Kanon Nakajima

**Kanon Nakajima** (仲島 花音 *Nakajima Kanon*) is a character featured in *Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls*. She is a Target for the Warriors of Hope's Demon Hunting.

Kanon is the cousin and baseball team manager of Leon Kuwata. She is also obsessively in love with him. She is the closest person to him, which is why she became a Captive for *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc* first motive.

Kanon is featured as one of the two main protagonists in *Ultra Despair Hagakure*, along with Yasuhiro Hagakure.

## Appearance

Kanon is a 17-18 year old teenage girl.[1]

She has shoulder length chestnut brown hair, part of which is held up by a black ribbon with white lace. Her eyes are a pale shade of yellow. She wears what seems to be a high school girls' sailor uniform.

She is mentioned to be physically fit and "pretty ripped", and she is able to run for a long time without getting out of breath. Her hands have callouses due to her constant baseball training to fulfill a bet with her cousin, Leon Kuwata.

Both Hiroko Hagakure and Komaru Naegi say that Kanon is pretty, Komaru even saying that Kanon looks like the main protagonist of a shōjo manga. She always wears a thick layer of make-up.

## Personality

Kanon generally appears quite calm, but somewhat odd girl. According to Yasuhiro, she doesn't plan ahead.

She is very skilled at using the Hacking Gun. She can defeat Monokuma robots easily and she's very confident in her skill, as she doesn't seem to be afraid of the bears. However, she later says that she is freaking out on the inside.

In her official description composed by the Warriors of Hope, Kanon is said to be rather lustful and perverted. The kids said that if they send in a handsome Monokuma and show her some nice dreams she will be distracted long enough for them to kill her, meaning that she must be rather lonely.

Kanon is very devoted to Leon, to the point of very unhealthy obsession, as she believes that everything she does and her whole life is for him. She loves him more than anything, saying that he is her whole world. Her self-esteem is almost completely based around Leon - she would hate herself if Leon hated her and she doesn't see point in existence without him. She stayed persistent and hopeful for years and stalked him, even though Leon rejected her over 3000 times. It's also implied that she had violent thoughts whenever she was jealous, but she didn't do anything because she didn't want Leon to hate her. When she finds out that Leon has died due to the members of the Future Foundation, she becomes suicidal, but at first swears to take revenge. Even after his death, she loves Leon, and whispers his name in her sleep and keeps writing his name in her pocketbook.

Kanon appears to be a gyaru, dressing up in flashy clothing, wearing thick layer of make-up and using gyaru slang from the nineties - it's revealed this is not because of her personal taste, and she actually does it in order to impress Leon. She especially uses the phrase *"choberipa"*, a gyaru slang term that was a trend around 1996's (*"wack"* in the official English translation).

## Quotes

* “But we can! As long as there's love, it doesn't matter! There's no law against it, either!”
* “CHOBERIBA!!”

**TMNT X Pokemon:**

* "Now hold on! Just because I seem to not be afraid doesn't mean I'm freaking out!"
* "Please listen to me..."

## TMNT X Pokemon

Kanon was captured by the Krang before being saved by the Turtles. She always have to be with Leon to feel safe since they're cousins.

## Trivia

* Kanon's given name (花音) is written with the characters for "flower" and "sound" and her family name (仲島) means "within the island".
* Kanon likes light novels.
* Kanon character design has gone through many radical changes before reaching its current form. She was originally designed as a plump girl with swirl marks on her cheeks and dark hair - a design which later became the basis for Fujiko Yamada. She was later given a more slender figure while retaining the same hairstyle of two long pigtails shaped somewhat similar to baseball bats. This design, however, was replaced altogether with a very early design for Komaru's character to which very few changes were made before achieving her final look.
* Kanon was originally supposed to be the main lead for the game, with Haiji Towa acting very much like Toko Fukawa.
* Kanon is one of the characters who has shown romantic feelings towards one of her family members, the others being Korekiyo Shinguji and Mukuro Ikusaba.