Tabata Nao

Tabata Nao (多幡 奈緒) is Hikari's good friend and classmate, being a Year 1 student at the Verone Academy in Pretty Cure Max Heart. She and her best friends Hikari and Miu were the characters of the day in FwPCMH15.

Much like her hero Nagisa, Nao is sporty but girly, loving clothes and liking boys. She wishes to be exactly like Nagisa, and is very friendly and happy-go-lucky. She has loved basketball ever since elementary school, and in the episode of her debut she asks Nagisa and Hikari to play with her against some high school boys. Nao is a fan of many cool people, such as someone named Yan-sama and Hasekura-kun, the boy Nagisa went on a date with on her birthday.

Nao and Miu are quite a pair, imitating their heroes Nagisa and Honoka. They also, at the end of the episode, form a strong friendship with Hikari, who will never be lonely again.

Appearance
Nao has short hair like Nagisa, but it's chocolate brown. Her eyes are matching color, and Nao wears the school uniform at Verone Academy, whereas she wears a red basketball T-shirt with a white 77, a pale green hoodie and baggy beige shorts usually.

Abilities
Nao is a very fast runner, and quite good at basketball once she concentrates. This is good, because she wants to be in the school's basketball team and aims "to be just like Misumi-senpai!".

Imitations
Nao: "Honoka, I will not lose today's match. It's the last strand, the last strand!"

Miu: "Don't you mean 'the last stand'?"

Both, jumping and holding hands: "Just like that, like that, like that!"

Trivia

 * Nao is like a younger version of Nagisa, which makes sense since she may have been based on her.
 * Nao and Miu are a pair that are similar to the kind of pair Nagisa and Honoka are.
 * Similarly to Nagisa and Honoka, the two girls become very close friends with Hikari.
 * The way Nao and Miu imitate Nagisa and Honoka perfectly shows that they know their idols very well.
 * Nao has a same name as Midorikawa Nao from Smile Pretty Cure! and both are very good at sports.