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{{infobox character
|name = Nekoba
|image = <gallery>
Friend E.jpg|Manga
Nekoba.png|Anime
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|kanji = ネコバ
|romaji = Nekoba
|nicknames = 
|gender = Female
|age = 15-16 {{s|first part}}<br />16-17 {{s|second part}}
|birthday = 
|height = 165 cm (5'5") {{s|approx.}}
|weight = 
|hairs = Hazelnut
|eyes = Brown
|relatives = 
|status = Alive
|occupation = Student
|class = 1-C {{s|first part}}<br />2-A {{s|second part}}
|affiliation = [[Kazehaya High School]]
|jpvoice = {{w|Shion Wakayama}}
|envoice = [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=173154 Amber Connor]
|webcomic = N/A
|manga = [[Chapter 58]]
|anime = [[Episode 3/Season 2|Episode 15]]
}}
{{dialogue|Oh, yeah~ [[Hayase Nagatoro|Hayacchi]]~ I hear you've been frequenting a club room somewhere, haven't you?.|Right~? [...] Is it a boy?|[[Rabi-chan]] and Nekoba|Chapter 58}}
{{nihongo|"'''Nekoba'''"|ネコバ|Nekoba}} is a background character of the ''[[Manga|Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro]]'' manga series. She is a high school student and a classmate of [[Gamo-chan]], [[Yoshi]], [[Hayase Nagatoro|Nagatoro]] and [[Sakura]], the latter two of whom she and her friend [[Rabi-chan]] seem to be pretty in confidence to, although they later started to occasionally hang out with the rest of the group as well.

Her full name is left unknown.

== Appearance ==
Nekoba is a cute, tall, high schooler with a medium-length hazelnut bob cut and messy fringe. She has light skin and large, sharp brown eyes marked by a slight and fascinating {{w|Strabismus|strabismus of Venus}}.{{ref|ch=58|p=12}}{{ref|ch=69|p=10}} She has a very thin, almost skinny, physique with a modest bust size (albeit she seem to gain a cup over the course of winter{{ref|ch=103|p=16}}{{ref|ch=105|p=3}}), and is several inches taller than both [[Rabi-chan]] and [[Sakura]].{{ref|ch=58|p=10-11}} Nekoba almost always sports a cunning cat-like smile.

She typically wears her school uniform consisting of a white button up shirt (with tightly buttoned collar) and a navy blue skirt completed with a pair of sneakers and white soccer socks. However, in summer she wears a short-sleeved shirt in her uniform,{{ref|ch=105|p=3}} while in winter she is shown to wear a light brown sweater{{ref|ch=58|p=10}} and occasionally a blue blazer.{{ref|ch=69|p=10}}

When not at school she was primarily shown wearing plain t-shirts, shorts and running shoes.{{ref|ch=136|p=9}}){{ref|ch=133|p=18}}

=== Gallery ===
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Nekoba's regular uniform.jpg|Nekoba's regular uniform
Nekoba's winter uniform.jpg|Nekoba's winter uniform
Nekoba with the uniform's blazer.jpg|Nekoba with the uniform's blazer
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== Personality ==
Nekoba is easy-going, chatty and very blunt, making absolutely no qualms in telling [[Sakura]] that her attitude towards boys make her seem "a big slut",{{ref|ch=58|p=14}} however she's also very polite and her statements were never ill-intended. Despite at first sight seeming a little shallow, to the point of stating that she could even forgive a guy for "being naughty" if he's hot,{{ref|ch=58|p=12-13}} she actually confessed that the type of boys she's into are reliable ones.{{ref|ch=58|p=14}} Also, Nekoba doesn’t hides her envy for her friends who manage to get boyfriends easily, while she seems to have trouble in doing so{{ref|ch=69|p=11-12}} and seemingly have anger management issues, getting annoyed very easily.<ref name="Bonus15"/> Despite saying the contrary - insisting she wanted to keep it a secret - after she finally got a boyfriend she has absolutely no hesitation about speaking of him with her friends{{ref|ch=104|p=9}} likely due to being tired of the "eternally single" label.

