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Character Info
◎ Character's Name: Izumi Miyamura (though to remain consistent with the manga, I will be referring to him by his last name from hereon in!)
◎ Character's Canon: Horimiya
◎ Character's Age: 17
◎ Canon Point: ch.10
◎ Background/History: Miyamura’s world is, thus far, no different from ours. The manga itself is classified as “school life/slice of life,” and focuses on the daily shenanigans and love lives of four seniors in high school. Despite the “shounen” status, there are no epic life-or-death battles with level ups and final bosses.
The manga’s two main protagonists are Miyamura Izumi and Hori Kyouko, both average teenagers whose alter egos are that of slightly less-than-average teenagers. Miyamura, despite his shady looks and withdrawn demeanor, is actually a warm and friendly boy that just so happens to be covered in piercings and tattoos. And Hori, for all her Miss Perfect persona in school portrays, is actually a busy homebody who has no real clue what it’s like to be an actual teenager because she’s too busy being a second mother to her younger brother. Both these sides of themselves they try hard to hide from others, afraid of their peers’ reactions and any potential backlash that such reveals might incur.
Despite this, Hori and Miyamura accidentally discover each other’s “secret lives” and, as a result, have been able to open their worlds up a little more, feeling safe and comfortable and themselves around each other.
For Miyamura, specifically, the manga focuses on his growth in terms of friendship. So far, the more romantic elements do not seem to be all that important to Miyamura. Instead, it is the fact that he has been able to finally find and be accepted by some of his peers that becomes the highlight of this journey for him. A simple boy of a simple family (his father owns a bakery and it is not yet revealed what his mother does), Miyamura has spent his entire life in the shadows. Naturally very quiet and withdrawn, this personality has only further alienated him from his classmates, and in his loneliness, he tried to cope with it all on his own.
A flashback in chapter ten shows young Miyamura looking sad and alone while his classmates whispered about him and ostracized him. This continued on through his middle school years, when he first pierced his ear using a safety pin, all the while thinking things like, “I don’t want to be a hindrance… School life is so hard… I really don’t know how to deal with these things…” Somewhere between then and his last year in high school, he’d also taken to tattooing the left side of his body.
He has come a long way from the quiet little boy that no one would talk to. Granted, he’s still quiet, still keeps to himself, and still has a habit of attracting gossip and whispers… but now he has actual friends. He has people that care enough about him to visit him when he’s sick, to call him by his first name, to recommend music and television shows to, and to automatically choose him for a groupmate in class. He might even, possibly, have someone he really likes…?!
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense?not even a little bit
◎ Personality:
◎ Powers/Abilities:
As a regular human, Miyamura possesses no actual supernatural or superhuman abilities. He is, however, athletic enough to the point of being able to sprint at a considerable speed and leap over a fence wall in one bound, and play ping pong for hours without getting tired.
He seems to also possess a strange immunity to pain when particularly angry. There were two instances in which he’d ignored and/or made no reaction to physical pain (in one, he’d rammed his forehead into another guy’s and in another, he was punched in the face and returned the attack thrice-fold) because he’d been “pissed” or “somewhat annoyed.” Given his history, it stands to reason that he can withstand some pain… However, it is interesting to note that this resilience seems to be purely situational and/or dependent on his mood. He hardly batted an eyelash when he’d headbutted the school council president, but when Hori flicked his forehead, he’d doubled over and trembled from the pain.
Also he’s a pretty good baker.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory: his school bag, an apron, and a single hair tie.
CEREALIA-Specific
◎ Element: air | as if a natural airhead could be associated with any other element…
◎ Sense: taste | due to his background in helping his parents’ bakery, Miyamura has had a natural knack for cooking and baking. Thus, he would have to possess some pretty decent taste buds.
◎ Seven Character Traits:
( + ) considerate, helpful, passionate
( - ) spineless, resigned, violent
( +/- ) reserved
◎ Character's Name: Izumi Miyamura (though to remain consistent with the manga, I will be referring to him by his last name from hereon in!)
