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Nico Wakatsuki (
She's a witch known as the Witch of Thousands (
After the events of The Day of the Disaster, Nico turns into a 5-year-old girl. Currently Nico has gone through several ages until returning to adolescence.
Etymology[]
- Nico's surname Wakatsuki means "young/immature" (若) (waka) and "moon" (月) (tsuki).
Appearance[]
She wears a bell necklace that contains an alert spell to alert her if a warlock is within a range of 200 metres.
Nico often wears a red, linen smock-style dress paired with a belt that holds her wand, along with black ballet-flat shoes, whether she’s at home or out with friends. She has also been seen in casual clothes when spending time with Moi, and during school hours, she wears her high school uniform.
During Part 2, as a child, Nico would wear her kindergarten uniform. In elementary school, Nico would wear casual clothes, and later, as a teenager, Nico would begin wearing the Magani Middle School uniform. As a teenager, Nico cut her hair to please Morihito after he pointed out he's fond of short hair. Ever since then, she has had two four-pointed stars on the sides.
Personality[]
Nico is a very kind person who wants to use her magic to help people in need regardless of whether she knows them or not. She is usually very friendly with most people and tries not to hurt anyone. Due to this kindness, she does not usually think about the consequences of her spells, which is why she always causes inconveniences for the rest of the cast.
Nico tends to think more about other people than herself, willing to learn spells if it makes people happy. She doesn't usually hold grudges towards people who hurt her in the past, like Keigo's case during the Dogs and Raindrops arc. However, this also makes her naive, having fallen for various traps or social engineering situations, which were usually plans to capture her, like in The Day of the Disaster arc.
She is also quite a jealous person when it comes to Morihito, and is very close to him due to her love for him. This also causes her to become that of a lovesick person.
History[]
During her childhood, Nico met Morihito, her neighbour, who would become her best friend and first love. After she turned 10, she left the city to spend time training her magic in Yuzenkyo. During her training, she met Kanshi, who would become one of her closest friends, and he was the first one she would tell about her crush on Morihito.
After Nico completed her training, her mother had a prophecy indicating that there would be dangers happening to Nico. As a result, her mother chose Morihito as a familiar to protect Nico and let her return to the city to reunite with him and live together. Although they find it difficult to coexist at first, they learn to live together after some events.
Relationships[]
Family[]
Ibuki Wakatsuki[]
Nico's mother. She took her away to faraway lands where witches lived, where she spent 6 years training her magic before returning to her hometown with Morihito. Nicco and her mother have a good relationship and she fully trusts her.
She is fully aware of Nico's status as the Witch of Thousands and regularly makes prophecies about Nico's future using her oracle magic. She has been keeping in contact with the Otogi household with the exception of Nico, to inform them of the new prophecies and what they should expect. Nico doesn't know about the prophecies of her future.
Friends[]
Morihito Otogi[]
Morihito is Nico's best friend and love interest. Nico met Moi after he saved her from a lot of garbage. From that moment on, both would become friends due to their similar conditions of not being normal humans. Nico started calling him Moihito which was later shortened to Moi as she did not know how to pronounce his name correctly. This became a nickname that he would keep to this day, being considered her special way of calling Morihito. Currently, both live together as Morihito was tasked as her familiar and a bodyguard of sorts. Nico is romantically interested in him, becoming jealous if another girl talks to him or gets close to him. Both are very close and are usually the only ones who know what the other person is thinking.
After many attempts at getting Morihito to like her, she eventually does realise that he shares her feelings, at which point she decides to confess to him under the Lover's tree just before the Day of the Disaster arc, leading to the start of Part 2.
In Part 2, Nico having become a child would forget all her memories with Morihito taking him as a stranger, at first Nico did not understand why Morihito cared for her so much it would not be until she recovered some of her memories that she could understand him, with the passage of time she and Morihito established a father-daughter bond with Morihito teaching her all the basic things she had to learn in addition to protecting her from any potential danger. As time went by, Nico's trust in Morihito grew considering him as an older brother and even a father, when Nico turned 11 she would begin to develop feelings (apparently romantic) towards him again.
At 14, Nico's feelings for Morihito would fully resurface, becoming embarrassed when he treats her like a child and doing things to get his attention like cutting her hair after discovering that Morihito likes short hair.
Kanshi Kazamatsuri[]
Kanshi is Nico's second childhood friend. They met in the mountains during Nico's witch training and they both used to play together. After Nico returned to her city with Morihito, Kanshi went with her as her familiar per orders of her father. Kanshi is her best friend after Moi, so Nico often tells him about her love problems with Morihito.
Keigo Magami[]
Keigo was just a classmate to Nico, so they didn't talk much until it was revealed that he was a werewolf. After the Dogs and Raindrops arc, he became Nico's familiar. They started spending more time together as part of the Otogi household. Along with Kanshi, Nico often tells him about her love problems with Morihito, showing great confidence and trust in him.
