Kouhei Imamura

Kōhei Imamura is one of the major characters of the manga series Grand Blue. He is a first year Mechanical Engineering student at Izu University.

Appearance
Kouhei is a handsome young man who is relatively lean and muscular medium build. He has dark blonde hair that is swept to the right and dark gold eyes. He has been described by many characters as being very attractive, although his eccentric personality usually puts off admirers.

He is usually seen wearing shirts sporting anime characters and when drinking with the diving club, he is usually naked or in his boxers.

Personality
Kouhei is a diehard otaku and is perceived to be a lolicon by his acquaintances. He happens to be particularly obsessed with the little sister character trope (hence his obsession with Shiori Kitahara). While many are repulsed by his otaku lifestyle, is indifferent to how he is perceived by others. He is also easily manipulated when bribed with things such as meeting with seiyuus. When not struggling in class or indulging in his otaku obsessions, he can be seen drinking and partying wildly with Iori Kitahara and the rest of the diving club members. Kouhei is introverted and cannot speak to newly met people.

Peek-a-Boo members:

 * Iori Kitahara: Kouhei's fellow classmate and club member whose relationship begin with a rough start with him being swindled by Iori into joining Peek-a-Boo against his will. Despite this, he and Iori were able to get along just fine, though sometimes they are at each other's throats due to their eccentric and silly antics. They are quite close as friends.


 * Ryūjirō Kotobuki:


 * Shinji Tokita:


 * Chisa Kotegawa:


 * Azusa Hamaoka: Kouhei respects Azusa, as she brings his idol and favourite seiyuu, Kaya Mizuki.


 * Aina Yoshiwara: Kouhei and Aina indulge in their bond as intimate friends, the former even going so far as to aid her in her romantic conquest with Iori Kitahara.

Grand Blue employees:

 * Toshio Kotegawa:


 * Nanaka Kotegawa:

Classmates:

 * Hajime Nojima:


 * Shinichirou Yamamoto:


 * Yuu Mitarai:


 * Kenta Fujiwara:

Etymology

 * The name Kouhei means "till/tillage, plow, cultivate" (耕) (kou) and "flat, broad, level, even, peaceful" (平) (hei).
 * Kouhei's surname Imamura means "now" (今) (ima) and "town, village" (村) (mura).

Trivia

 * Rarako is the girl on Kouhei's shirt and she is a magical girl.
 * In between Episode 9 and live action, Kouhei wants a try to wear Asuka Langley Sohryu and Rei Ayanami's themed wetsuit in Neon Genesis Evangelion (in the manga and anime) or Zero Two and Ichigo's themed wetsuit in Darling in the Franxx (in the live action), but he forced himself to didn't want a try to wear that wetsuits because it was only females are able to wear the wetsuits.