Hotei Taketa

Hotei Taketa is Yoshino's primary caretaker and bodyguard since she was a baby, and later Shouma's as well after Renji adopted him. He is also one of the underlings under the Somei group.

Appearance
Hotei has narrow eyes, black parted hair and usually wears a casual working outfit.

Personality
Hotei is a caring, protective individual and bodyguard for Yoshino, and is like a parental figure to her because he has been raising her for 16 years. He is also trusted by Renji, the president of the Somei group. Whenever he has free time, he travels to the Phillipines to practice his sportsmanship. He also has a smoking habit. He also mentioned that he was a lot worse than Shouma when he arrived back then until Renji picked him up.

Somei Yoshino
He and Yoshino are shown to get along as they grow up with him raising her. Yoshino would often seek him for advice and usually protects her from any danger. He is typically very gentle with her, and when Yoshino has to leave Osaka for Tokyo for a year, Hotei cried.

Toriashi Shouma
He becomes Shouma's caretaker ever since he was adopted by Renji. However, compared to Yoshino, Hotei is not as gentle with him, such as hitting him with an ashtray when he broke his curfew due to a fight once, which causes more damage than any fight Shouma has been involved with.

Somei Renji
Renji and Hotei are close since he has become his underling. Hotei is trusted by Renji to where Renji allows Hotei to take care of his granddaughter since she was a baby.

Trivia

 * Hotei's name in Kanji (布袋) literally means cloth bag.