Genshin Shimizu

Has an outstanding talent in writing lyrics and has pledged absolute allegiance to Uta. He is fascinated by Uta's talent in music, but kept it a secret from Uta even when he is treated like a butler. Highly responsible. He is a good listener and gains trust from other members. Has devoted himself to protect Uta to make up for a 'certain incident' from the past.

## **Appearance**

Genshin appears as a young man with shoulder-length deep black hair that has bangs hanging on either side and purple eyes.

## **Personality**

Genshin is a very empathetic, gentle and compassionate young man with a high sense of responsibility. He is very loyal to Uta Kamijo that he is always willing to do whatever it takes to please him and make him happy.

## Relationships

* Uta Kamijo - He is devoted to Uta, and sincerely admires Uta's singing skills and ability to compose songs.
* Soushi Fujiwara - Sometimes they enjoy tea time together with Genshin providing the snacks and Soushi making the tea.
* Ango Kousaka - Genshin often visits Ango at the kitchen and they would talk about food and desserts.
* Junnosuke Sanada - Because Junnosuke is a fan of spicy food, sometimes the two of them, along with Takumi on Genshin's side, fight about sweet versus spicy.

## **Etymology**

* The name **Genshin** means "string/bowstring, handle" (弦) (**gen**) and "heart, mind, soul" (心) (**shin**).
* Genshin's surname **Shimizu** means "clear water/pure water/spring water" (清水).

## **Trivia**

* Genshin's character-specific color is a grey with the hex code #5c5c5c.
* Genshin became an idol because he liked the songs that Uta Kamijo composed and wanted more people to listen to it.
* Genshin is the president of Uta's fanclub at school.
* Genshin has a younger sister.
* Genshin's best subject is Biology. One of his memory photos is him feeding the department’s fish.
* Genshin keeps an eel as pet, and named it “Unagi” (eel). For some reason, he’s keeping it a secret from Uta.
* Genshin is fond of sweets as he is shown eating a strawberry shortcake and macarons in his memory photos. In one of his 4\* memory photos, he’s very excited about a shortcake one of the staff brought in from a famous confectionery shop. This is also the reason why he gets along well with fellow sweets lovers: Takumi, Soushi and Riku.
* In the “The Hamami Kids are Fond of Snow?!” event story, when Producer-san offers Red Bean soup as the after-lunch snack, Genshin mentions that he loves it.
* Genshin's room is the only room that Sui haven't sneaked into.

**Spoilers**:

He also has an older stepbrother after his father remarries, which is Kurisu, who is also Uta's previous partner in La-Veritta. Uta however does not know the relationship between Genshin and Kurisu after Kurisu passes away, and Genshin replacing his brother in the unit. He learned to write lyrics from his deceased older brother, who is good at it.
Although they had reconciled after Uta returned to DearPro, their relationship was on the brink of collapsing again after Uta found out that Genshin is Kurisu's younger brother. After a fight with Uta, Genshin ran away form Shirasu House. Realizing that his actions are foolish, he ran back to the dorm but on his way, he saved a little kid who almost get hit by the car, but he ended up being hit instead. He broke his arm and was comatosed for two months. He only woke up from the coma after Kurisu spoke in his dreams and hearing Uta's singing.