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For her Otome Counterpart, see Natsuki Kruger.

Natsuki Kuga (玖我 なつき Kuga Natsuki) is one of the main characters of the Mai-HiME series.

Common characteristics[]

Natsuki is typically portrayed as a serious, rational blue-haired female, as a foil to the lighthearted Mai Tokiha. She usually has Shizuru Fujino as a close friend. Natsuki always uses some type of gun as her weapon and she is usually associated with wolves, silver and the element ice. She also has a habit of flicking her hair with her left hand.

Abilities[]

Natsuki's element

Natsuki's Elements are a pair of small pistols, with the spheres on the pistols providing it with unlimited ammunition.[1] She also displays knowledge of hand-to-hand fighting techniques.[2][3] Natsuki's HiME mark is located on her lower left back, an area said to be governed by Leo, her zodiac sign.

Natsuki's powers remains the same in the manga except she appears able to control ice to some extent erecting an ice wall in Chapter 15 to protect Tate. She, along with Mai, still has her HiME mark on her lower-left back.[4]

My-HiME anime[]

Natsuki makes her first appearance in episode 1 as a mysterious figure trying to kill Mikoto Minagi, who is picked up by a ferry that Mai Tokiha is riding.

Initially, Natsuki doesn't want to work with Mikoto or Mai, but as the series progresses the three fight the various Orphans at the academy, they become friends.

Natsuki's purpose for fighting is revealed in episode 9 when the three girls investigate an old First District lab. Natsuki tells the others that she wants destroy the First District for causing the death of her mother, a researcher of the First District.

Natsuki rescues Akane Higurashi from the First District's lab in episode 13; Akane later reveals to Natsuki in episode 17 the link between a Child and the HiME's most important person.

In episode 20, Natsuki learns from John Smith that her mother actually attempted to sell her to the Searrs Foundation, rather than attempting to protect her. This sends Natsuki into depression, preventing her from summoning her Element or Child and allowing her to be caught by Nao.

Natsuki is saved by Shizuru and later finds out that Shizuru is actually in love with her. Natsuki later confronts Shizuru in an emotional battle in episode 25, which ends with the deaths of the two after Natsuki kisses Shizuru and orders Duran to fire. They are later revived in episode 26 with the other HiME and destroy the HiME Star. The official guidebook suggests that Natsuki's relationship with Shizuru becomes deeper as time goes on. And in the novel, "Natsuki Prelude" (also in the artbooks vol 1, 2), there's a backstory of Natsuki revealing that while she sent Takeda a rejection note (she thanked him and also apologized for not returning his feelings) she told herself that there was someone's feelings she must accept, referring to Shizuru (She was contemplating this in episode 25, after a conversation with Sakomizu only seen in "Natsuki's Prelude").

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Reference[]

  1. "My-HiME: Characters". Accessed April 8, 2007.
  2. My-HiME anime, episode 1
  3. My-HiME anime, episode 15
  4. My-HiME manga, chapter 18, page 3
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