick her neck out for anybody that needs help, even people that would initially dislike her.

Naru appears as a kind, caring, and responsible girl. In contrast, she has short temper and physically aggressive nature when irritated. Her attacks become more volatile as the series progresses. Naru's hair antenna has since become a signature appearance that is synonymous with her character, as well as Mutsumi Otohime.

She has a very short fuse and is extremely violent. Naru is the first and most insistent to protest the idea of having a "pervert" as landlord of an all-girls dormitory. Her frequent and eventually predictable response to anything Keitaro may do to irritate her is to physically beat him senseless, usually sending him flying into the stratosphere with what the dormitory residents dub "the Naru Punch".

## Trivia

* The name Naru means "to become", while her surname Narusegawa means "to become a raging river".
* Naru's height and BWH Measurements are 163cm, B83-W56-H86 as of Chapter 1 and 165cm, B88-W60-H89 as of Chapter 120.
* Naru owns a Liddo-kun doll that Keitaro gave her when she was two years old; it was originally Mutsumi Otohime's but she gave it to him to give it to "Na-chan" as a love gift.
* Because of her aggressive yet caring personality, Naru is one of the best known examples of the tsundereanime character archetype.
* A frequent cosplayer, Kanon Akamatsu's costumes have been the inspiration for some of the outfits Naru wears.
* According to Love Hina Mugendai, Naru put on glasses 920 times and changed her haircut 53 times throughout the manga's run.
* In a poll among the manga series' fans, Naru was rated #1 despite her temper. Naru was ranked #67 Favorite Heroine by fans in a 2002 survey conducted by Newtype Japan.
* The company Tokyo Mint, LLC obtained the rights to release a series of cold-cast resin statuettes featuring the girls from Love Hina, of which three were dedicated to Naru. Because of Naru's popularity, the first figure in the series- a 1/8 scale size of Naru in a bikini- was the first ever sold-out statuette made by the company. Two more releases were produced, "Naru in pink" and a 1/6 scale of "Naru in yellow" which were the last in the line for her character. Six-hundred of each release was imported and distributed in North America.
* Naru's profile of her after the events of Love Hina from Love Hina Mugendai is as follows:

**LIKES/DISLIKES**

**Color:** Red/Green

**Sports:** Bowling/Anything involving physical exertion

**School Subject:** Math/Home economics

**Season:** Summer/Autumn

**Clothes:** Dotera/Short skirt

**Movies:** Action/Erotic

**Men:** That have dreams and objectives/Irresponsible

**Miscellaneous:**

* She is a middle school teacher.
* Currently has short hair.
* Hobbies: Teach something to others and create hairstyles.
* Specialty: Bowling
* Philosophy: Be honest with herself
* Ring tone: "" (Chicago)
* Idol:
* Goals: To improve her low self-esteem: to travel
* Her first student: Keitaro Urashima
* Her treasure: the ring Keitaro gave her after he returned from America
* According to Akamatsu, her antenna attracts problems