Masayuki Hori

Hori's birthday is on Good Knee-High Socks Day (いいニーハイの日), an unofficial holiday celebrated in Japan.
Hori lives with his father, mother, and younger brother who is also in high school.
Hori's hobbies are movie appreciation, watching plays, and travelling while he spends his holidays watching movies.
Hori is good at memorizing roads, spatial perception, and carpentry, while his weakness is his low alcohol tolerance.
Hori's style of choice is the ordinary high school uniform.
Hori's best subjects are Mathematics and Physics, while he doesn't do well in Classic Literature. Along with Kashima, his elective subject is Calligraphy.
Hori's favorite food is pork ramen. He dislikes homemade cooking made by amateurs, especially sweets.
Hori's ideal type of girl is a girl with nice legs.

Mikoto Mikoshiba Hori recognizes Mikoshiba as a close friend of Kashima and Nozaki, and as the character model for Mamiko; the latter association is so strong that he mistakenly addresses him as "Mami-koshiba". Hori genuinely believes that Mikoshiba has the potential to be a good actor due to his looks and hardworking nature, but never pursued it because of Mikoshiba's shyness. In Chapter 121, Hori finds out that Mikoshiba draws the flowers and special effects.

Yuzuki Seo
Hori and Seo are acquaintances. Seo sometimes addresses him as "Hori-chan" in school, in which he reminds her to call him "senpai". He considers her a close friend of Kashima, a very close friend of Wakamatsu, and he recognizes her as the character model for Oze.

Hirotaka Wakamatsu
Hori knows that Wakamatsu is an assistant for Nozaki's manga. They tend to work together because they help during late nights. Later, he recognizes him as the character model for the side character Waka. When he identifies Wakamatsu as Waka and Seo as Oze, he realizes that their real-life relationship also has romantic undertones. They sport a senpai-kouhai type of friendship and occasionally hang out.

Chiyo Sakura
Hori has a good relationship with Sakura. Both are aware of each other's status as manga assistant, and he knows about her crush on Nozaki, but doesn't do much to support the latter. He has asked Sakura to keep his involvement in the manga a secret from Kashima so she doesn't try to get involved and cause trouble for Nozaki. Sakura tends to be jealous of Hori because he gets to stay overnight at Nozaki's place to draw backgrounds, and occasionally asks him to teach her background art skills.

Umetaro Nozaki
Nozaki was originally hired by Hori to create scripts for his drama club, and in exchange, Hori would draw backgrounds for his manga. They grew to be friends through their work. Hori usually confides in Nozaki and Sakura in his dealings with Kashima and the Drama Club. He also asks Nozaki alone for advice in club activities.

Yuu Kashima
While Hori tends to be violent towards Kashima, particularly when she is skipping club activities, he appreciates her when she works hard and tries her best. Kashima is loyal and fond of Hori. Kashima cares about Hori's aspirations and goes out of her way to fulfill them. During the course of the series, Kashima has mistaken Hori for wanting to be a princess in a play and thought he wanted to wear feminine attire, such as blouses and skirts. On these occasions, Kashima has tried her best to support Hori by giving him feminine clothes or reassuring him that they are friends; however, Hori reacted badly, thinking that Kashima was making fun of him.

In elementary school, a female classmate once gave Hori handmade chocolate that upset his stomach. Ever since then, he has disliked handmade food. Despite claiming he won't eat anything handmade, he will still eat something handmade by someone he knows well.

According to Kashima, Hori was the person that brought her into the school with his superb acting in a past cultural festival. He initially did not know she was a girl, and apparently was surprised when he found out

After Kashima joined the Drama Club, Hori quit being an actor, claiming that the club had found the perfect main male character. He started to help make props and direct plays, which he found more interesting than acting, which led to him specializing in that aspect

Hori has a talent for drawing backgrounds due to his comprehensive understanding of perspective. He has once given Nozaki a lesson on this, although Nozaki is still unable to draw backgrounds.

He is also a very skilled actor, according to Kashima, Sakura, and much of the Drama Club. However, he prefers to be behind the scenes during his shows. Hori's carpentry skills are shown through the sets and props he makes. It is stated in the official fanbook that he has "mastered the art of building stages". Hori also has an excellent sense of spatial perception, and has the ability to note the size, shape, movement and orientation of objects in order to draw accurate buildings.

Hori is very diligent when it comes to the Drama Club and never slacks off during rehearsals. Typically, he comes off as mature and polite; however, Hori has a short temper and can be easily angered. This is shown through his violent actions towards Kashima when she makes inappropriate comments or tries to skip club meetings. He typically uses physical force to drag her to club activities and prevent her from running away.

Hori also has a slightly childish side. He has drawn briefs as beta markers on Nozaki's manga, enthusiastically discussed it with Sakura, and talked about raw octopus with Kashima in the hot springs

When acting, Hori is very composed and speaks in a cool tone of voice, according to the Drama Club's members. He makes plays that aren't for the purpose of social criticism or to send a message, but rather, plays that students can easily enjoy. The plays he asks Nozaki to write for the club tend to have a princely character in them, and they tend to have romantic plots. Additionally, he is easily absorbed into plays when watching them, crying and laughing.

Hori is a short young man with short brown hair that is usually styled up with wax. Naturally, his fringe falls down the centre of his forehead. When asked by Kashima about his hairstyle, he stated that he prefers his hair spiked up, since wearing his bangs down makes him look younger.

Hori's school uniform consists of a blue shirt that is tucked into dark navy blue trousers. He wears a navy blue tie that is usually placed in his pocket when working, but is taken out during school hours or when outside. He also leaves his top button undone with his sleeves being rolled up to his elbows.

During the summer festival, he wore a plain blue shirt which was tucked into dark green pants.

Masayuki Hori (堀 政行 Hori Masayuki) is a high school student at Roman Academy and the president of the Drama Club. Although he is very good at acting, his short height makes him unqualified for most lead roles and his skills make him stand out too much to play a side character. Therefore, he works behind the scenes painting sets and making props instead.

Hori also works as Nozaki's assistant, drawing the backgrounds of Let's Fall in Love in exchange for Nozaki writing drama club scripts.

Class
3-C
Club
Drama
Birthday
November 28
Horoscope
Sagittarius
Age
17-18
Height
164 cm (5'4½)
Gender
Male