This means that 'ri' and 'li' are both represented as リ, and it can be difficult to figure out what the intended romanization is until it is established by official sources. Some fans in the West still spell her name as Lina, because the Japanese language does not distinguish the sounds 'r' and 'l', treating them as the same. She also seems to love watching comedy shows. In the Pure season, she becomes close to a boxer, Masahiro. She seems to love plasma TVs and shows this love in many anime episodes. Later, however, she evolves into a more mature character, and acts as an older sister figure to Lucia and Hanon. Initially she is depicted as beautiful but stern and bent on revenge for the capture of her best friend, Noel.

During school, she wears the boys' uniform instead of the girls. Rina Tôin (洞院リナ Tōin Rina) Voiced by: Mayumi Asano Rina is the Mermaid Princess of the North Atlantic Ocean and keeper of the green pearl. Her idol form is Aqua Pearl Voice, although the first time that it is named in the manga, she is erroneously called Blue Pearl Voice. In the Pure season, she develops an interest in a boy, Nagisa. This worldliness is evidenced by many of her actions-especially by her romantic pursuit of her music teacher, Tarō Mitsuki. She is perky and feminine and a bit more worldly than Lucia, although she tends to be lazy in cleaning. Unlike Lucia, Hanon goes up to land to escape water creatures. She is Lucia's best friend, but fights with her like any teenage girl. Hanon Hôshô (宝生波音 Hōshō Hanon) Voiced by: Hitomi Terakado Hanon is the Mermaid Princess of the South Atlantic Ocean and keeper of the aqua (水色 mizu-iro 'water-color') pearl. When attempting to transliterate the kana back into Latin characters, some people, unaware of the Italian spelling of the name, tried using the English 'ch' to represent that consonant, resulting in the incorrect spelling 'Luchia'. That pronunciation is correctly represented in Japanese kana as るちあ. The Italian name, Lucia, follows Italian spelling rules, which say that 'c' is pronounced as a post-alveolar affricate (the same sound that is written as 'ch' in English) when it appears before a front vowel (in this case, 'i'). Some western fans spell her name with an 'h' due to a misunderstanding of the spelling systems of different languages. Lucia is the first Mermaid Princess to transform into her idol form. Of all the mermaids in the series, Lucia's mermaid form and human form contrast the most (Lucia has short dark blonde hair and brown eyes in the surface while having long lighter blonde hair and light blue eyes while at sea). Overall, no matter what the situation, she never gives up hope. Lucia now has the job of retrieving all the pieces of her heart contained in Michel's feathers. In the Pure season, Seira, is about to be born as well, waiting to meet Lucia.

She is characterized by her simplicity and naïveté, but with having a strong will, typical traits of shōjo manga heroines. She is unaware of the danger in the marine world and of her real mission until she is told of them by her 'older sister', Nikora.

Later in the series, Lucia and Kaito become lovers. She goes up to land to search for her pearl which she used to save a boy named Kaito seven years ago. Lucia Nanami (七海るちあ Nanami Ruchia) Voiced by: Asumi Nakata Lucia is the mermaid princess of the North Pacific Ocean, keeper of the pink pearl, and the main character of the story. Three DVD covers showing the three forms of the main characters Lucia (blonde), Hanon (blue), and Rina (green): mermaid (left cover), human (center cover), idol (right cover). To fulfill this, she joins forces with Hanon and Rina, the Mermaid Princesses who came up to dry land, use their pearls, turn into singing teen idols, and use their voices as an offensive power. Lucia tries to convince Kaito into figuring out who she really is (since the legend doesn't say anything about the other person discovering a mermaid's true identity by himself).Īt the same time, Lucia has been told that a group of water demons have invaded the sea world and she must gather six other Mermaid Princesses and their pearls to bring back the legendary goddess Aqua Regina to stop them. She cannot directly tell Kaito who she really is otherwise, according to mermaid legend, she would turn into seafoam. However, Kaito does not recognize Lucia in her human form. She eventually finds the boy: a surfer named Kaito Dōmoto. Lucia Nanami, the mermaid princess of the North Pacific Ocean, sets out to land to find the boy she saved from a tsunami wave seven years before the beginning of the story, to whom she fell in love and had entrusted her pink pearl.

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