Keigo has also taken her kindness as an example to follow, and is one of the reasons he is able to help others now.
Wolf[]
Due to Wolf's personality, they often have problems, but they both have a good relationship in general.
Nemu Miyao[]
Nico met Nemu during the Dogs and Raindrops Arc. Since their meeting, they both became best friends. Along with Kanshi, Keigo, and Miharu, Nemu knows about her crush on Moi and often helps her with her relationship. She is also the one who discovered Nico's unintentional friendship curse she placed on Morihito when they were little, and helped to solve it with the other 3 boys.
Miharu Kiryu[]
Miharu and Nico met during their trip to Kanhachiya Mountain, where Miharu was offered to become her familiar, which he accepted. After Miharu moved in with them, Nico and Miharu became good friends, coming to be considered as her younger brother. Miharu knows Nico's feelings for Morihito, so, with the help of Kanshi, Keigo and Nemu, they all try to help her.
Momo Kuramochi[]
Nico became friends with Momo after their meeting, likely due to both of their kind personalities. She admires Momo for her mature personality so she considers her as an older sister.
Kara Minami[]
They met at Asurano High School, from which they both became good friends. Kara is aware of her status as a witch and that she has familiars living with her, so she often visits her.
Kukumi Ureshino[]
Along with Kara, they both met in high school and are good friends.
Mii Tsuchiya[]
Nico met Chami in Part 2 of the series after she introduced herself to her as her magical tutor at her mother's request, which was due to Nico's negligence at her magic training and mediation, caused by her lack of age and discipline. At first, Chami was like an instructor to her, but then,, as she was the only witch she knew close to her age, they began to be friends. Later, Nico would begin to think of Chami as an older sister.
Neutrals[]
Komugi Kurowa[]
Initially being classmates, Nico and Komugi had a good friendship since Nico used to help her with her problems. Some time later, Komugi would reveal herself as a warlock in charge of kidnapping Nico in order to revive Jura during the Day of the Disaster arc, revealing that she had been pretending to get along with Nico.
During Part 2, she would ask for the Otogi household's help, specifically Miharu and Nico herself, to remove her warlock magic and become a normal witch again.
Abilities[]
Nico is a rare, powerful witch, known for having a thousand spells at her command; the type of witch who is born only once every thousand years. This type of witch is known as Witch of Thousands.
Spells[]
- Main Article: List of Magic Spells
Being the witch of a thousand, Nico has access to more than 100 spells,[6] because of this Nico must name her spells in an original way with the description of the spell and thus be easier to remember.[7] Nico can also create her own spells.
Featured Spells[]
Unlike normal witches, Nico can use various spells so she uses unique names to remember them. Some are shown below:
- Flip Flap Flat (ペラペランコ Peraperanko?): Nico can turn any object flat. This includes people and herself.
- Embiggen (ビッグーン Biggūn?): Nico can make objects bigger. Casting it through the palm of her hand makes the entire target bigger, and funneling the magic through a single finger allows her to enlarge only part of an object. Repeating the spell on the same target returns it to its normal size.
- Pulp Fashion (パルプ・ファッション Parupu Fasshon?): Nico can create clothing from pictures and other media, but since pictures only show one side of the outfit, the other side of the reconstructed clothes will be transparent.
- Doublit (ダブリート ダブリート?): Nico can double herself at the cost of halving her physical size and her brainpower. Each of her halved selves can perform the spell again, allowing her to create four child-sized copies of herself.
- Witch Recovery (マジョリカバリー Majo Rikabarī?): Nico can repair objects, even a letter that has been shredded into pieces.
- Through-N-Through (
壁抜け魔法 Surusurū?): Nico can walk through walls and even floors.
- Kwi-Quick (クイックイック Kuikkuikku?): Nico can increase the speed and perception of speed of her target. By using it at ten times strength, a person will experience ten days in a single day.
Equipment[]
- Grimoire: Like all witches, Nico has a grimoire where she keeps her spells. Due to her status as the Witch of Thousands, her grimoire is extensively larger than others.
- Magic Wand: Like all witches, Nico owns her own wand, which holds a magic stone within. It can also increase in length and be used like a magic broom which she can use to fly and hover in the air. However, the weight of three people at once is too much for the broom to handle.
Trivia[]
- Nico's name was originally translated as "Niko" in the manga's first five chapters due to Japanese localization, but was changed to "Nico" from chapter 6 onwards.
- So far, she is the only character to be on more than one volume cover in the series, with a total of 3.
References[]
- ↑ Twitter Official Account
- ↑ Witch Watch Manga: Volume 21 Omake
- ↑ Witch Watch Manga: Volume 9 Omake
- ↑ Witch Watch Manga: Chapter 12, Page 1
- ↑ Witch Watch Official Twitter
- ↑ Witch Watch Manga: Chapter 22, Page 15
- ↑ Witch Watch Manga: Chapter 69, Page 5