#Miu Shinoda

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"Non mi hanno mostrato il viso, Takumi mi ha detto di non guardare. Comunque, le mani erano bellissime. Perfettamente illese."

Miu Shinoda - Nana Manga capitolo .78

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Today’s disabled character of the day is Miu Shinoda from Nana, who has an unspecified mental illness and scarring

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[Image Description: Drawing of a girl with long brown hair pulled back into a high pony tail with mini braids. She is wearing a blue long sleeved button up with the chest open and small black earrings. She is also wearing a spagetti strapped tank top that's straps are blue and cross over the neck. The tank top has splashes on pink and green with yellow wavy lines over it. Lastly she has brown eyes.]

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Miu Shinoda

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Ai Yazawa. Nana, Vol. 15 Ch. 55

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Yasu and Miu talking about Nana and Ren (NANA)

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miu shinoda (NANA) - INTJ

although miu is a side character that we see briefly in the anime and manga, which leaves us with a relatively under developed character to type, from what we see of her, she is definitely an INTJ. the other sound argument would be INFJ but this fairly easily debunked by analysing her auxiliary Te. NANA may be one of the most emotionally heavy ani-manga i've ever seen and read. it's a situational drama with romance, substance abuse and sexual assault among a plethora of other harrowing subject matters. it makes sense that in this setting, miu would be fairly emotionally intelligent, offering advice and introspective quotes to our main cast, which is where most people mistake her as an INFJ rather than an INTJ. if you look closely at what she says and does, it's all indicative of Te rather than Fe.

when ren dies, she delicately but strategically works with yasu to fix the logistics of the group and get everyone to the funeral. all of the advice she gives is based on facts and logic, and she continuously puts factual information before her own personal expectations (like when she saw yasu carrying nana osaki into ren's funeral, and refused to be jealous in light of what was happening). miu remains relatively aloof from the group's emotional matters apart from when she is told. if she was a INFJ, her Fe would adapt better in social situations and allow her to be more generally caring and compassionate, and more open and trusting. (think of yasu: he once said he likes to keep his relationships quiet, but he still meshes very well with the rest of BLAST, Trapnest and their management. he consistently over exerts himself to make sure that nana osaki is well, and seems to act as a generous paternal figure - this is his Fe at work). conversely, miu's Te helps her stay objective and cool headed in her assessments of situations, and she is noticeably more dispassionate than yasu, which wouldn't be the case if she had Fe. extraverted thinking is objective and impersonal, choosing to focus on the outside world. rarely, if ever, do we see miu focus her thinking inwardly, we hardly know a thing about her apart from her relationship with yasu and her job. her Te can even be argued for in a literary sense, wherein her objective contributions from an untainted lens (in the sense that she doesn't have history with BLAST or nana komatsu) to the main cast could be the readers' own thoughts. she does seem to come up with solutions for perceived issues and i think that all readers of NANA would like to solve the characters' problems.

miu also has a history of self-harm, but she stops when she meets yasu. she is level headed and logical the entire time we see her in the ani-manga, yet her history of mental health issues and self-harm could be indicative of a former Se grip, which affects both maladjusted INTJs and INFJs. her presumed Se grip would cause her to overindulge unhealthy sensory pleasures (in her case, self harm and T/W: cutting). further more, miu overcoming her self harm speaks to a mature and developed Fi tert, in combatting a struggle that is mentally draining, she has built a greater sense of self and can use this stable foundation to help others.

this was more about determining her auxiliary which would make her an INTJ, but i find that examining her 4w5 enneagram is helpful in this case. type 4s are self aware, sensitive and reserved, and may tend to withhold themselves due to their vulnerability and defectiveness. whereas, type 5s are analytical, insightful and objective. i think it goes without saying that she is a 4w5, if you've read the manga you would see that she exhibits all of these behaviours. because of the emotional setting she is in, miu is able to give a refreshing viewpoint to the rest of the characters, whilst still being tactful and sensitive enough to recognise the subtle and complicated relationships between everyone. in NANA, the sensitivity of her 4w5 works exquisitely with the objectivity of her Te and her developed Fi to be a mature and well rounded voice of reason later in the manga.

A/N: a person and show you could equate miu and NANA to is effy from Skins. they're both INTJ 4w5s in a situational drama with romance, substance abuse and sexual assault among a plethora of other harrowing subject matters. effy in generation 1 of skins is a side character, she acts just like miu when we first meet her - sensitive, aloof and objective.

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