Izumi Miyamura

Izumi Miyamura is the main male protagonist from the Horimiya manga.

Izumi is currently attending Katagiri Senior High School and the fiancee of Kyouko Hori.

Appearance
Miyamura is a handsome and attractive young man. He has blue eyes, black hair, white skin and weighs a little less than 48kg (roughly 105lbs). He also appears to have fairly sharp canine teeth, many lip and ear piercings, as well as a few minor tattoos. At school, Miyamura dresses heavily in order to hide his tattoos, wears thick-rimmed glasses, and lets his hair fall to his shoulders to cover up his piercings.

Out of school, however, he wears his hair up and does not seem to care that other people see his piercings and tattoos. At the start of the story, he also wore a lip ring and is stated that both piercing holes have since closed up due to him not wearing them often enough. At various points in the manga, other characters such as Kyouko, Kyousuke, and Ishikawa observe Miyamura to have quite an attractive, if a bit feminine, face. At the end of Chapter 26, Miyamura cuts his hair, leaving his piercing holes visible.

Personality
In school, he gives off an impression of a quiet, anti-social guy. Usually assumed to be an otaku with good studying capabilities, Miyamura is soon to be viewed as a good friend to Hori Kyouko and her closest friends. Despite the weather, Miyamura tries to cover up as much as possible in order to hide his tattoos and leaves his long hair loose to cover up his piercings. This image briefly changes once he leaves school, particularly at Kyouko's house. Once he is outside school, he removes his blazer and necktie and wears his hair up which visibly shows his multiple ear piercings. He also enjoys getting lattes from Starbucks and does not mind wearing short sleeves that shows off part of his tattoos. Unlike most characters that wear glasses, Miyamura does very poorly in his studies, only managing to score full marks in P.E and average (or below) in all other classes. Although usually having trouble pronouncing certain Japanese words, he is very good at tongue twisters.

Miyamura generally has a laid back attitude and is slow to anger towards the friends that he met at Katagiri High School (with the exception of Sawada) but shows that he has a short tempered and violent side especially towards his ex-classmate, Shindou. During his junior high years he pierces his ears using a safety pin as a way to cope with his struggling school life where he is ostracized and bullied by his classmates for his shyness. During this time it is suggested that he also contemplated suicide. It is unknown where or if there is a specific reason he got his tattoos but it is said that he has a fairly impulsive nature and the tattoos were gotten on impulse. When Hori Souta suggests he gets a pair of wings tattooed he agrees that it is a good idea although he doesn't follow through with the tattoo in the end. He does not seem to regret getting the tattoos, however he needs to keep them covered up and because of this is unable to wear short sleeves or a swimsuit while in school. His family runs a bakery and he can be seen helping out occasionally after school when he is not spending time with Kyouko, Ishikawa Toru, or Shindou Kouichi. He is very good at making desserts, especially cakes.

He appears to have very low self-esteem and is very awkward when talking to people he's not close with, often saying he can't connect well with others. He worries that it would be embarrassing for Kyouko to be seen with him. Miyamura hates drawing any sort of unnecessary attention towards himself, preferring to be treated as "invisible" in class. However, because he feels that Hori is being made fun of for dating him because of how he looks, which leads him to cut his hair, and also stopped him from wearing glasses to school. This causes a lot of girls to start approaching him and commenting on how good looking he is, even flirting with him and snapping pictures of him with their phones much to Kyouko's annoyance.

He is a very kind and caring person, an example may be when he brought Souta back home after Souta tripped and got a nosebleed. Miyamura also cares a lot for his friends and has been shown multiple times helping Kyouko out and picking up Souta from school. He is also very air-headed and clueless, especially when it comes to romantic affairs which leads to comical situations. Despite his mellow nature (Shindou excluded), he becomes violent when trying to defend himself from physical attacks and has become violent on two separate occasions, once when the student council tries to make Hori apologize for something that was not her fault but actually Remi's fault (he headbutts Sengoku Kakeru which leads the student council president to become rather afraid of him), and when Toru argues with Miyamura about Kyouko's feelings towards Miyamura. He also holds a very short fuse when interacting with Sawada Honoka, easily becoming annoyed by her presence and antics.

He is very afraid of anything related to horror or gore but usually watches horror movies because Hori enjoys them. It is unknown if he is a sadist or a masochist, however he often hits Shindou and aims sharp remarks towards him, especially regarding the fact that Shindou had to repeat a grade due to poor attendance. He does not seem to hold any sadistic feelings towards his girlfriend except that one time he decided to put his foot on her head because he wanted to bully her back for once since he is the one always getting pushed around. In fact, he has problems treating anyone impolitely or violently towards anyone except Shindou or occasionally Sawada.

Trivia

 * He works in his family's bakery after school and wishes to continue the family business.
 * He is very good at tongue twisters.
 * He can't pronounce the word "warm", instead he says "worm".
 * His Japanese score is 2.
 * He had 10 piercings in total which two of them closed, one on the lip and one on the tongue.
 * In Chapter 13, it is revealed that he is afraid of horror movies.
 * He has a full mark in Health, which he usually uses against Toru.
 * Miyamura won first place in the Horimiya character popularity contest on November 17th.
 * Miyamura dislikes tomato peel.
 * He likes women who wear blazers.
 * On the webcomic ending, Izumi and Kyouko had a son named Kyouhei.


 * He is an only child.