Itsuki Nakano

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Itsuki Nakano
Biographical Information
Japanese	中なか野の 五月いつき
Rōmaji	Nakano Itsuki
Alias	May (Ｍ・Ａ・Ｙ?)
Characteristics
Birthday	May 5
Age	17 18 (from Ch. 79)
Gender	Female
Height	159 cm (5'3") 165 cm (5'5")
Weight	55.6 kg
Hair Color	Reddish Orange (range: deep orange to orient red)
Eye Color	Blue
Blood Type	A
Personal Status
Family	Ichika Nakano (older sister) Nino Nakano (older sister) Miku Nakano (older sister) Yotsuba Nakano (older sister) Rena Nakano (mother) † Maruo Nakano (stepfather) Unnamed grandfather Mudou (biological father)
Occupation	Student Food critic
Affiliation	Kurobara Girls High School (formerly) Asahiyama High School Class 2-1 Class 3-1 (from Ch. 69)
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 1
Anime	Episode 1
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Ayane Sakura (commercial) Inori Minase
English Voice	Tia Ballard

Itsuki Nakano (中なか野の 五月いつき, Nakano Itsuki^?) is the fifth sister of the Nakano Quintuplets, and one of the main characters of the 5-toubun no Hanayome series. Itsuki is serious and diligent, yet also a glutton and crybaby.

Appearance

Itsuki is a serious looking girl with medium-length hair and an expressive ahoge. She has reddish-orange hair colour, ranging from light pink to salmon pink in Volume 1, and deep orange to orient red in Volume 4. Her notable accessories are a pair of star-shaped hairpins near both of her eyes, which Fuutarou Uesugi called unfashionable at one point. Like her sisters, she has dark blue eyes, an average height, and a well-endowed figure. In class, or when she does activities that involve studying, she wears glasses.

Itsuki is noted to be "cute" by her classmates and she looks very similar to Rena Nakano, according to Shimoda.

She wears her uniform normally without any accessories, like most of the girl students, and on occasion, she wears a handbag.

Gallery

Itsuki Nakano design.

Itsuki Nakano character profile.

Itsuki Nakano sketch.

Personality

Itsuki is a serious and earnest girl  who usually wakes up early compared to her sisters. She is well-mannered; never being late or missed a class, and always speaks politely. Nino, her sister, comments that Itsuki is too straight-laced.

Itsuki is a girl who bears grudges, as shown when she rejects Fuutarou Uesugi's tutoring partly because of a previous quarrel they had. She is also someone who can't be honest with herself and has difficulties being more straightforward. Both of these qualities often make her struggle on her own. She is often a wimp, be it about unfavourable situations, scary things or her stubborn self.

She has a huge appetite and is mostly seen eating something or being hungry throughout the series. It appears that she doesn't mind treating her sisters unfairly when it comes to food-related topics. This shows where during one scenario when she proposed to her sisters to share their cakes; suspected to sample all the flavours by Ichika.

According to Fuutarou, each Nakano Quintuplet has their own characteristics regarding their sheets. In Itsuki's case, she would rather use an eraser than scribble on them

Ability

Itsuki is commended as a diligent girl, and she does things very precisely. She is also perceptive and has a good sense of detail. Despite that, she has an awful sense of direction. Her poor sense of direction is first mentioned, when she became sensitive to the cold so she sneaks into Nino's futon. She also has poor eyesight and is often seen wearing glasses. She has good observation and deduction skills. Among the sister, Itsuki ranks on the higher part of the five, with her strongest subject being Science.

In spite of her excellent deduction skills, she was the last of her sisters to realise Miku's affection towards Fuutarou.

Relationships

Main Article: Itsuki Nakano/Relationships

Quotes

• "In the end, we can't know what he feels, what he thinks, unless we ask him personally"
• "Aren't you going to set a good example? We're counting on you"
• "How does it feel to receive words of gratitude from someone you taught? For me. I want to treasure the feelings from that time"
• "The numerous days we spent studying for exams, fireworks festival, field trip, new year celebration, we spent all that time together. Doesn't that already make us... friends?"

Trivia

• Itsuki is the only girl whose name is a portmanteau as the name Itsuki means "five" (五) (itsu) and "moon" (月) (tsuki).
• Itsuki is seen wearing glasses when she's about to do a test (Chapter 2), suggesting she has hyperopia (far-sightedness). In Chapter 3 with Fuutarou Uesugi, he remarks that Itsuki can't see far away, suggesting she has myopia (near-sightedness). Despite sharing eye problems with Nino Nakano, only Itsuki wears glasses.
• She and Nino seem to be the most similar to each other among the quintuplets (both of them do sit-ups in the morning, have long hair, poor eyesight, a fear of needles, and a tsundere personality, being initially harsh to Fuutarou). Both of them are also close to each other and often seen hanging out, and Nino is very vocal andprotective regarding Itsuki.
• Itsuki believes in fate and charms.
• Itsuki's notable accessories are two stars on the front of her hair, representing number 5, which is a part of her name and the order of her birth.
• Itsuki won 3rd place on the Japanese popularity poll with 1235 votes.
• Itsuki's food critic pseudonym, May (M·A·Y^?) literally means May in English, as in the fifth month of the year. The Kanji of Itsuki (五月^?) is also used for "May" in Japanese.
• Itsuki is the second Nakano Quintuplet to get her picture taken alongside Fuutarou. However, she is the first Nakano Quintuplet to have a picture with Fuutarou taken properly.