Affiliations:Braun runs the CRT TV Workshop on the ground floor of the Oohiyama building—he's also the landlord. He's a widower with a daughter named Nae, though she doesn't share his obsession with cathode ray tubes the way he does. He's basically the last person on earth still genuinely passionate about CRTs and despises LCDs with real conviction. There's something almost anarchic about his stance.
The shop itself doesn't exactly seem like a thriving business, but somehow he's never in serious financial trouble. Whether that's from the landlord income, savings, or just sheer stubborness, it's hard to say. He's not particularly enthusiastic about running the workshop day-to-day, but he keeps it going anyway.
Rintarou calls him "Mr. Braun"—a nickname that stuck because "braun" is the Japanese loanword for CRT tubes. It's fitting enough that it became his de facto title around the lab.
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