Melody

Melody
Kana	センリツ
Rōmaji	Senritsu
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Tarako (1999) Miina Tominaga (2011)
English Voice	Melanie Risdon (1999)
Debuts
Manga Debut	Chapter 67
Anime Debut	Episode 45 (1999) Episode 39 (2011)
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Eye Color	Black (1999) Orange (2011)
Hair Color	Pink (1999) Grey (2011)
General Status
Occupation	Music Hunter Nostrade Bodyguard
Nen
Type	Emission
Abilities	Nen Sonata

Melody (センリツ, Senritsu) is a Music Hunter and one of the bodyguards of Neon Nostrade who befriends Kurapika.

Appearance

• 2011
• 1999
• Manga

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Melody 2011 Design

Melody 1999 Design

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Melody Manga Design

Melody is short and stocky. She is balding and has straight hair that falls to her shoulders. Her front teeth are pronounced and protrude much like a rodent's. In public, Melody typically wears hats. Her clothes are simple and usually of earthy colors, though occasionally with pale pink accents. She always wears long sleeves and leggings, as the Sonata of Darkness has changed her appearance dramatically; her exposed flesh is warped and lurid enough to make Kurapika flinch. Her appearance before the Sonata changed her is unknown.

Personality

Melody is a very kind person. She is typically of a calm disposition. Due to her extraordinary hearing as well as natural astuteness, she is very perceptive and caring when it comes to the feelings of others. Her mission is to find and destroy the Sonata, so that no one else will have to suffer the fate that she has. She has a special affection for Kurapika and watches out for him.

Background

Melody is a professional Music Hunter. Her life changed as the result of one night of drinking with a friend. Having listened to a single movement of the flute solo part of the Sonata of Darkness — (a piece supposedly composed by Satan himself) she was deformed. Her friend, who had played the piece, had his entire body severely mutated and died as a result. Subsequently, Melody gained supernatural hearing; she can hear things as quiet as heartbeats. Her goal is to find the sheet music for the Sonata and obliterate it, so that none suffer the same fate.

Plot

Yorknew City arc

Melody notices Kurapika's heartbeat

Melody was hired with Kurapika as Neon's bodyguard. She helps to detect the infiltrators while the new hires are being tested by pointing out the liars' heartbeats. Melody alone can see through Kurapika's facade and calls him out on it while they're standing guard at the entrance of the auction hall; she cites the "Melody of Wrath" that his heartbeat wove when he saw a slide that showed a set of Scarlet Eyes. He admits his past and true intentions to her and she returns the favor by revealing her own past, specifically the Sonata or Darkness, and her own goals.

After the auction hall is attacked, the remaining body guards pursue the thieves; when they come across Uvogin, Kurapika nearly loses his temper and charges into a fight. Melody calms him (and everyone else) down with a flute piece called "A Field in Spring."

When Kurapika, Gon, Killua and Leorio are hunting the Phantom Troupe, Kurapika enlists Melody's help. Melody helps Killua track down the Phantom Troupe and follow them into the city. After Kurapika captures Chrollo, she hears both of their heartbeats and becomes agitated, as the sounds of both heartbeats are horrible to her—Kurapika's a violent sound and Chrollo's one of calm acceptance of Death as a companion. She is also acutely aware of the inconsistency in Kurapika's heartbeat as he struggles internally during the hostage exchange, recognizing instantly that the Phantom Troupe are not all that inhuman, as Kurapika would like to believe.

At the tail end of the arc, Kurapika and Melody leave to return to Neon. Leorio pulls Melody aside, asking her to look after Kurapika, because he "opens up to her." Melody willingly agrees, describing Leorio's own heartbeat as comforting and one of the nicest in the city. She then says that he would make a good doctor.

13^th Hunter Chairman Election arc

Melody visiting Gon at the hospital

She voted during the 13th generation Chairman Election of the Hunter Association and was also one of Gon's visitors in the hospital he was confined in. Being near to Gon, Melody along the others assists from the outside at Gon recover thanks to Alluka's powers feeling a strange and powerful aura. She then accompanies Gon when he goes to meet Leorio in the room where all the hunters were voting for the new chairman of the Hunters Association. 

Abilities & Powers

Melody has all the benefits granted by her status as a Hunter. She has considerable prowess as proven by the fact that she successfully retrieved an item as part of a test required in order to be hired as Nostrade's bodyguard. Contrary to her petite appearance, she is agile enough to fend off attacks from Tocino's Nen puppets.

Melody using her hearing abilities

Immense Hearing: Melody, after listening to the Sonata of Darkness, acquired extra-sensitive hearing and uses this ability in many useful ways. She is able to track targets or hear conversations from hundreds of meters away. Melody can even differentiate one's footsteps from another, enabling her to determine the number of people in a crowd whilst picking out the sound of her target's footsteps, for example, in a city. She can hear the other's heartbeats and tell their emotional states as a result; or fluctuations to tell whether they are lying or not. Her hearing also enables her to ascertain the skills of others from the sounds they make, such as knowing Killua is a former assassin from his steps.

Skilled Musician: Melody is masterful at playing her flute. In the Nippon Animation anime adaption it is shown she can play the piano.

Nen

Melody is an Emitter, and projects her aura when her instruments produce sound.

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Trivia

• Melody was inspired by the character Nausicaä from Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Ashitaka from the film Princess Mononoke.
• In the manga, one of Melody's casual outfits is the same as the uniform typically worn by Japanese kindergarten students.

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