Nana Nanahoshi

Nana Nanahoshi

Names
English	Nana Nanahoshi
Japanese translated	Nanaho Nanahoshi
Japanese Japanese 七（なな）星（ほし） ナナホ Base 七星 ナナホ Furigana ななほし ナナホ Rōmaji Nanahoshi Nanaho
Personal
Gender	Female
Relatives
Rayne Nanahoshi (cousin) Rino Nanahoshi (cousin)
Career Education
Organization	Battle Bug Club (president)
School	Goha #5 Elementary
Duelist
Tournament Position Goha Rush Duel Team Battle Royal Did not place (with Kabuto Bito and Kirihito Kamagaya)
Deck	Insect
Appearances
Anime debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS episode 02828: "Training Camp"
Appears in Anime Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS
Voice actors
English	Christina Costello
Japanese	Ayaka Takamura
Nanahoshi, Nana

Nana Nanahoshi, known as Nanaho Nanahoshi (七（なな）星（ほし） ナナホ Nanahoshi Nanaho) in the Japanese version, is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS anime and the secondary antagonist of the Goha Employee arc. She is Rayne and Rino Nanahoshi's cousin, she is also Yuga Ohdo's childhood friend, and she is the President of the Battle Bug Club at Goha #5 Elementary.

Design

Appearance

Full-body view of Nana.

Nana is a fair-skinned young girl with green eyes that sometimes shine purple and purple hair in a spherical haircut. She dresses in a pale yellow top over a white undershirt, pale pink overalls, and white shoes. She also wears a hat patterned after a ladybug's shell and carries a small bug catcher at her hip.

Nana later wears more stereotypical ninja clothing; a dark grey tunic with folds at the shoulders, a dark red undershirt, a dark red belt with a large yellow star-shaped buckle with what appears to be a character written on it, black pants, dark red arm and shin wrappings, and lavender socks with sandals. She continues to wear her ladybug hat and also dons a dark red eyemask.

Personality

Nana presents herself as cutesy and innocent, but according to her cousins is devoted to spreading chaos and toying with people's minds. She often feigns crying to fool people. She sometimes speaks in the third person, using her name as a personal pronoun, and often adds "na" or "nanana" at the end of her sentences.

After retrieving data from Yuga's office, Nana speaks in a mechanical monotone while the "eyes" of her ladybug hat flash, for reasons unknown, and in this state is more frank about her intentions. In the dub, she speaks normally.

Abilities

Nana appears to be capable of hypnotizing people; she convinces Swirls to take her to Yuga's office while her eyes glow purple.

Etymology

"Nanahoshi" means "seven stars", and is likely an allusion to the Japanese name of the seven-spotted ladybug.

Biography

History

Nana was childhood friends with Yuga Ohdo. One day while they were eating lunch in a forest, Nana went missing and cried to Yuga that a ladybug was eating her head. Though it was just a hat, the incident gave Yuga a fear of ladybugs.

Goha 6th Elementary

Nana, Kabuto and Kirihito attended Goha #5 Elementary's Rush Duel Training Camp with Goha #2 Elementary's Duel Dinosaur Club and Goha #3 Elementary's Saburamen, Sushiko Maki and Briscoe. They left before the end of the camp.

Team Battle Royal

The Battle Bug Club entered the Goha Rush Duel Team Battle Royal; Kabuto Dueling Booster Page from their school's Duelstronauts. However they failed to place in the tournament.

Goha Employee

Nana became aware that Swirls was Yuga Goha with his memories sealed away and enacted a plan to release him. Aware that he had been sealed with "Monster Reborn", she set in motion events to access a copy. She first planned to gain access Yuga Ohdo's office, so when Goha #5 Elementary went to the Goha Enterprises Main Office on a field trip, the Battle Bug Club split off from their fellow students and Nana waited in a stairwell, pretending to cry. She was found by Swirls, and after he complimented her ladybug hat she hypnotized him into taking her to Yuga's office. When they arrived, Yuga fled at the sight of her hat and her cousins, Rayne and Rino, arrived and explained Nana's side of the family to everyone present. Yuga returned with Kaizo wired into a Road he threatened to destroy the building with, so Nana instead inserted a data stick into Yuga's computer. Luke convinced Yuga to Rush Duel Nana instead, and Nana teased Yuga over his fierce expressions. Nana played defensively on her first turn, which served her well when Yuga tried to destroy her Insect monsters with "Magical Firestorm", as her "Sunny Forest" protected them. On her next turn Nana Summoned her three "Malefi Ladybug of the Sleeping Forests" and destroyed all of Yuga's monsters with their effects, though he survived the turn by reducing the ATK of one of her monsters. Yuga fled after the attacks of Nana's "Malefi Ladybugs" filled the field with illusory ladybugs, with Luke going after him. After a brief power outage, Yuga returned to the Duel and Maximum Summoned a new Maximum, "Supreme Skystream Magnum Overlord", which he explained had been transformed from his "Vast Vulcan" cards by the Pauli effect of Luke's wristwatch. Nana tried to survive the turn by changing her monsters to Defense Position, but Yuga used the effect of "Magnum Overlord" to allow it to attack all of her monsters and inflict piercing damage, defeating Nana and knocking her hat off, which caused Yuga to realize for the first time that she wasn't being eaten by a real ladybug. Nana admitted defeat and declared her retreat, telling Yuga and Swirls they would meet again before vanishing with Kabuto and Kirihito using a smoke bomb. However she had succeeded in retrieving the data from Yuga's office with her data stick, and recovered it that evening, declaring she could create a world full of chaos with it.

