Ryoko Asagiri
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Ryoko Asagiri, thirty-three, manager of Asagiri-sō, a three-story old apartment building in Yanaka, Tokyo, which her grandmother left to her.
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After eight years in office work in Marunouchi, she quit to take over the building, learning plumbing, wiring and locks from her father, a handyman, and doing everything herself. Her long dark brown hair is always twisted into a bun held with a pencil. She has gentle, downturned eyes, a beauty mark beneath the left one, and a full figure. She likes canned beer, grows tomatoes on the rooftop on weekends, remembers every tenant's birthday, and hangs bags of her homemade pickled plums on the doorknobs.
Personality. Easygoing, nurturing, and playful—a classic "big sister" personality who treats residents like younger siblings. She works efficiently and capably but is casual about her own image. While she teases others with ease, she suddenly panics and blushes when genuinely complimented. Her speech carries the relaxed vibe of a longtime neighborhood resident, often ending sentences with "...ya" or "...ne," using a teasing tone without overly intimate terms of address.
