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[[folder:Taiyo Yozakura neé Asano]]
!!Taiyo Asano

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: His red hair and eyes distinguish him from the differently colored members of the Yozakura family.

* ClingyJealousGirl:

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Deep blue.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like the rest of her siblings, she has a number in her name indicating the order in which they were born. Mutsumi is the sixthborn and thus has "mutsu" (six) in her name.

* NonActionGuy: Due to being the newest Yozakura head, she doesn't have any of the super talents of her siblings. Because of this, she's usually relegated to the sidelines as MissionControl because of how important she is.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: His color is black.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like the rest of his siblings, he has a number in his name indicating the order in which they were born. Kyoichiro is the firstborn and thus has "ichi" (one) in his name.

* BigLittleBrother: Despite being the second-eldest of the Yozakuras, she's shorter than all of them. This is especially noticeable when she's standing next to Nanao, the youngest of the family. In one scene, she accompanies Mutsumi to school and the high school girls mistake Futaba for Mutsumi's little sister.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: She laughs hysterically after getting ''splashed'' with sake and quickly starts attacking all of the gang members who happen to be attending the same inn as her.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: White, in contrast with her older brother's black.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like the rest of her siblings, she has a number in her name indicating the order in which they were born. Futaba is the secondborn and thus has "futa" as in "futatsu" (two) in her name.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Her diminutive height and cutesy gothic lolita dress makes it easy to assume she's Mutsumi's younger sister rather than her eldest. When she meets her nephew and niece for the first time, Hifumi mistakes her for someone close to their age and accuses Alpha of bringing a woman into their room.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Distinguished from the rest of the cast by his deep green hair.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like the rest of his siblings, he has a number in his name indicating the order in which they were born. Shinzo is the thirdborn and thus has "zo" (three) in his name.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Her color is pink.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like the rest of her siblings, she has a number in her name indicating the order in which they were born. Shion is the fourthborn and thus has "shi" (four) in her name.

* AnimalMotif: Cats. He's constantly dressed in cat-shaped onesie, has a small paw print on his face, and is generally seen as skeevy and mischievous.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: He's denoted by yellow.
* TheCynic: Beneath his playful and energetic exterior is a man incapable of taking others at the word. After all, if he can change everything about himself, what's to say that others can't?

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like the rest of his siblings, he has a number in his name indicating the order in which they were born. Kengo is the fifthborn and thus has "go" (five) in his name.

** Can instantly create scarily perfect disguises, full with fake skin and hair, on himself ''or'' other people. Kengo's disguises are so perfect that he replicates everything from the scent and voice to the number of ''eyelashes'' on their faces. Even Kyoichiro can be fooled by them at times, and Kengo loves to screw with him by taking on Mutsumi's appearance before piling on insults to make Kyoichiro curl up into a ball on the floor.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Cyan compared to Mutsumi's deep blue.

* FamilyThemeNaming: Like the rest of his siblings, he has a number in his name indicating the order in which they were born. Nanao is the seventh and thus has "nana" (seven) in his name.

* VocalDissonance: He has the voice one would expect from someone his age despite being a three-meter-tall colossus in the vomic and sound dramas.

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Alpha is far more intelligent than his father and could be an amazing spy if he wanted to be. But all he wants to do is live a normal life and struggles to be taken seriously. He researches the preschools he wants to attend and is already planning for college and his first career. He then whines that Taiyo is getting snot all over his shirt through his InelegantBlubbering over what a good child Alpha is.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Inverted. Hifumi is the playful, irresponsible older sibling to Alpha's studious, younger sibling. He's tired of her antics constantly getting them expelled from school when he just wants to study and lead a normal life.

