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That's right. All living things are related.
— Taeko to Aoi
Taeko Nomura
Manga - Anime

Taeko Nomura Anime Infobox

Kanji

野村タエ子

Rōmaji

Nomura Taeko

Characteristics
Race

Coppelion

Gender

Female

Age

16

Hair Color

Brown

Eye Color

Green

Professional Status
Affiliation

Coppelion

Occupation

Student

Personal Status
Status

Alive

First Appearance
Manga Debut

Chapter 1

Anime Debut

Episode 1

Portrayal
Japanese Voice

Akesaka Satomi
Shelby Lindley (English)

Taeko Nomura (野村 タエ子, Nomura Taeko) is a first year highschool student, the friend of Aoi Fukasaku and Ibara Naruse and a member of the Coppelion Medic Unit who possesses heightened senses and she befriends a feral dog during their mission.

Appearance[]

Taeko Nomura Concept

Taeko's full body and facial expressions.

Taeko is a slim and tall girl with short brown hair that is tied up with bangs hanging on either side and green eyes.

She wears round glasses and her school uniform which consists of a white blouse, a big striped bow, a ivory sweater vest, green plaid skirt, blue knee-high length socks, and brown shoes. She carries a first aid kit box with her. In the manga, when she was still attending school or even when they had to say goodbye for their mission, her hair was tied in a braid leaning on her shoulder yet she still has the same clothing and eye wear.

Personality[]

Taeko is a shy, nice and clever girl who likes animals that she thinks of them as family (it is embedded in her DNA) and she always obeys orders.

She is brave who will always helps people in need and she always talks politely that she is always polite to everyone.

History[]

Abilities and Powers[]

Taeko possesses heighten senses like an animal. It was genetically modified in her DNA. It is said that because of this, Taeko is fond of animals. It is also shown that she can sense an approaching animal, or if it's near her. She can talk to and understands animal. She can also sense the presence of non-human living creatures, as she could tell that Okami-san and the Chimera was around.

She is also quiet skilled in hand-to-hand combat, as portrayed when she defends herself from Mitsuo Kawabata when he took her hostage.

Her eyesight is 10 times stronger than a normal human's and she wears glasses to cut her vision to one tenth of its normal strength or else it would give her a headache.

She is actually suitable as a nurse because she delivered Ibuki Kajii's child safely, operated Ibara Naruse and transferred Haruto Kurosawa's blood to Ibara's, and when Mr. Wolf was shot by a gun.

She also wields and uses firearms, starting with the Roppongi Hills infiltration using a hand gun given from the Ozu Sisters, a sniper rifle (removing its scope due to her heightened eyesight) during Dr. Coppelius' invasion in the Shibuya 109 Shelter, and other guns while fighting the Fossiloids in arc4.

She studied Nursing from Asimov at the time when they stayed at Shibuya 109 Shelter.

Weapons[]

Major Battles[]

Relationships[]

Ibara Naruse[]

Similar to Ibara and Aoi Fukasaku's relationship, Taeko and Ibara are very close.

Aoi Fukasaku[]

Aoi dan taeko

Aoi and Taeko take photo together.

Aoi and Taeko are close friends as both are members of the Coppelion medical unit.

Ōkami-san[]

A feral dog Taeko befriended in Tokyo. She calls it Ōkami-san (狼さん lit. Mr.Wolf). It is very fond and attached to Taeko.

Granny Ayame[]

Ayame helped Taeko (by instructing and giving advice through the radio the vice president gave them) when Ibuki Kajii was delivering her child.

Kanon Ozu[]

Asimov[]

Taeko studies Nursing with Asimov.

Quotes[]

  • (To Aoi Fukasaku) "That's right. All living things are related."
  • (To Oyakata Kurobe) "We Coppelion were each genetically engineered to have our own special abilities. That girl's the younger Ozu sister. Shion Ozu. She possesses super-human strength."
  • (To Aoi, about giving childbirth) "I'm terrified...Terrified to hold someone's life in my hands. I'm scared that these hands...could hurt someone."
  • (To Ibara Naruse, about the Chimera) "..I knew it..It's no monster..It's the same as us... a living doll, resistant to radiation. It's a member of Coppelion"
  • (To Asimov) "Oh, dear, Mr.Wolf, who'd imagine you could be so tame? Have you been well? He has a very wary heart, so he wouldn't open up to just anyone! You must..have a pure heart, then, Mr.Asimov."
  • (To Ryuunosuke) "For us..saving people is everything. Ever since we came to Tokyo..my confidence has been whittled away. The further we go, the more it feels like the ground is falling out from beneath me..But as we go along, there's one thing I do feel is certain. And that's..the warmth of human touch. Maybe we really are wolves in sheep's clothing...but that's fine. That's all we have left."
  • (To Haruto Kurosawa) "Please, support Ibara-senpai! She's not as strong as she seems! She needs someone to help her!"
  • (To Haruto) "Ibara-senpai...She wouldn't give up. She'd insist on doing everything we can do now!"

Etymology[]

  • The name Taeko doesn't have any specific meaning because part of the name "Tae" wasn't written in kanji (タエ), but it might have the meaning of:
    • 妙子 - "exquisite, strange, queer, mystery, miracle, excellent, delicate, charming" (妙) (tae) and "child" (子) (ko), which literally means "mysterious child" (for this written Taeko - 妙子) altogether.
    • 多恵子 - "many" (多) (ta), "favor, benefit" (恵) (e) and "child" (子) (ko), which literally means "many blessings child" (for this written Taeko - 多恵子) altogether. .
  • Taeko's surname Nomura means "field, wilderness" (野) (no) and "town, village" (村) (mura), which literally means "plain village" altogether.

Trivia[]

  • Taeko treats animals like people.
  • Taeko can talk to and understands animal.
  • Taeko always talks politely and uses formal greetings for everyone that she even addresses Aoi Fukasaku as "Aoi-san" even though they are friends and are in the same school year ("san" is a title of respect added to a name).
  • Taeko cares a lot for animals. In the manga, she tells Ibara Naruse not to shoot the mutant animals that were about to attack them.
  • Even though Taeko shot her while saving Ibuki Kajii, Taeko still worries about where and how Okami-san is.
  • Taeko learned how to preform surgery in school, but did not learn how to handle child birth as they weren't expecting a pregnant woman in Tokyo.
  • Taeko is called "glasses girl" (メガネ子 lit.glasses child) by Oyakata Kurobe.
  • Taeko is called "four-eyes" (メガネ lit.glasses) by Kanon Ozu.
  • Taeko is currently the only female coppelion in the series who wears eyeglasses.
  • Taeko is the only person in the story (at this point) who recognizes Ibara's feelings for Haruto Kurosawa.

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