She is also quite inquisitive and insightful,{{ref|ch=58|p=13}} having noticed how much [[Nagatoro]] has changed regarding romance during their first year of high school.{{ref|ch=58|p=15}} She was also very curious, getting immediately very interested after hearing that Nagatoro was spending a lot of time in a "club room" because of a boy{{ref|ch=58|p=19}} eventually "deducing" that Senpai is Nagatoro's "man".{{ref|ch=69|p=16}}{{ref|ch=70|p=1}}

Apparently she is also very superstitious and believes in ghosts{{ref|ch=58|p=21}} and guardian spirits.{{ref|ch=58|p=24}}

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Nekoba was born in {{w|Hayama, Kanagawa|Hayama}}, {{w|Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa}},<ref name="Map">Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: [[Official Fanbook]], The Town in Which Nagatoro-san Live.</ref> no information about her family or her home life are given. After beginning to attend [[Kazehaya High School]], she was placed in section 1-C, becoming good friends with [[Rabi-chan]] and an acquaintance of both her classmates [[Sakura]] and [[Nagatoro]].{{ref|ch=58|p=10}}

=== Story arcs ===
==== First name arc ====
[[File:Sakura, Nagatoro and their classmates have a girl talk.jpg|thumb|250px|Rabi-chan have a girl talk with Sakura, Nagatoro and her unnamed friend.]]
Sometime during their second semester, the girl, Rabi-chan, Sakura and Nagatoro reunite in their class few moments before the end of lunch break and start to talk about Rabi-chan having recently started dating [[Guy C|a boy in the baseball club]]. The conversation quickly switches over to what types of boys each of them are into and, when they urged the reluctant Nagatoro to answer said question too, the latter answered that her type of boy is simply "someone who's fun to be with". Then, Nagatoro noticed her smartphone was missing and Sakura suggested she probably left it in "the club room", causing their classmates to ask if the reason she attended that place so much lately was a boy; both Nagatoro and [[Senpai]] blushed and the latter - hidden in the closet - panicked causing a noise that dragged the girl's attention to it. When Nagatoro opened the closet she found Senpai inside and, despite being visibly mad at him at first, invented an excuse to distract Sakura and her classmates, dragging Senpai out of her class.{{ref|ch=58|p=10-24}}

==== Christmas ====
[[File:Nagatoro and Senpai shocked by Nekoba's question.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Nagatoro and Senpai shocked by Nekoba's question.]]
On Christmas Eve, right after the principal’s speech to the students, [[Gamo-chan]] planned to invite everyone to karaoke and got upset after both Sakura and Rabi-chan dumped her due to having other plans (respectively with a casual date, the former, and her boyfriend, the latter); thus leaving only [[Yoshi]] and Nekoba to join her, thus a brief fight between the "girls with boys" and the "girls without boys" ensue.{{ref|ch=69|p=10-13}} After Gamo-chan asked Nagatoro if she would come to the karaoke, Nekoba ask her if she and Senpai were dating or not, causing both of them to blush.{{ref|ch=69|p=16}} Out of embarrassment, however, Nagatoro quickly denied it saying she simply like to toy with the boy;{{ref|ch=70|p=1-2}} then after Nagatoro and Senpai left the room with an excuse, Nekoba went to the karaoke alongside Gamo-chan and Yoshi{{ref|ch=70|p=4-5}} as the self-proclaimed "boyless group". There, she gets quite annoyed as the extremely tone-deaf Yoshi tried to accompanied Gamo-chan while the latter performed {{w|Kenshi Yonezu}}'s "''{{w|Lemon (Kenshi Yonezu song)|Lemon}}''".<ref name="Bonus15">Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: [[Bonus 15]], page 1.</ref>

Somewhat after this, Nekoba accepted a date with a guy she described as an "introvert" and an "otaku" that was head-over-heels for her since they were classmates in middle school and, despite it turned out a "total mess" due to the mutual awkwardness she was so amused by him that they became a couple.{{ref|ch=104|p=9-11}}

==== Field Trip arc ====
[[File:Girl-Talk in Kyoto.jpg|thumb|250px|Rabi-chan, Nekoba and Sakura ready to have "girl-talk".]]
Nekoba was among the 2nd years students excited about having their field trip to {{w|Kyoto}} together with the 3rd years.{{ref|ch=100|p=6}}

While in Kyoto, she and Nekoba shared the room with the rest of the gang despite being in a different trip group and, after Nagatoro, Gamo-chan and Yoshi suggested them to have pillow fight, Sakura and the two of them said that, being all grown women, they should have "girl talk" instead.{{ref|ch=103|p=16-18}} After Gamo-chan mixed the romance gossip session into a pillow fight to make everyone happy, the girls start to chat: Nekoba told the girls about having finally got a boyfriend and listen about Sakura's double fling, Rabi-chan still being deeply in love with her boyfriend, Gamo-chan denying having a crush for [[Taiga Nagatoro|Nagatoro's older brother]] and Nagatoro eventually admitting that Senpai promised to kiss her if she'll defeat Orihara.{{ref|ch=104|p=1-22}}