* BigSisterInstinct: Hifumi has gotten both her and her brother expelled from schools on three different occasions due to retaliating against people badmouthing Alpha behind his back, which she hides from him because she knows he'll only blame himself for it. When a mercenary comes after the both of them, Hifumi throws Alpha into the thicket without hesitation to hide him before facing the mercenary alone. [[spoiler:When Nii reveals that Asa wants Alpha killed on-sight, Hifumi's protective feelings toawrd Alpha are so strong that she instantly awakens her Blooming before going on a rampage.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: She quickly gets along with her uncle Kyoichiro due to having similarly obsessive affection for their respective siblings. However, this is subverted when Kyoichiro's attempts to bully Taiyo with death threats make Alpha cry, upon which Hifumi declares she hates Kyoichiro for his actions.
* BookDumb: According to Alpha, Hifumi sucks at math, but somehow always manages to get the ratio for his favorite apple pie correct. She's also able to cut an apple pie into perfectly even wedges and manages to sneak out of the house without either of her parents noticing. Later on, she holds her own against an ex-gold rank spy for a while by swinging her yoyo around with lethal accuracy. Her opponent describes her skills as comparable to that of the top percentile of silver rank spies.
* ChildProdigy:
** Alpha has already published theses and created patents at the tender age of four. His former principal describes him as the student with the highest marks in the country and he's developed locks so complex that Taiyo struggles to pick them despite being in the spy business for over five years. While Hifumi is BookDumb, she's implies to be incredibly athletic and crafty in her own right, having strung up a kid who wanted to bully Alpha from atop a statue that requires a ladder for adults to reach. Alpha also recalls a time where she dived into the ocean to catch a great white shark because she knew he likes them.
** According to Mutsumi, both Alpha and Hifumi have been able to walk and talk since they were one month old. Furthermore, they understand complex games and tasks like chess.
** A mercenary who was once a gold rank spy remarks that even without proper spy training, the Yozakura twins would rank in the top percentile of silver rank spies given their current abilities. By comparison, their father only reached silver rank with months of training, unlocking his Blooming, and then his Profuse Blooming of 10,000 Flowers.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Hifumi loves Alpha so much that she gets jealous when other women enter his life. Seeing Futaba constantly outdo her attempts to make Alpha happy drives Hifumi crazy. She soon challenges Futaba to a fight in hopes of proving herself the better older sister (even though Futaba is their aunt).
* CuteBruiser: Hifumi is a cute four-year-old who also happens Yozakura SuperStrength, smashing through steel with her favorite yo-yo. Futaba shows that with practice, Hifumi could even part the seas and sink submarines with sufficient control and technique. [[spoiler:This goes even further with her Blooming, which turns her into a seemingly endless fountain of someinine energy. She can drill through bedrock fighteningly quickly and force Kyoichiro to use his Blooming to cancel out hers.]]
* DeathGlare: When someone makes Alpha cry, Hifumi can exude intense KillingIntent along with a disturbing glare scary enough to cow even Kyoichiro. Taiyo compares Hifumi's rage to that of an angry Yozakura with their Blooming active.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Bad-Alpha, Alpha's SplitPersonality, is prone to coming out and wreaking vengeance when Alpha is under severe duress. When a bully threw his notes in the water, Alpha programmed every appliance in the bully's house to explode. He also crashed the airplane of the CEO who caused Alpha's favorite game company to fail. But while Bad-Alpha is TheUnfettered, Alpha remembers what he did once his rage subsides and feels awful about it.]]

* FamilyThemeNaming: Alpha refers to the first letter of the Greek alphabet and is often used to indicate the first of a series. Hifumi meanwhile can translate to "one, two, three". This reflects how they're the first of a new generation of Yozakuras. [[spoiler:In Alpha's case, it also alludes to how he also possesses the capability of being clan head like his sister, a role that has normally been relegated to the women in the family.]]

