Miyamura Izumi is in charge of the character "Miya" in the title of this work, "Horimiya." He is recognized in class as a plain and inconspicuous student (or maybe he isn't even recognized), but this is a perfect example of the saying that looks can be deceptive. Contrary to his plain appearance, in private he is quite flashy, and although his personality is generally gentle and kind, he can also be airheaded or violent, which is quite different from his appearance. So, in this article we will introduce Miyamura's character, including his quirky side!
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Miyamura's appearance is very different at school and in private
At school, Miyamura hides his ears with his long hair, wears fake glasses, and is a plain student in his class, but once he leaves school and is out in private, his appearance changes completely. His annoyingly long hair that used to hang over his face is pulled up, his face is clearly visible, and his ears are exposed, making him dress flashy. What stands out in particular is the number of piercings in both his ears and his mouth. He has a total of nine piercings, and when he first appears, his ears and mouth are connected by a chain. By the way, it seems that he pierced his own ears with safety pins when he was in middle school.
The reason why Miyamura always wears long sleeves
One of the reasons why Miyamura is treated as a weirdo at school is that he wears long sleeves all year round. Even in the middle of summer when everyone around him is wearing summer clothes, Miyamura continues to wear the same long-sleeved uniform he wears in winter. His classmates rumor that he is extremely sensitive to the cold, but the reason is to hide his tattoos... Miyamura's left side is covered with tattoos (which are currently increasing), and he has to endure wearing winter clothes all the time because his tattoos would be visible if he wore a dress shirt. His body has a normal metabolism, so in the summer he sweats while wearing winter clothes.
Miyamura is good at cooking but not so good at studying
There are four things that Miyamura and Hori-san immediately learned when they met. First, he got his earrings done himself in middle school. He was sometimes treated like an otaku in class, but he's not an otaku. His family runs a cake shop. And finally, his grades are not so good except in health and physical education. Of these, Hori-san was most surprised by his grades. He had a complicated look on his face, as his notion that "a quiet person who wears glasses can study well" was shattered. He was also a little put off when he got a perfect score in health and physical education for some reason (lol). Miyamura laughed when Souta said he didn't understand the high school student questions, but Hori-san scolded him, saying, "You can't laugh if you don't know the most basic of basics..."
The relationship between Miyamura and Tohru
Miyamura and Tohru later become best friends, but when they first met, Tohru was quite hostile towards Miyamura. Toru liked Hori-san from the beginning, and didn't like Miyamura's presence, who became close to Hori-san after sharing his secret. Even though they had hardly ever spoken, he timidly asked, "Are you dating...?" (It's typical of Toru to ask nervously without asking directly.) After that, he pressured Miyamura, who was not speaking clearly, by yelling, "Speak clearly!", but when Toru realized that he might like Hori-san, the positions were reversed. Miyamura kept making insensitive remarks, and Toru was thrown off balance and his heart was beating hard.
Miyamura reveals his tattoo to Toru that day
This was mentioned briefly in the synopsis introduction, but it is one of the strange points in this work. For some reason, Miyamura reveals the secret of his tattoo to Toru, who he had hardly become close to, even though they had just met for the first time. When Tohru asks Miyamura why he always wears winter clothes before gym class, he shows him his tattoo quite nonchalantly, but after this Miyamura basically keeps his tattoo a secret, even from close classmates. (Even after that, the only ones who know about it at school are Hori-san and Tohru.) I don't know why he revealed his secret so easily, but every time his tattoo secret is in danger of being revealed after this, Tohru comes to his rescue, so I think his decision at the time was ultimately the right one.
Miyamura's headbutt traumatizes Sengoku
Like Tohru, Sengoku also becomes close enough to stay over at his house, but the two meet in the worst possible way. Miyamura, angry at seeing Hori-san being blamed for the shortcomings of the student council's work, appears at the scene with the documents in hand, and before showing them the documents, he grabs Sengoku by the collar and headbutts him with all his might. Ignoring Sengoku, who is crying and staggering, Miyamura confronts him with the documents and the shortcomings of the student council, and the situation is resolved amicably with the student council apologizing. However, the trauma engraved in Sengoku's heart was hard to erase, and after that, when Miyamura greeted him normally in the morning, he would scream and say "Good morning!" in polite language for some reason.
