Nagisa Furukawa

Nagisa Furukawa is the main female protagonist of the Clannad anime and games.

Nagisa is the daughter of Akio Furukawa and Sanae Furukawa. Nagisa appears as both the female lead, and later on, the wife of the protagonist, Tomoya Okazaki throughout the Clannad manga and anime. Nagisa becomes an even greater force in the anime in the ~After Story~ arc, culminating in her marriage to Tomoya and the birth of their only daughter, Ushio Okazaki.

Appearance
Nagisa is a beautiful young girl with short, wavy auburn hair that reaches a little below her shoulders. She has a frail physique, as noted by Tomoya, therefore she is petite compared to her peers, due to her poor health and weak immune system.

She also has two prominent ahoge sticking out on top of her head. The two ahoges resemble the letter 'M', and she inherited that physical trait from both of her parents (Akio and Sanae).

Nagisa has olive skin and big, downward-slanting, amber eyes.

She usually wears the Hikarizaka Private High School uniform, but her casual attire is light and girly.

She wears 2 red clips at both sides of her head. Nagisa usually leaves her hair down, but she ties it more frequently into a ponytail or a bun during the After Story arc.

She blushes a lot and is noted to be very cute even though she denies it wholeheartedly.

Personality
Nagisa is a shy girl who is always kind and sweet towards others, even going out of her way to assist a stranger. She is selfless and self-depreciating as she thinks lowly of herself and values other people’s happiness more than her own. Nagisa is naive and optimistic, as she always sees the good in everyone. In After Story, she is noted to be smart and diligent by the manager of the restaurant she is working in.

Like her mother, she is very sensitive and feels insulted easily. Nagisa usually lets her emotions out and has a holding them in. At times, she accidentally is too honest and blabbers out the truth.

She can, at times, be confident though, like her determination in starting the drama club. Especially after meeting Tomoya and other friends, she grows more stronger, even to the point of somewhat bossing Tomoya around.

Nagisa is seen as a strange girl, having a habit of motivating herself by muttering the names of food that she plans to eat. Her favorite foods are anpan, a type of sweet bean bread, and pork cutlet (which is Kyou Fujibayashi's best course).

Despite her introverted personality, she is social and talkative so she isn't a quiet person. Nagisa is bubbly and cheerful, especially since she is very fond and passionate of the Great Dango Family. Nagisa is sometimes quite enthusiastic and easily excitable when comfortable. She also loudly sings the theme song all the time, providing some comic relief. But she is also embarrassed a lot so she tends to talk to a lot to fill in conversations, however, usually with meaningless chatter that makes no sense.

Nagisa always speaks politely, as she always ends her sentences with "desu", which can be considered as her verbal tic. She is also very girly and speaks in a high and soft voice, the highest of all characters, and calls people by honorifics.

She may be airheaded or a klutz but she is perceptive of other people's thoughts and feelings. Nagisa is thoughtful and catches on to how people feel and the situation that causes them to be the way they are.

Because of her cute and childish demeanor, she has an easily noticeable presence, attracting the attention of strangers, including several male customers. Of the girls except Kyou and Fuko, Nagisa is one of the most talkative and draws all the attention to herself.

Trivia

 * The characters in Nagisa's name mean beach (Nagisa) and old river (Furukawa).
 * The voice actress of Nagisa is Mai Nakahara and the voice actor of Tomoya is Yuichi Nakamura. Both of them are voice actors for characters from the anime, Fairy Tail. The characters they voice respectfully are Juvia Lockser and Gray Fullbuster.
 * Nagisa has the same birthday as Sistine Fibel from the Rokuaka series.
 * Nagisa either has a verbal tic or speaks politely, as she tends to end her sentences with "desu".