Keiichiro is the manager and baker behind Cafe Mew Mew, and he's Ryou's right-hand man in running the Mew Project. He originally worked with Ryou's father, Dr. Shirogane, on the project back in the States about five years before the series kicks off. When a lab explosion killed Ryou's parents, Keiichiro followed him to Japan to keep the work going. He's deeply protective of Ryou, constantly worried about the risks he takes to support the Mew Mews—though he's realistic enough to know he can't stop him. Instead, he just asks that Ryou promise to come back safely, always waiting with tea in hand.
His exact age stays vague in the manga and anime, though the 2002 PlayStation game lists him as twenty-one, while the English Mew Mew Power adaptation pegs him at seventeen.
The Mew Mews see him as a genuine gentleman—charming, thoughtful, and genuinely kind. But he's got a playful, flirtatious streak too, like when he jokingly offers to kiss Ichigo to break her out of cat form. There's this funny moment where Ichigo suspects he might be the mysterious Blue Knight after spotting a matching injury, but it turns out Pudding caused it during a failed trick practice.
Romance-wise, the manga doesn't give him much of a love life, but the anime introduces Rei Nishina, a butterfly researcher who used to be his girlfriend. They split because their careers got too demanding, though he still bakes her a birthday cake at the cafe every year. She becomes a target for the aliens and nearly gets turned into a chimera anima before the Mew Mews save her. After that, they go their separate ways.
Hikaru Midorikawa voices him in the Japanese anime. In the English Mew Mew Power dub, he's renamed Wesley J. Coolridge III and voiced by Andrew Rannells.
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