Natsuki Nakagawa

Natsuki Nakagawa
Kanji	中川 夏紀
Romaji	Nakagawa Natsuki
Age	16-18, 17-19(3rd year)
Gender	Female
Height	156 cm
Blood type	A
Birthday	June 23 (Cancer)
Musical profile
Role	Euphonium player (Original Anime) Band Vice President (Our Promise
Instrument	Euphonium, Electric Guitar
Affiliation
School	Kitauji High School
Occupation	High school student (2nd year) (Original Anime) (3rd year) (Our Promise)
First appearance
Anime	Nice to Meet You, Euphonium
Portrayal
Voiced by	日本語 Konomi Fujimura English Sarah Anne Williams (Liz and the Blue Bird) Deutsch Laura Schneider (Liz and the Blue Bird)

Natsuki Nakagawa (中川 夏紀, Nakagawa Natsuki) is the recurring secondary character of Sound! Euphonium series.

She is a second-year student who plays the euphonium.

Appearance

Natsuki is a young girl with auburn hair that is tied in a high ponytail with two strands sticking out from it and blue eyes.

She wears the standard Kitauji High School uniform for second years.

Personality

Natsuki is a reserved girl who is rarely seen talking, with a calm attitude and a tendency to come across as somewhat aloof. It is later revealed that the second-years are like this because of an event which occurred the year before Kumiko Oumae's first year at Kitauji.

However, Natsuki is a kind girl who's normally friendly to everyone, and tends to be mature and calm in most situations. She is also understanding of situations and takes everything quite nicely.

Relationships

Main article: Natsuki Nakagawa/Relationships

Roles

Anime

Title	Role
Sound! Euphonium	Secondary
Sound! Euphonium 2	Secondary
Sound! Euphonium The Movie: Welcome To The Kitauji High School Concert Band	Secondary
Sound! Euphonium The Movie: May The Melody Reach You!	Minor
Liz and the Blue Bird	Minor
Sound! Euphonium: The Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day	Main

Etymology

• The name Natsuki means "summer" (夏) (natsu) and "chronicle" (紀) (ki).
• Natsuki's surname Nakagawa means "middle" (中) (naka) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa/gawa).
  • Natsuki Nakagawa's and Yuuko Yoshikawa's surnames seem to contain a curious wordplay: if written together in kana, their first kanji (中 and 吉) form "nakayoshi", which means "(having a) good relationship"; at the same time, they both share the second kanji for "river" (川).

Trivia

• Natsuki and Yuuko Yoshikawa often get into playful arguments and teasing, much to the amusement of others, particularly Kumiko Oumae.
• Natsuki did not pass her first audition.
• Natsuki, Yuuko, Nozomi Kasaki and Mizore Yoroizuka graduated from Minami Junior High School.
• Natsuki joined the band because of Nozomi, as she admires her.
• Natsuki has short hair in the novel and manga.
• Natsuki used to not have any illustration in the novel, so her appearance in the anime was completely redesigned. Character designer Shouko Ikeda said that Natsuki looks awful with her short hair like in the novel, so she made her hair a bit longer and put it in a ponytail, so she would look cuter. Natsuki's illustration is revealed on the cover of the new novel series, which shows that her appearance in the novel is now the same as in the anime.
• Natsuki becomes the band's vice president in her senior year.
• According to the official Sound! Euphonium novel website:
  • Her favorite colors are purple and black.
  • Her special skill is being able to perform fast calculations, while still being poor at math.
  • She likes bears and spicy food, and dislikes matcha and anko (red-bean paste).
• In the novels, Natsuki's euphonium case has a yellow, faded bear charm key-chain on it.
• Natsuki's euphonium is based on a Yamaha YEP-321 model.
• Natsuki plays electric guitar in Our Promise: A Brand New Day. Her guitar is based on the Yamaha Pacifica 112V model.

Gallery

Main article: Natsuki Nakagawa/Gallery

External links

• Natsuki Nakagawa on Hibike! Euphonium Archive