Nina Iseri
From Girls Band Cry
Nina Iseri is the main character of Girls Band Cry, a dropout from Kumamoto who moves to Kawasaki and forms the band Togenashi Togeari with Momoka Kawaragi. She is the band's lead vocalist and is voiced by Rina, who also performs as Nina in the real band.
About Nina Iseri
Nina Iseri is the lead vocalist of Togenashi Togeari and the heart of Girls Band Cry. A high school dropout from Kumamoto, she moves to the Tokyo area alone and talks a street musician she idolises into starting a band with her. She sings the way she feels everything else: too much, too loud, and completely honestly.
Appearance
Nina has long dark hair and an expressive face that gives away everything she is feeling, which is usually a lot. Off stage she dresses plainly, like a girl who packed in a hurry and never looked back. On stage she holds the microphone stand like she is arguing with it, and by the final episodes she also plays rhythm guitar.
Personality
Nina is stubborn, emotional and incapable of letting things go. She says the quiet part out loud, cries in public, and starts fights she cannot win, including with her own family. Underneath the drama is a simple, fierce loyalty: if a song or a person matters to her, she will stand in front of them and shout about it.
Background & Story
Nina's school life in Kumamoto fell apart through bullying and a family that could not understand her, and the songs of the band Diamond Dust were one of the few things that carried her through. She dropped out in her second year of high school and moved away, officially to study for university entrance. In Kawasaki she finds Momoka Kawaragi, Diamond Dust's former guitarist, busking on the street, and refuses to accept that Momoka is done with music. The band they build together becomes Nina's real answer to everything she ran away from.
Powers & Abilities
- A voice with nowhere to hide: Nina is not a trained singer, and that is the point. Her voice cracks, shouts and strains in the right places, turning Togenashi Togeari's songs into something closer to a confession than a performance. People who hear her live tend to remember it.
- Refusing to quit: Nina's real skill is persistence. She talks her way into live houses, into other people's bands and into Momoka's closed-off life, simply by not accepting no. Half the band exists because Nina would not leave.
Key Relationships
- Momoka Kawaragi: The guitarist Nina idolised from afar and then dragged back into music. Their relationship is the engine of the series: admiration, arguments, dependence and respect, sometimes all in the same scene.
- Subaru Awa: The band's drummer and Nina's practical counterweight. Subaru teases Nina constantly, but she is often the one who says the sensible thing Nina needs to hear.
- Hina: Diamond Dust's vocalist and Nina's former friend from Kumamoto. Their shared past is one of the wounds Nina carried out of her hometown.
Quick Answers
Who voices Nina Iseri?
Rina voices Nina in Japanese and performs as her in the real band Togenashi Togeari. No English dub of Girls Band Cry has been released.
Why did Nina drop out of school?
Nina's school life in Kumamoto broke down through bullying and conflict, including with her father. She left in her second year of high school and moved to the Tokyo area, telling her family she would study for university entrance exams.
What band is Nina in?
Nina is the lead vocalist of Togenashi Togeari, the band she forms with Momoka Kawaragi, Subaru Awa, Tomo Ebizuka and Rupa.