Tuesday 6 October 2009

Lucia Nanami




Lucia Nanami ends up being the succesor to Aqua Regina. Lucia Nanami first appeared as a young mermaid seven years ago before the story started. One night when she ventured onto the sea's surface and encountered a cruise ship celebrating a festival, she met a young boy. It was love at first sight. But before anything else happened, a giant wave crashed onto the ship and the boy fell into the icy ocean. Lucia went after the boy without a second thought. She saved the boy using her precious pink mermaid pearl and the boy kept the mermaid pearl ever since. Lucia means "light".


As the story begins, Lucia surfaced on land again, but this time her purpose is to retrieve her Pink Pearl. The age 13 is considered adult age in the mermaid world, but a mermaid princess without her pearl cannot receive her full power. Heading to the human world with her pet penguin Hippo, Lucia assumed a human form and took Nanami as her surname. She works and lives in the hotel Pearl Piari, along with her "older sister" Nikora and the fortune teller Madame Taki.
In time, Lucia retrieves her pearl and also reunites with the boy who she gave it to long time ago. She also learns that there is an enemy trying to capture the seven Mermaid Princesses and obtaining their pearls for evil. They have already destroyed the Mermaids' kingdoms and captured two Princesses. Only Lucia's kingdom wasn't destroyed because Aqua Regina used her power to protect it.






Lucia Nanami in her Pink Pearl Voice Super-Idol form


While on land, Lucia meets a surfer named Kaito, who looks awfully like the boy from seven years ago. Lucia could not believe it at first, but he most certainly is the boy who had Lucia’s pearl for seven years and whom never forgot about this mermaid. Lucia and Kaito have a troubled relationship throughout the story, mainly because that the mermaid Lucia is unable to reveal her human identity to Kaito. It is said that a mermaid who willfully reveals her identity will turn into sea foam. Lucia is desperate for Kaito to learn her secret, asking him to search for her. Kaito was troubled with his feelings about the human Lucia and the mermaid Lucia, who he thought were two different people.






Lucia Nanami is the Mermaid Princess of the North Pacific Ocean and it's the owner of the pink pearl. She's the main character and it's in love with Kaito.


In her mermaid form, Luchia has got long, blonde hair, divided in two large pigtails an another two shorter. Her eyes are blue. Lucia’s mermaid form is the same as every other mermaid princess, with a bracelet around one of her upper arm and double pearl bracelet around one of her wrists and her tail. Their all differant colors. Her colour is pink.


She's very cheerful and a little bit irresponsible, but then, in the second season, she turns more conscient abuot her responsibilities of Mermaid Princess and more cheerless because Kaito doesn't remember her in any of her forms.





This is her human form. In the first season is 13 years old but at the end of the show she's 14. She is 156 cm and weighs 116 lbs. Lucia was born the 3 of July of 1989. Lucia has got short, light brown hair with two little bows at the sides. Her eyes are brown. She goes to school with Hanon and Rina. Her favourite subject is Home Economics, while her least favourite subject is mathematics.
Lucia is shown to be the succesor to Aqua Regina.
Lucia has similar personality in the manga. She was portrayed a bit more childish and fights over little things with Hanon often. She is also very dependent as a human, afraid of the lightning. However, her relationship with Kaito goes a lot deeper, especially in the second season. Mermaid Lucia is also given an even bigger role in the manga, especially in chapter 14 when the trio has to rescue the recently captured Caren, princess of the Antartic Ocean
. It was Lucia who believed and played the harp to call Aqua Regina's spirit. In the final volume, it shows that Lucia was destined to become the next Aqua Regina, and has now taken her place.
Lucia's hobby is singing, although she is tone deaf while she is in her human form. Her talent is making beaded things, like the three friendship rings she made in chapter 3 of the manga and episode 3 of the anime. Her favorite subject is said to be Home Economics
, while her least favorite subject is mathematics, or any subject that you have to use your head. Her favorite flower is cosmo and roses, and favorite color is pink. She likes shrimp, but dislikes celery and raisins. She also dislikes monsters, thunder and being lectured by Nikora or Hippo. She is good at cooking poundcakes and cookies. Her favorite type of boy is a protective boy.





When facing the enemies, Lucia transforms into her idol form, Pink Pearl Voice. In her idol form, she sings with the rest of the mermaid princesses and uses her voice as an offense.
Her first outfit is complete with a pink dress with short skirts, lacy pink gloves, and lacy pink boots. Lucia, along with Hanon and Rina, gains her second outfit in episode 28. The trio was upgraded by the goddess Aqua Regina. Her second outfit is very noticeably different from her first one. Her dress now is complete with a double layer and a long pink bow on her back. Her gloves and her boots now have a second layer. She also gained accessories such as a jeweled headpiece, a watch, and more fluffs alongside the top of her dress. Lucia and Hanon have the same dress but Hanon has a strapless one and in light blue color. Lucia’s second form is more powerful than the first one; it enables her to defeat the Black Beauty Sisters with her new songs.



If you want know the history in a song, go to this site, the italian intro of the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La3rAJJsXj4&feature=related

Her songs are Koi wa nandarou and Splash Dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xM-eeLR7y0&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RDtDkYRkxA&feature=related


Like the rest of the mermaid princesses, Lucia needs her pearl in order to transform into her idol form. Her pearl is also needed in order to summon Aqua Regina. When in her idol form, her voice was transmitted by a microphone like object called the e-pitch, in order to defeat the enemies. Her voice is shown to be very powerful. She ends attack songs with the phrase 'Love Shower Pitch' in both the anime and manga followed by 'Encore wa ika ga?'




Lucia Nanami, drawn by Pink Hanamori on a splash page of Volume 5 of the manga. Her cheerful personality is portrayed in this image by the cheerful eyes and smile.






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