Character

Ryo Kuroyanagi

黒柳 亮

The 22-year-old head at the main Pantasia branch, and a Harvard graduate with a Food Science diploma. His passion and talent is food tasting, at which he excels. He has incredible physical senses, as he could deduce the cooking and fermentation times as well as the proportions of ingredients of a loaf of bread just by smelling it. His strait-laced no-nonsense attitude belies his very silly quirk of making strange pun-based reactions to the delicious bread he's eating. He used to be the student of Ken Matsushiro, but Matsushiro drove Kuroyanagi away after realizing his potential as a food critic. He is given the opportunity by Yuuichi Kirisaki to fully utilize his skills as a judge for the Yakitate!! 25 competition (Yakitate!! 9 in the anime). Ken and Tsukino called him a bread zombie.