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Nanase (七瀬, Nanase) is a minor recurring character of Natsume's Book of Friends series.

She is an elder member of the Matoba clan, acting as the current head's secretary and assistant.

Appearance[]

She is an older woman with grey hair and grey-green eyes. As a girl, it was black.

She often tends to wear either traditional clothes or male suits.

Personality[]

A bit of a grouch with an aura of superiority. She seems wise but cruel (especially to youkai). However she's careful. She understands that being an exorcist is part of her "karma," and doesn't attack youkai just to make them bend to her will, but to keep a balance between the human and youkai world.

History[]

Nanase is the daughter of the Nanases, an exorcist family who has been around since at least her grandfather's generation. Both her grandfather, Haruomi Nanase, and her father have been heads of their family. However, not much else is known about the Nanases.

When Nanase was a young girl, probably in her first or second year of middle school, she once went out to find Reiko Natsume to become a better exorcist, and ended up meeting Mikage who taught her how to seal youkai with jade stones. To her, this was also an important life lesson.

Nanase's girlhood past is visited in order to explain how she sees her purpose as an exorcist and her ambition of getting rid of spirits regardless of their kind nature. She ended up sealing one such yokai called Mikage at his request.

Plot[]



Relationships[]

Unnamed Father[]

Not much is known, of Nanase's relationship with her father. But he scolded her, for showing compassion to another youkai (when she was a child), when the youkai wasn't meant to be sealed away.

Mikage[]

In her youth, she was intrigued by this immensely powerful exorcist who she initially believed to be the immensely powerful and beautiful exorcist Reiko Natsume. After learning his story, she vowed to help him be released from his karma. At his request, she used her already strong spiritual abilities to seal him away before he became consumed by evil spiritual energy.

Over the decades, she had returned to the well where she had sealed him within jade to see him again before he perished for good.

Shuuichi Natori[]

At point during the annual fall festival, she had requested a job for him. She met him again during a meeting of fellow exorcists and was introduced to Reiko Natsume's grandchild, which greatly interested her.

Shinobu Matoba[]

Her relationship with her superior and distant relative's elder sister has not been revealed.

Seiji Matoba[]

She seems to be on close terms with the head of the infamous Matoba clan. It is she who informs him of Natsume being the grandchild of the notorious and immensely powerful exorcist-like human girl Reiko.

Takashi Natsume[]

Upon hearing the last name "Natsume," she immediately asked if he knew Reiko, who had intrigued her since her girlhood.

Madara[]

Upon encountering him in the well she was in, Nanase told him the story of her youth to pass the time. She decided not to seal him, as she did not want the grandson of Natsume Reiko hating her for it.

Powers & Abilities[]

Nanase has many spiritual abilities as she is an upper-class exorcist and she has the ability of sealing and banishing ever since her young days.

Etymology[]

  • The surname Nanase means "seven" (七) (nana) and "swift current, rapids" (瀬) (se).

Trivia[]

  • Her given name is unknown.
  • In Special 17, it is mentioned by some youkai who are hoping to become Nanase's shiki that she hates men, which is why they took on female appearances.
  • In the ongoing anime, she has made more appearances than her superior.

References[]

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