Kirimiya Yuto

> 「*It's been a while since we've had a new member! Sounds like things are starting to get fun!*」
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## Kirimiya Yuto

* Character
* Stage

* 2020
* 2023

## Name Information

### Appellations

* Ore (Pronoun)
* Yuto (Bakuto, Kiyonobu, Seigo, Takahisa, Shigure)
* Yuto-san (Kaya)

## Actor

### Portrayed By

Ayukawa Taiyo
鮎川太陽

* 1st
* 2nd

## Name Information

### Appellations

* Ore (Pronoun)
* Yuto (Bakuto, Kiyonobu, Seigo, Takahisa, Shigure)
* Yuto-san (Kaya)

## Actor

### Portrayed By

Ayukawa Taiyo
鮎川太陽

**Kirimiya Yuto** is a character in the ROAD59 franchise and is affiliated with the Shinonome-gumi.

## Profile

While he is the youngest among the Shinonome members, Yuto has been with them for a long time as he was under their care since he was a child. He has a strange, yet endearing quality that allows others to open up to him, resulting in him being quite approachable to the residents of the Tenkai Ward unlike other yakuza members. Someday, he hopes to repay the members of the Shinonome, who gave him a place to belong.

## Appearance

Yuuto wears a fairly simple attire consisting of a navy-blue suit with an unbuttoned blazer and a collared aubergine shirt paired with black shoes. His hair is coral pink that has a darker color on the back as well as bangs that cover his forehead. He has silver purple eyes and moderately thick eyebrows, along with a mole underneath his right eye.

## Personality

A caring, optimistic and enthusiastic individual, his amiability allows people to let their guard down around him, may it be someone he meets the first time. Yuto is arguably the friendliest out of all of the Shinonome members, rarely having to bicker or cause trouble with anyone and is very considerate of those he cares for. As he is the youngest out of the Shinonome males, he notably has a casual and youthful way of speaking, using modern colloquials such as "maji", "yabai" or "meccha" in his speech, and often uses "-ssu" in his sentences, a informal contraction of the usual polite term, "desu".

## Abilities

Just like Bakuto, Yuto fights his opponents unarmed at close quarters. His Jingi grants him extraordinary physical strength powerful enough to crush his surroundings.

## Relationships

### Shinonome

* Yutsuma Kaya: When Kaya first meets the Shinonome, Yuto is best at helping her adjust and open up to them. He is especially caring of her in the second stage play, getting himself severely injured in order to protect her from harm.
* Yutsuma Kiyonobu: Kiyonobu had looked after Yuto since the latter's early years. Kiyonobu considers Yuto as his own family and in return, Yuto views Kiyonobu as an admirable paternal figure.
* Naruyama Seigo: The two have a fraternal relationship with one another, and as an older figure, Seigo tends to look out for Yuto.
* Oimachi Takahisa: Yuto often scolds Takahisa on his antics.
* Toudou Shigure: Similar to Kiyonobu, Shigure looked after Yuto when he was younger and takes on mentor role for him. Due to their age gap, Shigure is unable to understand the "modern" concepts that Yuto often brings up.

### PHOENIX

* Maria Bernard: Yuto recognizes Maria as a *Mother* and is caught off-guard to see one. She realizes that he is "one of the bad kids that escaped the facility" and expresses contempt over his "undisciplined" behavior.

## Stage Plays

### 1st Stage Play

After Shigure rescues Kaya from the Kurojou, he brings her to the Shinonome's office to acquaint with the other members, starting with Yuto, followed by Takahisa and lastly Seigo. Noticing that she was feeling withdrawn from them, Yuto brings up possible interests that Kaya would be familiar with so she would feel more adjusted to them, such as her favorite dessert. After a series of ramblings, Kaya changes the topic and questions the Shinonome on why she's being pursued by the yakuza organizations and their reasons for rescuing her. Seeing that the members had no ill intentions towards her, she requests them to cooperate with her, which Yuto and the others offer no qualms against.

