Takuya Arima

Takuya Arima (有馬 たくや Arima Takuya) is the main protagonist of YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World. He is a student at Sakaimachi Academy in Class 3-C who currently lives with Ayumi Arima (Takuya's stepmother) as Keiko Arima (Takuya's biological mother) died when he was young and Kodai Arima (Takuya's historian father) later goes missing after a rockfall accident while collecting research.

Etymology

 * The name Takuya is written in hiragana (たくや), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (拓也 or 拓哉), it could possibly mean:
 * 拓也 - "expand, open, support" (拓) (taku) and "to be, also" (也) (ya).
 * 拓哉 - "expand, open, support" (拓) (taku) and "how, what, alas, question mark, ?" (哉) (ya).
 * Takuya's surname Arima means "exist" (有) (ari) and "horse" (馬) (ma).