Shindo, Miyamura's only friend in middle school
Until he got involved with Hori-san, Miyamura lived a gloomy life in high school, but there were times in middle school when things were even tougher than they are now. The only person who spoke to Miyamura and became his friend was his classmate, Shindo. Shindo was popular in class with a personality 180 degrees different from Miyamura's, but after picking up Miyamura's notebook and talking to him for a bit, he began to talk to Miyamura often. (Shindo was the one who got involved with Miyamura) The quiet and gloomy Miyamura would yell and swear in front of Shindo, and before he knew it, he had become a special person to him. When Miyamura entered high school, he thought they would go to the same school, but Shindo had good grades and went to a higher-ranked high school at his parents' urging, so they didn't have many opportunities to meet after that.
Reunited for the first time since becoming a high school student
The two hadn't seen each other for a while, but one day they met by chance in town. However, it seems that Shindo knew that Miyamura and Hori were close, and assumed that Hori was his girlfriend. Shindo listened to Miyamura's vague stories with a smile, but when he heard that "he seems to be confessed to a lot," he persuaded Miyamura with a desperate look on his face, saying, "You have to keep a woman's heart connected to you." Since their reunion on this day, the two have been hanging out more often, but in front of Shindo, unlike the "high school Miyamura," he shows his "old Miyamura," and his words and actions are quite violent, even surprising Hori-san. Miyamura is probably Miyamura's best friend, as he is a friend who is not considerate in a good way.
Miyamura completely blends into the Hori family
There is a term "parent-approved" for couples who are in a relationship, and Miyamura and Hori-san are exactly that... or even more so, and are very welcomed by their families. In particular, Miyamura's father's affection for Miyamura is abnormal, and he likes him so much that it makes Miyamura tired. She is very fond of Miyamura, holding him in her arms when watching horror movies, telling Hori-san to always bring Miyamura when cooking hotpot, and even taking baths with him. However, she doesn't seem to remember his face very well, and when she went to his house with his high school hairstyle she was almost turned away, and even when he cut his hair short she didn't realize it was Miyamura at first. By the way, since she takes a bath with Miyamura, she has confirmed his tattoo. When she first saw him she panicked, mistaking him for a yakuza or something, but she doesn't seem to mind the fact that he has tattoos.
Miyamura's weight is too light
He usually wears winter clothes at school, so his thin body is not very noticeable, but Miyamura weighs less than 47kg when he eats and wears his uniform (even when he was worried, the scale in the nurse's office was broken and even if he was 1kg over, he was still 48kg). Miyamura is 169cm tall, so he is completely underweight and very skinny. I tried to calculate the average weight from Miyamura's height, and the result was that 62.83kg is the ideal weight... Miyamura is about 16kg under his ideal weight. You might think that everyone is like that in the world of anime, but when Tohru saw the numbers, he turned pale and held his head, so he must have been quite thin. By the way, he was shocked to find out that Hori weighed 48kg, the same as Miyamura, but Hori's height is 163cm, so that's still much less than the ideal weight.
The Strange Relationship Between Miyamura and Sawada Honoka
One day, Miyamura's love rival Sawada Honoka suddenly appears. Although she is one year younger than him, Honoka says that she was the one who fell in love with Hori first. Miyamura is usually gentle, but he clings to Hori-san excessively, and often follows Miyamura around, plotting to destroy the relationship between Miyamura and Hori-san, which makes him feel hostile towards her. He is one of the few people in high school who Miyamura uses abusive language on and treats coldly. However, from the outside, it looks like a fight between brothers. Miyamura doesn't really hate her, and he helps her when she's in trouble, and when he finds out that she's being bullied in class, he tells the girl who is bullied, "Die, ugly girl"...Honoka is also not good with men, but Miyamura seems to be especially okay with her, and they have a strange relationship. By the way, when Honoka mistakenly thought that Miyamura had taken a bath with Hori-san, she said she would take a bath with him, and she even declared that she would take a bath with Miyamura.