* GadgeteerGenius: Alpha shares his aunt's and uncles' talent for engineering, having published several theses and patenting numerous inventions of his own at the tender age of 4. He apparently designed the locks for his own room, which are so complex that Taiyo, an experienced spy at this point, has great trouble picking them.
* GadgetWatch: When pushed into a corner, Alpha fights with his "Alpha Watch". It's capable of producing a disproportionately long clawed hand to grab people and things. It can also hack into pay phones to send GPS signals and shoot electric beams not unlike his father's signature gun, Yae.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Hifumi blames herself for all of Alpha's troubles, especially knowing her actions keep getting them both expelled. When a bounty is placed on her head, she resolves to run away from home, believing that she's more trouble to her family than she's worth.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Like her mother, Hifumi is a dreadful singer whose singing voice can be used as a sonic weapon that has professional spies clutching their ears in agony. Only Alpha, Mutsumi, and Kyoichiro can withstand it without protection, with Taiyo needing to use his Blooming on his ears to avoid injury.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Despite being a ChildProdigy of a spy lineage, Alpha wants nothing to do with the spy business and just wishes to experience a normal life. This is also to ensure Hifumi doesn't put herself in more danger for his sake. It's then subverted when [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive a bounty hunter comes for his and Hifumi's heads]], forcing Alpha to realize that his life will ''never'' be "normal" as a member of the Yozakuras. He then prepares to ask for training before his parents reveal that they're going on a road trip to spy school.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Alpha is implied to be the subject of TallPoppySyndrome, leaving him utterly friendless. His classmates and their parents believe he cheats to achieve all he has when he really is that smart. This leads to Hifumi's outbursts where she attacks those who would bully him to soothe their wounded egos.
* KidHero: DoubleSubverted. Alpha has no intention of getting involved in his family's fight against [[spoiler:Asa, the true founder of the Yozakura family]], understandably believing himself and Hifumi to be woefully underprepared. But Hifumi insists on joining the fight so Alpha doesn't have to be locked in a GildedCage for his safety. Despite his reluctance, Alpha agrees to help Hifumi in her quest to get permission from the other Yozakuras to join the fight when they feel the twins are ready.
* KillerYoYo: Hifumi's preferred weapon is her yoyo, made from the Yozakuras' trademark sakuragane alloy that makes it incredibly strong and hard. Its line is made with thread from Kyoichiro's Steel Spider. Combined with Hifumi's Yozakura SuperStrength, it acts as an extremely deadly weapon capable of smashing solid steel when swung around with lethal accuracy.

* OddNameOut: Alpha is the only member of the Yozakura family to have a Greek name when the rest of his family members, including his twin sister, all have fully Japanese names.
* PerpetualSmiler: Hifumi always has the same smiling expression on her face no matter how she seems to actually feel in the moment.
* PhotographicMemory: While resting on a bench with Kyoichiro, Alpha says that he remembers his uncle's scent from the time Kyoichiro snuck back home to meet them. Even though the twins were no more than infants at the time, Alpha says this is one of his first memories and that he finds Kyoichiro's scent comforting because it reminds him of Mutsumi's.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Alpha is serious, incredibly studious, and WiseBeyondTheirYears. Hifumi is frivolous, BookDumb, and prone to violence when it comes to protecting her little brother. They even have opposite eye colors, with Alpha inheriting Mutsumi's blue eyes while Hifumi inherited Taiyo's red eyes. Despite his exasperation with Hifumi's antics, Alpha would like nothing more than to live a normal, peaceful life with her.
* {{Seers}}: [[spoiler:Alpha's Blooming lets him see multiple possible futures. The first time he uses it is rather traumatic since the first future he sees is one where he's surrounded by the dead bodies of his ''entire family''.]]

