Katsuya Honda



Katsuya Honda is the late father of Tohru Honda and husband of Kyoko Honda. He appears only in the manga in flashbacks. Katsuya habitually spoke formally as a way of distancing himself from the world, a habit that, according to his father, Tohru later adopted. He met Kyoko as a student teacher at her middle school and recognized that her rebellious behavior was as much protection as his own polite manners; in turn, Kyoko initially described his manners as "fake polite". Despite their eight-year difference in age (he was 21, she was 13), they fell in love; he helped her set aside her gangster lifestyle and they married after she finished middle school. Three years after Tohru was born, Katsuya died of pneumonia while on a business trip.