Blend S is a four-panel comic currently being serialized in Manga Time Kirara Carat. The story revolves around the hectic lives of young boys and girls who work at the Stile cafe, a maid-like establishment where each girl serves customers while playing the role of a certain character. The anime was broadcast in the fall of 2017 and ran for one season. This time, we'll introduce the charms of Dino, the manager of Stile.
Who is Dino?!
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Age 26. Born in Italy, tall with blonde hair and droopy eyes. He is the person who established the coffee shop Stile and currently works as the owner and manager. He is a serious otaku and loves beautiful anime and figures. He is very laid-back and not serious about his work. Because of this, he is often scolded by Akizuki and Madou. It seems that he scouts women who can play his attributes when he sees them on the street.
Dino is a tall, blonde, handsome man
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Dino is from Italy, and is 188cm tall with blonde hair and droopy eyes. He is a very clean-cut handsome man who is popular with women. While shopping for strawberries with Ichigoka at a supermarket, Ichigoka and a small child reach for the strawberry they finally find. Ichigoka has a mean look in her eyes, and the small child becomes scared and starts crying. Dino gently calls out to her, winning the hearts of the small child and his mother and getting them to give him the strawberry. Dino is usually unreliable, but his gentlemanly response is as expected.
Dino is a serious otaku
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Dino is a serious otaku who loves Japanese anime, especially anime with beautiful girls. His hobbies are watching late-night anime and collecting beautiful boy figures and otaku goods. The dog's owner, who lives with Dino, takes advantage of this situation and holds the figure hostage, forcing Dino, who refuses to take him for walks, to go for walks. It's really nice to see Dino care so much about the figure!!
Is Dino a bad example of what not to do when slacking off at work?
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Dino works as the owner and manager of Stile, but he is dishonest with his work and does things at his own pace. He sometimes puts his own will first, abandons work and goes out somewhere, becomes unable to concentrate on work when he is depressed, and loses sight of his surroundings when it comes to Ichigo. At Stile, she is known as a bad example of what not to do, and the staff is made to think about it every day. But it's good to be able to put your own will first!!
Dino is a wimpy guy
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Dino is a handsome guy with a gentlemanly demeanor, but he becomes a wimpy guy when it comes to the person he likes. Dino fell in love with Ichigoka at first sight and has tried to approach her many times, but when the time comes he becomes a wimp and is unable to express his feelings. Even when he tries to approach Ichigoka with a desperate determination, he ends up spinning his wheels, making Ichigoka angry and confused. This wimpiness is also part of Dino's charm.
Dino gets nosebleeds when he gets excited!!
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Dino likes Ichigo and is always approaching her. However, Ichigo is naive and doesn't notice, and she acts and speaks in a way that makes Dino happy, causing Dino to spurt out a nosebleed. When they went shopping for swimsuits together, Ichigoka chose a pareo-type swimsuit, but the natural Ichigoka revealed that she was wearing a swimsuit underneath the pareo, causing Dino to get a nosebleed and faint.
Dino is good at snowboarding
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When the Stile staff went on a ski trip, Ichigoka was captivated by a person who was gliding along on a snowboard with an illustration of a beautiful girl character on it, and that person was Dino. Ichigoka was looked upon with respect by Dino, who was gliding along coolly, and the other staff were surprised. He's handsome and good at snowboarding, isn't he? It's unfair! !
Dino is a gentleman to women
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As expected of a Spanish man, Dino is very gentlemanly to women. Unlike Dino, who is always weak to Ichigo, he is very clean and sometimes talks to women in a gentlemanly manner. Dino was explaining the store to some high school girls in front of the store, and they cheered him on. Akizuki got annoyed and kicked Dino. Gentlemen are great, aren't they?
Dino loves Ichigoka
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Dino fell in love at first sight with Ichigoka, whom he met at the station. Since then, ever since Ichigoka started working at Stile, Dino has been approaching her almost every day. Dino is usually bright and playful when he approaches her, but when the Stile staff went to the beach, he showed his manly side by carrying Ichigoka in his arms like a princess and administering first aid when she injured her leg. This was because he likes Ichigoka so much that he was so desperate.
Dino is an attribute girl detector
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Most of the girls working at Stile are scouts from Dino. Madou ignored Dino when he called out to her, but he was forced into the store and started working there. Ichigoka wouldn't have worked at Stile if Dino hadn't met her at the station. Dino has discovered girls with various attributes, but he himself says that his powers have weakened since Ichigo.
Dino's voice actor is Maeno Tomoaki
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The voice actor who plays Dino is Maeno Tomoaki. His most well-known works include Amagami (Tachibana Junichi), Sukitte Ii na yo (Takemura Kai), and Net-juu no Susume (Koiwai Homare). He is a veteran male voice actor who began working as an anime voice actor in 2002.
Summary of Dino's charm
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This time, we introduced the charm of Dino, the owner and manager of Stile. Dino is the main character of the story and is a character who has a deep connection with Ichigo. He is usually a free-spirited character, but he is reliable when the time comes and has a belief that he is devoted to Ichigo, so he is a character with many different faces. Let's look forward to seeing how the distance between Ichigo and her will develop in the future. That's all for now. Thank you for reading.
