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| - Shuya Nanahara (七原秋也 Nanahara Shūya) is deeply emotional and somewhat sentimental; he is impulsive and quick to trust people. He is also very caring, honorable, easy going and likable. It is more than once said it is hard to be sad around him even in sad times. He is a dreamer and an idealist, and never remains silent when he feels anyone around him is being mistreated, regardless of the consequences. Shuya was born in autumn (the first character of his given name (秋), which means "autumn," reflects this fact). Shuya's strongest subjects in school were the humanities, English, and literature. Shuya had faith in anyone and didn't like listening to rumours as they were often untrue or exaggerated. His watch in the novel is described as an "old, domestically manufactured Hattori Hanzō limited-edition diver's watch" that was donated to him through the orphanage. He was raised in the Charity House Orphanage because his parents died in a car crash and none of his relatives wanted to take him on as his parents were allegedly involved in anti-government activities. He became best friends with Yoshitoki Kuninobu there and they were always inseperable. Shuya played Little League Baseball in Grade School and he became known as the star shortstop (he gained his nickname the Wild Seven there) and he is said to be one of the most athletic people in the class along with Shinji Mimura and Kazuo Kiriyama in ability. He became friends with Tadakatsu Hatagami through baseball though they stopped hanging out when Shuya started playing the electric guitar (an un-patriotic activity which Tadakatsu's mother disapproved of) and because he stopped playing baseball. Shuya joined the music club and when the school adviser was absent the club played rock (which was illegal). He developed a crush on saxaphone player Kazumi Shinitani and he played until he became the club's best member on guitar, after she showed him a few chords, just to impress her. He asked her out but she declined as she already had a boyfriend whom she graduated with, though he still remained hung up on her. He also became friends with Noriko Nakagawa because he wrote lyrics in the margins of his books at breaks and she would insist on reading them as she was the best at composition in their class. Shuya loves rock and he is a big fan of Bruce Springsteen, he gets all of his rock music from the black market as it is illegal.
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