Jiro Horikoshi

Jiro Horikoshi. He has a happy and good-natured personality, especially towards Naoko Satomi, whom he loves. Jiro studies airplane design and eventually works at an airplane design company. He meets Naoko during the Earthquake and later reconnects with her after studying airplane design in Germany. They fall in love, get married, but Naoko suffers from tuberculosis which leads to her eventual death. In the end, Jiro is reunited with Naoko and Caproni as she tells him to live with trust and faith in himself.