Touma Mita

Appearance
He is a handsome guy with light brown hair and light eyes. He is 189cm tall with a muscular body from all the training he does as a baseball player. He is almost always seen with a smile on his face.

Personality
He is a pure-hearted, happy go lucky person with an even-temper.

His good nature allows him to get along with everyone, even those considered to be outcasts, and because of this, he has a huge varied group of friends.

He’s incredibly athletic and was the ace of his school’s baseball team. Being a baseball pro was the only dream he ever had but it was put to an end when he broke his leg saving his best friend. However, he doesn’t regret his decision as he says life has more value than any dream he has.

In order to maintain his friendship with Taichi, he represses his romantic feelings and cheers on the relationship between Taichi and Futaba.

He is a gentle giant with a heart of gold who genuinely wants the best for all his friends and wants to protect them from getting hurt, even if it meant getting hurt himself.

Sometimes, he is compared to a big friendly dog and Futaba has said that she finds his large frame very cute since it makes everything around him look small.

History
When he was 11, his parents died in a car accident trying to avoid a child on the road, leaving him in the care of his college-age brother, Seiya. This resulted in Seiya working hard to support them both but in turn, he ends up somewhat neglecting the house and Touma because he often came home feeling exhausted. Touma often tried to help his brother out but at his young age was unable to do much.

His ex-tutor, Akiko ended up helping them out and eventually, she and Seiya started dating and got married. Worried that he was now getting in the way of Seiya and Akiko’s life together he ended up getting into an argument with them and running away to Taichi’s home. When Seiya comes over to bring him back, Taichi, seeing how much Touma didn’t want to go home, shoves Seiya onto the ground and runs away with Touma. Even though he was caught and brought home in the end, this remains as one of Touma’s fondest memories.

While in elementary school, he creates a ‘game of life’ handmade board game with Taichi where the person with the most points was the happiest. He decides that he wants everyone playing the game to be happy and so creates a square where everyone playing the game gains 10,000 happiness points through best friend power. This becomes a significant item in his life which he keeps in a puzzle box called a Karakuri box. Taichi discovers this when he, Shingo, and Kensuke goes snooping in Touma’s room. When making Taichi’s birthday present, which was a hand-sewn good-luck-charm, he sews the paper board game and the paper characters of himself and Taichi into the charm as a symbol of his own happiness. Despite being in love with Taichi, he remains closeted in order not to upset the status quo and actively encourages the blossoming relationship between Taichi and Futaba. However, when he was outed after Kensuke finds out about his sexuality, he decides to tell Taichi about his feelings before leaving school. This shocked Taichi who never considered the perfect and popular Touma to have had these feelings suppressed for his sake. It lead him to wonder how much he doesn’t know about Touma because he was always putting the happiness of others above his own.

Masumi asks him if he thought coming out to his peers was worth it, and said he was lucky his friends were still his friends. However, he tells her that their decision to remain his friend were a direct result of him choosing to be his true authentic self and them accepting him for who he is.

Unsatisfied with how things were left between them, Taichi and Futaba go to visit him at his home, only to find out that he moved away a few days before to be closer to his construction job. They take the train and look for him at his job site. When Taichi confronts Touma, they talk about their friendship and make the decision to remain friends While Taichi chose to remain with Futaba.

Sometime in the future, it is revealed that Taichi and Futaba break up two years after completing high school due to various reasons causing them to grow apart. He eventually marries Touma and Touma takes his surname, Ichinose. Touma remains in close contact with Futaba and Masumi as well as Kensuke and Shingo and was the one that encouraged Taichi to meet up with Futaba again and mend their friendship. He attends Futaba’s wedding in the final chapter And she tells him that the three of them are still her greatest inspiration.

Trivia

 * He is the only one out of the main cast that is not actually seen in the final chapter because we are viewing the event from his perspective.
 * He maintains a close friendship with Kensuke and Shingo as seen when Kensuke asks to hang out on Sunday.
 * He maintains a friendship with Futaba and Masumi.
 * Because same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in Japan, it is likely they were married overseas and have a partnership certificate.