His is an employee of the Sugimoto family, and is Yasuko&#039;s personal driver.     Fumi assumes that he is Yasuko&#039;s father only to be surprised that he is actually a member of her family&#039;s staff. 

Fumi and Akira were close childhood friends until Fumi had to move away. Ten years after losing touch with each other, the two girls meet again as high school freshmen. The two struggle to reconnect after so much has changed, and both deal with the trials and tribulations of high school &mdash; sometimes independently and sometimes with each other&rsquo;s help. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

__Birth place:__ Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
__Interests:__ Sports (ball games), Child care, Horse racing

Nobuaki Kanemitsu is a Japanese voice actor who was affiliated with 81 Produce and provides voices for the Japanese version of Thomas & Friends. He is well known for voicing in various animes and cartoons, such as "Digimon" and "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", but he is best known for voicing Milo from "Fish Hooks" and Nathan and Masaji Kato from the "Shadow Hearts" game series. He also took over the role of Oyajide from "Ojamajo Doremi" following Ginzo Matsuo's death. 

Fumi and Akira were best friends when they were little, with Akira always looking after the crybaby Fumi, but that all ended when Fumi's family moved away. Several years later, Fumi's family returned, and she and Akira happened to bump into each other on their way to school. They became friends again, quickly slipping back into old patterns. Shortly after, Fumi began dating a cool, attractive upperclassman who, coincidentally enough, had ties to Akira's current school, the prestigious Fujigaya Girls' Academy. 
(Source: Lililicious; updated from an early misreading of the school name Fujigaya, called Fujigatani in initial translations of the first chapters)
 
Note: Includes 10 extras chapters from the volumes.

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