Asahi Kashiwagi

**Asahi Kashiwagi** (柏樹 朝, *Kashiwagi Asahi*?) is the main protagonist of Renai Flops. He is an ordinary high school boy who can be found anywhere. One day, however, he suddenly finds himself caught in a love storm with five girls.

## Appearance

Asahi is an average looking man with chambray (blue's shade) hair and little deep blue eyes.

## Personality

Asahi is a person who doesn't believe in superstitions or illogical things like fate or future teller as shown in the very first episode where he was ignorant to the fortune teller's statements. He doesn't like to meddle in other's business but if the situation calls it serious, he'll not be laid back to help. At first, he was against choosing a bride among the five girls showing that he doesn't want to involve in unnecessary trouble. He can hurt others' feelings when the situation comes right off the bat but he is kind and considerate. After giving some thought, he agrees to live with his bride candidates and warned them not to cause trouble for him. Due to his kind and considerate nature, his bride candidates fall in love with him and earnestly want to gain his attention.

He is also a lucky pervert who tends to get engulfed in perverted situations. His first meeting with the girls was itself very perverted, enough to create many misunderstandings. He is well-educated and is slow to anger, but will respond with the same emotions or tone, most of the time if the girl goes overboard or clingy too much.

## Background

Asahi is a normal high school student studying at St. Orifanus Academy. One day, a fortune teller in a broadcast tells that he'll have five encounters that would change his life. Ignoring it, he goes to the academy only to find the things that the fortune teller told on the TV become true. He meets the five persons who happen to be his classmates and teachers. He would later find that the five persons are his bride candidates arranged by his father who went to get milk but never came back.

## Plot

In his dreams, Asahi saw a mysterious girl and chases her only to wake up from his dream. While having his breakfast, Asahi watches the fortune teller's show on TV. The fortune teller says this future is for those born on October 8, which happens to be Asahi's birthday. The teller says six words, Corner, Train, Staircase, Cleaning Robot, Dog, and Letter. Asahi thought it was fake. Loverin, his AI robot told him to hurry up for school.

On his way, he watches time and finds out it was still early. Then he run into a girl in a "corner", she apologized and ran away out of embarrassment. Asahi picked up the panties which Aoi dropped and it was wrapped. He did not open it and thought it was a handkerchief. He then rushes to the train station and aboard an empty "train". A woman just came in and sit near him. He wonders if she chose the seat near him when the full train was empty. She was half asleep and started to lean against him and when he tried to separate her from him, he mistakenly groped her breasts, and out of reflex, she attacked him with a full-speed kick. Though he luckily escaped and run while apologizing. He then came across some "staircase" and start to remember the past events but shrugged this off as a coincidence. He stepped down the stairs and a yellow-haired girl tripped over the stairs and fell over Asahi. When she notices she is over him and sees his banana's case and mistook it as got a boner and called him a pervert and hit the "spot" and runs away from the scene leaving behind knocked Asahi. On his way to school, he reached a garden. Then a "cleaning robot" came to him and Asahi notices it has caught a bra with enlargement pads then a red-haired girl came and accused of him too controlling the robot and stealing her bra. Asahi denies this and the robot caught the girl's clothes hem and tried to take away her panties. She called Asahi and asked him to stop the robot but Asahi refutes this with reasoning. To avoid the situation, the girl ran away while Asahi goes on his way only to find a dog is *thirsting* over the grey haired boy. He asked Asahi to help him but decided to ignore it. Then the dog sees Asahi and *attacked* him. He got unconscious. He woke up when some kindergarten kids poked him in his face. He sees the time and finds that he is late and rushed over to the academy.

He sneaks into his class only to find seats have changed and the five persons he met so far are in his class. This made him awkward to see them head-on. The four of them were transfer students from different countries and so do the homeroom When the teacher notices Asahi and calls out to him. Asahi was left with no choice but to see straight and made a funny face. At first, the girls didn't notice him but as soon as his face reverts to normal, the girls remember him, and Marin and Amelia slapped him in his face. On break, Yoshio became curious about Asahi's situation. During P.E. class, Yoshio explains the traits of the five girls and asked whether one of them is his type. Asahi is afraid to talk about it since he thought they might hate him. So, Yoshio advised him to clear up the misunderstandings. Asahi goes to his locker and finds a letter from someone about meeting up near the cherry blossom tree.

On his way he came across Aoi again but didn't bump into each other this time. She asks him whether he has "something" from the time they first met. Asahi realizing this searches his pocket and brings out the bra which he picked up the time he met Amelia. Angry and embarrassed by this, Aoi slapped him. In the cafeteria, he met Marina who gave him the banana since the food machine was out of food. This cleared up the misunderstanding and thanked him heartily. He then takes a vending machine in the campus area and witnesses Ilya getting chased by the same dogs as before.He rushes over to Asahi and asks for his help.Then the dogs bit him instead of Ilya.Ilya deeply thanked him while Asahi asked him to be more careful. Holding his left hand that was bitten by the dogs, he goes to his class. His homeroom teacher, Mongfa notices and took him to the infirmary. She gave him proper treatment. Bai asks what she needs but Amelia says she can manage it on her own and so Mongfa leaves the room. Amelia asks Asahi for adhesive bandages. Asahi decides to lend her his help and Amelia says she is chafing around her chest. Realizing what she meant, Asahi returned the bra while Amelia lashed him by calling him a pervert. But Asahi denies it. Amelia says she knows and gives him thanks.

Yoshio asks Asahi whether he cleared the misunderstandings or not. Asahi tells him he did but one got worse. He then sees a letter under his desk. to return the panties while Aoi confesses her love for him which shocked and surprised him.

## Relationships

### Bride Candidates

Asahi has a rocky relationship with them when he first met them respectively, and all of them lead to some misunderstandings. Asahi thought they might hate him but the candidates seemed to be just angry and when Asahi clears up the misunderstandings, everyone deeply thanked him for helping them out. The candidates are deeply in love with him and try their best to gain his attention and sometimes can go overboard, at best, invading his privacy.

### Friends

* **Yoshio Ijuuin**: His self-proclaimed friend.

## Etymology

* The name **Asahi** means "morning" (朝).
* Asahi's surname **Kashiwagi** means "oak tree" (柏樹).