| Nanako Onodera | |
|---|---|
| Japanese | 小野寺 菜々子 |
| Translation | Onodera Nanako |
| Character information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of birth | July 7th (cancer) |
| Height | 173 ㎝ |
| Occupation | Baker |
| Home country | Japan |
| Likes | Teasing her daughters about Raku
Hard working people |
| Background information | |
| Chapter | " Typhoon" |
| Episode | "Typhoon" |
| Japanese | Sayaka Ohara |
| Image gallery (0) | |
Nanako Onodera (小野寺 菜々子, Onodera Nanako) is a minor character in the Nisekoi series. She is the mother of Kosaki and Haru Onodera. She is also the owner of Onodera Japanese Sweets Confections, a candy shop.
Background[]
She owns a candy shop which she runs together with her two daughters and her unnamed husband. Raku Ichijō first met her after Kosaki invited him to work in their shop when one of their employees was absent. She seems to know information about Kosaki's life ten years ago, the time Kosaki became friends with Chitoge Kirisaki and Raku. She has stated that the picture book that Onodera owns was given to her by someone around ten years ago. Unfortunately, Nanako has no memory of who gave Kosaki the picture book.
Personality[]
Nanako's contrasting two-fold personality makes her a lively and a likable character.
On one hand, she is known to be happy-go-lucky and an absolute joker, teasing her daughters with Raku Ichijō going as far as suggesting Raku marry Kosaki so he can help with the shop. She called Haru Onodera 'Kosaki's rival', insinuating that Haru too likes Raku and is out to get him. Although this could be just seen as teasing, it also could be that she can see through the mutual crush of Raku and Kosaki.
On the other hand, she is shown to be a hard worker and a brutal leader. Her businesswoman demeanor makes her a hardcore perfectionist, success not being a choice but a necessity for anyone working in the shop. This was why after Kosaki's first toxic failure to make sweets, she was prohibited from doing so in the future, Nanako not even bothering to tutor her. She is highly competitive, despising any other shop stealing her customers, and takes any measures to reverse it regardless of her daughters' dignity.
Like Hana Kirisaki, Nanako only supports the idea of her daughter(s) being in a relationship after the prospective lover proves his worth.
Haru seems to be the only one who shares personality traits with Nanako as Kosaki seems to be quite the opposite in her conduct compared to her mother being neither teasing nor brazen.
Etymology[]
- The name Nanako means "vegetables, greens" (菜) (na) and "child" (子) (ko).
- Nanako's surname Onodera means "small" (小) (o), "field, wilderness" (野) (no) and "temple" (寺) (tera/dera).
Trivia[]
- Nanako also has an unnamed husband, mentioned a number of times by Kosaki and Haru. He seems to be out for work a lot and helps out in making sweets.
- In Nanako's shop, the general staff seems to comprise of Haru (chef), Kosaki (decorator; part-time cashier), Nanako (cashier) and two more chefs Nakamura and Katou who may be the primary chefs of the shop.
- Nanako attended Bonyari High School in the past. There, she befriended Raku's unnamed mother, Chika Tachibana and Hana Kirisaki.