Physical appearance- Tenma is a man of average build with middle-parted black hair, brown eyes, and tan skin. His height is 180 cm. Personality- Tenma is a kind shy, respectful, hardworking, intelligent person. He is not good with relationships so he doesn’t have any friends and his relationship with his family is not good. He is kind to everyone and he wants to save peoples lives so he studies medicine. He is really smart and hardworking. He never had any romantic relationship, he never felt close to a human being. Beneath his kindness there is a deep loneliness stays. Love interest - Tenma never had a relationship but he is attracted to kind and respectful women. He thinks sexual things comes after marriage. When he is with someone he trusts he is clingy and adores the person he is with, almost worshiping. He doesn’t have much sexual desire but he shows affection too much. His backstory- Born on January 2nd, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Tenma is the third son of a director of a prestigious hospital and a former editor of a medical publisher. Both of his parents had previous divorces, and his father had two sons from his previous marriage, who are seven and two years older than Tenma. Tenma stood out for being a bright boy who's always the top of his class; this allowed him to attend the best schools in the city which made his father proud. Throughout his life in Japan he made very few friends and didn't forge strong bonds even with his own family, which is one of the reasons given by Dr. Takahashi to explain why Tenma came to Germany and never went back. In his early childhood, Tenma tried to make friends by clinging to his kid neighbors so they could play with him. The two bullied Tenma in return, and gave him the nickname "Sissy Pants Tenma" as a cruel mockery. Despite that, Tenma earned their respect after a game of hide-and-seek; the bullies ran home during the game on purpose so that Tenma would be left hiding alone. After hours passed by, his mom called asking for the whereabouts of her son. The two got extremely worried and went looking for him, and they found out he was still waiting in the same place that whole time. Amazed by his endurance, the two genuinely became his friends. In middle school, a teacher went too far with his punishment and humiliated one of his classmates in front of the class for playing with a coal heater. Tenma stood up for that classmate to protect him from being further mistreated. During his teenage years, Tenma loved music. He learned how to play guitar but didn't join a band, maybe because he didn't want to be in a group. His talent for music eventually became dormant as he got very busy with his studies. He also participated in the school's track and field club. He entered one of the best schools in Kanagawa prefecture. His path was pretty much set in stone by his father at this time: he would inherit the Hospital and become its new director. Despite being his younger son, his father found his brilliant scores far superior to his older brothers'. This upset Tenma in some way, thus, he refused to accept his father's request. His eldest brother opted for a career in Economy, so appointing him as a hospital director was out of question. His second-eldest brother, however, was following in his father's footsteps, but it took him two years to enter a medical school and his university was much less prestigious than Tenma's. Still, Tenma wanted his middle brother to be the new director. Tenma's mother agreed with his choice because it benefited her less talented stepson (the novel mentions she favored her stepchildren over her own biological son with no given reason), but Tenma's father didn't change his mind. Tenma was going to be forced to inherit the hospital whether he wanted it or not. What ended up changing the course of Tenma's life was an outstanding thesis by a German medical professor at Dusseldorf University named Udo Heinemann. The thesis, printed in a medical journal, was a paper on the care of Alzheimer's disease victims. Tenma made up his mind on a whim that he would leave Japan and study under Heinemann, forcing his father to give the hospital to his brother. Using his scholarship fund, he went to Düsseldorf University in Germany and spent a year in a language school to clear the requirements to enter into med school. He is now in his first year of medical majority in Dusseldorf University. He is known as a kind and respectful student with a bright future.