Yachiyo Nanami (七海やちよ?) is one of the five main Magical Girls in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica Side Story. She is a first year at Kamihama City University.
Bio[]
Appearance[]
Yachiyo Nanami is a slim woman with long steel blue hair and bright blue eyes. Her main outfit is a black dress with white polka dots and a trim of the same colour tied at the middle with a black ribbon. A white collar acts as the dress' sleeves and it's tied in the back through a chain. She also wears a pair of black boots with a black pantyhose and a pearl bracelet in her left hand.
As a Magical Girl, she wears a dark blue fade to purple star-covered dress with a large thigh-high left slit, a gold-trimmed silver breastplate, brown cuffs with yellow details and golden accents,a grey under suit, a blue moon pendant just below her breastplate,a grey-blue bow on her neck and a golden cuff on her right leg Additionally, she pairs her outfit with brown wedge sandals decorated with blue gems, and a headpiece, as well as a blue hairpin. Yachiyo wields an intricately designed halberd that carries a blue, gold and silver colour scheme.
Personality[]
Yachiyo is a calm individual who usually prefers to work alone, fearing for the lives of other magical girls due to believing the effects of her wish, ‘to survive,’ were corrupted by Kyubey the effect being that if Yachiyo were to be in any situation where she shouldn’t be able to escape, another magical girl would die in her place. Due to this, Yachiyo often comes off as cold and rude, due to her calm demeanor rarely showing any genuine emotion, making her an unsociable person at first. However, as she opens up to others, a kinder side can be seen.
As a college student, Yachiyo has a habit of obsessing over store sales and clearances. She also purchases mugs for those who live at Mikazuki Villa. Her career is in modeling, hence her wish.
Her actual ability allows her to inherit the hope of deceased magical girls that intrust their hope with her, which makes her so strong in battle.
Etymology[]
Nanami (七海?): Nana (七?) means "seven"[1] and mi (海?) means "sea"[2]. Altogether, it means "seven seas".
Yachiyo (やちよ?) in hiragana has no specific meaning, however if written with the kanji 八千代, it means “thousands of years”.[3]
Relationships[]
- Iroha Tamaki': Yachiyo, at first, is hostile towards Iroha because she mistakes her for an outsider hunting in others' territories. However, after Iroha battles Yachiyo, they get closer and Yachiyo starst to understand Iroha's motives and care for her welfare but tries to keep it formal, calling Iroha her assistant. Once they're the only ones left in Mikazuki Villa, Yachiyo opens up to Iroha and eventually become friends after experiencing a loss together. From that point on, Iroha and Yachiyo inseparable partners and help each other in daily matters and in fights, as they also live together.
- Tsuruno Yui': Yachiyo and Tsuruno met while fighting a Witch and Yachiyo invited her on her team a year prior to the main story's events. They have been good friends and Yachiyo cares a lot for Tsuruno, to the point that she kept hidden how Mel died by becoming a Witch. After the second generation of Mikazuki Villa disbanded, Yachiyo and Tsuruno became acquaintances. After Iroha came to Kamihama, Yachiyo suggested teaming up with Tsuruno and turned back to being friends, at least from Tsuruno's side. Tsuruno's true feelings about Yachiyo and her friends are revealed when she became Uwasa Tsuruno and Yachiyo understood she has been putting pressure to Tsuruno without realizing it ever since the second team's disband. Both Yachiyo and Tsuruno make up at the end and turn back at being friends.
Family[]
Grandmother
Yachiyo's grandmother lived in Kamihama with her granddaughter and was the original owner of Mikazuki Villa. She was a cheerful and happy woman and all girls in the broadhouse were fond of her. She was hospitalized and died two years prior to the series' main events.
Powers and Abilities[]
Abilities[]
- Yachiyo's main ability is revealed to be hope inheritance. Furthermore, when she is in a state where she could lose her life, another person will suffer her fate and die in her place.
- Traditionally, the older a Magical Girl gets, the weaker her powers become. For Yachiyo, she's immune to this because of her power.
- In the anime, it is explained that
- Traditionally, the older a Magical Girl gets, the weaker her powers become. For Yachiyo, she's immune to this because of her power.
- She can summon several copies of her halberd.
- In the anime, she is also seen using her halberds to create a staircase.
Attacks[]
- Connect (コネクト?): A technique used by Magical Girls in Magia Record. By joining hands, the two Magical Girls can fuse their weapons to create a stronger variant of it.
Trivia[]
- According to her Magical Girl Story, her favourite food is Yakisoba noodles.
- She is also shown to be a very good observer like a detective.
- In the anime, her rope-and-bead headpiece is redesigned to instead have feathers or strips of fabric. Although her in-game sprite, live2D model, and card art are unchanged, this redesign is used in the transformation sequence of Iroha・Yachiyo (Final Battle ver.)
- As seen in episode 18, Yachiyo has a driving license.
- In the anime, Yachiyo along with Iroha and Tsuruno are the only Magical Girls who are seen talking with their Doppels on-screen.
- She and Mifuyu Azusa are the oldest Magical Girls, being 19.
- Yachiyo made her contract to be a Magical Girl when she was 12.
References[]
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Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica characters | ||
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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 |