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Masayuki Hori is a male character in the anime and manga series Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. He's the president of Roman Academ's drama club, and is good friends with Chiyo Sakura, Umetarou Nozaki, Hirotaka Wakamatsu, Yuzuki Seo, Mikoto Mikoshiba, and Yuu Kashima, the latter of which he also has a crush on, and eventually confessed his love for later on in the manga.
He is voiced by Yūki Ono in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Adam Noble in the English version of the anime.
Appearance[]
Masayuki Hori is a tall teenage boy, with pale skin, black eyes, and short, unkempt, brown hair. He's always seen wearing a blue turtleneck shirt, with a dark blue tie strung down from it, black pants, a brown belt, and brown shoes on his feet.
Personality[]
Hori is very diligent when it comes to the drama club and never slacks off during rehearsals. On the outside he comes off as mature and polite, however, Hori has a short temper and is easily angered. This is shown through his violent conduct towards Kashima when she makes inappropriate comments or tries to skip club meetings - typically using physical force to get her to behave.
Hori also has a slightly childish side. He has drawn briefs as beta markers on Nozaki's manga, enthusiastically discussed the former with Sakura, and talked about raw octopus with Kashima in the hot springs. Hori often compares Kashima's face with others and says that she is the most handsome after all. This is shown through his comparison of Mikoshiba's face to that of Kashima, and the fact that he is primarily attracted to womens' legs.
When acting, Hori conducts himself composedly and supposedly peaks in a cool tone of voice, according to the Drama Club's members. He doesn't care about awards and makes plays aimed towards students; they aren't for the purpose of social criticism or to send a message. The plays he asks Nozaki to write for the club tend to have a prince character in them, and they tend to be romantic. Additionally, he is easily absorbed into plays when watching them, crying and laughing.
Trivia[]
- His birthday is on “Good Knee-High Socks” day which is celebrated in Japan.
- Hori lives with his dad, his mom, and his younger brother who is also in high school.
- In the 5th anniversary poll, Tsubaki mentioned that she has plans to include Hori's younger brother in the manga as 'a tall boy who wears glasses'.
- In assisting Nozaki, he is in charge of backgrounds.
- His hobbies are movie appreciation, watching plays and travelling. He spends his holidays watching movies.
- He's good at memorizing roads, spatial perception and carpentry. His weakness is how easily he becomes intoxicated by alcohol.
- His style of choice is the ordinary high school uniform.
- His best subjects are mathematics and physics. He doesn't do well in Classic Literature. His elective subject is Calligraphy.
- His favourite food is Pork Ramen. He does not like homemade cooking made by amateurs (especially sweets).
- His ideal type of girl is a girl with nice legs. Kashima, who has Hori’s ideal face, style, and legs, can be considered Hori’s ideal girl.
- He knows of Chiyo's feelings towards Nozaki.
- After realizing that Mamiko's model was Mikoshiba, he occasionally calls Mikoshiba 'Mami-koshiba' by accident.
- He ranked 2nd on the character popularity poll, according to the official fanbook.
- As of Chapter 72 of the manga, he and Mikoshiba are the only characters that do not know that the other is an assistant of Nozaki.
- In Chapter 87 he begins to question his feelings towards Kashima.
- He is the only character, other than Chiyo and Nozaki, that is aware that Waka and Ose are modeled after Wakamatsu and Seo. However, Chiyo knows Ose is based off Seo.
- Apparently, during his 3rd year of Middle School, he had met Kashima at an unknown train station when he had dropped something. At this point of time, he was still taller than her and she had called him onii-chan (a Japanese term used to refer to a male stranger who is slightly older than oneself).