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Despite being four years old, both Alpha and Hifumi know how to play chess. Hifumi regularly pesters Alpha to play it with her, while he complains that he already beat her in ten out of eleven games. It's implied that Hifumi is smart enough to beat him more often than that, but she just enjoys watching him win even as he exhausts himself playing against her.
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Like his maternal grandfather, Alpha has a second personality nicknamed "Bad-Alpha" by Hifumi. During this state, his normally angular IdiotHair becomes curvy and his eyes become creepy concentric circles like Momo's. Bad-Alpha is TheUnfettered, which makes him far more dangerous in this state. But since there's continuity of memory between these personalities, Alpha feels awful about his actions afterward. The only way to shock him out of it is to show him the one thing he hates most: frogs.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Hifumi wears a perpetual smile, but secretly nurses a great deal of self-loathing over the trouble she causes Alpha. She wonders if she's more trouble to her family than she's worth and runs away out of fear of causing her family even more problems when she discovers a bounty on her head.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Alpha looks quite a bit like a younger, dark-haired version of his paternal uncle Hikaru, save having Taiyo's IdiotHair. Meanwhile, Hifumi resembles a younger female version of her maternal uncle Kyoichiro, who she shares a lot of traits with.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Bad-Alpha, Alpha's SplitPersonality, thinks faster and is far more ruthless than he normally is. He's able to manipulate multiple tendrils from his Alpha Watch simultaneously and quickly overwhelm Shion's security that previously stumped him. He's also TheUnfettered in this state and is prone to DisproportionateRetribution, such as crashing the airplane of the CEO who caused his favorite game company to fail.]]
* SuperStrongChild: Even at age 4, Hifumi has no issues hoisting a fully grown great white shark out of the water or using her yoyo as essentially a long-ranged battering ram about to smash steel.
* TearsOfFear: Alpha cries a mix of these and TearsOfJoy after his father arrives in a nick of time to save him and Hifumi from a mercenary after the bounty on their heads is made public. After a stressful night of trying to be the mature one to get him and Hifumi out of this situation, Alpha's sobbing is a reflection of both the fear he felt and his relief at being rescued.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Alpha loves apple pie, especially with extra sugar and butter. Hifumi tries [[FoodAsBribe to use it as a bribe]] to get him to play with her, but he's too angry with her to take her up on the offer.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The one animal that Alpha absolutely despises is frogs, as every part of them creeps him out to the point of him frothing at the mouth. Even making a hand gesture that looks like a frog while making ribbit sounds will send Alpha into a panic. [[spoiler:They're also the one thing that can snap Alpha out of his Bad-Alpha SplitPersonality.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Alpha studies rigorously on his own time and researches what schools to attend in order to boost his future career prospects. He's also building his own finances with his own patented inventions and has already published theses even though he hasn't even graduated preschool. When he and Hifumi are attacked, Alpha's first thought is to hack a payphone to signal their whereabouts to their parents rather than try to take on the threat himself. This lets Taiyo reach the twins in a nick of time to save them from a messy fate.

* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is he willing to cut up his own daughter to make medicine he wants Alpha and Hifumi killed on sight. He thinks they are too dangerous and could potentially wipe out the Yozakura family.

* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is he willing to cut up his own daughter to make medicine [[spoiler:he wants Alpha and Hifumi killed on sight. He thinks they are too dangerous and could potentially wipe out the Yozakura family.]]

* PerpetualSmiler: Hifumi always has the same CatSmile expression on her face no matter how she seems to actually feel in the moment.

* StepfordSmiler: Hifumi wears a perpetual CatSmile, but secretly nurses a great deal of self-loathing over the trouble she causes Alpha. She wonders if she's more trouble to her family than she's worth and runs away out of fear of causing her family even more problems when she discovers a bounty on her head.

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* LongLived: He has lived for over ten generations of the Yozakura family.

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* WomenAreWiser: Once Taiyo starts succumbing to paranoia whenever they're outside together, it's up to Mutsumi to handle him and keep him from drawing too much attention.

* BlowYouAway: Her mastery of martial arts lets her generate whirlwinds with her hands that she can use to disperse harmful attacks like fire and poisonous gas as well as stop entire trains.

* TheReliableOne: Futaba is as competent and wise as Kyoichiro but lacks many of her siblings' quirks and neuroses. As a reuslt, she's a source of reason in the family and one of the go-to people for others to confide in.

* BigSisterInstinct: Hifumi has gotten both her and her brother expelled from schools on three different occasions due to retaliating against people badmouthing Alpha behind his back, which she hides from him because she knows he'll only blame himself for it. When a mercenary comes after the both of them, Hifumi throws Alpha into the thicket without hesitation to hide him before facing the mercenary alone.

** While most of them are at least well-meaning people, it's made clear from the beginning that they're mercenaries and household names in the criminal underworld. It's implied that all of them have killed in the past and the government goes to them for jobs beyond the scope of law enforcement or even their own covert operations division, Hinagiku. Taiyo goes so far as to tell Hanawa the Courier that he doesn't care what happens to the rest of the world because of his actions, he's only fighting to protect Mutsumi.

