Taiyō Mitsuboshi

* Anime
* Manga

**Taiyō Mitsuboshi** (三星 太陽 *Mitsuboshi Taiyō*) is Satō Matsuzaka's coworker whom he first met at **Princess Imperial**, but he soon quit due to getting raped by his manager and he later works at Cure á Cute, which coincidentally is where Satō works and he slowly tries to relieve his fear of older women.

## Appearance

Many girls consider Mitsuboshi attractive with short blonde hair that has two red hairclips on the right side and blue eyes.

He is seen wearing two different outfits:

* When he is not at work, he usually wears his school uniform which consists of a white dress shirt, a red necktie, black pants and shoes and a green blazer with a purple, plaid collar.
* At home, he wears a T-shirt and sweatpants.

## Personality

In the beginning, Mitsuboshi was a polite and helpful young man, showing Satō Matsuzaka what to do on her first day of work. He was quick to fall for Satou and confessed to her a day later, but he was rejected immediately.

However, after the assault at **Princess Imperial**, Mitsuboshi became unstable and paranoid of adult women as he tries to publicly maintain the same polite demeanor he had before, but he quickly succumbs his fear when he confronts with older women. It wasn't until he stumbled across a missing poster of Shio Kōbe that he decided to face his fear of older women. Because of Shio's cuteness and small stature, Mitsuboshi became obsessed over Shio with the premonition that she could cleanse his soul.

## Background

Not much is known about Mitsuboshi's past, but his mother deeply cares for him to the point where Shōko Hida commented that "It would be nice if Shōko could have a normal family like [Taiyou's]". When Satō Matsuzaka first began to work at Princess Imperial, Mitsuboshi admired her diligence and how she was quick to understand what to do, despite it being her first day of work. He confessed to her the next day, but got rejected almost immediately. Many girls think that he is very good-looking at work, commenting on how they couldn't believe that Satō rejected him and that the person she is with must be far better looking than Taiyou. Out of jealousy towards the attention Satō garnered from Mitsuboshi and other employees, the manager of Princess Imperial coerced Mitsuboshi into her office raped him, tied and gagged in her office closet for several days. It wasn't until Satō confronted the manager about her low pay and blackmailed her with video evidence of her confessing to raping a minor that Taiyou was finally released.

After being raped by the Princess Imperial manager, he begins to perceive himself as "dirty" and incapable of being cleansed. Soon however, he encounters a missing flyer of Shio Kōbe, and from then on he became obsessed with her, delegating her as an angel who can cleanse his soul. He even begins pile stocking her missing flyers all over his bedroom. His obsession intensified after encountering Shio one night in the city, believing that he was slowly becoming pure from Shio's interaction with him, to the point where he attempted to take her home and keep her to himself.

Later on, he discovers that Satō is holding Shio in her apartment and meets with Satō in order to discuss how to get rid of Asahi Kōbe, incentive by being able to meet Shio if he successfully gets rid of him. Consequently, he becomes Shio's self-proclaimed "Knight" and tries to deal with Asahi for Shio's sake.

When Mitsuboshi discovers Satō's apartment address, he deliberately goes against Asahi's orders, and tries to take Shio for himself. Racing towards the apartment, he finds that it was locked. While trying to desperately open it, Satō's Aunt arrives, carrying a container of gasoline, and she notices him trying to open the door. She offers to open it for him, which he foolishly permits, only to realize too late that Satō's Aunt tricked him and proceeded to rape him. While tied up, Mitsuboshi is able to answer his cellphone when Asahi was calling him, irritated at having to wait for a long time to hear back from him. Mitsuboshi begs him to save him, but Asahi refuses, citing the many times he lied to him, and so Asahi leaves him to his fate.

In the manga, he is seen last running out of his house, with his mother calling after him to come back. It is unclear whether he knows Shio is alive, but he was smiling at his embarrassed mother, saying, "It's ok." and that he is cleaned.

At the end of the anime's closing credits, Mitsuboshi is shown on his knees in his room, defeated and shocked to what has happened. In the anime, it is never revealed if he gets better or stays in his current distorted state forever.

## Relationships

### Satō Matsuzaka

Satō and Mitsuboshi were shown to be good friends before he meets Shio Kōbe in person. After this, Satō shows no restraint towards him and offers a deal that if he helps her get rid of a threat, she will let him see Shio again. Of course, because of his trauma and obsessive nature he agrees and he becomes an accomplice. In the final episode, Taiyō, after being assaulted by Satō's Aunt and escapes the fire, he calls out for help and for Shio, but Satō ignores him, meaning that Satō no longer cared for him.

### Shio Kōbe

Sometime after Shio escapes from the apartment room searching for Satō Matsuzaka, she is met by Mitsuboshi. Realizing that this would probably be his only chance of being in proximity with Shio, Mitsuboshi begs her to "kiss his boo boo and make it go away." After Shio lightly pats him on the head a few times, Mitsuboshi contemplates bringing her to his house so that he could touch her after she had purified him. As he was going to leave with Shio, the two thugs that he faced yesterday return and deliver a punch to his face that sends him flying. They then proceed to pulverize him, causing Shio to have a psychological breakdown. Satō arrives and severely beats the thugs before taking Shio. This is the first and last direct interaction between them.

After that night, He begins collecting missing flyers of Shio and becomes obsessed with Shio "purifying" him. During the end credits, Mitsuboshi is shown emotionless while looking at Shio's missing person reports, broken at how he had failed to retrieve "his angel."

### Asahi Kōbe

Mitsuboshi shows care for Asahi when he saves Asahi after he gets beaten up by two thugs and brought him back to Cure á Cute to help him. However, their friendliness soon fades once Mitsuboshi becomes obsessed with Shio Kōbe and begins withholding information about Shio (because Satō Matsuzaka manipulated him) for his own benefit. Asahi suspects Mitsuboshi is not being honest and begins to resent Mitsuboshi, liking him to adults whom he believed were untrustworthy. Mitsuboshi later lies to Asahi that Satō and Shio already left, showing him Shio's sock as proof, and to leave town to follow them.

When the apartment is burning, Mitsuboshi calls out to Asahi for help, but Asahi ignores him because of his betrayal.

### Satō's Aunt

Satō's Aunt rapes Mitsuboshi when he unintentionally enters her apartment (believing that it was Satō Matsuzaka's apartment), leaving him emotionally broken.

## Etymology

* The name **Taiyō** means "sun, solar" (太陽).
* Taiyou's surname **Mitsuboshi** mean "three" (三) (**mitsu**) and "star" (星) (**hoshi**/**boshi**).

## Trivia

* Mitsuboshi's fate is different in Episode 11.
	+ In the anime version, Mitsuboshi enters into the room with little issue only to realize that it was the wrong room where he then realizes that Satō Matsuzaka's aunt was standing in the door frame and he is presumably raped.
* In the non-canon one-shot chapter of Happy Sugar Life entitled "White Sugar Garden, Black Salt Cage", Mitsuboshi bears many similarities in appearance to the character named **Kiiya**, but the only difference between their looks is how their hairclips are positioned:
	+ Kiiya has three hairclips on the left side of his head.
	+ Taiyou has two hairclips on the right side of his head.
		- Taiyō's Mother wears a very similar set of hairclips.
* The anime director considered Mitsuboshi to be the best character for any funny scenes.

## Gallery

### Manga

Satō Matsuzaka's aunt tricking Mitsuboshi
### Anime

Close up of Mitsuboshi's faceThe Princess Imperial Manager assaulting MitsuboshiMitsuboshi flustered that Shio Kōbe is standing right in front of himMitsuboshi attempting to take Shio with him