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Ryou Kuroyanagi

Ryou Kuroyanagi (黒柳 亮 Kuroyanagi Ryō?) is a 22-year-old head at the main Pantasia branch, and a Harvard graduate with degree in food sciences.

While studying in America he had a girlfriend named Cathy. They separated when he graduated and returned to Japan.

His passion and talent is food tasting, at which he excels.

He gets very angry when Kazuma keeps calling him an old man, reminding him that he is merely 22.

He has incredible physical senses, as he could deduce the cooking and fermentation times as well as the proportions of ingredients of a loaf of bread just by smelling it: he is even used as a sniffer to track down a runaway Suwabara during the match in Ōmagari.

His strait-laced no-nonsense attitude belies his very silly quirk of making strange pun-based reactions to the delicious bread he's eating (during the match in Uppurui he married an extremely ugly woman just for the sake of a pun, getting a divorce five minutes later.)

He used to be the student of Ken, but Ken drove Ryou away with his behaviour. He is given the opportunity by Yuuichi Kirisaki to fully utilize his skills as a judge for the Yakitate!! 25 competition (episode 9 in the anime).

Both Ken and Tsukino called him a bread zombie. He is also one of the many people who make fun of Kawachi.

Death

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Ryou met his end at a young age in episode 22 of the anime. Like Umasaburou, Ryou (along with fellow judge Dave) also died from eating Azuma Kazuma's bread, because it tasted so good that the eater dies.

After he dies, he meets Satsuki, who bears a resemblance to Cathy, and they fall in love.

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Voice

  • Takehito Koyasu
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