Ryō Amakusa

## Ryō Amakusa天草 亮

* Anime
* Manga

**Ryō Amakusa** (天草 亮, *Amakusa Ryō*) is an high spec businessman who was loose with women until he met Ichika Arima.

## Appearance

Ryō is a 26-year-old office worker who serves as the Deputy Chief of his company. He's tall, has blond hair that is swept to the left side and looks to have a toned physique with broad shoulders. Moreover, he has hazel-colored eyes.

Ryō wears a blue suit with a light blue button-up and a red tie.

## Personality

Ryō is kind and helps ichika-san whenever she needs help but also gets jealous when he sees her with tamaru-san.

## Plot

Not feeling well from last all-night drinking, Ryō bumps into a man and is about to fall down the stairs on a train station, however a schoolgirl pulls him back using her umbrella. He thanks her and she guesses he had anemia from not eating and gives him her lunch box. At work, Ryō considers throwing away the lunchbox, but decides to eat it.

After work, he returns home and his sister informs him that her friend is here. Ryō is surprised to see that it's the girl from earlier and introduces himself. As his sister goes to talk with their mom on the phone, Ryō wants to thank Ichika Arima, but considers buying her clothes or shoes is too cheap and offers a kiss. Ichika is immediately disgusted and expresses it, however Ryō finds her reaction as wonderful.

For a week, he uses his sister Rio Amakusa to deliver chocolate and other presents to Ichika, but as he wants to send a rose, she gets annoyed and gives Ichika's address. That evening, Ichika calls him and he immediately recognizes her from her voice. He wonders if she likes roses and if the color was okay, and Ichika states that's fine, but she feels a bit bothered by him. However Ryō explains he will continue as he can't stop his feelings for her and she is free to insult him and get angry at him for the things he will do. Ichika gets angry and tells him to not send any more flowers and hangs up. Ryō saves her phone number and then next day, he still sends her a flower.

## Relationships

* Rio Amakusa: Rio is Ryō's little sister. Rio didn't like him much in the past as he fought a lot with their father, she also says that she always avoided eye contact with him. But thanks to Ichika, they started to talk to each other because they had a common topic and eventually their relation becomes much better as he starts to spend more time at home rather than his apartment.
* Ichika Arima: Ryō fell in love with Ichika due to her cold responses and kind personality. He keeps calling her every night just to hear her voice and sent her one flower sometimes to express his love for Ichika. She does eventually fall in love with Ryō and they confess to each other at train station in Episode 12 of the anime and Ryō promises to wait for her until she becomes an adult.
* Zenji Amakusa: Zenji is Ryō's father whom he doesn't like very much as he didn't let him pursue what he wanted to do after school and also didn't trust him very much due to which they get into verbal arguments very often and he started spending very less time at home. He scolded Ryō when he heard that he is pursuing Rio's classmate (Ichika) and told him to grow up and take responsibility of his actions for once. But when he meets Ichika and she tells him how much Ryō has helped her, he eases up about them a little. After Ichika confesses to Ryō he assures his father that he will properly take responsibility for her.

## Etymology

* The name **Ryō** means "clear" (亮).
* Ryō's surname **Amakusa** means "heaven/heavenly, sky, imperial" (天) (**ama**) and "grass, herb, weed" (草) (**kusa**).