Character

Yuugo Tennouji

天王寺 裕吾, Mr. Braun

Yuugo Tennouji (天王寺 裕吾 Tennōji Yūgo) is Rintaro Okabe's landlord and the owner of the CRT store. He has a great passion for CRT Television and refuses to upgrade to any other type. This coupled with the fact he owns a CRT store has resulted in Rintaro nicknaming him "Mr. Braun" after the inventor of CRTs, German physicist Ferdinand Braun and the common Japanese name for CRTs, "Braun Tubes". While appearing as a tough and menacing man and often using this demeanour to jokingly bully Rintaro, he actually has a soft spot for the lab members and cares about their well-being. His daughter Nae is his top priority and he will go to desperate lengths to ensure her safety. Yuugo has a bad temper, and is very easily annoyed by Rintaro's mannerisms as well as his "experiments" upstairs. He regularly threatens to raise the lab's rent money should the experiments continue to disturb him, though this has never actually happened. In the presence of both his daughter and Rintaro, he would often attempt to "protect" her from Rintaro, whom he sees as a "pervert", though he was likely joking.