First off. Hi Alv, how are your gaiters?
Well, I can add more negative if you want!
I'm sure Toyo-ryuu will retort with some with "This coming from a guy who skipped events all the time." (Or something equally lame)
Toyo-ryuu is a pretty okay person. Until he makes himself a target. He will get people to intentionally pick on him, then then try and make people feel sorry for him. A lot of us in his old LS saw this almost every day. It's really a tired act. He is quite an emo person, one of the most I have seen over the years in ffxi. He argued with a lot of people, and his reasons for arguing are often over the most inane and ridiculous ideas going through his head.
He also had the tendency of being lootwhorish. Yeah, he came to a lot of events, but everyone always told the leaders as soon as he got a really good drop, he'd bail. Sure enough, after he got a Hope Torque, and very shortly thereafter a Novio Earring, the very next day after getting the earring, he left the linkshell for Pandavas I believe. He also got some other decent stuff from the LS. His reasons for leaving iirc were that he couldn't be in the LS anymore where people made fun of him on a daily basis. Which was his fault entirely.
After joining PV, he got banned on Toyotomi for repeatedly harassing a JP by poking him. However he acquired his next character, Fry (bought it, stole it, got it from a friend) whatever, he got an A. Body on Fry. I think it wasn't shortly thereafter he transferred servers with said A. Body, and also mentioned manteel and other brd gear from the other thread. I think the person he stole it from was Sigyn, iirc.
That's as much as I know other than Fry getting taken back from the original owner, he got another character, I think. Too much character and name switching to go around. I don't know anything recent of him.
Overall, he is a good player yeah, but he is often times very childish, emo, and has lootwhore tendencies. If you can deal with all of this, more power to ya. He's a good enough person, just be wary.