While Kaya remains under their supervision, the Hakurou later attack the Shinonome's territory in order to retrieve her, requiring Seigo and Yuto to fend them off. Leading them is Sho, who fights Yuto one on one until the latter gets the upper hand on him with the abilities of his Jingi. Bakuto, who had been accompanying the Hakurou, is told by Sho to go ahead and take care of his business with the Shinonome, but before Yuto could try to chase after him, Sho warns him that Bakuto is Mr. Kirisawa's son, much to his surprise. Yuto eventually has to use his Jingi to throw the Hakurou off guard, giving him a chance to run ahead to catch up to Bakuto. When he sees Shigure struggling with Bakuto from running away with Kaya, Yuto stops him to remind him that Bakuto is the son of their former companion, Mr. Kirisawa. But while they are distracted, Bakuto manages to escape with Kaya and they are unable to halt him.

Bakuto eventually finds himself at the Shinonome's headquarters again after being attacked by the Kurojou, who had robbed Kaya away from him. Though he gives Yuto and the others quite the unfriendly greeting, he reacts aggressively after hearing from Kiyonobu that Kaya is daughter, because he had neglected her, prompting Seigo and Yuto to hold him back. Once he calms down, Yuto lets him go and he has a proper conversation with Kiyonobu, which encourages him to cooperate with them. As Yuto and the others watch as Bakuto performs his ritual with Kiyonobu in order to bear the power of a Jingi, they gain a new affiliate of the Shinonome and all head out to the battlefield together to rescue Kaya.

Bakuto and Yuto then come to Kaya's rescue when she becomes caught up between Himuro Suzuka and the Kurojou. But while they are distracted, Renge comes up behind her and catches her at knifepoint, much to Kensei’s commend. However, once the members of PHOENIX arrive, Renge immediately betrays the Kurojou and captures Kaya away with PHOENIX, causing Bakuto and Yuto to be caught up in a bomb implanted by them. After they witness this turn of events, the other Shinonome members regroup with them to discuss out their next move. Despite the setback, Takahisa had fortunately memorized PHOENIX's hideout location and they all decide to venture out to confront PHOENIX. To their surprise, Kiyonobu also decides to accompany them, since he wanted to meet with Kaya after years of absence, and they all go along with his decision.

In the midst of their mission, the Shinonome are halted by a group of PHOENIX personnel ahead. While Seigo tries to come up with a strategy to deal with them, Takahisa expedites the situation by recommending Bakuto to fight the PHOENIX personnel head-on, much to everyone's appall when he actually does it. While this greatly entertains Takahisa, Seigo gives him a reprimanding until Kiyonobu allows Takahisa to go on ahead. Yuto tries to follow Takahisa as well, but Seigo stops him and instead has Yuto join up with him.

After the climax of the story, Seigo and Yuto return to the others to find that Bakuto had rescued Kaya safely. Together, they all fondly watch over her reunion with her father Kiyonobu and head back home. They then run into Inaba, who was planning to leave the Tenkai Ward after her store had been destroyed and bid her farewell. From there on out, Bakuto and Kaya start their new life living with the Shinonome.

### 2nd Stage Play

「Why would someone like you be here…!?」
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After picking up Bakuto and Kaya up from the city on his car, Yuto drops them off at the Shinonome's headquarters, where they greet the other members upon arrival. They discuss about the counterfeit bills recently appearing in the Tenkai Ward, as well as the Shinonome's financial debt, which was mainly caused by Bakuto. To avoid having his share of his month being taken away by Seigo, Bakuto offers to go on a mission to capture the perpetrator of the counterfeit bills, which would help solve their financial problems. With Kiyonobu's approval, Bakuto leaves with Takahisa, followed by Shigure, but Kaya is left without a bodyguard, so Yuto offers to supervise her for the time being.

To their misfortune, Kaya and Yuto end being chased a couple of scenes later by a handful of Kurojou personnel lead by Kazuomi. Eventually, Yuto is forced to fight off Kazuomi, but later finds an escape with Kaya. Yuto ends up severely injured by lackeys, prompting Kaya to join arms with him, but he collapses as soon as they finish them off. Before he even catches his breath, Maria suddenly arrives to instigate, much to his panic when realizes that she's a *Mother*. Maria realizes that Yuto could have been "one of the bad kids that escaped the facility", but he immediately shrugs her off, much to her contempt. While they are distracted, Kazuomi manages to catch Kaya at gunpoint, but Benedict steps in to disable Kazuomi with his Jingi to his advantage. Benedict then introduces himself to Kaya and encourages her to activate her Jingi for his own interest, but Yuto implores her not to do so. Finding out that she can't control her own Jingi, Benedict withdraws with Maria, followed by Kazuomi and his personnel. Bakuto and Seigo arrive just in time to rescue Kaya and Yuto, and escort them back to their office for Yuto to get treated.

