Futaba Nagae (長江 ふたば,Nagae Futaba) is a first-year middle school student of Minoseki Academy who has considered Mihono Asakura as a rival of hers since their elementary days. To settle who's better between the two, she decided to challenge Mihono during the representative selection tournament, but she was defeated on the very first match, immediately dashing her hopes of fighting against Mihono.[1]
Etymology[]
The name Futaba is written in hiragana (ふたば), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (双葉 or 二葉), it could possibly mean:
双葉 - "bud, sprout".
It can also mean "pair, set" (双) (futa) and "leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece" (葉) (ha/ba), which literally means "bud, sprout, two leaf/twin leaf" altogether.