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Motoharu Yano
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Japanese Name:

矢野 元晴

Nickname:

Yano; Moto

Birthday:

July 23 (Leo)

Age:

17

Blood Type:

O

Height:

174cm (5'8.5")

Hair Color:

Brown

Eye Color:

Brown

Relationships:

Nanami Takahashi (Girlfriend)
Yoko Yano (Mother; Deceased)
Kazuya (Father; Deceased)

Voice Actor:

Hiroshi Yazaki

Motoharu Yano (矢野 元晴) is the male protagonist of the Bokura Ga Ita series and the love interest of Nanami Takahashi.

Personality[]

At the start of the series, Nanami Takahashi's first impression of him is influenced by the girls in her class who claimed that 2/3 of his female classmates back in his last year of middle school had fallen for him.

He is shown to be irresponsible, cheeky, and quite a troublemaker despite his strong presence in the classroom. However, not long after Nanami's confession, he shows many sides to him that contradict his first personality.

There are moments, however, where he can be quite mean to Nanami. Especially at times when he decides to push her away. There are also times when he shows her his weak side, a side that none of his friends, including Masafumi Takeuchi, have seen. He is also known to have only cried to Yuri Yamamoto after a specific time.

His personality was greatly affected after his ex-girlfriend, Nana Yamamoto's, death, making a result to the many sides of him.

After he had left for Sapporo, he had girlfriends who just looked like Nanami, but he only played around with them as he never actually loved them.

Appearance[]

Yano is a handsome young man with messy, light brown hair that's a bit longer than the average guys' length, and dark brown eyes. He's almost seen without his signature (cheeky) smile plastered on his face.

Background[]

Prior to the start of the series, Yano previously went out with a girl named Nana Yamamoto, a girl he was in love with. The problem with this is that she already had a boyfriend, Kagawa.

While in the car, she died with her boyfriend because Motoharu didn't remember her birthday. Throughout the whole series, he thinks about her the whole time. Later, he gets a confession from Nanami Takahashi, in which he can't really respond. Soon at the school festival in episode 4 he declares his love for her and they start going out.

In this they have many problems and many stories come up from his past, that they keep breaking up and getting back together. Yuri Yamamoto (Nana's younger sister) blamed him for her sister's death. Later it is shown that she has feelings for him. Yuri once had sex with Yano. This is kept secret from Nanami until later in the series.

Plot[]

Relationships[]

Nanami Takahashi[]

Yano's current girlfriend. At the beginning of the series, he and Nanami develop a casual, but playful friendship until the latter fell in love with him. Soon after, Nanami confesses to him first, leaving his response to remain uncertain, due to the lingering feelings he had for his late ex-girlfriend. However, later on in the manga, he ends up realizing that he, too, is falling for Nanami and confesses his love to her. Thus, Nanami and Yano then start their relationship.

Nana Yamamoto[]

Nana is Yano's previous girlfriend who died in a car accident, which was devastating and caused Yano to close up on relationships. He had some relationships ships but he never took them seriously until Nanami Takahashi showed up.

Yuri Yamamoto[]

Nana Yamamoto's younger sister. She is in the same year as Yano, and claims to hate him at the start of the series. We later learn she and Yano had a one-time connection 6 months after Nana's passing where they comforted each other. Their relationship in the present is complex, as they often butt heads but come to each other's aid at times.

Trivia[]

  • The name Motoharu means "base, root, origin" (本) (moto) and "light, sun, male" (陽), "spring" (春) or "clear weather" (晴) (haru).
  • Motoharu's surname Yano means "also" (也), "eight" (八), "open country, field, wilderness" (埜), "night" (夜), "roof, house, shop, dealer, seller" (屋), "all the more, increasingly" (弥), "coconut tree" (椰) or "dart, arrow" (矢) (ya) and "stretch" (暢), "two, second" (弐), "unfold, expand" (展), "ability, talent, skill, capacity" (能), "sound" (音), "faith, truth, fidelity, trust" (信) or "ethics, companion" (倫) (no).

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