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Nandaba Naota, 12, is the main character. He believes he is normal, living in a normal town, full of crazy people. Unbeknownst to him, he has huge N.O. powers. Every episode he states that nothing ever happens in his town, even after the unexplainable and amazing happens. He carries his brother’s baseball bat with him because he misses his brother. Naota is internally struggling with the recognition of his existence and independence from looking up to his brother, and to himself. Naota is known throughout the series as ‘Takkun’.Naota, who’s name is derived from the Japanese word for “honesty,” is the least erratic of the cast, but constantly finds himself at the center of attention. His complaints of hatred for his boring town are in stark contrast to the surreal shenanigans that escalate throughout the series. Naota lives with his lecherous father Kamon and his baseball-coaching grandfather Shigekuni at their family bakery. He greatly admired his older brother Tasuku—a baseball phenomenon who has gone to the United States to play the game. Naota seems to be very frustrated with his life, and in the opening episode is musing about how uneventful and boring Mabase is.
After a strange and mischievous girl named Haruhara Haruko runs him over with her Vespa and then whacks him in the forehead with a left-handed Rickenbacker bass guitar with a pull cord start motor, an N.O. portal opens on his head and things are starting to come out of it.
The main story plot revolves around Naota’s exploits with Haruko, and are more an exploration of Naota’s adolescent sexual coming of age. Each episode (6 in all), not only have a different animation style, but also have a different experience in Naota’s coming of age. Throughout the course of the series, he gets close to several characters, Haruko, Ninamori, and Mamimi. He becomes infatuated with them all in his own way, and even kisses Haruko in the end. Every episode he states that nothing ever happens in his town, even after the unexplainable and amazing happens. He carries his brother’s baseball bat with him because he misses his brother. Naota is internally struggling with the recognition of his existence and independence from his brother. It is the journey of the series, however, that is the coming of age for Naota, and by the end, he has reached young adolesance, and is ready to start to explore life on his own.
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