Ichika Nakano

Ichika Nakano I've been trying to fool everyone, but I'm concerned about my savings. I mean, stuff like food and utilities cost more than I expected. So I've decided to take on any roles, no matter how minor they might be. I need to work hard, for both my sake as well as theirs. Gender: Female Type: Student and Actress Age: 17-18 Species: Human Portrayed by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese) Lindsay Seidel (English) Status: Alive Media of origin: The Quintessential Quintuplets

Ichika Nakano (Nakano Ichika) is one of the main characters of The Quintessential Quintuplets series. She is the first sister of the Nakano Quintuplets, with the other four being Nino, Miku, Yotsuba and Itsuki. She is the eldest of the siblings and serves as one of the main love interests for the protagonist, Fuutarou Uesugi.

Good Qualities

1. Ichika acts as the eldest sister of her sisters, as she seems to have a calm and composed demeanor; making herself an approachable person
2. Ichika is friendly, outgoing, and has a positive attitude, making her popular among her classmates. However, she can also be insecure and sensitive, particularly about her own shortcomings and her relationship with her sisters.
3. Ichika initially had pessimistic attitude towards the sisters' learning capabilities, making her one of the obstacles for Fuutarou tutoring lessons early in the story. After being inspired by him, she began to change her mind and started to take studying seriously.
4. Ichika faces various challenges in her career and love life, including conflicts with her sisters over Fuutarou's attention and a difficult decision about whether to pursue her acting career or focus on her studies.
5. Ichika has the shortest hair of the girls, and she has a piercing in her right ear.
6. Ichika aspires to become an actress. When she initially tries out acting (especially when attempting to smile naturally), thus having her career stalled until the Summer Festival starts.
7. After her mom's death, she took on her role as a big sister too far to the point she is willing to work as hard as possible just to take care of her siblings when they moved out.
8. Out of the sisters, Miku is the closest sister to Ichika, as both have deep understanding towards each other, and often seen doing activities together
   • She even supports Miku when she correctly deduces that Miku has fallen for him, and wants her to be happy with Fuutarou, despite feeling the same way towards him, before she tries to sabotage her confession.
   • After she sees how hurt her sisters were at her betrayal, she decides to make sure Miku can spend the last day of the Kyoto trip alone with Fuutarou to make up for it.
9. Her character's arc provides significant plot points in the story and contributes to the series' themes of family, love, and self-discovery. Overall, Ichika's character is multi-faceted, with her ambition and emotional depth making her a compelling and relatable figure in the series.

Bad Qualities

1. She tends to uses her charms to playfully tease or make fun of everybody, whether it's at Fuutarou or her sisters.
2. She repeatedly proves incapable of earnestly expressing her feelings towards Fuutarou, often resorting to roundabout or indirect ways of confessing her feelings.
3. She was very unlikable during the Sisters War arc, where she resorts to sabotage her sister's effort in her desperation to make Fuutarou fall for her, by impersonating Miku to sabotage the latter's chances with him. This has gained her several detractors among western readers, who saw the move as incredibly scummy and a deep betrayal of Miku's trust, as the latter had confided to the former in the past about being in love with Fuutarou.
   • When she gets caught, she went on to not care when Miku broke down crying from the betrayal, and then has the balls to criticize Nino for having a problem with it. Nino replies that while she does have feelings for Fuutarou as well, she is not willing to sacrifice the bond that she has with her sisters in order to try and hook up with him. This doesn't change anything for her and still attempts to play dirty to win Fuutarou.
   • When she finally gets caught by Fuutarou, he is rightfully angry and asks why she did this. To save face, she tries to tell him that she is the girl who he met in Kyoto, but given her earlier deception by disguising herself as Miku to sabotage her, he doesn't believe her, rightfully rejects her stating he no longer trust her and storms off, sabotaging her own chances with him and finally realizing the errors of her actions.
   • Once Nino reconciles and talk things out with Ichika, she admits to the possibility of acting the same way as Ichika did, had their positions been reversed.

Trivia

• The name Ichika means "one" (一) (ichi) and "flower, blossom" (花) (ka).
• Ichika's notable accessory is a single earring, representing number 1, which is a part of her name and the order of her birth.
• Ichika's voice actress Kana Hanazawa is the oldest among the voice actresses of the Nakano Quintuplets and has the character 花 in her name 花澤 香菜, Hanazawa Kana.
• Ichika, alongside her sisters have the same three sizes: B88-W50-H159.

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