Why, just why do I always entangle everyone around me and trouble them like this...
No doubt I'm always causing trouble for those around me...
It may be... It may be that I'm the type of person who should utterly despair but I don't even have that much spirit. That's right, I can't do anything and yet when it comes to life,
I've twice as much nerve as others.
My being like this annoys me...!!

An extremely timid university student, he feels like he's shrivelling when he wears men's clothes and therefore tends to dress in women's clothing. He goes to university wearing furisode (long sleeved kimono worn by young women).

Similar to his mother, he panics easily and is very sensitive to his own mistakes and trivial sarcastic comments by others. His manner of becoming flustered is not normal. Also, when he's panicking if you push him in the side, he'll regain his senses.

The time when he visited Shigure's home, he panicked when the bottom of a paper bag gave way, he panicked when Shigure was not happy with the gift he'd brought, he panicked when a dish was broken, and on top of all that, stood on the roof and thought to commit suicide but...

Punish me... Divine punishment!

Ritsu's beauty and gentle manner is such that he can be mistaken for being a woman. Although anyone would be envious of his looks, for him is just one type of complex. However, even that sort of Ritsu may change. Thanks to Tohru's words...

It's okay if you're audacious isn't it...
Afterall, afterall
It's because people are alive
It's because people are alive
That we can cry
Worry... rejoice...
Being born in the world for a reason.
That sort of reason!

To have self confidence
Ritsu lives every day checking people's expressions. Rits has no self-confidence. He even thinks there is no merit in his living. However Tohru told him "It's okay being audacious......" just being alive is okay. Having a reason to being born in this world...... Ritsu felt something in Tohru's words......