Ryuichi SAKUMA

FIRST APPEARANCE
Volume 3 Track 9

VITAL STATISTICS
Age: 31
Birthday: 1 April
Star sign: Aries
Blood type: B
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 53kg
Hair colour: Faded brown
Birthplace: Tokyo
Current residence: Los Angeles

DESCRIPTION
Rock god and chameleon, Ryuichi Sakuma is immortalised as the lead singer of Nittle-Grasper. He is Shuichi's idol - "the person who changed my life".

Together with Tohma Seguchi and Noriko Ukai, the other members of the band, Ryuichi blazed the name Nittle-Grasper into the charts and music history. When the group broke up three years ago, Ryuichi moved to Los Angeles, where he embarked on a solo career.

On stage, Ryuichi is the epitome of cool - self-possessed, intense, and dripping with style. Off stage, however, he reverts to a completely different persona - a friendly, ingenuous young man with an almost childlike exuberance. He even totes around a toy rabbit which he calls his best friend. Ryuichi shifts from one face to the other with unsettling swiftness, and there is no clue as to which of them is the mask.

Ryuichi is allegedly 31 years old, and seems to have made the same deal with the devil Tohma has to retain his boyish looks.