Minato Mochiduki

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* Anime

**Minato Mochiduki** (望月 皆人 *Mochidzuki Minato*) is a manager for TSUKINO TALENT PRODUCTION. He is the manager of the unit Growth.

## Appearance

Minato is a young man of average height, with dark green hair and similarly colored eyes.

## Personality

According to Kensuke, Minato at first gives off the impression of being serious and reserved, but says that he betrayed those expectations in a good way. Despite having only just met him, all the members of Growth agreed that Minato was easy to talk to and get along with.

Contrary to his seemingly quiet and reserved image, Minato actually enjoys experiencing new things and meeting new people, and confesses to love amusement parks and scary rides. He's also an avid gamer, and to the surprise of the members of Growth he plays a character whose image (dark knight) is quite at odds with his real-life personality and image.

Minato has admitted he's somewhat lonely due to not having any friends his age because of moving around due to his work. Similarly, he is afraid of rejection and as a result cannot easily find a girlfriend. He also says he has trouble talking to people informally, even if they request it, due to having to constantly talk formally for his job.

## History

He grew up on his family's farm in Hokkaido alongside four other siblings, he also went to university in Hokkaido, before graduating and moving to Tokyo to find a job.

He was initially in sales for his first year before joining the management section. Despite having been in management for a while now, Growth will be his first time exclusively managing one unit.

## Relationships

### Growth

Koki Eto: At their first meeting, Koki asked that Minato not speak to him and other Growth members too formally because he was technically their senpai (being a year older than Mamoru). Minato admitted he might find it difficult but that he would do his best to try and speak in a more friendly way with the idols. Like the other Growth members, Koki seems to find Minato an easy-going person who he can get along with.

Kensuke Yaegashi: Kensuke remarked that Minato seemed like the very serious and reserved type at first glance, but surprisingly found that he was actually quite cool.

He and Ken actually befriended each other some time before Minato was assigned as Growth's manager; both play an online RPG game wherein they would often message each other. However, since Minato goes by a pseudonym in the game Ken didn't realize his online friend and Minato where the same person for quite some time.

Mamoru Fujimura: Mamoru was the one to comment upon Minato being easy to get along with when Growth first met with their new manager.

## Etymology

* The name **Minato** means "all, everyone, everybody, everything" (皆) (**mina**) and "person" (人) (**to**).
* His surname **Mochiduki** means "wish, desire, hope" (望) (**mochi**) and "moon" (月) (**tsuki**/**duki**), which literally means "full moon" altogether.

## Trivia

* Minato has one older brother, an older sister, and two younger brothers.
	+ Being born third, he is the middle sibling in his family.
* His family farm grows potatoes, wheat and malt.
	+ They also have their own beer brand from their malt production which his older brother is involved with.
* Minato's hobbies are playing online games and going to the movies.
	+ In particular he seems to be quite fond of the online RPG game "MOON Forest Fantasy", as according to Kensuke he consistently ranks in the top 20 players on his server.
	+ His character name in MOON Forest Fantasy is a play on his real name, "Phantom Thief Mochitsuki". The kanji for Minato can also be read as "Kaito" which is both a given name and the word for phantom thief, while Mochitsuki simply uses the tsuki reading of the last kanji in his surname rather than the duki/dzuki reading.
* He also has recently been really into cycling, to the point where he'll cycle somewhere even if he only has to go a short distance.

## Reference

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Originally from Mochiduki Minato、 25 Sai desu, English translation provided by kanasmusings on Tumblr.
2. ↑ Originally from Yuenchi ni Ikou！, English translation provided by kanasmusings on Tumblr.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 ONLINE