Nozomi Nakamura

Nozomi Nakamura (中村 希 Takamura Nozomi) is a character in Tamayomi.

Appearance
Nozomi is a young girl with medium long blond hair and green eyes. She wears a pink flower hair pink on her left side bangs.

Plot
Nozomi entered the school as she heard it had capable baseball team, but seeing that there are only seven girls on it, she knows they can't even play. Shiragiku Oomura sees her observing them and asks her to go visit them. Nozomi wants to leave, but Yomi Takeda also sees them and takes them to the team. Nozomi introduces herself, explaining that she plays first and outfield, but doesn't intend to join the team. Yoshino quickly interrupts her and inspects her hands realizing she is a lefty and that they don't have any other lefties.

They decide to practice and Ryou sets the machine as really fast speed, but Nozomi manages to hit each ball and send it back right at the pitcher. She explains she is used to machines and she came from Fukuoka, where they love baseball, but as her parents had to move, she made a promise with her friends that they will meet in the nationals, but doesn't think they can do it with this team. As the girls discussed it, Yoshino states that with this team they are probably in top four and Nozomi starts to believe there is a chance. After seeing Yomi's pitch, the two girls decide to join the club and decide to aim for the nationals. Nozomi starts to see Shiragiku as rival as she send the ball at bigger distance with her first ever swing and hit.

Etymology

 * The name Nozomi means "hope" (希).
 * Nozomi's surname Takamura means "middle" (中) (taka) and "Town, village" (村) (mura).