Ginji (Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-)

Ginji is one of the main characters of the light novel, manga and anime series, Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-. 
He is voiced by Shun'ichi Toki, and Miyu Tomita (young) in the Japanese version and Stephen Fu in the English version.
==Appearance==
He has white, wavy hair with bangs, blue eyes, a pair of white ears, and of course, nine white tails due to being a nine-tailed fox (kitsune). Clothing-wise, he is always seen wearing a light blue shirt and brown pants, and stands at a fairly average height. He has several other forms he can transform him into, which include a child form, where he essentially has all the same features, only he looks much younger, a tiny fox, a grown kitsune, and even a woman when performing in the Southern Lands' ceremony with Ranmaru. While these forms vary greatly in appearance, he maintains his nine tails in each one.
==Personality==
Ginji generally comes off as very kind, caring and helpful, especially when interacting with Aoi. He was one of the few ayakashi who treated her well as soon as she arrived at Tenjin-ya, and is consistently supporting and encouraging her in her endeavors. He also quickly takes a strong liking to her cooking, which give him confidence that the two of them can run a successful restaurant by putting what she makes on their menu. In conjunction with this, he frequently brainstorms with her over what to add to the menu. He is also pretty close with Odanna and shows a lot of respect and loyalty to him, close enough that he is able to use his little boy form to trick Odanna into buying him treats. He isn't quite as close with anyone else, but generally acts amiable and courteous when interacting with them.
Despite his friendly demeanor, he admits to Aoi that he's not completely comfortable around the other staff at Tenjin-ya since he fears they don't completely trust him due to him previously working for Orio-ya, one of their biggest rival inns. However, he gains some confidence from Aoi when she assures him that she trusts him completely. Additionally, while generally laidback, he becomes very intense and serious whenever Aoi is in danger or someone is treating her disrespectfully, always being quick to come to her defense and being willing to stand up to anyone who bullies or threatens her. According to some characters, he has a more devious and cunning side to his personality that one might expect from a fox ayakashi, but since he rarely, if ever shows these traits, it's hard to know how credible these claims are.
==History==
He runs a small restaurant in Tenjin-ya's annex building, but does not receive many customers. However, when Aoi arrives, he quickly suggests that she take over the restaurant after tasting her human style food as a way of settling her grandfather's debt since he's enamored by it and thinks it would be a huge hit. Therefore, in-between different incidents that Aoi gets involved in at Tenjin-ya and elsewhere, he often brainstorms with her about what they can add to the menu. He also often helps her retrieve ingredients that she needs for her various recipes. They also decide to name the restaurant Moonflower when it's suggested to them by Matsuba, the elder of the tengu clan. While it takes some time for anyone to hear about Moonflower and start giving them any business, after she cooks for a famous writer named Hakkabou, who then writes a positive article about Moonflower in a paper, business quickly picks up and becomes profitable for them.
Later on, Ginji is suddenly requested to come back to Orio-ya when Ranmaru, the owner of the inn, visits Tenjin-ya to pick up his other employees who are visiting there, Hatori and Tokihiko, with Aoi also unexpectedly joining him after she tries to prevent them from taking him. It is later revealed that he made a deal with Ranmaru to temporarily return there every 100 years to help them prepare for a very important ceremony that must be held once a century to ensure the wellbeing of the Southern Lands, where Orio-ya is located. It is also revealed that he and Ranmaru have a very long, shared history together; they were both adopted by the previous Hachiyo, Princess Iso, and grew up with very different personalities. They generally got along in spite of this, but 300 years ago, when the ceremony failed and Princess Iso was forced to sacrifice her life to ensure the wellbeing of the land, they quickly started to grow apart, with Ranmaru taking over the inn and becomingly increasingly demanding and strict on those who work for him, which was hard for Ginji to watch, hence why he left to join Tenjin-ya. However, he still agreed to help him when following ceremonies came along, hence the deal he made to temporarily return whenever the time came to get ready for them. Therefore, when he intially arrives back there, his relationship with Ranmaru is rather strained, but thanks to Aoi, he gradually starts to reconcile with him since he realizes that that's what Princess Iso would have wanted, as well as better understands why he made the choices that he did.
It is also revealed towards the end that Ginji was the ayakashi from Aoi's childhood who visited her and gave her food when she was left all alone in her house to save her from starving. However, when she asks him about it, he also reveals that he was neither the first, nor the only ayakashi to visit her, and that he was essentially a stand-in for another ayakashi that was looking out for her. Aoi suspects it to be Odanna, but for cryptic reasons, he avoids confirming or denying it.
==Trivia==
*His Japanese voice actor, Shun'ichi Toki, also voiced Jhin Syulargun in Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World.
*His Japanese child voice actress, Miyu Tomita, also voiced Yume Nijino in Aikatsu Stars!, and Gabriel in GabrielDropOut.
*His English voice actor, Stephen Fu, also voiced Cho Sang-woo in Squid Game, Yoichi Shigaraki & Seiji Shishikura in My Hero Academia, Sudou Kaname in Darwin's Game, Yasu in Show By Rock!! Mashumairesh!! and Noé Archiviste in The Case Study of Vanitas.
==Gallery==
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