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Ryunosuke
is a really neat little kid, and it's no wonder he
is so precious to both his parents. He is very
grown-up for his age (I'm not sure how old
he is, but he looks ten or eleven), and although he
has a healthy streak of mischief, is usually very
responsible and well-behaved. (I'm always confused
by the little flash of red in the front of his
hair, but we'll let that go.)
More
than anything, Ryu would like his parents to be
able to get along. He accepts that it's not very
likely to happen, but of course he still hopes.
Thankfully, he doesn't seem to feel that he's the
cause of their problems. Really, Ryu is under quite
a lot of pressure from both his parents to be what
they want. Kyusaku is far easier to live with, but
his very easy-goingness sometimes makes him
difficult to relate to as a father. Ryu must wonder
sometimes who's the grown-up and who's the
child.
Ryunosuke:
I wish he'd just go to bed.
Fortunately,
he has Nuku Nuku to look after him and keep him
company. Nuku Nuku is a wonderful big sister to
Ryu, and in a way he's bringing her up too, by
teaching her about how people live. Ryu has a much
more sophisticated understanding of people's
feelings than she does, especially when it comes to
Mama-san and Papa-san - or Kaja and Toja (Mum and
Dad), as he calls them. With a father like Kyusaku,
Ryu is bound to be bright academically, but he's
also smart in ways that Kyusaku is not. A boy with
a high EQ.
Ryunosuke's
best friend apart from Nuku Nuku is Yoshimi, a girl
of his own age on whom he seems to have a little
crush. Ryu doesn't seem embarrassed for Yoshimi to
see the strange world he lives in - well, some
things about it, like Nuku Nuku, are pretty neat.
It's good to see he has a normal friendship like
this.
Ryu
is a gentle kid, who hates the violence that keeps
erupting whenever his parents' wills clash. He gets
especially angry with Akiko, and even told her once
'I hate you when you're like this!' He disapproved
of his grandfather's suggestion of playing
war-games with robots, preferring a game with no
losers.
Of
course, Ryunosuke's character is summed up in the
first scene of Nuku Nuku - he is the sort of
person who, if he found a stray cat in an alley,
would try to take care of it. There are a lot of
challenges in his life, but I think he's equal to
them.
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