◎ Character's Canon: Horimiya
◎ Character's Age: 17
◎ Canon Point: ch.10
◎ Background/History: Miyamura’s world is, thus far, no different from ours. The manga itself is classified as “school life/slice of life,” and focuses on the daily shenanigans and love lives of four seniors in high school. Despite the “shounen” status, there are no epic life-or-death battles with level ups and final bosses.
The manga’s two main protagonists are Miyamura Izumi and Hori Kyouko, both average teenagers whose alter egos are that of slightly less-than-average teenagers. Miyamura, despite his shady looks and withdrawn demeanor, is actually a warm and friendly boy that just so happens to be covered in piercings and tattoos. And Hori, for all her Miss Perfect persona in school portrays, is actually a busy homebody who has no real clue what it’s like to be an actual teenager because she’s too busy being a second mother to her younger brother. Both these sides of themselves they try hard to hide from others, afraid of their peers’ reactions and any potential backlash that such reveals might incur.
Despite this, Hori and Miyamura accidentally discover each other’s “secret lives” and, as a result, have been able to open their worlds up a little more, feeling safe and comfortable and themselves around each other.
For Miyamura, specifically, the manga focuses on his growth in terms of friendship. So far, the more romantic elements do not seem to be all that important to Miyamura. Instead, it is the fact that he has been able to finally find and be accepted by some of his peers that becomes the highlight of this journey for him. A simple boy of a simple family (his father owns a bakery and it is not yet revealed what his mother does), Miyamura has spent his entire life in the shadows. Naturally very quiet and withdrawn, this personality has only further alienated him from his classmates, and in his loneliness, he tried to cope with it all on his own.
A flashback in chapter ten shows young Miyamura looking sad and alone while his classmates whispered about him and ostracized him. This continued on through his middle school years, when he first pierced his ear using a safety pin, all the while thinking things like, “I don’t want to be a hindrance… School life is so hard… I really don’t know how to deal with these things…” Somewhere between then and his last year in high school, he’d also taken to tattooing the left side of his body.
He has come a long way from the quiet little boy that no one would talk to. Granted, he’s still quiet, still keeps to himself, and still has a habit of attracting gossip and whispers… but now he has actual friends. He has people that care enough about him to visit him when he’s sick, to call him by his first name, to recommend music and television shows to, and to automatically choose him for a groupmate in class. He might even, possibly, have someone he really likes…?!
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense?not even a little bit
◎ Personality:
❝ A guy who looks bland, but is very strong?! ❞
The overall premise of Horimiya plays on the issue of duality. The two main characters each have a side to their personality that is hidden away from the rest of the world. For Miyamura, the side that only a select handful of people get to see differs greatly from the side that everyone tends to attribute to him. Very often (99.9% of the time), the first impression Miyamura makes ends with the other party walking away, muttering to themselves about the strange, creepy boy as if he weren’t just within earshot of them to hear it all. Now to be fair, it’s not difficult to make these assumptions about Miyamura. He is usually very quiet and withdrawn, curling into himself and into the shadows where he is more often left ignored and forgotten. Flashbacks to his childhood (as early as his elementary school years) show him as a very introverted child whose general appearance of “shadiness” (that is, his long hair, his gloomy/downcast expression) puts off many of his peers to the point where they will either forget he exists or scorn him for it. This trend continues on well into his high school years, where even as a senior he is still spoken about with a general air of wariness. Is he a creep or is he an otaku? He’s so quiet, and he looks so shady, and he never says anything to correct anybody, so he must be, right?
Wrong.
