Tomoko Nomura (野村 朋子, Nomura Tomoko) is a student of the Holy Forest Academy and attends Class 3-4 who initially appears messing up (accidentally) one of Miyabi Aizawa's plans to get Eikichi Onizuka fired, which leads her to be kicked out from Miyabi's clique.
History[]
Tomoko was first seen in Episode 9, handling a bag contains dark blue bloomers worn by female students during physical education and was bumped into Onizuka. Most of the class including Kunio calls her Toroko (Slowmoko in the English Dub) because of her being too slow and her very large breasts, claiming herself as an F Cup. Therefore, she made a mistake by putting the bag of bloomers on Hajime Fukoroda's locker instead of Onizuka's, this mistake leads her to get kicked out by Miyabi Aizawa and her friends as well as severing their long-time friendship. Onizuka had also seen her getting bullied by Miyabi and her friends following the kick out made by them and also leads her to compete in an annual beauty contest where Miyabi also participates in.
In Episode 11, all Tomoko wanted is to renew their long-time friendship with Miyabi in which she angrily breaks her off while calling her a trash when she tried to speak with her. Despite this outcome, Tomoko tried to do the acting portion and displaying her prowess in acting when she monologues about her friendship with Miyabi using Kunio's cellphone where Onizuka had thrown it for her instead of the script lines they had played by Miyabi and the other participants. Despite the other contestant had won currently in this contest. Tomoko was interviewed by many reporters as well as more support towards other students in her school, leading her to become a model and actress.
In Episode 18, she met up with Onizuka and her classmates including Urumi Kanzaki. When Urumi makes a dangerous prank on their former elementary school teacher Ms. Fujimori due to her grudge towards her for exposing her secret in the past, Tomoko cries after seeing what she had done. Tomoko also knows about the tragic explosion incident done by Urumi Kanzaki in their elementary school years this is due to Ms. Fujimori angrily exposes Urumi's secret to her classmates. She also accompanies Onizuka and her classmates to visit Ms. Fujimori at her home to know more about the past incident between her and Urumi.
She is also seen with Kikuchi and Murai when Onizuka tries to find Azusa Fuyutsuki.
In Episode 27 and 28, Tomoko enters the Glossy Princess Contest done by the MGCP to make her a model in the Weekly Shonen Magazine. However her winning was soon disrupted when fellow model and actress Megumi Hoshino and the group from Warning Productions are behind the cheating scheme such as stealing her bathing suit for the photo shoot, exposing the address to the Nomura's residence, and lastly, some postcards are written by Onizuka, her manager and all others to vote Tomoko but the name Megumi Hoshino was written on the back. The audience and most people hate Megumi for her cheat win once they find out that her manager and the production company itself are behind the cheating scheme and they call her a fraud. But they knew Tomoko is the real winner of the contest as all the audience who watched the contest walked away dismissively when Megumi is about to speak about her cheat win and they go to Tomoko's residence to support Tomoko.
Tomoko is last seen with her manager, who rounded up the media to expose the Ministry of Education group about the conspiracy between their former homeroom teacher and Miyabi's late best friend, Mizuki.
A side-story in the manga features Tomoko and her manager, also called GTO, only it stands for Great Tomoko Oppai (Oppai meaning breasts). In it, Tomoko's manager embarks on one very madcap adventure to save her from her dubious producers.
Relationships[]
Eikichi Onizuka[]
Eikichi was a friend to Tomoko when nobody else would be, and helped her discover her hidden talents. Onizuka makes Tomoko join a beauty contest, which she loses, but she was discovered for her talent and looks, jumpstarting her career as a model and actress. She is infatuated with him and hopes to one day become a good wife to him.
Urumi Kanzaki[]
Tomoko was friends with Urumi since childhood, and their close bond likely arose out of their opposite personalities (Tomoko is clumsy and rather docile with a heart of gold, compared to Urumi's intellect and potential to be savagely cruel). Urumi sometimes makes her act like a dog, running around on all fours and playing fetch.
Miyabi Aizawa[]
Tomoko, Urumi, and Miyabi used to be friends, and despite how terribly Miyabi treated her, Tomoko still offers her unconditional love and support when she needs a place to stay.
Ichiro Okinoshima[]
Okinoshima is Tomoko's manager. He secretly wants to marry her when she becomes an adult, and is strongly opposed to any sexualization of her image.
Shinomi Fujisaki[]
Shinomi is Tomoko's makeup artist, and often gives her life advice.
Etymology[]
- The name Tomoko means "friend" (朋) (tomo) and "child" (子) (ko).
- Tomoko's surname Nomura means "field" (野) (no) and "village" (村) (mura).
Trivia[]
- Tomoko was born on September 25th, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan.[2]
- Tomoko has a large chest (her cup size is F), kinda over-size for her age. She's not the brightest crayon in the box, leading to people nicknaming her Toro-ko (Toro meaning "slow" in Japanese, so somehow a way to involve her clumsiness; she is called Slo-mo-ko in the English version).
- People often take advantage of her or make fun of her slowness and clumsiness. However, Eikichi Onizuka promptly takes the girl under his protection.
- Her natural hair color is brown and in later episodes she dyes her hair to auburn when she becomes a model and actress.
- Tomoko has a hobby of collecting Barbie dolls and Gundam models.[3]
- Tomoko dreams of collecting the most dolls in Japan, and to become a beautiful and good wife for her "special someone".[3]
- Tomoko has her own apartment in Daikanyama, where Onizuka brings Miyabi when she runs away from home.[4]
- She can't cook at all, almost setting the kitchen on fire when she tried to make soup. In elementary school Miyabi would help her with cooking.[4]
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