Sunako Nakahara

Sunako Nakahara is the main female protagonist from the Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge anime and manga.

Sunako usually locks herself away inside her room and chooses to live without any desire for life after a traumatic experience when she was rejected and told that she was hideous by her first love. Sunako is a lover of solitude, gory movies, murder, anatomical dolls and objects that reflect the "ugly" side of life as she puts it; her interests resulted in her distorted view of reality and isolation contributed to her low self-esteem.

Appearance
Sunako is a beautiful fair-skinned young woman with waist-length long black or dark-purple hair and lavender purple eyes. She is usually seen wearing a grey sweater with her weird floral skirt or her grey sweater with red jogging pants.

Most of the time, Sunako can be seen in super deformed mode. However, whenever she is in a situation where her inner beauty comes forth, she almost magically transforms into a beautiful young woman, much to the surprise of many onlookers. Sunako's inner beauty frequently emerges whenever her character's viewpoint is challenged, causing her to change her belief system about beauty and humanity in general. When Sunako is not in a deformed mode, she has dark long straight black hair. She is very tall for an average Japanese girl. Sunako looks like a model whenever she is not in chibi form. She is considered to be beautiful but doesn't consider herself as one due to her low-self esteem.

Personality
Sunako is very self-conscious, and has a fairly bad self-image of herself. She frequently calls herself ugly, and never acknowledges herself as a beautiful person. Most of the time she can be found in dark spaces or areas that are believed to be haunted. At the same time, the author shows that Sunako also has very strong convictions. This could range anywhere from defending her fellow characters to refusing to do anything she dislikes, such as making a collage of pineapples on her wall. However, it is frequently shown in both the anime and manga that Sunako has no problem compromising some values (i.e. dressing up) in order to further her own ends. Sunako's fascination with all things dark and morbid resembles that of the story's creator, albeit in a more extreme form.

In instance, a constant theme of Sunako's personality is her view of beautiful and ugly people. She sees herself as ugly, while viewing characters such as Kyohei or Noi as incredibly beautiful. Sunako's belief appears to be that while beautiful people can become ugly, ugly people can never become beautiful. In the manga, Sunako often reacts violently to the presence of beauty, believing that ugly people such as her should stay in the darkness. However, the problems with Sunako's retreat from the world is that it limits her capacity for life, as well as keeping her from fairly viewing all that is around her. It can be suggested that by Sunako adopting such a severe viewpoint on "ugly" and "beautiful" people, she has become exactly the type of person that she despises. One such character similarity can be seen by comparing the person who rejected Sunako at the beginning of the manga, and Sunako herself assuming that Kyohei couldn't understand her due to his beauty.

Surprisingly, she is also an excellent cook, and also very athletic, intelligent, and a good pianist. She is also very beautiful with long black hair, fair skin, and a great body when in regular anime form. However Sunako changes becoming ugly with dry cracked skin, pimples and all in chibi form. She refers to beautiful people as "creatures of light" and "ugly" people, such as herself, as "creatures of darkness", in the translation in America. Whenever she sees a "creature of light", she gets nosebleeds, and they're usually severe when she sees Kyohei. Despite her negative attitude, once she is driven to do something, Sunako is quite capable of doing things that no one expects her to complete. There is also a possibility that she may have supernatural abilities i.e. plants wilting near her and windows shattering by an unseen force. She is also seen to be loyal to her friends, especially towards Noi and Tamao as she shown to care about them more then the boys. An example was in chapter 102 when Kyohei, Yuki, Ranmaru, and Noi accidently ate mushrooms that changed their personalities and she wasn't interested in getting the antidote for the boys but quickly changed her mind when seeing Noi might do something pervert to Takenaga while still cheering for her in becoming closer to Takenaga. Another was in chapter 111 when both Sunako and Ranmaru were kidnapped and was held for a 1 billion dollar ransom, the kidnapper plans to cut and torture Ranmaru which excites Sunako but when Tamao barges in with the ransom money she quickly shows more concern for her safety and urges her to get out while she still can. Also, despite how she acts, Sunako seems to deeply care about her housemates, going so far as trying to kill anyone who mess with them (despite the fact that she tried to kill Kyohei many times herself).

Trivia

 * The name Sunako means "sand" (suna) and "child" (ko).
 * Sunako's surname Nakahara means "middle" (naka) and "field, plain" (hara).
 * Sunako is a good cook and loves chocolate.
 * Sunako was born in Hokkaido.
 * Throughout the anime, Sunako is mostly seen in her "chibi" form (miniature form).
 * According to Chapter 2 in the manga, Sunako's skin is actually sensitive.
 * Whenever Sunako sees "beautiful people", she gets nose bleeds.
 * Sunako is not skilled in math, but she is good at fighting.
 * In Episode 21, Mr.Nakahara (Sunako's father) has a huge scar on his back from protecting Sunako from a bear when she was little.
 * After being rejected from a boy SUnako confessed to and she was called ugly, she has thrown away any ounce if reality making her be secluded from others (It's been 2 years).
 * Mine Nakahara (Sunako's aunt) is the landlady of Kyohei Takano, Yukinojo Toyama, Takenaga Oda and Ranmaru Morii.
 * In Episode 2, Sunako saw Kyohei naked after walking in on him in the bathroom.
 * In Episode 9, Kyohei and Sunako kissed accidentally because of playing ping pong.
 * Sunako is possibly born under the zodiac sign Capricorn, given her personality.