Natsumi Kurobe

## Natsumi Kurobe黒部 夏美*Kurobe Natsumi*

* Anime
* Manga

**Natsumi Kurobe** (黒部 夏美 *Kurobe Natsumi*) is one of the secondary characters in My Senpai is Annoying. She is a childhood friend of Futaba Igarashi since middle school who genuinely cares about her friends, but she likes practical jokes.

## Appearance

Kurobe is an attractive tan-skinned young woman with short black hair (she used to have longer hair that was put up in a ponytail by a yellow tie back in junior high school as seen in flashbacks of Episode 2 and Episode 7), cat-like amber-colored eyes and she has an athletic body with a fairly large bust, which tends to be why men are attracted to her and Futaba Igarashi is deeply envious of her due to it, even the well-endowed Tōko Sakurai is sometimes jealous.

She usually wears outfits with contrasting in black and yellow features.

## Personality

Kurobe cares about Futaba Igarashi deeply, and, knowing how dense Harumi Takeda can be with these things, when she realizes Futaba likes Takeda, she decides to aid her in the process to get him to notice her romantically.

Kurobe is much more relaxed compared to Igarashi and she is generally a warm person who is easy for anyone to speak to, though when she deals with people who are especially rude she can get passive aggressive.

## Plot

During a meeting with Futaba Igarashi, Kurobe shares that she dumped her new boyfriend and she explained that it was due to him revealing that he dated her because she has a comparatively bigger bust size than his last girlfriend. As that pissed her off, she slapped him and dumped him on the spot. Kurobe then asks Igarashi about her love life, but Igarashi denies anything happening in it.

During New Year, Kurobe and Igarashi head out together to pray at a shrine where Igarashi notices Harumi Takeda and gets nervous. Kurobe realizes he was the one that gave Igarashi a new scarf and the one she that constantly complains about. Kurobe then heads towards Takeda and introduces herself and thanks him for taking care of Igarashi. She reveals that Igarashi rants and complains about him a lot, but the day she got her new scarf from him she was happily ranting. Kurobe then acts she remembered she needed to do something important that she can't get out of and decides to leave, leaving Takeda and Igarashi alone together, the latter flustered.

## Relationships

### Futaba Igarashi

Kurobe has been a childhood friend to Futaba since middle school and she loves to play arcade games with her.

On Natsumi's end, it looks to be an unrequited Childhood Friend Romance.

### Sōta Kazama

Kurobe is in competitive hobbies with Kazama, whom she shares a lot in common with as they both love video games and both were star players in high school basketball.

None of this escapes Tōko Sakurai's attention.

## Quotes

* (To Futaba Igarashi) *"There is an old saying: Flatness is a status symbol!"*
* (To Harumi Takeda about Futaba) *"If your ever make her cry, I swear you'll never see me coming."*

## Etymology

* The name **Natsumi** means "summer" (夏) (**natsu**) and "beautiful" (美) (**mi**).
* Natsumi's surname **Kurobe** means "black" (黒) (**kuro**) and "part, department, category" (部) (**be**).

## Trivia

* Kurobe's favorite sweet is dark chocolate.
* Kurobe is implied to be tan, but it is shown that she isn't in the manga.
	+ She is the only dark-skinned character in the cast and it seems like her skin tone is natural as she was noticeably dark even as a primary schooler; and when wearing a decently revealing swimsuit in Episode 9, there's not even the slightest hint of a tan line anywhere on her.
* Kurobe tends to grow devil horns and a spiked tail whenever she is playfully teasing Futaba Igarashi.
* Kurobe is associated with black and yellow as her eyes are yellow and her attire has a lot of yellow and black colors.
* To go along with her yellow eyes, Kurobe's eyes are normally drawn slitted like a cat's as a reference to her mischievous nature.
* When Kurobe was in school, she would skip classes just to play at the arcade and a scene where she's in her apartment in Episode 4 shows that she has a decent PC rig with three big monitors.

## Gallery

### Anime

#### Episode 2

Kurobe on the phone while a random guy hits on her
#### Episode 9

Kurobe's bikiniKurobe at the beach with Yūto Sakurai, Sōta Kazama and Tōko Sakurai