In actuality, Miyamura is a relatively kind and gentle soul whose consideration for other people and their feelings takes priority over his own. He is thoughtful enough to escort a young child home after finding him wandering around with a bloody nose, kind enough to cook and bake and continue to be a lingering presence in the child’s life after the child himself expresses a fondness for him, and considerate enough to insist on not being an inconvenience to the family despite it all. To his friends (even before he fully realized they were actually his friends), he is also a constant, comforting presence, ready to offer what help he can (which is admittedly rather limited). He’d even dash off right after school to get in line during a crazy grocery market sale just to get some eggs at the behest of a girl he’d only just met and started to get along with. (Shh, that’s a scary and traumatic experience, okay!!)
…that said, it’s sometimes the case that his attempts to avoid making someone feel bad usually deal with him saying something to make that person feel bad in the first place, aka that pesky foot-in-mouth disease.
Of course, Miyamura’s strength isn’t in just his heart. Physically, Miyamura has also proven to be fairly exceptional, to the point of being able to withstand a certain degree of pain (and cause it himself). Despite his slim physique and general air of fragility, he excels in physical education and health, and has been shown on numerous occasions to be quite physically fit. He is no weakling by a longshot, with an almost knee-jerk reaction to extreme violence when threatened, annoyed, or angry.
In truth, Miyamura is far from being plain and boring. Hidden away from most everyone else are a total of nine piercings and four large body tattoos. It is only when he is out of school, away from most of his peers that he “lets his hair down” (though not literally, since usually the opposite is the case), dressing in a way that suggests he has a wilder, if not more relaxed, personality.❝ Personality: Natural Airhead ❞
Continuing on the subject of deceptive appearances, Miyamura has also been mistaken for being one of those quiet geniuses or “otakus”… purely because he’s so quiet and he wears glasses. On the contrary, Miyamura’s grades are “subtle” – that is, as average and inconspicuous as he is. When it comes to common sense and street smarts, Miyamura is pretty hopeless, too. He’s almost painfully gullible, readily accepting the ruse Ishikawa had hastily made up that Miyamura was experience “menstrual cramps” so he wouldn’t have to change out of his uniform in front of the other boys (and therefore exposing his tattoos). He believes in curses, can get scared pretty easily (at least, more easily than Hori), and has awful memory, able to forget something as significant as deciding to call a close friend by his first name (a less formal way of addressing someone that would imply a closeness) the day after it had just happened.
He has a pretty bad case of social awkwardness that can be attributed to the fact that for a good portion of his life, he hadn’t actually had anyone. He’d spent most of his life in school ostracized by his peers, forcing him to keep to himself. He has a mother and a father that, for the most part, seem fairly uninvolved with his private life (though not to the point of neglect), so most of his time is spent actually spent helping his family’s bakery. It’s only very recently that his little world had begun to expand to include a few other people he could actually call his friends. In that, he’s slowly but surely learning to let people in, and let others see him for who he really is… and that who he really is, is okay.❝ You really are very weird. ❞
Sor—
❝ You’re weird… but I don’t hate that. Understand, Izumi? ❞
That’s okay. That’s what I want to say to myself ten years ago.
That’s okay.
◎ Powers/Abilities:
He seems to also possess a strange immunity to pain when particularly angry. There were two instances in which he’d ignored and/or made no reaction to physical pain (in one, he’d rammed his forehead into another guy’s and in another, he was punched in the face and returned the attack thrice-fold) because he’d been “pissed” or “somewhat annoyed.” Given his history, it stands to reason that he can withstand some pain… However, it is interesting to note that this resilience seems to be purely situational and/or dependent on his mood. He hardly batted an eyelash when he’d headbutted the school council president, but when Hori flicked his forehead, he’d doubled over and trembled from the pain.
Also he’s a pretty good baker.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory: his school bag, an apron, and a single hair tie.
CEREALIA-Specific
◎ Element: air | as if a natural airhead could be associated with any other element…
◎ Sense: taste | due to his background in helping his parents’ bakery, Miyamura has had a natural knack for cooking and baking. Thus, he would have to possess some pretty decent taste buds.
◎ Seven Character Traits:
( + ) considerate, helpful, passionate
( - ) spineless, resigned, violent
( +/- ) reserved