The following day, when Nagatoro went to the aquarium with Senpai, Nekoba wished her luck.{{ref|ch=105|p=3}}

==== Kainan's Big Four ====
[[File:The girls cheering for their friends at the judo tournament.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Nekoba and the other girls cheering for their friends at the judo tournament.]]
Later that year, on August 27th, she went to the judo tournament alongside Sakura, Yoshi, Rabi-chan and [[Asaka]] to cheer for her friends{{ref|ch=133|p=18}} until the end of the tournament, where they managed to win district qualifiers.{{ref|ch=134|p=1-2, 11-12, 18}} The following day she and Rabi-chan go supporting their friends in the individual matches, assisting at the fight between Fujimin and Gamo-chan, happily celebrating after the latter's victory.{{ref|ch=136|p=10-31}} Then, they watch both Nagatoro's and Orihara's second matches, being joined in the stand by Senpai, [[Machida]], [[Hashimoto]], [[Aihara]] and the [[Sunomiya]] [[President|girls]], before joining the whole gang during lunch break.{{ref|ch=137|p=2-23}}

[[File:Rabi-chan, Nekoba, Sakura, Gamo-chan and Yoshi at summer festival.jpg|thumb|250px|Rabi-chan, Nekoba, Sakura, Gamo-chan and Yoshi at summer festival.]]
Afterwards she watched Orihara, Asaka and Shikki winning their third match, and complimented Gamo-chan for putting on a good fight despite ultimately losing her third round,{{ref|ch=139|p=3-9}} before assisting at the fight beween Nagatoro and Orihara,{{ref|ch=140|p=3, 11, 22}} where the former eventually score a full point{{ref|ch=141|p=1-22}} and managed to win.{{ref|ch=142|p=1}}

Few days later, she went to the summer festival together with Nekoba, Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Sakura, meeting and spending some time with Nagatoro and Senpai.{{ref|ch=152|p=12}}

=== Finale ===
At the end of the year, Nekoba attended the third years' graduation ceremony alongside Gamo-chan, Sakura, Yoshi and Rabi-chan,{{ref|ch=154|p=5}} happily applauding at both Nagatoro and Senpai's speech.{{ref|ch=154|p=19, 29}}

== Appearances ==
=== ''Manga'' ===
{{scroll box|
*[[Chapter 58]]
*[[Chapter 59]] {{s|indirectly mentioned}}
*[[Chapter 69]]
*[[Chapter 70]]
*[[Chapter 100]] {{s|cameo}}
*[[Chapter 103]]
*[[Chapter 104]]
*[[Chapter 105]]
*[[Chapter 133]]
*[[Chapter 134]]
*[[Chapter 136]]
*[[Chapter 137]]
*[[Chapter 139]]
*[[Chapter 140]]
*[[Chapter 141]]
*[[Chapter 142]] {{s|cameo}}
*[[Chapter 152]]
*[[Chapter 154]]
}}

=== ''Bonus'' ===
*[[Bonus 15]]

=== ''Anime'' ===
==== Season 2 ====
*[[Episode 3/Season 2|Episode 3]]
*[[Episode 6/Season 2|Episode 6]]

== Trivia ==
*Before her official name was revealed in the [[Official Fanbook]], the character was referenced as {{nihongo|"'''Friend E'''"|友達E|Tomodachi E}}.
**This happened even with the supporting characters - [[Gamo-chan]], [[Yoshi]] and [[Sakura]] - however, unlike them, she's more of a classmate to Nagatoro than a friend, as they didn't seem to hang out with each other out of school, at last until the end of the first semester.{{ref|ch=69|p=10-13}}
**Her nickname is composed by the two katakana for {{nihongo|"cat"|ネコ|neko}} and {{nihongo||バ|ba}}, a character that doesn't have a proper translation. It may be a pun on her cat-like smile.
*She seems to have a crush for a boy called Yuki, which she described as the ideal reliable kind of guy she's into,{{ref|ch=58|p=14}} and is later reveled to be a popular {{w|Japanese idol|idol}}.<ref name="Official Fanbook">Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: [[Official Fanbook]], Background Character Introduction.</ref>
*Given that she's slightly taller than Sakura (157 cm)<ref name="Sakura profile">Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro: [[Official Fanbook]], Main Character Introduction: Sakura.</ref> her height could be estimated as approximately 165 cm.

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