Once they rush back to the Shinonome's headquarters, Shigure immediately patches Yuto up. Kiyonobu walks in to witness the situation, and Yuto offers a sincere apology on his failure to properly protect his daughter. Kaya tries to cover up for him, but Yuto blames himself for his weakness and promises that he'll do his best to properly defend her the next time, even if was on the brink of the death. Hearing this, Shigure stops Yuto and lectures him for trying to waste his life recklessly. Rather than scold him, Kiyonobu expresses his gratitude towards Yuto's hard work and his consideration of Yuto as his own family member. Meanwhile, Takahisa, breaking the solemn mood, arrives to inform the others that he finished dealing with the counterfeit bills and takes his leave. Bakuto happily rejoices on the end of their debt, yet the other members are still bitter towards him for causing it. Rather than rejoicing along with him, the members all leave Bakuto behind, even Yuto who had apparently recovered quickly.

Scenes later at the Shinonome's headquarters again, the members worry on Takahisa's whereabouts, who had been unreachable for a while. Promptly, Kaya receives a phone call from his number, but it is Benedict that picks up the phone, who reveals that he has captured Takahisa and requests the Shinonome to trade in Kaya in order to free him. While this leaves the members in a dilemma, Shizuka suddenly breaks into their headquarters, disposing of Shinonome personnel right in front of them. Putting herself into a dogeza position before them, she reveals that her sister Suzuka had also been captured by Benedict and desperately pleads to Kiyonobu to lend his daughter in order to free her as well. Despite having a minor dispute against her, Bakuto eventually encourages everyone in the Shinonome to help her out and team up to confront Benedict.

Eventually the group catches up to Benedict. In the midst of their trade-off, they are able to safely retrieve Suzuka, who warns the Shinonome to be careful of Takahisa since something was wrong with him. Suddenly, Takahisa puts Kaya at gunpoint much to everyone's shock, and before they can take action, Takahisa pulls the trigger on himself. Initially alarming the Shinonome, it turns out that he was just tricking everyone into gaining an advantage over Benedict, much to their relief. Angering Benedict, he turns the tables on them by summoning Irina, who stabs and shoots Bakuto multiple times. While Bakuto is on the brink of death, he makes his final wishes despite Yuto holding onto him and pleading for him to stay alive. To prevent the unwanted situation, Kaya ends up using her Jingi to resuscitate Bakuto. Though the Shinonome are unsure of what Kaya had done, they focus on defeating of PHOENIX.

Afterwards, the Shinonome defeats the rest of the PHOENIX members, leading to Benedict withdrawing with Maria and Irina. At last, the conflict finally settles and cherry blossoms promptly begin to scatter due to Kaya's Jingi. The Shinonome are finally able to have a moment of peace under the view and return home. In the ending, they all take a picture beneath the falling cherry blossoms per Seigo's request of commemorating their new 'family members'.

## Gallery

### Illustrations

* Promotional Art
* Twitter Art
* Manga
* Miscellaneous

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### Cast

* Promotional Images
* 1st Stage
* 2nd Stage
* Other Media

1st Stage2nd Stage

CD Journal - Winter 2021 Issueanimate Times - April 2021 Interview
## Etymology

* **Kirimiya** (桐宮) can be split into two parts; **Kiri** (桐) is the name for the "Paulownia tomentosa", also known as the paulownia tree. **Miya** (宮) translates to "shrine" or "palace".
* **Yuto** (ユウト) is written in katakana and is therefore not associated with any kanji.

## Trivia

* The manga and second stage play shows that he can drive a car.

## References

* Official Website Profile

1. ↑ Yuto's Twitter Overview