Fueling your mind with sugar right before a match is effective. -Nikotama to Hidaka
Futako-Tamagawa Felicia, also know as Nikotama, is a supporting character in the Hi Score Girl series and a minor character in Hi Score Girl Dash
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Felicia is a small girl with a orange hair. She uses a butterfly ribbon in her hair and dresses in a Gothic like black dress. She's often seen with a black umbrella in her hands.
11 years later she has seem to outgrow her Gothic phase and has worn she more clothes suiting her age, she now has two twin tails with two butterfly ribbons
Personality[]
Nikotama is a outgoing girl with her acquaintances but with other persons she tends to be reserved. She was not seen in action however her showed had a great knowledge about various games and tactics. Felicia is a great observer too, demonstrating this in a lot of moments, principally in the confrontation between Haruo and Hidaka.
By the time Dash happens she seems to have retire from gaming and has become more laid-back now that she is a mother, but still keeps her knowledge about various games and tactics and love for them has she is one of the few with people in the area with arcade cabinets in her place.
Story[]
Before the events of the anime, Felicia was just a normal girl who was amazing at video games. It wasn't until her dad received arcade cabinets at his shop that she decided to expand. She spread word about a night arcade she would be hosting and soon had a following of people who respected her gaming skills. She quickly became their leader, using her dad's shop as their base, much to his displeasure.
Nikotama first meets with Koharu in a match of darkstalkers where Hidaka was completely destroyed by Felicia. After said match she walks up to Hidaka and takes a liking towards her due to her style while using Hutzil. She also notices that she comes in everyday yet only practice alone and is held back by her compassion due to her not using the Confusioner as a win condition at the start, showing that Hidaka wanted to give her opponents a chance. She hands her a card saying that if she wants to become stronger that she should come to this location. Like everyone else She accepts Koharu in her gaming group for intensive training and even coaches her due to her seeing great potential in Koharu.
During this time, the two start getting close and Hidaka even opens up to her and revealing about her love for Haruo, Knowing this she pushes her even more to help her new friend to achieve her goal.
She is later with Hidka when she receives the letter of challenge left by Haruo arcade center bulletin board and notes his old spacing in his spelling. She later is also present on the day of the challenge, Haruo and Koharu face off against each other.
Her reaction to Haruo winning
Throughout their battles Nikotama senses that something is amiss until realizes that Koharu lacks something that Haruo has, he plays for fun.
Nikotamagaa supporting Hidaka
Before the last match can start Nikotama gives her own moral support to Koharu saying that even that the stakes are high that she should try not to panic and have fun and even hidaka loses in the end she confronts her saying that she should use that love and rage to become stronger in order to win his heart.
Felicia reappears in Round 17 were he arrives with Koharu and breaks up the confrontation between the bad blood of Mizonokuchi Force and Haruo were she witness him trying to challenge Koharu to a game of Virtua Fighter 2, but she declines in favor and then provoke’s the rest of the Mizonokuchi Force to bully Haruo and she half-heartedly agrees with it.
Niko worried about Hidaka new thorns
Koharu who is criticized by Felicia noticing that she has developed some sadistic notions as of late, which disconcerts her. Later she is the one to inform Koharu of a turf war and conforms to Hidaka that Haruo is part of Team Shibuya.
Neko feeiling uneasy due to the atmosphere
Later that late, on round 18, the two team stare each other down deciding on fighting with “Fighting Viper,” Before they start Nikotama tries to clam Hidaka down after Mayumayu taunted her and sees that her angrier is fueling her skill and is still worried on what happened earlier, this was her last appernce in the anime only being referenced from time to time
Her last appearance in the Manga, after the Haruo and Hidaka had left, she stayed to have the second round with the Shibuya Squad for their bowling match and her team had lost and wanted a rematch. After a bit of back and forth the competition never got settled and came to a peace agreement.
