Naru Narusegawa

Naru Narusegawa

  成瀬川 なる, Narusegawa Naru is the second protagonist of the series. She is 17 years old, just about to graduate from high school, and a resident of the Hinata Inn. She is intelligent, having placed top in the nation in the college practice entrance exams at their cram school. She is beautiful but constantly tries to hide this as she studies to gain entrance to Todai. However, she has an extremely bad temper and a tendency to inflict violent physical punishment (mostly on Keitaro) with only her own anger for justification. She arrived at the Hinata Inn as a result (she believes) of her friendship with Kitsune, who introduced her to Granny Hina. At that stage she does not remember staying at the Hinata Inn as a very young child.

Of all the girls at the Hinata Inn, she is most often the unwilling and unwitting victim of Keitaro's clumsiness, which often results in her ending up naked, partially clothed, or placed in any number compromising positions. Keitaro invariably suffers as a result.Despite initially taking a (literally) violent dislike to Keitaro, she comes to develop feelings for him.

The main part of her character arc is that she has great difficulty in admitting these feelings, both to herself, to the hopeless Keitaro and to the world in general. Due to this she often becomes annoyed or irritated with Keitaro when she believes he is not taking things seriously. Naru had repeatedly denied having feelings for Keitaro even when asked. Naru while speaking to Mutsumi has said sic "What could you possibly see in a guy like that? ,You probably don't know this Mutsumi-san but he's clumsy, stupid, and a total pervert that has no redeeming qualities what so ever!." When they do date she wears the pants in the relationship and still beats Keitaro up. Like Keitaro, she strives to get into Tokyo University for two reasons: the first is a promise she made to her one-time tutor (and object of an enormous crush) Noriyasu Seta, the second is the dimly recalled promise made to someone whose name and face she cannot remember.

In the anime television series, Naru is voiced by Yui Horie in Japanese and Dorothy Elias-Fahn in English.

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