Azusa Nakano

**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. As of A Wedding Fit for a Hammerfield!, she is now known as **Azusa Hammerfield** due to marrying Liam.

## Bio

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.

### Bio in Liam's Series

Azusa reveals that she is capable of translating Pokémon Language which is exclusive only to her alone, this was displayed in Liam's Adventures of Pokemon the Series in a recent episode. She also has an explosive temper and has a strong hatred towards Mertle due to defending Lilo and Stitch, this was shown in Tricks of the Trade where she blew her top at Mertle and berating her with rage so much that it scarred Mertle and her friends for life, due to her fury, they ran away in fear.

In The Bridge Bike Gang, Azusa laughed so hard at poor Psyduck when he performed a Tail Whip, that she ended up knocked down to the ground by Pikachu's Thunderbolt, only to be scolded ny Ui shortly afterwards, after Pikachu stopped shocking Azusa and apologized to her. While being too frazzled to move at first due to being paralyzed, Snowbelle went to check on her, with Azusa regretting to herself that maybe she shouldn't have laughed at Psyduck. At episode's end, she was given the nickname, (**"Adorable" Azusa**), by Tyra.

Later, prior to the events of The Battle Of The Badge, Azusa's life changed and her character had developed drastically, as she began to worry about Liam when she saw him collapse at the ground by Mewtwo, she was on the verge of crying, but Liam reassured her that he was okay, this made her blush, showing her that she started falling in love with him, this was later shown again in A Hot Water Battle! where she later confessed her love at the same time as Mugi, and later kissed him. After this event, she became Liam's girlfriend. But Yui and Ritsu already knew from the start, while Sumire and Nao learn about it.

She and Liam constantly start scolding Yui for her actions, and both carries a crying and screaming Yui who was in a tantrum when she hardly had any spending time with her or have tea and cakes, their behaviour was shown in TBA.

As a mother of baby twins, Althea and Eichi, Azusa sometimes gets emotionally overwhelmed and drained by the light-night feeding and the loud crying and wailing, so Liam consoles her whenever she gets distressed from too much work, much like how Yui does when she hugs her to calm her down. Liam reveals to her that he had learned Yui's hugging technique from her senpai.

It is later revealed in The Spheal of Approval! that Azusa loves snowcones ever since she was a little girl, during her younger days.

## 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.

She later shows her determined side and tries to imitate Liam's actions, like she mimicked Liam's battling style and the way he send a Pokemon out.

After becoming a mother to the twins, Azusa is shown to panic sometimes, especially at the time the baby twins had chicken pox, but Ako told her that it is common for a baby to have chicken pox and it was part of their age, much to her relief. She has a habit of getting easily overwhelmed emotionally, especially due to the late-night feeding and the stress from the wailing and crying but she later overcame that habit.

## Relationships

*Main article: Azusa Nakano/Relationships*
## Azusa's Pokémon

### At Oak's Lab

 **Nyan** ♂
 **Vivian** ♀
 **Shizuka** ♀
 **Aqua** ♀

## Interests

### Likes

* Liam Hammerfield (her boyfriend)
* Cakes and sweets (also one of her weaknesses)
* Cat ears (though she hates to admit it)
* Mugi's tea
* Tsumugi Kotobuki (due to how beautiful she is as shown in the anime)
* Yui hugging her (occasionally)
* Animals
* Muttan, her Fender mustang.
* Practicing for the band.
* Cats/kittens
* Being responsible.
* Being the Club President.
* Any kind of cat Pokémon, such as her Meowstic, Snowbelle.

### Dislikes

* Afterschool Teatime's laziess.
* Sawako's new costumes.
* Being lonely.
* Her band members graduating (as shown in "Graduation Ceremony")
* Yui trying to kiss her.
* Bad guys.
* Team Rocket
* Team Aqua and Team Magma
* Mertle Edmonds (especially what she did to Lilo)
* Lila Rossi
* Releasing any kind of Pokémon (such as her Jumpluff, Turnip)
* Guzma.
* Seeing Liam upset.
* Ash Ketchum's arrogance (as shown in Brave the Wave!)

## Digimon Partner

Azusa Nakano and Otamamon

* **Fresh**: Pichimon
* **In-Training**: Bukamon
* **Rookie**: Otamamon
* **Champion**: Gekomon
* **Ultimate**: ShogunGekomon
* **Mega**: Plesiomon

## Trivia

* As of Liam's Adventures of Pokémon episode, The Battle Of The Badge, her love interest is Liam Hammerfield. He eventually found out and returned the feeling in A Hot Water Battle!, and later got proposed to by Liam when he asked her to marry him which she accepted.
	+ In addition, Azusa's former surname, **Nakano**, later changed due to marrying Liam in A Wedding Fit for a Hammerfield!, and is now known as **Azusa Hammerfield**.
* Azusa took part of the League along with her friends, they dealt decent damage to Scizor and defeating some trainers in the process, but after Ui, Sumire and Nao were defeated by Guzma's powerful Scizor, and leaving Yui completely powerless without her sister after she was defeated, she along with Yui were quickly defeated by Guzma, followed by Mio and Ritsu who were also defeated, then Mugi, Sawako, and Nodoka Manabe were defeated the same way.
* She comes in Possession of the Crest of Justice.
* She is voiced by Christine Marie Cabanos.
* 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. When tenshified, she becomes **Tenshi Neko**, a powerful form of herself and Kuronyan Noir combined.
* She is the only person to find out about Liam's identity as Master Bug.
* Before her debut, Azusa formerly wielded a normal Pokédex from Kanto to Sinnoh Arcs. As of Unova arc, she is now revealed to wield a Green Rotom Phone in the Pokémon Series.
* Azusa later reveals to everyone that she loves cats, according to "Ask an Anime character panel", Azusa keeps mentioning things involving cats. This may be why her starter Pokémon was a Skitty.
	+ Due to her love for cats, Azusa specializes in cat-like Pokémon.
* Azusa has the unique ability of translating Pokémon language which is exclusive only to her.