Kyoko's Father

A middle-aged businessman, Kyoko's father wears his dark hair straight and cut to the ear, combed neatly to one side. A shadow perpetually conceals his eyes. He turns up in plain collared shirts and ties.

By his daughter's telling, he was an icy man who spared little thought for those he lived with. He verbally tore into Kyoko again and again and seems to have aimed his temper at his wife as well. He lived by a rigid creed dividing the world into people who are wanted and people who are not, and he filed Kyoko firmly under the latter.

Vain and self-absorbed, he cared more about how the family appeared from outside than for anyone actually in it, which made discarding his daughter easy once she failed to meet his standards. He would only lift a finger to help if doing so cost him nothing.

He married and had Kyoko, and both parents were remote to the point of cruelty; the family never traveled together or shared meals, and Kyoko could not recall a single embrace. Neglected and lonely, she fell in with a rough crowd and turned into an out-of-control delinquent before middle school, which brought his scorn and occasional blows, along with declarations that he was ashamed of her.

When she came home from the hospital after leaving her gang, he greeted her by dumping a sack of her possessions at her feet and announcing that she was disowned. Katsuya Honda arrived and rebuked the couple for casting out their child, then asked whether he objected to marrying her; the father did not, having already stopped thinking of Kyoko as his. He agreed to sign whatever paperwork was needed so long as it never troubled him or brought her near him again. His only later contact came when Katsuya died, when he phoned solely to inform Kyoko that she and Tohru alike would never be welcome under his roof.