* PowerDyesYourHair: Taiyo [[spoiler:[[SuperMode his True Spring Blooming]] post-TimeSkip. In this state, Taiyo's hair, skin, and clothes are all bleached white, which onlookers compare to having a bucket of white paint dumped on him.

* CreepyUncle: Alpha is disturbed by the obsessive affection Kyoichiro gives him and Hifumi due to them being Mutsumi's children. Hifumi is too at first, but she quickly sympathizes with Kyoichiro due to her own obsessive affection for Alpha, much to Alpha's dismay.

* BoringButPractical: [[spoiler:Taiyo's Blooming is referred to as this. It lacks any kind of special tricks or gimmicks like Kengo's Empathy or Ban's Passage, simply toughening Taiyo's body to the point that he becomes bulletproof and resisting even the mutuated Kawashita's attacks. But it also makes him an ideal bodyguard for Mutsumi and it can be used in tandem with the other Yozakuras rather easily, such as Kyoichiro using him as a [[FastballSpecial human bullet]] to bust through Kawashita's defenses. A bounty hunter following the TimeSkip describes the Taiyo that has better honed his Blooming as his entire body being a weapon.]]

* {{Contortionist}}: [[spoiler:After activating his Profuse Blooming of 10,000 Flowers for the first time, Taiyo's body becomes saturated with someinine. His bones and muscles become pliable enough that Futaba can basically fold him in half without him suffering any discomfort.]]

* TheDreaded: PlayedForLaughs. After the timeskip he has this reputation in the spy community. [[spoiler:Because he's the OnlySaneMan in a family like the Yozakuras. Since the spies who do not know him personally don't think it's possible to be sane in that family, they think he's actually the scariest of them all. They also believe that the reason no one has evidence of his dirty business is because he kills off any witnesses.]]

** It's later revealed that the gun is called "Yae" and was personally designed by Shinzo. It's later modified to allow a sword to sprout from the barrel for close combat should Taiyo's opponent have a means of nullifying Yae's electricity.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Several of his assignments require him to go undercover, so he ends up doing everything from being a bellboy to working as a train attendant. He's noted to be surprisingly good at his work and gives it his all even though it's not what he's actually supposed to be doing there.

* ShrinkingViolet: Taiyo is so terrified of social interaction that he froths at the mouth and passes out after the shortest social exchanges. This is because he sees himself as a DoomMagnet and fears that he'll lose everyone he cares about. He mostly gets over it out of necessity after being married into the Yozakura family, but years of being a social recluse has left him a SociallyAwkwardHero.

** Downplayed. He's not ''quite'' as over-the-top in his affections for Mutsumi as Ban is to Keiko, but his declarations of affection are so passionate and strong that Shion rolls her eyes at how sickly sweet they are.

* StraightMan: Due to growing up in a normal family prior to marrying into the Yozakuras, Taiyo lacks most of the goofy quirks of his in-laws. He's typically the one to react normally to the bizarre antics they get up to, setting up many of the gags of the series. Taiyo's StraightMan status shakes a little as he gains quirks of his own, such as his SickeninglySweethearts routine with Mutsumi, but he still remains comparatively serious and normal compared to the likes of Kyoichiro.

** Taiyo's experience and maturity after the TimeSkip is exemplified in his handling of [[spoiler:the plan to stop the unwanted marriage between Shinzo and Katnaa]]. While the other Yozakuras are panicking over having their most embarrassing secrets revealed, Taiyo remains perfectly calm and serious the entire time. He instructs his children to help him with an IndyPloy that goes off without a hitch. Once the ploy succeeds, Taiyo is in the perfect position to stop Alexandryu from retaliating with almost casual ease. Pre-TimeSkip, Taiyo would likely be struggling and panicking with everyone else, but he makes it look easy, showing how he's grown into the role of family patriarch.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Gender-inverted. Taiyo has to stop himself from hunting down people sexually harrassing Mutsumi over the internet when they ask for things like her body measurements.