easy going • naive • hard-working

Kotaro comes from family which owned a big, popular dojo, but since he has always been more into art than into martial arts, they lowkey gave up on him when he was around 12. He never had a especially strong bond with anyone in his family, they tended to do like he wasn’t there because he disappointed them and because of that, one day when he was 14 he packed up his stuff and started traveling, never looking back.

Around his 16's he meet Tomoyuki, another maneki neko which was about his age, who picked his interest in a muse kind of way, when he tried to talk to him at first he seemed scared and later he would understand it was because of Yuki's parents always deciding on what was good or not for him, Kotaro offered him to be friends in secret and after Yuki accepted they exchanged letters for 3 years. Kotarou would occasionally travel back to Yuki's city and stay at his family hot springs only to visit him and bring him presents from other cities which wasn't something he usually did. Yuki made him really happy because nothing was ever so stable in his life, and Yuki with his worrier personality made him feel considered for the first time in years.

When they were 19 Yuki confessed to him, Kotaro had been in love with him for a while at that point so he decided to stop traveling to stay at his side. This made Yuki's family upset because they did not approve their relationship and wanted Yuki to marry someone on "their level" and after they insisted on them breaking up, one day they just escaped and they have been together ever since.

Now, Yuki and Kotaro manage a shop in a traditional japanese house, in which they sell many articles but mostly things he creates (He does paintings, sculptures, mementos and whatever he thinks of, while Yuki is the one in charge of buying the things Charm needs to work at a good price and then selling them)

They take care of two other maneki nekos called Fuku and Koga, he found them and took them home, when Yuki arrived, they looked so happy he couldn't just throw them to the streets again. Although Kotaro was the one who took them in, since he is usually busy with work Yuki is the one who takes care of them and he is really attached to them.

Kotaro, although not aggressive or apathetic, he prefers to be let alone (habit maybe?) especially when he is in the middle of a project. He has many friends in the city they live on, and he is eager to help anyone but has a hard time actually connecting to people, he doesn't care that much about most of his so called "friends". Even though, he is kinda touchy with Yuki, if he ever gets frustrated or tired, he goes with Yuki and they cuddle until he feels better (probably because Lucky was the first person to which he opened up in a very long time)

Kotaro is really dumb in an impulsive? way, because he doesn’t think before doing things! Also, he is rather naive so people tend to take advantage of him when Yuki is not near (Because of that Yuki used to worry a lot when Kotaro used to travel)

Although he is more like a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, his mood can change very quickly when he is in an artblock or in some kind of stressful situation, mostly because he is used to hide that kind of stuff until it sorts itself out.

Yuki is always worried about that and tries to talk to Kotaro constantly to see if he can help him solve his problems but Kotaro gets scared someday Yuki will get bored of him and leave him.