Dash Spin-off[]
After the fateful day of Haruo and Ono, she and Hidaka pressumdly still hung out with each other, as the two seemed very close, although an incident happened as back in her prime Koharu ended up shattering her pride, as mentioned in 16-Credit (dash) and was could be likely one of the reasons why Nikotama lost her competitive spirit, the two still hung out with each other but as time went the two started seeing each other less and less with each other. Although one fateful day Niko met a man, the two eventually fell in love and even had a child, right now it's unknown if they're still together, and not waiting to let it her video game legacy
she herself opened a Night Arcade were many people came to train their skills and one day even got Hidaka student, Yami, under the recommendation Arisu-San were inside they explain her past in gaming and how she like a goddess of the place.
After this she later reappears when Hidaka is arguing with Arisu, flustering her by calling her Koharu and mentioning how good she was when she was in highschool, she then talks over with Hidaka on the weird bond between Yami and Arisu and understands her concern and decides that her nigh arcade could be a safe space from the street dangers and letting Hidaka rest well that Yami will be okay.
Relationships[]
Hidaka[]
Felicia is good friends with Koharu ever since they met. She saw something more in her and wanted her to grow in her gaming. She was always supportive of her love for Haruo and pushed her harder. Even as adults the two seem ver close and still get along well, with Niko loving to tease Hidaka. But in the manga Hi Score Girl Dash when they are adults Felicia and Hidaka are not talking and hanging out as much.
Etymology[]
Her name Futako (フタコ) means means "two." or "a word that comes after a woman's name, child." The Tamagawa (玉川) in her name means "many, frequent, much." Ironlly while the Futako does have a meaning, it doesn't mean i the right one. There is no precise definition. It is colloquially referred to as "Futako" (フタコ) or "Nikotama" (ニコタマ) (her nickname), depending on how you read the first three kanji characters in the name and lastly Felicia in her name is a refence to character of Darkstalkers who has the same name.
Both her name and nickname are likely to be references to the Futako-Tamagawa station in West Tokyo, which also gets nicknamed Nikotama.
Gallery[]
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| Manga (Hi Score Girl - Hi Score Girl DASH) - Anime (Season 1 - Season 2) - Timeline - Translations |
| Characters |
| Main characters |
| Yaguchi Haruo - Ōno Akira - Hidaka Koharu |
| Supporting characters |
| Gamers |
| Ma-kun - Nikotamagawa Felicia - Raging Girl |
| Students |
| Doi Genta - Miyao Kōtarō - Onizuka Chihiro |
| Adults |
| Gōda Moemi - Jīya - Numata - Ōno Makoto - Shōgakkō-sensei - Tōno Reiko - Yaguchi Namie |
| Video game characters |
| Dhalsim - Gōki - Guile - Guy - Honda - Nash - Phobos - Vega - Zangieff |
| Organizations |
| Capcom - Koei Tecmo - Konami - Ōno Zaibatsu - Square Enix - SNK - Taito |
| Locations |
| Kanagawa |
| Airport - Candy Store - Flower Garden - Gashadokuro Game Center - Hidaka Mart - Jōran Kōkō - Marumiya Game Center - Minami Chū - Minami Shō - Mizonokuchi - Ōno Mansion - Totsuka Shop - Yaguchi House |
| Tōkyō |
| Shibuya |
| Others |
| Biwa - Kawasaki - Kyōto - Los Angeles - Ōsaka |
| Video games |
| Gaming platforms |
| Arcade - Famicom - Game Boy - Super Famicom - PC Engine - PC Engine GT - PlayStation - Sega Saturn - Game Gear - Virtual Boy - Neo Geo CD |
| Games |
| Final Fantasy - Final Fight - Kung-Fu - Samurai Spirits - Street Fighter - Tekken - Vampire Savior - Virtua Fighter - Yie Ar Kung-Fu - Karateka |
| Media |
| Music |
| "New Stranger" (OP) - "Hōkago Distraction" (ED) |
| Personnel |
| Staffs |
| Oshikiri Rensuke (mangaka) - Yamakawa Yoshiki (anime director) - Urahata Tatsuhiko (anime writer) - Kuwabata Michiru (anime character designer) - Shimomura Yōko (composer) |
| Seiyū |