Attitude
Up until episode three, Ninamori has sounded like a bitchy, judgemental, stuck-up brat. However, in Marquis de Carabas we see her confronted with her own personal problems instead of just remarking on other people's. And that she's really a little liar. While the secretary who has been sleeping with her dad - something that threatens to separate her parents forever - drives her to school, all Ninamori does is calmly smile and compliment her on bringing another outfit to wear after she slept over. Now I don't even think I could talk to a person if they were having an affair with my father, but not only does she talk to the secretary, she talks to her nicely. She compliments her. And without looking mad or sad or awkward at all, even after she has just found out about the fact that her father is sleeping with the secretary! And she nonchalantly remarks about how a divorce is her parent's decision and she can't do anything about it. The secretary compliments her for her maturity, thinking that she has a good understanding of these adult affairs.. But does Ninamori really?

After touching Naota's car ears and getting sick, Ninamori has dinner at the Nandaba's. They all eat curry, but everyone else's curry is spicy except Ninamori's. Naota, who hates spicy stuff, keeps whining about his food, and Ninamori gives him a cool glance and tells him that he's just acting like a kid and can't appreciate the curry.

Kamon brings up the fact that her father is now famous in Mabase (what a jerk) and Ninamori doesn't even bat an eye. She says that it's not a big deal. As the conversation continues, she says the same thing about being run over by Haruko and getting sick. Overall, she says "no big deal" at least four or five times.. However, Kamon does seem to think that it's a big deal that she's been run over by his "housekeeper"'s bike (or more likely he just wants to cover his own ass) and invites her to stay the night and forget about all the bad things that are going on in her life. When Kamon offers to call her parents and see if it's allright if she stays the night, Ninamori says, with the same blank, uncaring expression, that it doesn't matter if he calls or not because she and her parents live their own lives. She also adds that it doesn't matter to her if her father gets arrested or if her parents divorce because of the affair.

There's more, but I think you get the point. Ninamori seems perfectly mature. Inhumanly mature even. She acts like she doesn't care at all about the family problems unfolding around her, claiming that they have nothing to do with her. She puts down her peers who act anything other than mature for whatever reason. She gets along with the woman who her father is having an affair with. Or does she? Is Ninamori really that mature?

She's not at all. Her maturity act is totally fake. Just like Naota, she's hiding the way she really feels about everything going on around her. It's pretty obvious. For example, her behavior with the secretary: everytime she's faced with talking to the secretary she's been pretty friendly with her (which is enough to assume she's being totally fake in my opinion :P) but, when Kamon talks to her alone in episode three and asks if she thinks he's a bad person, she says not at all. She looks really pissed off and says she's glad he did it (another lie?) because he got rid of the secretary.

Of course, the question we have to ask is this: why does she act like this if it's not the way she really is? Why does she pretend not to care about things that she should care about deeply?

Because she's the mayor's daughter, she's overly concerned with appearances. So of course, she wants to appear to be the perfectly mature, rational daughter (even if that means pretending to not care about stuff). That could be part of it.

But I think that Ninamori has some other reasons for pretending to be someone else too. It has to do with that school play..
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