Ikuto Tsumura

Ikuto Tsumura (都村育人) is a fashion designer and one of the two protagonists of the Smile Down the Runway manga (ランウェイで笑って) and anime.

Personality
Ikuto is a shy, polite and quiet boy who cares a lot about his family, to the point that he was willing to give up on his dream of assisting to college and becoming a fashion designer, in order to find a job that would allow him to support his family economically and give his siblings the chance to go to school instead. While doing so, he also pretended not to mind to avoid making them feel guilty.

Ikuto is the eldest sibling in his family and always puts his family before everything. Many people often call him selfish because of putting his family before his work. Many designers also look down on him due to his inexperience in the field. Despite all that Ikuto works hard with what he has when being a designer while still deeply caring for his family.

Ikuto gets set back a lot due to his family and other circumstances but setbacks only fuel his dreams even more. When Toh asked Ikuto to be his pattern maker and criticized the work he made that only made him want to beat him even more.

Career
Ikuto is a newcomer in the fashion industry. Although he is in high school he has a natural talent in design and clothes making. Initially, he works for Hajime Yanagida, but eventually quit due to family circumstances. However, he has recently gotten a job offer from Toh Ayano son of the owner of Aphro I Dite, Mai Ayano but turned it down since he was only seen by Toh as a pattern maker. Ikuto finally made his huge break when Kenji Fujito bought his design for his company Mille Neige. Ikuto used the money from his sold design to buy materials for his fashion show at Geika and made a great performance. When Ikuto finally gets to display his work in the Geika fashion show he gets 11th place due to lack of creativity. Later on, Ikuto gets hired to work at Aphro I Dite and becomes an intern at the Geika Institute of Fashion after getting invited by the headmaster and later becomes a student.