Mutsumi Otohime

Mutsumi Otohime

乙姫 むつみ, Otohime Mutsumi the third main protagonist to the story ,She is a very sweet, gentle, kind, and soft-spoken 20 year old girl. Naru and Keitaro first encounter her while taking some time off for a brief vacation after Keitaro fails his Todai entrance exam for a third successive time, just like Mutsumi.

Mutsumi has anemia and would faint often(more often when around Keitaro) which caused all sorts of situations, but she is actually extremely resilient, having a strong vice like grip even when she first appeared and just like Keitaro is seemingly able to recover quickly. Naru notices in both the manga and anime the similarities between Keitaro and Mutsumi many times, One such notably time was when they believed they first met Mutsumi (they are actually all friends from childhood) on Naru and Keitaro's trip to Kyoto. She has a very sweet and generous personality,being very empathetic to others Mutsumi often puts others happiness before herself, and she can be comically clumsy at times, another trait like Keitaro. She lives on an small island off the west coast of Okinawa's main island with her strong bonded family of her parents and seven younger siblings, before moving out on her own closer to the Hinata herself. Over the course of the manga she gradually gets over her anemia to the point that in the latter parts it has left her.

Mutsumi shows superlative optimism when faced with even the most difficult of situations. She has a number of unusual abilities, such as being able to speak "turtlese", which she uses to communicate with her turtles namely Tama, the extreme habit of putting others happiness before herself, She loves the taste of watermelon in fact its her trademark food item, and she sometimes has been known to sleepwalk, (This later 'talent' lead her into trouble as she once sleepwalked out of her window and was hit by a car). Despite her many eccentricities she is extremely intelligent, scoring full marks in the practice exams. Yet she still fails to get into Tokyo University because, amongst other things, she forgets to write her name on the test paper, causing her to obtain a grade of Z on at least one test paper or fainting from her anemia.

In both manga and the anime, Mutsumi is very intuitive and has a keen eye for details, noticing things her friends do not. Such as but not limited to, being the only one to know that Pararakelse island was on the opposite side of the international dateline which meant Keitaro would still be able to send his letter in time to Tokyo U and thus him being able to finally attend. In the anime she is the only one who could instinctively tell Keitaro and Kaolla Su’s brother(cousin) apart and knew which was which at all times excluding Keitaro and Su’s brother Lamba themselves.

Later as the story develops it is revealed in volume 10 that, as a young child Mutsumi spent some time living at the Hinata inn. She had learned of the stories of how if a couple was to attend Tokyo U together they will find happiness and in turn told Keitaro of the story, because she (Mutsumi) wanted to go to Tokyo U with Keitaro. She then played matchmaker for Naru and Keitaro after it became clear that Naru liked Keitaro. Mutsumi let him go for Naru's sake by deliberately losing a game of rock-paper-scissors to decide which of them would become Keitaro's wife.(deliberately losing a game of rock-paper-scissors is something she would do a second time in the manga during the mock wedding started to help her regain her memory after falling from a tree while she was trying to help Naru down from the tree.) Although she(Mutsumi) loved Keitaro always.(and admits that she still loves him to Naru).

But even after that Naru had forgotten all about her promise to Keitaro, Mutsumi then made a subsequent promise with Naru that both of them would later go to Tokyo University so Naru would remember the promise made to Keitaro. Before leaving Hinata, she gave Naru her Liddo-kun doll in memory of their friendship. She eventually moves to an apartment very close to the Hinata Inn and starts working at the Hinata Teashop for Haruka Urashima, even staying in a spare room at Haruka's Teashop after her apartment burnt down on New Year’s Eve. Like Keitaro and Naru, she finally passes the Todai entrance exam, discovering her result just before setting off to rescue Keitaro from the island of Pararakelse.

She studies at Todai, and later is the only one of the group to enter a graduate school. At the end of the manga she helps out in organizing Keitaro and Naru's wedding and she brings a plethora of watermelons.

Mutsumi is very skilled at cooking and like Keitaro is exceptional at baking cakes and other confectioneries.

Tamago or Tama for short was originally Mutsumi's pet turtle, That she gives to Keitaro after him and Naru help her get back to her home in Okinawa. But Tama's friendship with her is as strong as ever.

Mutsumi is also the only one of the girls to never cause physical harm on purpose to Keitaro.

She enjoys to collect photo stickers, a hobby she and Keitaro share.

Mutsumi is stated in the manga and anime as being very well endowed and her figure is downplayed by her clothes, with her bust being the biggest of all the girls, Which is used for comical effect and fan service many times throughout the anime/manga series.

Tokyopop sometimes misspells her name as "Mitsumi" or "Matsumi".

In the anime television series, Mutsumi is voiced by Satsuki Yukino in Japanese and Julie Ann Taylor in English.

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