Shuuji is a professor at a Tokyo art university, and Hagumi&#039;s overprotective cousin. Growing up together, Shuuji was the only real father figure Hagu had, and he took to his role, becoming highly devoted to making sure Hagu was happy, and taking pride in her amazing artistic talent. As for his teaching, Shuuji used to be a student at the college, and although he wasn&#039;t a talented artist at all, his talented friends and roomates, Rika and Harada, always came to him for help with their classwork. Shuuji is a wise man, able to give out good advice when he&#039;s called upon, but also becomes quite nervous at times and stutters.

Rei Kiriyama is a child prodigy. Rei Kiriyama is also an orphan who lives alone in an empty apartment. Rei Kiriyama is a teen working in an adult's world. Life is complicated for Rei. He's an up-and-coming shogi player on the verge of turning pro, but he has no homelife, or much of a life period,outside his board game, but thankfully with the help of some life-long friends he has an opportunity start all over again.
 
(Source: DENPA)
 
Notes: 
- Winner of the Grand Prize at the 4th Manga Taishou Award in 2011. 
- Winner of the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in 2011. 
- Winner of the Grand Prize at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2014. 
- Winner of the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2021.

Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi, and Morita Shinobu are college students who share the small apartment. Even though they live in poverty, the three of them are able to obtain pleasure through small things in life. The story follows these characters' life stories as poor college students, as well as their love lives when a short but talented 18 year old girl called Hanamoto Hagumi appears.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

__Height:__ 175 cm (5'9")

Keiji Fujiwara was a Japanese actor and voice actor.

Even though he was born in Tokyo, he spent the majority of his childhood in Iwate Prefecture. In high school, he handled vocals in a band he formed with his friend Kotaro Furuichi, future guitarist of rock band The Collectors.

At around 18 years of age, he moved back to Tokyo on his own and joined the Bungakuza acting school. He spent the 1980s performing in several theater troupes while working odd jobs. Fujiwara was introduced to his first voice acting agency, Ken Production, in the early 1990s. The first TV anime in which he appeared as a regular was [Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi](https://anilist.co/anime/970/), but his breakout role was [Hiroshi Nohara](https://anilist.co/character/33466/) in [Crayon Shin-chan](https://anilist.co/anime/966/).

In November 2006, he left Ken Production and founded his own agency, Air Agency. Aside from talent management, the company went on to release original drama and situation CDs through its child company Air Label, as well as produce live events. In 2010, Fujiwara made his own sound directorial debut in Kakkokawaii Sengen.

In August 2016, Air Agency announced that he was going on hiatus in order to undergo medical treatment for a then-unspecified illness. He officially resumed work in June 2017. On April 16, 2020, Air Agency announced that Fujiwara had passed away due to cancer on April 12, 2020.

__Trivia:__
- He was a regular lecturer at the Japan Newart College since 2008
- In the live action field, he was most known for dubbing actor Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark.

(Source: Wikipedia)

The sequel and final installment to the highly popular series once again delves into the life stories and love lives of Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi and Morita Shinobu. The story continues where the first season left off, after Takemoto's self-discovery journey around Japan. Of course, the love triangles and tribulations they face will continue, and eventually decide the paths to their future.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Takemoto lives in a run down student apartment, where his greatest worry is when he'll next be able to afford to eat meat and whether he'll get to class on time. Although he's away from home and living on his own, Takemoto is far from finished growing up. Along with his crazy cast of friends, Morita, Mayama, Yamada, and Hagumi, Takemoto sets out to discover life and his true self.
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 
Notes: 
- Won the the 27th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 2003. 
- Chapter count includes 11 extra chapters.

Two side stories: 
Chapter L (or chapter 25) about Lohmeyer/Romaiya sempai. 
Chapter F (or chapter 26) about Miwako finding ways to make fun of Yamazaki. 
(Source: momento)

Shuuji Hanamoto