**Nocchi**
*Oomoto Ayano*
born 1988.9.20 / from Hiroshima prefecture / blood type A / 164cm
Nocchi looks back on her much younger self before she came to be a part of Perfume.
When I was little, I was like a kid you could find anywhere. I was shy, and I wouldn’t actively go up to people of my own will very much. There was nobody who I hated and I loved everyone — it was like that. And this is no different from how I am now, but my forgetfulness was pretty bad. Even just going to school, I was constantly forgetting stuff.
Once, I forgot my satchel even though I was going to school, and that was the height of it (laughs). I went to school in a group with tons of other students, but even those kids didn’t say a word to me. When I got to school, I was like, “Huh? My satchel isn’t here?” (laughs) I think that was in fourth grade. It surprised me. I got it brought to me later, though. And forgetting textbooks and stuff was just an everyday thing for me. I still forget things now. I even forgot my questionnaire for work today…
Just as she’s professed to be “shy” in numerous interviews, it seems she’s the type who takes some time to get close to others. That Nocchi shared with us her memories of her childhood first love.
It was when I was in preschool, so I was around five years old, but I got a crush on someone for the first time. There was a bunch of snow falling that day, and it didn’t normally accumulate like that in my hometown, but a lot of snow piled up and everything was white and pretty.