Ritsu Onodera's father

This unnamed male character is Ritsu Onodera’s father and at the moment is a minor character in The Case of Ritsu Onodera. He is the CEO of Onodera Publishing and little has been known about him for the bulk of the series’ run.
==Appearance==
Ritsu Onodera’s father has not clearly appeared in the manga series as of yet, only appearing in a single panel in The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.35, his back to the reader. It is in a flashback during which Ritsu is very young, so it is likely it doesn’t reflect his current appearance, and only confirms that he has light colored hair and is likely about the same height if not slightly taller than the present-day Ritsu.
==Plot==
Although he has yet to appear in the modern-day story any way, be it talking over a phone or in person, he has been mentioned at length by both Ritsu as well as his wife when she talks with Ritsu over the phone.
Prior to the events of the series, he and his wife, Ritsu’s mother, were thought to have arranged a marriage between Ritsu and An Kohinata, the daughter of another prestigious family. However, it was revealed during a phone call between Ritsu and his mother in The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.18 that he was never all that invested in a wedding between An and Ritsu to begin with. His father was completely fine with An dissolving the engagement, and in Ritsu’s mothers’ words, was never keen on the idea in the first place.
In The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.7, Ryuichiro Isaka mentions to Ritsu that his parents consulted him while he was in the middle of transferring out of the family company and into Marukawa Publishing. When asked for further details about this, Isaka tells Ritsu not to worry about it, and that the conversation they had did not impact Ritsu’s current position in the company. Ritsu had his doubts about this.
Down the line in The Case of Ritsu Onodera No.35, Ritsu’s doubts are revealed to have been well-founded, as his mother reveals to him during a phone call that he is working at Marukawa under a time limit. She says that his father talked to Isaka before Ritsu began his current position at Marukawa about him only working there for three years and then returning to Onodera Publishing to take over the company. Ritsu was completely unaware of this agreement and was shocked to hear about it. It was mentioned in passing while informing Ritsu about his fathers’ birthday party, and it prompts Ritsu to want to attend in order to get answers, since when he calls his father about it his phone isn’t taking calls due to him being away on a business trip.
==Relationships==
===Ritsu Onodera===
By Ritsu’s own description in No.22, he didn’t get to see much of his father growing up due to him often being busy with work at the publishing company. He doesn’t seem to hold resentment towards him for this, but they also don’t seem all that close. Additionally, Ritsu doesn’t seem to understand why his father has made decisions the way he has. He didn’t get mad at him when he came to him about studying abroad during high school, he wasn’t mad about the engagement with An being dissolved, and he didn’t reprimand him about switching companies to Marukawa. As of now in the story, there is a lot of uncertainty in the circumstances between the two of them.
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