If you want to dive deeper into his place in the family, I highly recommend reading the Back Stage light novels. He’s not just the SenaPro manager, but a member of the Sena family and his place as Izumi’s caregiver is pretty solid. He manages the entire family and the family company, but his concern for Izumi goes beyond business. Instead of being angry at Izumi, as Izumi was expecting, his 146 text messages were all out of love and concern. He stayed awake for 60 hours straight worrying about his well-being. Seriously, I can’t help myself with how much I love this character. It’s incredibly heart-warming.Īnd now it’s time for my weekly Rei fangirling moment. And yet he takes time out of his busy schedule to seek out Saotome-Sensei just to inspire Izumi and make him happy. His career has been something he’s struggled to maintain since he was a kid, fighting uphill battles against those who were born into the industry and had opportunities given to them without much effort. It’s Ryouma putting Izumi first, ahead of his own sexual desires and even his own career. This is a positive way for him to express his feelings and definitely made me “aww” out loud. Ryouma seeking out Saotome-Sensei to write Izumi an inspirational message is the side of Ryouma that I adore. When he got a grip on himself and realized what he was doing was wrong, the kind, caring, and likable side of Ryouma became very clear. That doesn’t excuse taking advantage of someone, but at this point it seems to only speak for one aspect of him. He is, as he admitted the last episode, just very weak when it comes to Izumi. I don’t think Ryouma is truly a bad person. He couldn’t do it, though, and though it feels like not taking advantage of someone should be the default state, at least his internal struggle eventually went the right way. The resolution from last week’s cliffhanger was generally satisfying, though initially it did look like Ryouma was going to take advantage of Izumi in his emotionally vulnerable state.
Since he’s become so easy to identify with, when emotional things happen to him we feel it even more strongly as viewers. Heck, there’s an entire genre of fanfiction about inserting oneself into the story and though it is often thought of as subpar fanfiction, it proves this is a thing that a lot of us tend to do. This is something a lot of us tend to do, whether we want to admit it or not. He inserts himself into the stories and finds inspiration and motivation from the characters. Part of this episode focused on Izumi’s dream sequences involving LaLa-Lulu. Even when he’s being selfish or not thinking rationally, it’s easy to put yourself in his head and understand why he does the things that he does.
The appeal of Izumi/Ryouma is also strengthened by the fact that Izumi is basically us the viewers, so we can easily put ourselves in his shoes, experiencing the ups and downs of the story through his perspective. The romance between Ryouma and Izumi is blossoming in an adorably sweet way despite the rocky start. It was an agonizing wait to see how the cliffhanger scene from last week’s episode would play out but the resolution to the whole debacle was quick and mostly satisfactory.
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