

Ryo Miyakozuka ( 都塚 りょう Miyakozuka Ryō ?) Ryo is a new transfer student at Asuka's school. He also enjoys reading the fictional shōjo manga Love Chick. Among his talents, besides sports, are cooking and sewing. When a new girl in school, Ryo Miyakozuka, is being bullied he defends her and later falls in love with her. Asuka also clearly states that while he likes girly things, he does not want to become a woman. This affected Asuka's mother severely and when she saw that her son was starting to like girly things she forced him to be masculine.

When Asuka was young his father left his family because he wanted to become a woman. This, however, does not stop him from being necessarily tough on occasion- he can defend himself and his friends. He's very tall, masculine and cool but secretly, he loves all things cute, sweet, and lovely. However, Asuka's name in Love Chick is written in katakana rather than the kanji used for Asuka's name in Otomen, and Ryo's name is written in kanji rather than in hiragana name in Otomen.Ĭharacters Asuka Masamune ( 正宗 飛鳥 Masamune Asuka ?) The main character of the story. Juta Tachibana bases its story on the relationship between Asuka and Ryo, with the lead characters even sharing names pronounced the same but applied to the opposite genders. Love Chick ( ラブチック Rabuchikku ?) is a fictional shōjo manga by Jewel Sachihana that runs in the fictional manga magazine Hana to Mame (a parody of Hana to Yume). The characters in the series refer to Asuka as an "otomen" and even he himself has done so.

The title, "Otomen" is a pun made of the Japanese word otome ( 乙女 ?), meaning "young lady" or "mistress", and the English word "men". He hides this part of his life from everyone else until he meets a girl named Ryo Miyakozuka, the daughter of a martial artist and heir to his dojo. However, he has a secret: the things he really loves are sweets, cute things, cooking, shōjo manga and sewing. He excels in judo and karate, and as captain of the kendo team he reached the national championship tournament.

Asuka Masamune is the coolest, manliest guy in his whole school.
