Aonuma

**Aonuma** (アオヌマ), or **Ryo Aoyanagi** (青柳 涼, *Aoyanagi Ryō*), is one of the leaders of Tanpopo and a member of the Nijibana Rainbow Flowers who is fifth among the Nijibana's in Hazakura efficiency, being at 366%.

## Appearance

Aonuma has dark blue hair with a Mohican hair style with shaved sides, his eyes are dark blue and have pupils shaped like diamonds. He wears a lot of winter clothing including a long blue hanten jacket, red striped scarf and ear muffs. Despite all this he still constantly has a runny nose, with a visible drop of snot.

## Personality

Aonuma has shown to have a calm and laid-back personality. Shown not to be concerned when the Yozakura Family attacked, instead choosing to sit back and eat. He looks up to his Granny Hako as he often references her advice. Aonuma froze off his emotions as he struggled to accept peoples kindness after Hako died, he always felt guilty and undeserving of her kindness.

## History

Ryo Aoyanagi was a homeless boy who was neighbours with Hako who both lived in cardboard boxes on the same street. They both fought over food, space and warmth whilst they were together. One winter Hako left whilst he was left alone in the cold, after a while he lost consciousness due to his low temperature. When he woke up Hako was next to him and had given him her leftover food and her haori, her body was left cold and no longer shivering. Some time later Kawashita managed to track him down using his medical records and took him in.

## Plot

Aonuma, alongside Akai, Kurosawa and Cha-Cha, arrived at Skeleton Island to meet with Kawashita. They all arrived carrying large baskets of vegetables. Ai asks Aonuma to make it snow for her and he does so, creating snow from his hands as she rolls in it. Afterwards they all get treated to a vegetable hot pot before they prepare for their mission.

On the day of the Seed-Sowing Project Aonuma chose to sit down and eat for the celebrations, even when the Yozakura Family began to infiltrate the hideout he still decided to eat food and wasn't worried. Aonuma finally decided to help out being annoyed that he'd have to help out. When Ai showed concern for him he referenced his grandmothers advice, and stated that if something bad happens he will happily abandon everyone to save himself.

Aonuma cut off Kengo and Nanao Yozakura from accessing the human experiments, he did so by freezing the area including his own allies. Kengo used his 'Kengo-chan' to hold-off and distract Aonuma as they move ahead.

In order to help Cha-Cha stop Shion from hacking into the hideout, Aonuma froze the power supply system. When Kengo turned it back on Aonuma used his ice to pierce his head, only to find out it was a 'Kengo-chan'. Aonuma continued to run around the base to turn off all the power supply systems while, preventing Kengo from turning them on.

Aonuma activated his blooming and began sending his cold gas around the base following the 'Kengo-Chans' using Cha-Cha's directions, slowly depleting their numbers. However he began to gain a lot more instructions as Kengo and Shion infuriated their communication system allowing Kengo to send multiple fake instructions to him, confusing him on what to do.

Kengo used his blooming: Assimilation to understand everything about Aonuma and started talking about his past with Hako. Aonuma smashed Kengo to the ground, however his emotional instability made him unable to fully freeze him. Kengo tells Aonuma that its hard to accept kindness, but to understand how that there are people who are genuinely kind and its not a question whether you deserve it or not, talking from experience as he's used to deceit. He tells him to not freeze his emotions and feel guilty, Aonuma breaks down and stops his eyes, losing the will to fight.

After the completion of the Mission: Yozakura Front Lines, Aonuma was seen sitting with Seiji Hotokeyama as the Tanpopo members were being collected. Like the rest of the Nijibana, Aonuma was held in custody by the organizations involved in the Skeleton Island raid, they would be monitored by those organizations after trials and plea bargains.

## Abilities and Skills

**Cyrogen:** Aonuma is able to freeze objects and create structures out of ice using the gas released from his body which can be freely manipulated.

 **Blooming -** The range of Aonuma's cold gas is increased dramatically.

## Trivia

**Real Name**

* The name **Ryo** means "cool, refreshing" (涼).
* Ryo's surname **Aoyanagi** means "blue, green" (青) (**ao**) and "willow" (柳) (**yanagi**).

## References

1. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 84, page 17.
2. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 85, page 11.