Kitao Kuronuma

Name
Japanese	黒沼 喜多夫
Rōmaji	Kuronuma Kitao
English	Kitao Kuronuma
Personal Information
Gender	Male
Height	160 cm (5'2")
Relatives	Unnamed Older Sister Youko Kuronuma (Wife) Sawako Kuronuma (Daughter) Eiji Akahoshi (Nephew) Shouta Kazehaya (Son-in-law)
Professional Status
Occupation	Salaryman
Affiliation	Kuronuma Family
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 00
Anime	Episode 01
Voiced by
Japanese	Takashi Matsuyama
English	Joe Hernandez
French	Marc Wilhelm (Black Box)
Latin-American Spanish	Beto Castillo
Portrayed by
Movie	Masanobu Katsumura
TV series	Hiroyuki Hirayama

Kitao Kuronuma (黒沼 喜多夫, Kuronuma Kitao) is the father of Sawako Kuronuma who is married to Youko Kuronuma.

Appearance 

Kitao is a short man with black hair and he wears black square-rimmed glasses.

He is seen wearing a different variety of clothes.

Personality

Kitao usually has a calm and cheerful personality, but he can also be very emotional and fretful. He often gets jealous when he sees his daughter Sawako Kuronuma go to events with her friends and make things for them and he is shown to be an overprotective father as seen when he learns of Sawako's new friends and boyfriend.

Kitao was initially intimated by Ayane Yano and Chizuru Yoshida's appearances, but he soon realizes that they are nice girls.

Relationships

Youko Kuronuma

Youko is Kitao's wife who are very close and seem deeply in love with each other, but Youko still seems to enjoy watching her husband have meltdowns when Sawako Kuronuma chooses to see her friends over spending holidays with the family.

Sawako Kuronuma

Sawako is Kitao's daughter and only child where they have a very close father-daughter bond. Even though Sawako going out more often with her friends and boyfriend pains him, he understands that Sawako is much happier than before and that she is growing up.

Shouta Kazehaya

Kazehaya is the boyfriend of Kitao's only daughter. When Sawako calls him to inform him that her boyfriend will come to dinner with them, Kitao became so nervous that he hung up without being able to say a word. On their first meeting he checks if Kazehaya is appropriate enough to be his daughter's boyfriend and tries to put him through various tests, asking him several times if he is serious about dating her, and making sure that he will behave and treasure his beloved daughter.

Slowly, he grows to accept him and states that he is a nice guy.

Etymology

• The name Kitao means "joy" (喜) (ki), "many" (多) (ta) and "man, husband" (夫) (o).
  • The kanjis "喜多" means "frequent rejoicing".
  • Although the third kanji in his name "夫" means "man, husband", it's meaning can be ignored because in names, this kanji is added to make a name masculine.
• Kitao's surname Kuronuma means "black" (黒) (kuro) and "swamp, pond, bog, lake" (沼) (numa).

Trivia

• In the MiniTodo! booklet and official FANBOOK, it was revealed that Kitao has an older sister who is Eiji Akahoshi's mother.