Now I will attempt to describe Nataku's appearance. This should prove to be interesting since I'll be describing anime Nat-chan, manga Nat-chan, and novel Nat-chan, and all of them have distinct differences between each other.

First, I'll describe anime Nat-kun. Anime Nat-kun has red hair, blue eyes that are almost all pupil, a boyish face, and a blue rectangular stripe on each cheek. He wears a piece of stone headgear strapped over his forehead, thin blue gloves, blue shoes, a white tanktop, blue pants, his Kenkonken on his arms like bracelets, his Kontenryou is tied around his waste with a red sash, and his Fuukarin float under his feet a few inches away from the bottom of them. Later on in the anime, his stone headgear breaks and he stops wearing it. He looks cuter that way too! Also, IMHO, anime Nataku looks best. He just looks SO much cuter. Probably why I described this form first, huh?

Next, I'll describe manga Nat-chan. Manga Nat-chan looks very similar to anime Nat-chan. There are merely a few main differences. His face is still boyish, but his eyes are more often portrayed as one solid color, he does not wear the red scarf-thing until later in the manga, thick blue gloves with a metal strip over the knuckles, and stone shoes. Later on in the manga, he gets several other outfits. Most of which, I am not familiar with, so my little description ends here for now. The final card series created for SHE does show him in one of his later outfits. I think it's the last one? I used the picture for my main page's entrance page. It's one of my favorite pictures.

Now novel Nataku. Well, he LOOKS like a 13 year old boy even though the novel says he's supposed to be a man. When he was "10", he was 6 feet tall. After his rebirth at age "13", 15 feet tall. He has long black hair. Half of it is rolled into two buns on the side of his head. His paopee (just plain weapons in the novel) reflect their names. For instance, the Fuukarin actualy look like alls made of wind and fire. Supposedly, he's to have three heads and eight arms, which he gets after returning back to his master's mountain for treatment of a disease. His master toasts him and gives him three dates to eat, and as he heads home, two extra heads and six extra arms come out of his body. In the illustrations I've seen, he looks a little pudgy which kind of gives him a "cute little" boy appearance. In most illustrations you'll ever see of him, you'll probably mistake him for a girl at first glance. Then later when you're educated, you find out it's him.

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