__Height__: 179 cm

A 24 year old man with a star-shaped head. Therefore he is simply named &#039;Hoshi&#039; by the village chief. Hoshi is an artist who often performs with his guitar near the riverbank. He is also a heavy chain smoker and  considers Riku as his rival (mostly for Nino&#039;s love).     

~!He seems to wear a star mask in order to hide his face and shame, because of his failed music career. He only ever wanted to sing his own songs written by him, but they were always turned down. He went to the riverbank to play songs written by himself. There he met and fell in love with Nino when she told him she liked his songs.!~

Ko Ichinomiya's family motto is "Never be indebted to anyone," but after losing his pants and falling into the Arakawa River, he quickly finds himself in debt to his savior, the cutely insane Nino (who happens to live under the bridge). To repay her, he vows to help her with her desire to "experience love." Along the way he'll meet the river's other residents, including a hot-blooded kappa, a Sister in drag, and a literal rock star. Sorry, Ko—when you fell into that river, I guess you really got in over your head! 
(Source: NIS America)

__Height:__ 178 cm (5'10'')

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In the dry riverbed of Arakawa River, undefeated elite Ichinomiya Kou (aka Ric) met the lovely homeless girl Nino, a self-declared Venusian. Their awkward love stirs up trouble among the other strange inhabitants of the riverbed.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Kou Ichinomiya, a young man born with a silver spoon in his mouth and raised with the mantra “never owe anyone” suddenly finds himself deeply indebted to a young homeless woman, Nino, who lives on the Arakawa river bank and claims to originally be from the planet Venus. When Nino rejects all of Kou’s mundane offers of money or housing, Kou is at a loss for how to repay his debt, until Nino suddenly asks him to teach her about love. A daunting task, but the over-achieving Kou is determined to return Nino’s favor. And so begins Kou’s life under the bridge, along with a band of eccentric characters who have formed their own little community outside the boundaries of typical Tokyoite life…
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)