Katsuya Honda
Katsuya Honda is the late father of Tohru Honda and husband of Kyoko Honda. In the series, he appears only in flashbacks. Katsuya habitually spoke formally as a way of distancing himself from the world,a habit that, according to his father, Tohru later adopted.He met Kyoko as a student teacher at her middle school and recognized that her rebellious behavior was as much protection as his own polite manners.Despite their eight-year difference in age , they fell in love; he helped her set aside her gangster lifestyle and they married after she finished middle school. Three years after Tohru was born, Katsuya died of pneumonia while on a business trip.