note: also called YAMATONADESHIKO SHICHIHENGE(anime), THE WALL FLOWER(manga)
PlotWarning: Significant plot details follow.
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge is about Nakahara Sunako, a girl called "ugly" by a boy, who happened to be the first and only person to whom she confessed her love. This incident sparks a life change, and as a result Sunako shuns all forms of beauty, both in herself as well as in life. Concerned by her change for the worst, Sunako's aunt, the owner of a beautiful mansion where four very handsome students live, offers the guys free rent in her mansion if they can turn Sunako into a 'perfect lady'.
While the four of them manage to make Sunako physically beautiful enough to become a lady, the problem lies with her attitude and interests (which Sunako has no intention of changing). Up until the most recent release in the story, they've managed to convince Sunako's aunt that her niece is indeed a lady befitting the mansion in which they live (and prevent the rent from skyrocketing at most triple the required amount). However, in reality, Sunako has not changed considerably.
Primary characters
Sunako Nakahara Sunako Nakahara(中原 スナコ, Nakahara Sunako?)
Height: Differs between sizes
Weight: Differs between sizes
Favorite Food: Chocolate
Strengths: Detailed horror and anatomy knowledge, brilliant housekeeper, monstrous strength, great chef, athletic, extremely intelligent (except for math; though, later she masters the subject)
After she was rejected by her first love, Sunako developed an obsession with darkness and a morbid fascination with blood, horror movies, and similarly dark things. She has an infamous tendency to get nosebleeds when she sees someone attractive and hates excessive light exposure. She has three "friends"; a skeleton called Josephine and two anatomical figures named Hiroshi-kun and Akira-kun. While she suffers from severely low self-esteem, she is actually beautiful and a frighteningly tough fighter. She is portrayed (mostly) throughout the manga in SD (Super-Deformed) form. Somewhat surprisingly, she is a very good cook, very athletic, intelligent (save that she is abysmally bad at math) and a good pianist. 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.
Her relationship with Kyohei is somewhat unclear, saying that she always wants to kill him, and even goes to the extent of turning into a lady temporarily to get him back. Her reason is that "she's the only person who can kill him." Some people say that she has a crush on him, but it might be that he is too beautiful for her to handle, so she "must get rid of him".
Kyohei Takano Kyohei Takano(高野 恭平, Takano Kyōhei?)
Height: 5 ft 10 in
Weight: 125 lbs
Favorite Foods: Strawberries and Fried Shrimp
Strengths: Great Fighter, persevering attitude, incredibly handsome
While he says that all he cares about is getting free (or the lowest amount required to be paid) rent, Kyohei has a soft spot for Sunako and empathizes with her more so than the others. He is the most popular of the boys, and always has trouble keeping down a part-time job because his fans will chase after him, or his boss (male or female) will sexually harass him. Kyohei is cocky, short-tempered, and the only one tough enough to fight on the same level as Sunako. His hair is modeled after Tackey of Tackey and Tsubasa. He also tends to succumb to food and money.
Takenaga Oda Takenaga Oda(織田 武長, Oda Takenaga?)
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 110 lb
Strengths: Incredibly smart (especially in math), good fighter
Random Fact: Is more spacey than he lets on
The most intellectual of the four, Takenaga is called the "Boss" (a pun on his name in Japanese, which can be read as "Bucho", meaning boss) by his friends and is the least fazed by Sunako's morbid habits. Takenaga was originally from a wealthy family descended from flower masters (ikebana), but when the pressure of being the family heir was too much, he became completely withdrawn and ignored everyone. He was sent to live at the Landlady's mansion in hopes of becoming more "normal". He is described as a caring feminist and is rather shy. He is currently going out with Noi.
Yukinojo "Yuki" Toyama Yuki Toyama(, Tōyama Yukinojo?)
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 108 lb
Favorite Food: Anything sweet
Strengths: Very stylish, can charm animals, looks very good in girl clothes
The most androgynous of the four, Yuki is gentle and is initially the most frightened of Sunako. He's the most 'normal' of the four boys; before coming to live at the mansion he had a normal school life with a middle-income family. His mother and the Landlady are old friends and the Landlady has a soft spot for Yuki. He's also the shortest and shyest, with a 'cute' face, and has been called on (very reluctantly) to dress up as a girl on more than one occasion. He has an on-again, off-again girlfriend named Machiko.
Ranmaru Morii Ranmaru Morii(, Morii Ranmaru?)
Height: 5 ft 10 in
Weight: 122 lb
Strengths: Very experienced Casanova, good at sweet talking
Random Fact: Will break out whenever near an ugly girl, sexually experienced
A ladies' man, Ranmaru is often going out with various beautiful older and often married women. The very sight of Sunako initially has him breaking out in hives, but when her true beauty is revealed, he decides that she has "potential" to become a real lady. Like Takenaga, he comes from a wealthy family (who own a series of hotel chains), but was sent to live with the Landlady because he exploited his wealth and his parents wanted him to become "normal". He is named after the real life Mori Ranmaru, the partner of Oda Nobunaga.
Naie "Noi" Kasahara Noi Kasahara(, Kasahara Naie?)
Height: 5 ft 7 in
Weight: 112 lb
Strengths: Extremely kind and beautiful
Random Fact: Is one of the only people to accept Sunako immediately
A very pretty and exceedingly popular girl. Noi is Sunako's closest friend at school, where Sunako is scorned for her terrifying demeanor and association with the boys. Noi admires Sunako's tough attitude and is in love with Takenaga, though she tends to be insecure about their relationship because Takenaga is too shy to openly admit that he likes her. She is called Noi in both the North American and Singaporean English-language translation.
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