Honoka visits Miyamura's room in the middle of the night
I didn't realize it until we met, but the two of them actually live next door to each other. Because of this, when Miyamura saw Honoka without her house key and unable to get in, he invited her in and treated her to cake. At that time, Honoka mentioned the existence of "big brother". As she left, she said it was a joke, but Miyamura later heard from his mother and found out that Honoka's brother had died about a year ago. There are also scenes where Honoka sees Miyamura as her brother, and when they are together she seems to think of him as an older brother, saying that Miyamura is "very caring". After that, when Honoka finds out that their houses are next door, she gets scared when she is home alone in the middle of the night and comes over to Miyamura's house from the balcony...She seems to have trusted him so much that she can't help but call him "big brother".
Miyamura and Tanihara
A classmate of Miyamura, he was the one who bullied Miyamura in middle school by ignoring him. The whole class ignored Miyamura, so he wasn't the ringleader, but there is a scene in a middle school episode before he appears in which Tanihara tells Shindo that he should stop bothering Miyamura. It was a while after he cut his hair short that he met Miyamura in high school. He continued to pick on Miyamura in the same way as in middle school, calling him disgusting and stupid, which made Hori-san angry and he was beaten to a pulp. (Miyamura, who didn't change his expression when Tanihara made a sarcastic remark, changed his expression when he heard Hori-san's angry voice, and was so shocked that he started sweating...)
Miyamura and Tanihara reconcile in volume 8 of the original work!
Tanihara bullied Miyamura in middle school, and even when they met for the first time in a long time after they became high school students, he still said nasty things to Miyamura... frankly, there are only reasons why people dislike him. However, if you look at the popularity poll, Tanihara is surprisingly ranked high. The reason for this is an episode from volume 8 of the original work. Tanihara, who had a dream in which he regretted what he did to Miyamura in middle school, visits the cake shop run by Miyamura's family. Unfortunately, it was closing time and he couldn't enter the shop, but he met Miyamura there again. He doesn't apologize in particular, and they just have a casual conversation and go home, but the scene where they order cakes and say "two each" and give each other a peace sign is really good! After that, when Miyamura's cake shop was on TV, he couldn't help but check it out even though he had a cold, and it seemed like he couldn't help but be curious about Miyamura.
The natural combo of Miyamura and Yanagi
Handsome and natural. Furthermore, Akane Yanagi has poor eyesight and is more natural than Miyamura in the story. He likes Yuki and confesses his feelings, but Yuki is not interested, so he is defeated. However, after that, he becomes friends with the Horimiya group and often hangs out together. Yuki says that "Tohru is a little cooler," but when you see him in person, he is so handsome that not only women but also men are intimidated. Even Hori-san, who was already dating Miyamura, thinks something terrible, saying, "Miyamura, who is supposed to be pretty cool, looks pale in comparison." Even after that, Hori-san seems to be looking forward to meeting him, calling it "one chance to meet Yanagi-kun a day," and so instead of the categories of boys and girls, a category called "Yanagi" has been born. (For eye candy)
Yanagi is the only classmate Miyamura calls by his first name
Though Miyamura had tried to call Tohru and Hori-san by their first names several times, he ended up calling all of his classmates by their last names. (Shindo's girlfriend is the only one whose last name he doesn't know, so he calls them by their first names) However, when Yanagi started calling Tohru "Tohru" and Tohru started calling Yanagi "Akeno," Miyamura became competitive and started calling Yanagi "Akeno." (For some reason, Tohru remains Ishikawa-kun.) Yanagi was also troubled when Hide forced him to call her by her first name, but when Miyamura called her Akane, he looked happy. By the way, when Tohru was called by her first name, she went back to Ishikawa-kun the next day, but he continues to call Yanagi Akane.
Summary of Miyamura Izumi's friendships and character introduction
What did you think of the introduction to Miyamura so far? This work is more popular with women, and the male characters are more popular, but personally I like the relationship between Miyamura and Honoka, who are like brother and sister. The episode with Tanihara was also really good, so I hope that it will be made into an anime up to that point (lol)
