Munakata Ren

Munakata Ren (宗像 廉) is an idol under TSUKINO TALENT PRODUCTION. He is a member of the unit SOARA where he performs the keyboard.

Appearance
Ren is a short young man, with collar length gray hair and light blue eyes.

In the live action movies his hair color has been changed from its usual silvery gray to a light brown.

Personality
Ren is an overall polite and sensible boy, and due to how serious he sometimes tends to be often makes him an ideal target for Nanase Nozomu to tease and prank. He also commonly apologizes for Nozomu when he causes trouble.

Ren's shown to be quite timid and also easily nervous. Despite his timid personality he can be quite earnest and ambitious at times.

Plot
2015 =
 * Age: 16/17
 * Height: 167 cm

2016 =
 * Age: 18
 * Height: -

2017 =
 * Age: 19
 * Height: 168 cm

2018 =
 * Age: 20
 * Height: -

2019 =
 * Age: 21
 * Height: -

2020 =
 * Age: 22
 * Height: -

2021 =
 * Age: 23
 * Height: 172 cm

2022 =
 * Age: 24
 * Height: 172 cm

SOARA
Ohara Sora - Though he's seen to interact with Ren the least, Sora is pretty protective of him and likes spoiling and teasing Ren a lot. He admires Ren's maturity and intelligence while Ren admires Sora's energy and talent with music. Sora doesn't like it when he accidentally hurts Ren's feelings and will try his best to be forgiven immediately.

They are on a first-name basis.

Nanase Nozomu - Ren and Nozomu were in the same class in high school, the latter often joking around and pulling pranks on Ren.

Etymology

 * The kanji of his surname (宗) means "religion, denomination", and the second kanji (像) "statue, painting, image, figure, portrait".
 * Ren's name is made up of the kanji (廉) meaning "purity, honest".

Trivia

 * His catch phrase for 2021 is "Keep your head up."
 * He and Kagurazaka Soshi share a kanji in their names (宗).
 * His family runs a kendo dojo.
 * He is a practitioner of Kendo
 * His family and Soshi's family are neighbors.
 * He likes to eat egg over rice.
 * Refers to Soshi as 'So-nii' when he was young and that habit carried on even when he met Soshi again in high school. He tried to fix his habit and call Soshi ‘Soshi-senpai’ but his habit of calling him ‘So-nii’ still slips out sometimes.
 * He was in the same class as Nozomu in high school.
 * He loves red bean.
 * He is attending University.
 * He can't pronounce the word "helicopter". He said that he couldn't say it properly, so he calls it "Helicotapuu".
 * Ren is capable of beating Nozomu at an arm-wrestling competition.
 * He used to be in the debate club at school, and was good enough to go to prefecture level tournaments.
 * The reason Ren is capable of playing the keyboard is because he started playing the piano at a young age, and only stopped practicing once he reached high school.