Yuu Mitarai

Yū Mitarai is a minor character of the manga series Grand Blue. He is a first year Mechanical Engineering student at Izu University.

Appearance
Mitarai is a handsome, thin young man of average height with black that has partially blond (possibly dyed) hair and his eyes mostly appears closed.

Personality
At first, Mitarai was depicted as a normal college student in the series, but he was later to be known as a playboy as he tries to flirt with many women that he often goes along with the antics of his friend group consisting of Iori Kitahara, Kouhei Imamura, Shinichirou Yamamoto and Hajime Nojima.

Classmates:

 * Iori Kitahara:


 * Kōhei Imamura:


 * Chisa Kotegawa:


 * Hajime Nojima:


 * Shinichirō Yamamoto:


 * Kenta Fujiwara:

Others:

 * Rie Oohashi: Mitarai's childhood friend and girlfriend, in which his friends immediately attempt to sabotage once they find out. Through a self-destructive desire to flirt or his friends' machinations, he finds himself beaten up by Rie on multiple occasions.

Etymology

 * The name Yuu means "excellence, superiority, gentleness" (優), which is ironic considering on his womanizing personality.
 * Yuu's surname Mitarai means "hand" (御手) (mit) and "wash" (洗) (arai), which can refer to a few things such as a font of purifying water at a shrine entrance.

Trivia

 * Unlike most of the others, Yuu is in a relationship with his childhood friend Rie Oohashi.