#chtype:nanachi

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Nanachi

INFP

Functional order: Fi - Ne - Si - Te

Disclaimer

We initially wrote this article addressing Nanachi with she/her pronouns due to an old/incorrect translation that was available when we first watched the show. We now corrected the article with neutral pronouns, as intended by the author and the official manga translator. Thanks for pointing this out!

Spoiler warning

This article will cover Nanachi’s analysis with spoilers and references from the first anime season. We’ll avoid talking about the manga, so if you haven’t read that yet, this article is safe for you!

Premise

Browsing through the net, we found that Nanachi is mainly typed as INTP. We couldn’t find any in-depth analysis though, so if you too think INTP is a better match, please tell us why - we’ll gladly listen! We disagree with INTP for Nanachi, because breaking down the four letters, it means: Ti, Ne, Si, and Fe. The Ti-Fe axis is what bothers us the most since cognitively speaking there aren’t many signs of it in the anime - although we can understand why, only looking at behaviors, people may think so. Introverted Thinking means a person tends to filter reality through their own personal logic, breaking inputs apart and creating systems to understand the world in its most general aspects. Nanachi doesn’t show signs of such a thought process, they much rather act and care about what they, personally, value the most. Nanachi can seem quite the practical type, but in reality, they’re just confident in their fields of expertise and can react quite emotionally in unknown situations - a side that’s shown more in the later chapters of the manga.

So, we don’t think INTP is a match for them, and we’ll proceed to explain why INFP suits better in our opinion.

Judging Functional Axis

Introverted Feeling (Fi) / Extroverted Thinking (Te) 

One of the key points of Nanachi’s character, and what led us to INFP, is that they’re more willing to risk the more they care on a personal level. It’s something that goes a bit beyond the classic ‘Fi fights for what’s right to it’ and veers into how Fi (usually) approaches the experiences of other people. While Fe is about reading the mood and absorbing the emotional state of one’s surroundings, Fi is more about how a person feels about what’s going on outside, and if they can or cannot relate with it.

This is pretty clear right after Nanachi’s appearance in episode 10: when asked why they intervened to save Riko and Reg despite ignoring them at first, they answered: “because you reminded me of myself.” Seeing Reg so desperate and panicked of losing Riko hit a sore spot in Nanachi’s past, as they knew far too well how he was feeling. So, they purposefully stepped out of their way to help the kids, exposing their identity (something they never do because it’s dangerous.)

Even the resentment Nanachi holds against Bondrewd isn’t mere disapproval of his actions but has also a lot to do with what he’d done to Mitty, and how angry Nanachi feels because his experiments are not only immoral, but they wronged Nanachi on a personal level.

It may be difficult to see their inferior Te since Nanachi appears later on and the show focuses more on Riko and Reg, still, Nanachi’s generally disorganized and lacks the problem-solving skills tied to high Te. Similar to what we said about dominant Ti, they surely act confidently in the medical field, but when things get rough they aren’t able to react properly like Riko would do due to her dominant Se.

Perceiving Functional Axis 

Extroverted Intuition (Ne) / Introverted Sensing (Si)

Given how little Nanachi shows during the first season of the anime, we have to proceed a bit by process of elimination. If Fi is the dominant function, this means they could have either Se-Ni or Ne-Si in the perceiving axis.

Se-Ni would imply a certain degree of proactiveness, an inclination toward action, and an (albeit slight) certain focus on a single, long term goal that is meaningful to their life. It could be argued that this is what freeing and killing Mitty represents, but in reality, the show addresses how Nanachi never thought about life after Mitty’s eventual death, and this is why they’re so reluctant to join Riko and Reg in their journey at first. The bond with Mitty is unrelated to MBTI and Nanachi’s actions are mostly caused by natural human reactions, at the same time dominant Fi appears in the way they made those choices, on a cognitive level. 

Mitty herself, as treated by the show (and the manga later on, but this is heavy spoiler territory) is something much more tied with Nanachi’s past than with future aspirations. And given both how Nanachi has a tight bond with their past (using it as a source of experience to make decisions,) and how they’re highly methodical in their approach to save Mitty by studying medicine and subjects alike, we pointed toward tert Si more than tert Ni.