Age: 17
Birthday: June 6 (Gemini)
Class: 2-B
Height: 190 cm
Blood type: A
Favorite food: rice
Family: father, mother, younger brother (Mayu Nozaki), younger sister
Umetarou Nozaki is a high school manga artist who goes by the pen name Sakiko Yumeno. He's best known for creating the shoujo romance manga "Let's Fall in Love," which runs in Monthly Shoujo Romance and has earned praise for its emotional depth and sensitivity to girls' perspectives—which is pretty ironic considering Nozaki himself has zero romantic experience and is genuinely clueless about love.
His life basically revolves around manga research. He's the kind of guy who gets excited about Valentine's Day not for the romance but because of all the chocolate packaging and design inspiration it offers. His story ideas tend to be ridiculous or overly complicated, and he'll do almost anything for research—like actually trying on a girl's sailor uniform, which he does without seeing anything weird about it. He's also weirdly blunt about things like pointing out when someone's bra is showing, which catches people off guard.
Nozaki is particularly oblivious when it comes to Chiyo Sakura's feelings for him, even though they hang out constantly both at school and around town. He genuinely enjoys her company but seems to miss what's right in front of him. When she asked him about his first love experience, he confidently called himself a love expert despite having never actually been in love—a contradiction that apparently didn't occur to him.
He's drawn to girls who show determination and drive. His two main manga characters, Saburo Suzuki and Mamiko, are clearly his passion projects, and he pours intense energy into developing them.
Academically, he excels in Japanese, Japanese History, and Home Economics but struggles with Universal History and English. Back in middle school, he was a basketball team captain.
Content compiled by AnimeList.moe from publicly available sources.
