Naru Kotoishi

Naru Kotoishi is a deutragonist of Barakamon. She is a little girl who lives on the Goto Islands. Her father is Yuuichirou Kotoishi and her grandfather is Kousaku Kotoishi. Naru is a small girl with lightly tanned skin (in the anime), wide brown eyes and short spiky wood brown hair. It is down save for a small ponytail holding up the left side of her fringe. She's normally seen wearing a white short-sleeved shirt that covers most of her aqua blue shorts (even in winter), which usually has a rope tied around them. She also wears a yellow and green bracelet on her left hand and sandals with a dark brown strap. Naru is an energetic and cheerful kid who likes to play around. She frequently invites herself to Seishuu's house and doesn't understand personal space. She likes to collect strange things such as bugs and shells from the beach (with slugs and other creatures still living inside them). She is also rather adventurous as shown in the first episode and chapter where she continually climbs over a tall wall despite the danger to see a beautiful sunset. She is easily influenced and has a habit of imitating the behaviors and language of the people she sees which causes her to say words she doesn't understand that are rather inappropriate. She is a kindhearted girl, especially towards animals as seen when she was upset about Kenta running over a frog and the headmaster using crawfish to catch other crawfish through cannibalism.