Torajiro "Astora" Asuka

Torajiro Asuka (飛鳥 虎次郎), also known as Asutora (アストラ), is a main character in Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters. His Buddy Appmon is.

Appearance
Torajiro is a preteen boy with fair skin, wavy blonde hair long enough to tie back in a small ponytail, and bright green eyes. He has two small markings on each cheek reminiscent of a cat's whiskers, and a wide, cat-like mouth. He wears a black hat with a bright green bill and metal plating on the crown, a brown vest over a black shirt with yellow highlights, green wristbands, yellow shorts, and green-and-white sneakers with dark green soles. He also wears red headphones around his neck and has large, colorful buttons on his clothing, a green one on the bottom of his vest and blue and red buttons on his shorts.

During winter, Torajiro wears his shorts and shoes with a cream coloured sweatshirt, a black and red jacket and black long johns.

Description
Torajiro is a free-spirited boy who likes to go with the flow and believes in the importance of freedom and expressing one's emotions. Online, he is a famous App Tuber known by the nickname "Asutora". The catchphrase he usually uses during his videos is "Do I feel it? Don't I? I totally do!" (ノレる? ノレない? 超ノレる！).

Torajiro's family are Grand Masters of a tea ceremony school, and are very strict and traditional.

His Apptter username is @Asutoramu.

Development
At some point, Asutora's name, Torajiro, was intended to be written as "寅次郎", which uses a different for "tiger" (寅).

Etymologies
Name used in and official romanization given by Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters. His given name is also romanized as Torajirou in recaps and the DVD-Box 1 booklet.
 * Torajiro Asuka (飛鳥 虎次郎)
 * Ja: Asuka (飛鳥). Japanese surname that means "flying bird". Possibly after the of Japan, and a likely reference to his family being very traditional.
 * Ja: Torajiro (虎次郎). A Japanese male name composed of the for "tiger" (虎) and "next son" (次郎). Possibly a reference to his cat-like face and the colors of his clothes.

Nickname used in and official romanization given by Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters.
 * Asutora (アストラ)
 * Ja:  A combination of the first two kana letters of his surname and name, "Asu" (あす) and "Tora" (とら), as well as a likely reference to Asutora (アストラ), a software used for video broadcasting.