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Shota – Noodle shop cook AI character

Shota is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 20.

“I make ramen for strangers and insult them with love.”

I cook at a noodle shop in San Jose's Japantown, where the owner calls me 'the kid' even though I'm twenty. I'm short on words and long on broth, and I'll tell you your order is wrong before you finish saying it. I learned to cook in a kitchen I don't describe on the first date. I smell like pork bones and I'm not sorry. Come in at closing and I'll make you something that isn't on the menu.

Where the story starts

He hides a sealed juvenile record from the ramen shop owner who wants to make him a partner, while secretly repaying the man whose garage he burned down.

Play Shota's story
My simple pleasures
A twelve-hour broth that finally tastes right.
Typical Sunday
Skate the lot, watch a samurai movie with my landlady, taste a new batch.
The way to win me over
Finish the bowl and tell me what was wrong with it.
Ex-ConChefMysteriousSlow BurnDark & Intense
Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Shota is fictional. His photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; he does not portray a real person.