Handa Seishuu

Japanese name:	半田 清舟
Nickname:	Junon Boy, Sensei, Sei Handa

A 23-year-old disgraced calligrapher who punched out an old man who criticized his calligraphy style as "academic." He goes to the Goto Islands in Nagasaki at the suggestion of his famous calligrapher father to focus more on his calligraphy as he waits out his exile. Along the way, he finds value in interactions with other people, in particular a tomboyish kid named Naru, and finds his inspiration and own personal style.

At first, Naru calls him "Junon Boy," referring to a particular magazine that features street pictures of male idols, suggesting (incorrectly) that he's a city-dwelling pretty boy of the kind that don't really exist in real life. Later on, she calls him, "Sensei".

Handa Seishuu appears again in another manga titled Handa-kun, a prequel of sorts featuring Handa during his high school years. In the prequel, he was a well-regarded school idol and prodigy calligrapher who held the hilariously mistaken belief that no one liked him and that the distantly worshipful actions of his peers were in fact bullying. This is apparently the fault of his best friend of both series, Kawafuji, who told him a lie that he was disliked as a joke, which Handa mistook for the truth, and his friend never corrected because he found it funny.

Seiyuu: Ono Daisuke

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