| Kurosaki Ranmaru | |
|---|---|
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| He will catch the dream even if he will lose his property and position. | |
| Name | |
| Kanji | 黒崎 蘭丸（くろさき らんまる） |
| Romaji | Kurosaki Ranmaru |
| Also Known As | Ran-Ran (by Reiji) Maru-chan-senpai (by Natsuki) |
| Characteristics | |
| Age (game) | 22 (D/AS), 23 (ASAS) |
| Age (anime) | 22~23 (Season 2), 25+ (Season 3) |
| Birthday | September 29 |
| Horoscope | Libra |
| Height | 182 cm (6' 0”) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
| Gender | Male |
| Blood Type | A |
| Relatives | Unnamed father (deceased) Giulietta Kurosaki (mother) Juri Kurosaki (younger sister) |
| Saotome Academy | |
| Units | With  With Masato Hijirikawa, Ren Jinguji With Cecil Aijima With Camus, Tokiya Ichinose, Ren Jinguji With Camus, Otoya Ittoki With Masato Hijirikawa, Natsuki Shinomiya, Reiji Kotobuki With Reiji Kotobuki With Ai Mikaze With Otoya Ittoki, Natsuki Shinomiya, Ren Jinguji, Syo Kurusu, Reiji Kotobuki With Natsuki Shinomiya, Eiichi Otori With Otoya Ittoki, Tokiya Ichinose, Ren Jinguji, Reiji Kotobuki |
| Instrument | Bass |
| Appearances | |
| Original | Not available |
| Fandisk | Not available |
| Music | Not available |
| Debut | Not playable |
| All Star | Playable |
| Music 2 | Playable |
| Debut | |
| Anime Debut | Season 1: Episode 13 (cameo) Season 2: Episode 1 |
| Voice | |
| Seiyuu | Suzuki Tatsuhisa (鈴木 達央) |
Ranmaru Kurosaki (黒崎 蘭丸, Kurosaki Ranmaru) is a member of the idol group QUARTET NIGHT and the senior assigned to train Masato Hijirikawa and Ren Jinguji.
He is voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki (鈴木 達央, Suzuki Tatsuhisa).
Appearance
Ranmaru is a tall, young man with spiky silver hair and pale skin. While he appears to have heterochromia, it has been confirmed that his true eye color is silver, and he uses a single purple contact for "aesthetic purposes". He also wears dark grey eyeshadow in the corners of his eyes. His default outfit consists of a skin-tight shirt with a houndstooth checkered vest.
Personality and Interests
Ranmaru is a highly reactive and moody person, right into tsundere territory. He does, however, have a strong sense of duty. Ranmaru considers himself a rocker through and through and has his own ideas about what 'being a rocker' actually means.
In All Star, Ranmaru is fairly misogynistic in nature, refusing to work with Haruka because he wouldn't sing a song written by a girl. He stated that he didn't think anything but rock could speak to him after hearing ST☆RISH's song Maji LOVE 2000%. In All Star, it is revealed that the reason for this negative attitude is that the bands he was in previously were all disbanded because of women as well as seeing the betrayal his dad went through with their family business. He has a lot of trust issues.
Despite appearing standoffish and aggressive, Ranmaru has a kind side to him as well, as is shown when he worked to help an elderly couple repay their debt to the Yakuza.
He likes to show-off and gives off the idea of feeling self-important, especially when he's performing.
History
Ranmaru was born to a Japanese father and Italian-American mother. His family was once a wealthy clan like the Jingujis and the Hijirikawas, but his father was betrayed by a colleague and the family lost their fortune. The father worked himself to death, leaving the rest of the family with an immense debt, which Ranmaru took onto his shoulders. This led him to leave his family in hopes of becoming an idol, so he can settle the debt once and for all. He is slowly paying it back while he works to accomplish this. Ranmaru was a part of different bands before being signed on by Shining. He went through a few, but they always ended up disbanding, leaving him alone.
Plot
Game
See here: Kurosaki Ranmaru/Game.
Anime
See here: Kurosaki Ranmaru/Anime.
Song Chronology
See here: Kurosaki Ranmaru/Song Chronology.
Relationships
See here: Kurosaki Ranmaru/Relationships.
Gallery
See here: Kurosaki Ranmaru/Gallery.
Trivia
- Similar to the other members of QUARTET NIGHT, Ranmaru has a designated theme color. His is dark red.
- In the game it is revealed that he, Masato and Ren were childhood friends because they were all "heirs to rich corporations." The Kurosaki Group went bankrupt after his father was betrayed and sold out, and Ranmaru never thinks back on it.
- Ranmaru calls everyone by their first names.
- Unlike the other idols, Ranmaru's primary living place is a small, sparsely furnished apartment.
- He refers to his basses as his "girlfriends."
- He is often flustered by Cecil's flattery.
- He seems to have a soft spot for cats, as he often feeds the strays in his neighborhood.
- As a child, Ranmaru had a stuffed bear that he seemed to be very attached to, which holds sentimental value to him even his adulthood.
- His heterochromia is not natural; he has silver eyes and wears a purple contact. His hair color is also not natural. He has been dying it silver since he was a child.
- Due to his tightly packed schedule, he has adapted to be able to fall asleep anywhere, anytime, and uses this ability to catch sleep during short breaks when he doesn't have work.
- Ranmaru has been practicing English from a young age and can speak it very well. He also lived in the U.S. at one point. This is partially due to the fact that his mother is Italian-American, making him one of two characters confirmed to be of mixed ethnic background (the other being Cecil).