Kyūta

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**Kyūta**, previously named **Ren**, the titular main protagonist of the movie *"The Boy and the Beast"*. A young boy who runs away from home and ends up accidentally going to the beast world. He meets a beast named Kumatetsu, who is a potential candidate to become lord of the beast world. Kumatetsu ends up making Ren his apprentice and later names him Kyuta.

## Information

When he becomes Kumatetsu's first disciple he discovers his analysis skills when mimicking Kumatetsu's footwork and realizes he is not actually seeing him only hearing him because he knows Kumatetsu's moves that good and starts off with the "adorable" part and later fulfills the former after learning his analysis skills. As a human who grew up in Jūtengai. This causes an identity crisis once he realizes it in the movie's second arc. When Kumatetsu takes the 9-year-old Kyuta to live with him, the house is a mess and Kumatetsu can only cook rice mixed with raw eggs. Kyuta soon assumes responsibility for all the cooking, cleaning and laundry for the following eight years. Kyūta was hot-blooded as a kid being brash and very temperamental. Especially after living with Kumatetsu for a while as he adopts this personality fully and along with being filled with teenage angst so it's not a surprise that he's this hot-tempered. Ren/Kyuta is a brash and a angsty teen who is quite bitter about the world, but he is still able to show acts of kindness and generosity such as when he met Kaede. He also cares for Kumatetsu and his other friends in Jutengai. Even at the start Kyuta/Ren was a stubborn, hot-headed loner with a chip on his shoulder, just like Kumatetsu. He starts off as a weak kid who can barely hold a sword to save his life. but over eight years he has grown into an incredibly strong person. His hidden dark power that he experiences as a young child fueled all of his negativity and hatred to the world ever since his mother died. This is played straight when Kumatetsu is killed by Ichirohiko. As a teenager, he can take on and deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to three delinquents.

## Appearance

He has dark brown hair and brown eyes and Ren has unkempt hair. He still keeps his same Messy Hair from his boyhood.

## The Boy and the Beast

Ren had recently lost his mother with no news of his father. Refusing to live with his legal guardians, Ren then flees into the streets of Shibuya.

## Relationships

### Kumatetsu

Kumatetsu comes to see Kyuta as his surrogate son just as Kyuta views Kumatetsu as surrogate father. He begins imitating Kumatetsu's mannerisms to learn swordsmanship, and after living together so long they naturally rubbed off on each other. Though ren refuses to tell Kumatestu his real name, Ren, and is therefore called "Kyuta" because he was nine when he met Kumatetsu. It's Kyuta/Ren's presence that allows Kumatetsu to work on his skills and attitude of a swordsman. After his foster father Kumatetsu is seemingly killed he then begins to lose his mind to kill Ichirohiko. He only manages to calm down after Chiko gets to him. He shares parent-child relationship with Kumatetsu — despite their constant arguing and insults to each other, both have a deep bond and love for each other. At the end of the film, Kyuta/Ren decides to leave Jūtengai forever to be with Kaede and his father.

### Kaede

When Kyuta/Ren returns to the human world as a teen and encounters the delinquents who ridicule Kaede, their boyfriends seriously underestimate how powerful he is and delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to three of the delinquents. With Kaede, she offers Kyuta comforting words when he undergoes an identity crisis in the middle of the movie, even offering him a bracelet she wore that would help during tough times. Because Kyuta hasn’t been to school since 4th grade he doesn't know how to read things around his age until Kaede teaches him.

### Chiko

Ren's first friend after he ran away was a small, fuzzy creature he named Chiko. Said creature would follow Ren/Kyuta anywhere he went. The credits imply that Chiko may be a reincarnated form of his late mother.

### Jirōmaru

He first starts off as a bully to Kyuta/Ren because he was a weak human. After Kyuta defeats him in a minor scuffle in their childhood,, Jiromaru is impressed and the two become friends.

### Ren's Parents

Ren misses his mother very much and it's her death is what caused him to ran away from home and his father supposedly abandoning him and refuses to stay with his legal guardians though despite her death her spirit gives her son helpful advice and at the end of the film she tell Ren that she's so happy for him. He later found out his dad never meant to abandon Ren. Ren's father wasn't informed of Ren's mother's death until after he had already disappeared. After he found out what happened, he tried his best to find Ren. When they reunite, he's overjoyed to see his son again and wants to live together with him. He told Ren he spent years searching for him even after the police gave up.

## Trivia

* His adult self resembles his Japanese voice actor Shōta Sometani.
* Ham omelettes are his favorite meal.