Starving Athlete ^_^ the Tokumi Shuta fanlisting

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Tokumi Shuta

There is a cafe called Cafe Kichijouji, but it's not a very quaint place.

You have Mitaka Yuichi, the cafe owner who outs up with his employees' antics; supervisor Kurihara Taro, a neat freak who takes pride in disinfecting every inch of his life; Okubo Maki, flirtatious floor waiter and Taro's messy neighbor; Ichinomiya Jun, the youngest of the group but with a freakish strength; and the terrifying Minagawa Hifumi, chef and occultist extraordinaire.

And then there's Toku himself, a college student who works at the cafe part-time. He's a cheerful guy who is almost always smiling, except when he's in danger, upset, or freezing. His full name is Tokumi Shuta, but his co-workers call him Toku (Jun calls him Mr. Toku). Not much is known about his family life, except that he has a grandmother who is deceased.

He lives alone in a two-story, fifty-year-old, wood-and-mortar building. It's pretty convenient since it's a fifteen-minute walk away from the station... but it's only one room, four-and-a-half mats in area--and rent is 28,000 yen per month plus a one-month deposit in cash. Another downside: there's a shared toilet, but no bath (now it's just filthy). Furthermore, it's located in a canyon of condos, so there's no sun at all, and the only thing poor Toku can see out the window is a wall. What's nastier is that a strange plant sometimes grows between the floorboards. Also, one of his neighbors is a foreign guy who chants a weird prayer in his native language every morning.

Our poor sweet Toku's room is also a freezing cold place. Sadly, he doesn't have anything that might make him warmer: a heater, stove, heated carpet, kotatsu (a Japanese table with a heater on the underside. A blanket is placed over the table and it keeps the user's legs warm), air conditioner, fan heater, floor heater, not even a hot water bottle! (Good thing he has at least a blanket... otherwise he would've already joined his granny on the other side of the field of flowers.) Fortunately, Taro gives him his kotatsu since he never uses it anyways--unfortunately, Jun (who helped him carry the kotatsu back to his room) accidentally ripped Toku's door off its hinges using his freak strength, and on the very night that the biggest cold wave of the year touched down.

Toku also has two pet hamsters (and judging from the pictures... they're sort of fat). He says he can afford to keep them, even with his standard of living, because they only eat vegetable scraps (they apparently also eat the strange plant that sometimes grows from between the floorboards). The others (and by others I mean Jun, Maki, and Taro) believe he's only keeping them as emergency rations, spurred on by (no doubt about it) by the freaky cutie Hifumi. Toku denies raising them to eat before he runs out of the cafe, yelling, "I HATE YOU ALL--!"

He attends an athletic college, where the girls hold a national record for the shot-put toss, have three rank levels in kendo, and are members of the international judo training team. I don't know how he's paying for tuition and fees or even what sport he plays (after all, he doesn't really look athletic--he looks like your average, spunky, adorable college student). But since he's living alone in that horrid building, I'm assuming he's not from the area and just moved to that city for college.