Luke and his division found the Duel Card Manufacturer under the Goha Enterprises Main Office, though it was accidentally buried under rubble. Nana had the machine restored and used it to print "Monster Reborn". Nana took advantage of Goha Enterprises's "Become a zombie" event to infiltrate the building and challenge Swirls to a Duel during which she used "Monster Reborn", hoping to release Yuga Goha's memories, but only succeeded in driving him into a rabid state. Aware that Yuga Ohdo's friends believed him to be the sixth of the Goha Six due to finding Yuga Goha's Duel ID card, Nana disguised herself as Romin Kassidy and went to Yuga's Road Laboratory with Romin's cousin Roa, Gavin Sogetsu, and Mimi Imimi to stop them from finding Yuga, who was with Luke, Swirls and Kaizo trying to find what was wrong with Swirls, while also distracting the real Romin with various purchases throughout Goha City. Nana suggested they go to Yuga's house to investigate whether he was the sixth of the Goha Six, but they ran into Asana Mutsuba on the way, who was also wondering whether Yuga was one of the Goha Six. Asana was critical of the idea of going behind Yuga's back, an idea Nana stoked, and she challenged them to a Rush Duel that Nana suggested Roa accept. Roa quickly gained a small lead, but Asana Fusion Summoned "Infinite Constructor Wyrm Buildream" and almost defeated Roa in a One Turn Kill, though Roa survived and Summoned "Royal Rebel's Doom Metal". After Asana changed "Doom Metal" to face-down Defense Position, Roa commented she'd made the right choice, just as she had in dissuading them from going behind Yuga's back, but claimed the right choice wasn't always the best one and Tribute Summoned "Royal Rebel's Hard Rock", defeating Asana. Asana left, warning them they wouldn't be able to win Yuga's trust back after breaking it. With Asana gone, Nana led Roa, Gavin and Mimi to what she claimed to be Yuga's neighbourhood, where Kabuto, Kirihito and five of her operatives lay in wait in disguise as Yuga, and Nana watched as they led Yuga's friends in circles. Her operatives accused Gavin, Roa and Mimi of spying on them, but before they could challenge them to Rush Duels, Asana arrived with the real Romin, blowing Nana's cover. Nana leapt out of her disguise and noted how easy it had been to manipulate them, claiming their friendship with Yuga was just a farce. She told them that Yuga and Luke were helping Swirls and ordered her operatives to withdraw, claiming their plans would only become more interesting.

Yuga Goha was eventually released from Swirls thanks to the efforts of Yuga Ohdo and his friends and Yuga Goha's siblings in trying to cure Swirls of his madness, due to a vocal spell being required to make "Monster Reborn" work properly. Nana, Kabuto and Kirihito waited for Yuga at the Nanahoshi Insect Ninja Village and told him they had been waiting for him, Yuga declaring his Dueling would bring terror and chaos to the world.

Deck

Nana plays an Insect Deck, with monsters themed around ladybugs, the number 7 and Disney Princess villains. Her strategy focuses on swarming the field with monsters to inflict effect damage, while also switch said monsters to Defense Position to stall by utilizing either high DEF values or the protection provided by "Sunny Forest".

Owned cards

Deck
Spell Cards Normal Spells Monster Reborn

Duels

Opponent	Episode(s)	Outcome
Yuga Ohdo	70	Lose
Swirls	74	Not shown (off-screen)
Scoop Pitman, Yosh Imimi, Saburamen, Sushiko Maki and Briscoe	78	Win (off-screen; with Yuga Goha and Battle Bug Club)