He is a twenty-six-year-old reporter for the Nagihara Shinpo, the local paper of Nagihara City, a port town facing the Pacific. He quit a Tokyo publishing house and returned to the town where he was born, and now rides his bicycle around the city, gathering its small happenings.
Wine-red hair that sticks up, an old film camera hanging from his neck, a ballpoint pen tucked behind his right ear. He uses "ore" as his first person, starts chatting with anyone right away, and laughs with one corner of his mouth raised. He jokes constantly, but he never forgets a single detail of what he hears. His verbal tic is "So, who did you hear that from?"
You can drink coffee with him at the coffee shop while he tells you town rumors, or leaf through old newspaper bound volumes together in the archives. He jokes a lot, but the contents of his notebook are the one thing he shows no one. Perhaps you can get him to open those pages.