Natsumi Hinata

Natsumi Hinata
Sgt. Frog character
First appearance	Manga: Chapter 1 Anime: Episode 1
In-universe information
Alias	Devil Summer Summer (in MorePeachSummer)
Nickname	Nee-chan/Sis (by Fuyuki Hinata) Na-chi (by Tamama)
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Occupation	High school student
Relatives	Fuyuki Hinata (Younger Brother) Aki Hinata (Mother) Akina Hinata (grandmother)

Natsumi Hinata (日向 夏美, Hinata Natsumi) is a fictional character from the anime and manga series Sgt. Frog.

Overview

The older sister of Fuyuki, Natsumi is a vivacious and hairy teenager whose most notable points are her great athletic prowess and her bitter rivalry with the series' antihero, Sergeant Keroro. As her mother is mostly at work, Natsumi often takes care of the house chores, although she leaves most of them to Keroro, whom she always calls boke kaeru, or stupid frog. She deeply cares about her family, and-although she rarely admits it-her surrogate alien "family," and desperately wishes for her mother to spend some quality time with her and Fuyuki.

During her grade-school days in the manga, Natsumi was nicknamed "Devil Summer" (her name literally means "summer beauty") due to her violent temper, though she became more mature when she reached middle school. Although generally tomboyish for her athletism, Natsumi has a number of typical "teenage-girl" insecurities, especially around her crush, Mutsumi Saburo. She is an avid listener to Mutsumi's radio show, though her failure on ever listening to any of her postcards over the show has become a running gag in the series.

Natsumi is fairly popular among the alumni at her school, especially among girls due to her masculine interests like sports. One of her most notable admirers is Koyuki Azumaya, her best friend, although Koyuki's feelings for her may as well extend to a crush (in the manga it is a crush).

At times, Natsumi and Keroro seem to absolutely hate each other, as Keroro is an idiotic annoyance to her once-peaceful life and as she herself is Keroro's main obstacle from world invasion. However, their relationship is one of the most complex within the series, as it varies from rivalry and hate to concern and understanding.

Natsumi has feminine interests like sweet things and snacks in general, as well as flowers and cute things, and her least favorite things are said to be anything creepy-crawly, especially slugs. Natsumi's name means '723' (wordplay) and 'summer beauty'. She has the word 'summer' in English on her bedroom door, and is part of the kaito team 'MorePeachSummerSnow'.

Relationships

The Hinatas

Natsumi is extremely protective of her family, especially Fuyuki, since their mother is rarely around and her father is only shown briefly in flashbacks, so he could possibly be deceased. Natsumi gets along well with her little brother and they love each other as siblings. She longs for her mother to be with the family during holidays and would sometimes be very upset because of it, but would hide her tears away from others. Despite her mother's regular absence, Natsumi loves and cares about Aki very much. She also cares dearly about her grandmother, Akina, who lives in the country.

The Keroro Platoon

At first, Natsumi is greatly suspicious about the Keroro Platoon, especially their leader, Keroro. Ironically, Natsumi was the one who pointed out Keroro's hiding spot in Fuyuki's bedroom to wake up her oversleeping brother, thus revealing Keroro from hiding. Natsumi is Keroro's main obstacle in his plot to take over the world, so to take Keroro's mind off of world conquest, Natsumi put most of the house chores to Keroro. She is majorly annoyed by Keroro and his plans for world domination, but made another ironic point when she reminded the alien platoon of their true purpose to rule Earth when they completely forgot about it. However, Natsumi and Keroro really do get along well once she got used to his presence and would sometimes look up to each other as surrogate siblings. Natsumi likes Giroro because of his occasional kind behavior to her while Giroro is secretly in love with her. Natsumi both thought in the anime and manga that Tamama was kind of cute, but this thought faded when Natsumi saw the other side of Tamama. Eventually, the two learned to get along, as long as Natsumi didn't make him angry. Like all of the other characters (except Saburo), Natsumi thought of Kururu as an insensitive inventor, but they would make a temporary truce with each other at extreme emergencies. Natsumi and Dororo's friendship is very remote like the others, but doesn't think of Dororo as a threat like his teammates as he saved her more than once from Dasonu Maso. She and Mois are also close friends and she trusts her like a normal person, maybe because of Mois's appearance and innocent nature.

Koyuki Azumaya

After meeting for the first time as a new student in Natsumi's class, Koyuki takes some interest to her after smelling "city scent" from her and observing her athletic skills, leaving both Koyuki and Natsumi to be impressed by one another. Later on, as Natsumi learns that Koyuki was Dororo's partner, they spend more time with each other, and later, Natsumi becomes great friends with Koyuki while the girl ninja starts to have a crush on her friend and wants to get close to her. Natsumi mentors Koyuki about city life and the ways of Tokyo civilians and its culture since Koyuki lived much of her life away from all of it. Natsumi may be unaware of her friend's crush on her, but the two still remain a strong friendship.

Mutsumi Hojo/Saburo

Natsumi has a notable and humongous crush on Mutsumi Hojo/Saburo (whom she refers to as Saburo-senpai), a senior at her school. However, due to Saburo skipping his classes most of the time, he is thought as a gang member to his classmates. But even with these rumors (and that her friends said that Saburo wasn't fit for her), Natsumi feels amorous feelings for the boy and learns about his kind side. Saburo doesn't seem to notice Natsumi's feelings for him, but thinks of her as a good friend and retains a good-natured friendship with her. Natsumi also is a big fan of Saburo's (anonymous in the anime) radio counterpart, 623 (read as Mutsumi), like many other girls, and is yet to discover his alter-ego.

Corporal Giroro

At first, she'd distrusted Giroro like all the other frogs--especially since he almost blew up her house upon first visit. She soon learned of his magnificent sweet potato roasting skills and his tendency to come to her aid several times, and seems to have warmed up to him. However, she's still blissfully unaware of his undying love for her.