Hanako-kun Assist!

Nene and Kou are close friends, the two of them have met when Kou was still attempting to exorcise Hanako. After a rocky start, the two developed a strong friendship and often hang out together either alongside Hanako or, more rarely, just the two of them. They get along very well, Kou is in love with Nene, as evidenced by his frequent blushing and stuttering around her.

He is also very supportive of her and quick to defend her when she gets teased. Kou likes spending time with her and helping Nene to the point that he pretended to be a bad cook so that they could bake together, and helped her make donuts to try and bring Hanako's spirits up.

From then on, Hanako continues to save Nene from danger. Nene also wishes to learn more about him. Despite not being a human anymore, Nene has called Hanako her friend many times, which surprised others who are not very fond of supernaturals. She also called Kou, her partner in wanting to know more about Hanako.

She learned about Amane from the memories recalled after destroying Tsuchigomori’s yorishiro. This made her care about Hanako and his past even more. Nene then tells Hanako that he was “more trouble than it’s worth” but she will stick around with him anyway because she likes Hanako as a friend. In the next chapter, he thanked Nene, telling her that it was the first time a girl told him that she liked him, and opening up to her a bit more about his past. He finally told her a bit of his past. Nene thinks about how Hanako could have had a happy future, and Hanako also wishes for her to have a happier fate.

Nene and Hanako have a trusting and caring relationship. After their fates were entwined due to the mermaid scale, Hanako made Nene become his assistant in return for granting her wish. She started cleaning the toilet after school since that. She complains about doing it and tells Hanako that she doesn’t like it, but Hanako says he looks forward to it every day. He feels nostalgic, and says it feels like having a friend. Nene then calls him Hanako-kun instead of Hanako-san for the first time, so that they look more like friends. 

After seeing Hanako apologizes to her while taking his hat off in the confession tree chapter, she thought he looked like any other normal boy and wanted to learn more about him. 

Nene is a very outgoing and earnest girl who seems to greatly desire the approval of her peers. She is generally kind to others, sometimes to the point of naiveté. She genuinely wants to help those around her, and is even willing to risk the dangers of associating with supernaturals in order to do so. Because she is often reliant on Hanako to protect her from dangerous supernaturals and developed a habit of calling his name when she is in need of help, Nene wants to find a way to protect Hanako and her other friends.

Yashiro Nene (八尋寧々)

Is the main protagonist of Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun. She is a first-year high school student at Kamome Gakuen’s High School Division.

Nene is a young girl with large magenta eyes that have orange/yellow accents. Her waist-length hair is a light cream color, which gradually fades into a soft teal green at the tips and is styled with baby bangs at her forehead. She wears two dark brown magatama hair accessories on the side of her head, which pulls back some of her hair. Occasionally, Nene wears other hairstyles such as braids, ponytails, and twintails.