Nagisa Momoe (百江なぎさ?) is a Magical Girl introduced in Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica: The Rebellion Story.
Bio[]
Appearance[]
Nagisa Momoe has wavy, white, knee-length hair tied in two small pigtails with orange ruffled bands. Her eyes are orange and yellow. Her casual attire consists of a pink sailor styled polka-dotted dress with a white-collar and cuffs and brown stripes on both. Under her puffy sleeves, she wears long brown sleeves. At the edge of her collar is a brown bow and at the edge of the dress is a brown stripe and white ruffles under it. Inside the collar, the flap is wine red with white lace and a brown stripe. She wears tights of the same color and brown shoes with a pink bow on top.
As a Magical Girl, her outfit is a brown hat with cat ears and pom-poms on the ends of the strings. She also has a fuzzy choker and suspenders the same brown shade, with two small red bows on them. Connected to it is a brown jellyfish skirt with a candy shaped button that houses her lilac-colored Soul Gem in the middle. She wears a short brown shirt and a salmon-colored cape jacket with two red buttons and white fur on the edge over it. She wears brown polka-dotted tights and orange flats.
Personality[]
Nagisa is usually childish, serving as the plucky and cheerful comic relief of the group, though, she is shown to be more perceptive than she seems. She tends to speak eloquently. As Bebe, she is even more childish, often jumping around, and panicking at the thought of turning into cheese. In both forms, she is energetic, talkative and somewhat ditzy, airheaded and scatterbrained.
Etymology[]
Nagisa (なぎさ?) is written in hiragana and has no particular meaning. It can be written with the kanji 渚 meaning "the shore"[1]. According to her mother in the event Nagisa's Wish Was Granted, her name means "shore" because this is the place she met with her father for the first time.
Momoe (百江?): Momo (百?) can translate to "river"[2] and e (江?) means "bay"[3]
Relationships[]
- Madoka Kaname: Nagisa is a part of Law of Cycles in The Rebellion Story, she has come back to life as a Magical Girl to serve as Ultimate Madoka's secretary alongside Sayaka Miki. Nagisa has great respect for Madoka.
- Mami Tomoe: Mami and Nagisa are very close. They are very good friends and care for each other deeply. Mami came to Bebe's rescue when she was taken away by Homura because she was suspicious of Bebe.
Family[]
Mother[]
Her mother is a major character in the event Nagisa's Wish Was Granted from Magia Record. She is rude and disrespectful towards her caring daughter and hates her because of her father. By the end of Nagisa's Wish Was Granted, her life ends alongside her daughter's from an illness at a hospital in Mitakihara City. Her full name is unknown, but her surname is confirmed as Momoe. Nagisa's mother was popular and was often shown on TV and many were jealous of her.
Father[]
Not much is known about her father, he is said to be absent from home nearly always and is the reason why Nagisa is hated so much by her mother. She believes that he left her and Nagisa because Nagisa's mother was hated by the society due to people's jealousy.
Powers and Abilities[]
Abilities[]
- After becoming a part of the Law of Cycles, she was granted the ability to switch between her Witch and human form.
- With her trumpet, she can shoot bubbles powerful enough to put cracks in a Witch's Labyrinth.
- She can summon her Familiars, Pyotr and Polina.
- Nagisa's horn/trumpet is supposed to make her more "self assertive and greedy" because she regrets wishing for just one cheesecake.
Trivia[]
- Her wish was only revealed in the Magia Record game.
- To transform, Nagisa says: "Parmigiano Reggiano", which is a hard cheese also known simply as Parmesan.
- Nagisa is the only Magical Girl that shouts an incantation phrase before activating her transformation.
- She is the first Magical Girl who first debuts as a Witch and later gets a civilian identity.
- Her favorite foods are cheese and cheesecake.
- Nagisa's hair, eyes and soul gem are not all the same color. This contrasts from most, if not the rest, of the magical girls in the Madoka Magica franchise.
- Her nickname as Charlotte is "Bebe," which sounds similar to "baby." "Bebe" is also translated to "baby" in many other languages.
- Mami's name is similar to "mommy," showing their connection together where Mami is like a mother figure towards Nagisa, and that they have a mother and daughter relationship.
- Their relationship can also be a reference to another mother-and daughter relationship in Sailor Moon, between Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon) and her daughter Chibiusa (Sailor Chibi Moon).
- Mami's name is similar to "mommy," showing their connection together where Mami is like a mother figure towards Nagisa, and that they have a mother and daughter relationship.
- Nagisa hates garlic, as confirmed in an official comedy manga. [4]
- Nagisa's real name is mentioned once in the movie, but only in the original Japanese version.
References[]
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| Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica characters | ||
|---|---|---|
| Magical Girls |  Madoka Kaname •  Sayaka Miki •  Mami Tomoe •  Kyoko Sakura •  Homura Akemi •  Nagisa Momoe
| |
| Incubators | Kyubey | |
| Magia Record Characters (Anime) | Iroha Tamaki • Yachiyo Nanami • Tsuruno Yui • Sana Futaba • Felicia Mitsuki • Kaede Akino • Rena Minami • Momoko Togame • Alina Gray • Ui Tamaki • Touka Satomi • Nemu Hiiragi • Kuroe • Mitama Yakumo • Tsukasa Amane • Tsukuyo Amane • Mel Anna • Kanae Yukino | |
| Witches | Gertrud • Suleika • H.N. Elly (Kirsten) • Albertine • Gisela • Elsa Maria • Uhrmann • Oktavia von Seckendorff • Izabel • Patricia • Kriemhild Gretchen • Roberta • Walpurgisnacht • Homulilly | |
| Others | Junko Kaname • Tatsuya Kaname • Tomohisa Kaname • Kazuko Saotome • Hitomi Shizuki • Momo Sakura • Minor Characters | |