Nozomi Nakahara

Nozomi Nakahara
Also known as	Nozomin Nozo-chan
Japanese Name	中原のぞみ なかはら ノゾミ
Romaji	Nakahara Nozomi
First Appearance	Persona 4: Dancing All Night
Age	14
Height	171 cm (5'7")
Japanese VA	Kaori Ishihara
English VA	Rachel Kimsey

Nozomi Nakahara is a character in Persona 4: Dancing All Night.

Appearances

• Persona 4: Dancing All Night: Supporting Character

Design

Nozomi has short auburn hair and hazel eyes. Her dance outfit is similar to Kanami's, but dark brown and dark gray with a lighter brown tie.

Personality

Nozomi appears to be a polite and friendly person. She's immediately interested in Naoto Shirogane after first meeting her. Rise stated that her real self is a shy and docile person and the type who gets all flustered and nervous when she has to talk about herself.

To her fans, Nozomi is the confident, uninhibited "Prince Nozomi" who is very self-assured. Nozomi's insecurity is her social anxiety, as she is bad at talking to people and doesn't want to hurt people's feelings if they see her as her true self.

After returning back to normal, she started to become more comfortable talking to people as her true-self and gets to understand how they feel, although she is still shy.

Profile

Persona 4: Dancing All Night

Nozomi is a member of Kanamin Kitchen. Her "edible meat" tagline is that of a stag, and she is promoted as the Prince Charming of the group by Takura Productions. She, along with her fellow members, somehow ended up in the Midnight Stage. In Rise's search team, Nozomi is the second person to be found on her stage, where the Eerie Voice taunted her about how she hurts everyone by not being her confident princely self. Denying how she really is, she is forcefully dragged to her main stage.

After Nozomi submits to the shadow's will, she is transformed into a Shadow. However unlike the others, she appears as a portrait of her princely self with roses around the frames and a slew of women surrounding her on all sides. However, as the dance of the Investigation Team becomes more successful in her stage, the women transform into buff men and Nozomi's "Portrait" changes to one showing her complete shock at the change.

After she reverts back to her normal self, she is kept safe inside of a place that resembles a dressing room in TakuraPro. Ochimizu suddenly appears and decides to stay with her until Rise's and Yu's teams regroup and get everyone out of the Midnight Stage.

Gallery

Nozomi's normal portrait

Nozomi's tied up portrait

Nozomi after submitting to the Shadow's will and starting to become one with her stage

Etymology

• The name Nozomi means "hope" (のぞみ).
• Nozomi's surname Nakahara means "middle" (原) (naka) and "field, plain" (原) (hara).

Trivia

• In the Japanese version, Nozomi's edible animal is horse meat rather than deer meat.
• She admires Kanji's tough and brash personality and strives to be like him.
• Her idol image is that of a Takarazuka actress, specifically one who plays a male role.