Ryouta Yamano

Ryouta Yamano (山野 亮太, Yamano Ryōta) is a character of We Shall Now Begin Ethics.

Plot
Ryouta feels he is ordinary person, he hangs out with Kouki Hazama and Riku Kondou, but he gets normal grades and doesn't stand out, making his teacher neither hate him or love him. One day as he keeps thinking about being ordinary, he spaces out and gets hit by a truck.

In the hospital, his family is revealed he has only fractured rib and small concussion. Takayanagi visits him, surprising Ryouta as he never talked with him before. Takayanagi explains that his homeroom teacher couldn't make it, so he came in his stead and gives him origami paper, for which he tries to make a joke, however Ryouta doesn't understand it. Ryouta asks him if he has a special student that he will remember and Takayangi tells him that's Ryouta as he never visited another student in the hospital or made origami for a student. Ryouta states that he is asking seriously and believes he threw himself on the truck. He didn't have suicidal thoughts, but wanted to stand out and decided to take a step earlier before the red light was off. Takayanagi explains that he is just trying to find out what kind of person he is, but being self-aware, he already knows. Takayanagi then explains he is terrible teacher as he is only interested in students who are troubled and if Ryouta didn't speak, he would have left after making this origami. Seeing the origami, Ryouta laughs at it and decides to make a crane origami. Takayanagi then sees the legs on the crane and starts to laugh. Ryouta wonders if he should be comedian, but Takayanagi explains it may be just his weird sense of humor. Takayanagi then takes the crane and leaves, telling Ryouta to get better and see each other in class again.