Iori Nagase

“Nyaa, so I said I let 'Go' to decide...I am very excited to hear the teacher's choice!”

Character Overview
is the President of the "Student Cultural Society" Club. She attends the same homeroom class as Taichi and Inaba and is seen as a bright and popular person amongst her peers. She acts as the mood maker for the group, bringing excitement to the story. Because of her innocent and naive nature, she often comes off as bold and daring towards others.

Personality
Iori is usually seen as energetic and playful. However, due to previously having a violent stepfather, she has developed a habit of altering her personality to fit the expectations of others.

Life Burden
As she constantly changes her behaviour for the people around her, she felt that she have lost touch of her original personality.

Deepest Desire
To find her original self before she began changing personalities.

Appearance
Iori is considered very cute and has pigtail on her left side. She has dark blue hair and a mole on her face, below her lips.

Background History
She have five fathers as her mother constantly remarries and divorces. Her second father was very violent, so Iori tries to lessen the opportunities for him to be angry by adapting her behaviour to suit his liking. Ever since then, Iori constantly changes her personality to appease the people around her.

Hito Random
Due to her questioning of who her "original self" is, the swapping body phenomenon makes her worry if people can still identify her even if she's not in her true body. After an interference by Heartseed, Iori is left in critical condition at the hospital. Believing she is going to die, Iori (while in Inaba's body) shares her first kiss with Taichi.

Kizu Random
Becomes slightly concerned when people fail to realize any deviations from her usual self even when her 'Impulses are Unleashed'. Later realizes Inaba has fallen in love Taichi and encourages her not to hide her feelings.

Kako Random
Takes advantage of the phenomenon by striving to find her original self while she was still a child and not yet altering her personas. She is later made an offer by Heartseed to return back in time to any age to redo her life. Iori eventually settles her crisis with her second stepfather by admitting to her mother that she does not need a father to be happy.

Michi Random
Undergoes a drastic change in personality when she begins believing that people only like her for her cheerful persona and do not understand her true self. Iori starts questioning her own feelings towards Taichi and rejects his confession because he only sees the ideal version of her. The 'Sentiment Transmission' phenomenon reveals her inner bitterness and as a result, Iori begins alienating herself from her friends. Her hostility indirectly causes the StuCS's club presentation project to be vandalized. Eventually, Iori chooses to stop caring about finding her original self and instead chooses to follow her feelings and live freely. She later proves instrumental in saving Inaba who was kidnapped by thugs and subsequently makes amends with her friends.

Family

 * Nagase Reika: Iori's single mother. A surprisingly strong women who endures hardships for the sake of her daughter. Reika had remarried five times, each time out of the belief that having a father would make Iori happy. She allows Iori's second father, an abusive man, to come back to their lives when she thought that was what Iori wanted. However, when Iori finally speaks with her about how she felt about the whole ordeal, Reika wastes no time kicking the man of their house, much to Iori's elation.

Friends

 * Yaegashi Taichi: A male classmate and fellow member of the 'StuCS' club. Iori has a crush on Taichi and begins a relationship with him, however their relationship never truly develops because of the occurring phenomenons. Even afterwards, their relation seems to still stay the same as when they were just friends. At the end of the Kako Random arc, she starts doubting her feelings for him.
 * Inaba Himeko: A female classmate of Iori and vice-president of the StuCS club. After learning that Inaba has feelings for Taichi, Iori pushes her to act upon them. The two agree to have a fair fight for Taichi's love.
 * Yui Kiriyama: A fellow member of the StuCS club. After overcoming the ordeals of the phenomenons together, Yui and Iori develop a strong friendship and are willing to go to great lengths to help and comfort one another.
 * Fujishima Maiko: Iori’s class representative. Fujishima is rather openly in love with Iori and is not afraid to make lewd advances on her. As a result, Iori has become quite afraid of her.
 * Nakayama Mariko: Iori's close friend and classmate

Trivia

 * Iori has thus far been the only member of the Cultural Research Club to be controlled by Heartseed. This usually takes place near the end of a phenomenon.