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(Name order note: to better demonstrate this series' psychic-related Punny Names, all names here are arranged surname-first.)


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Saiki Kusuo

    Saiki Kusuo - Character Profile 
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"What a pain."
Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma (vomic and flash anime), Hiroshi Kamiya (TV anime) and Haruka Tomatsu (Kusuko) (Japanese), Jerry Jewell and Jamie Marchi (Kusuko) (English Funimation), Kyle McCarley (English Netflix), Alejandro Orozco (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Kento Yamazaki

"Good grief...ordinary people sure are a pain."

A 16-year old boy with extremely powerful psychic powers. He could use them to effortlessly have anything he wanted, but instead opts to settle down for a peaceful and quiet life.


  • Afraid of Their Own Strength: If Saiki isn't careful, people will get hurt. Badly. He hates PE because he knows he could easily kill a person by simply throwing a ball at them. He also tries to keep his powers in check out of fear that he might cause the apocalypse by accident.
  • Ambiguous Gender Identity: Saiki's gender identity comes into question when he reveals he was actually born as a girl because his shapeshifting powers manifested while he was still in his mother's womb. He's sure he was conceived as male, hence he keeps that gender as his Shapeshifter Default Form. Normally, Saiki is comfortable with living as a man and only takes female form when he needs it for a specific goal, but he doesn't seem to view his own gender as being particularly important to his identity. On one occasion, his first plan for avoiding attention in a world where he's become incredibly popular was to become female for life, and he doesn't seem to have any problems with it until he finds out that his female form is also quite popular.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: His female form, Kusuko/Kuriko, attracts the unwanted attentions of Takahashi and his friends.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He gets moments like this with most of the main characters — despite consistently deriding their actions in his inner monologue, Saiki does care about them and looks out for them with his psychic powers.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: After constantly wishing that he could have a normal life without his psychic powers, he finally got what he wanted in the last chapters. However, he seems to be none too happy about it, as it left him with disadvantages such as unable to notice people wanting to talk to him from behind along with the surprise attacks that have planned against him. It is through this experience that he is finally able to accept having an exciting life with his psychic powers.
  • Berserk Button: He might be a stoic dude, but even he has a few:
    • Don't mess with his desserts.
    • Don't cheat. Though this mainly entails not cheating to advance yourself at the expense of others, as he admits to cheating on exams in order to enforce his facade of being a normal person (copying other students' work, complete with all mistakes, when he's more than smart enough to ace the exams).
    • A typical one for a Tsundere, but don't bully or mess with his friends. This is best shown in his childhood, when after coming upon Akechi being severely abused by bullies, he completely wrecked them along with an entire classroom.
  • Blessed with Suck: His powers take away many kinds of enjoyment and he hasn't complete control over them.
  • Bumbling Sidekick: Kaidou sees Saiki as his hapless sidekick in the fight against the Dark Reunion. To emphasize this, Saiki is drawn with softer features and given a higher voice in Kaidou's daydreams. Saiki is actually the furthest thing from this trope.
  • Bystander Syndrome: He initially didn't help Akechi when he was being bullied as he didn't want his psychic powers to be known.
  • Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Has his dynamic with his psychic powers where, despite constantly complaining about them, he has grown far more used to them than he would like to admit.
    • A notable example is his telepathy. Saiki states that he dislikes this power the most, but once he obtains a ring that cancels it out, he becomes very paranoid while using it simply because he's so used to reading everyone's thoughts. This also leads to more harrowing situations, as he can't predict people's actions anymore.
  • Cannot Talk to Women: Teruhashi rationalizes Saiki's extreme apathy as him being too awkward to say anything around her. In her internal monologue, Saiki is given softer features and more awkward mannerisms.
  • Catchphrase: "Yareyare"/"Good grief", which he says so much that his father and Toritsuka overuse it when pretending to be him.
  • Celibate Hero: He's utterly uninterested in romance and doesn't feel sexual attraction, since his Telepathy and X-Ray Vision make him see people's ugliness both on the inside and the outside. A big part of the series is him avoiding people who are in love with him, mainly Teruhashi, because he feels annoyed by dealing with their feelings. He gets even more annoyed by finding that nothing he does can foil Teruhashi's crush on him. Extra points because he always tries to help his friends except when they're trying to do something romantic with him.
  • Character Development: Slowly starts to appreciate the people around him as the series goes on. In the last chapter he accepts his psychic powers and exciting life because of them.
  • Chick Magnet: Despite the claims that he's "average", four girls end up attracted to him at some point, much to his chagrin.
  • Comically Invincible Hero: His numerous powers can bail him out of virtually any undesirable situation. This doesn't stop undesirable situations from happening to him anyways.
  • Comedic Sociopathy: One of the few things that make Saiki smile is Toritsuka dealing with a 3-day fasting ritual inside a hut. Justified when Saiki wanted his perverting friend to pass his fasting exercise by having him desperately watch the former eat a lot snacks since his Buddhist training isn't enough to purify himself.
  • Cover-Blowing Superpower: Revealing his powers to the world will attract unwanted attention to himself.
  • The Cynic: He's very cynical despite living in a very pleasant world.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Of the First-Person Smartass kind. He is also capable of picking up on other people's snark with his own telepathy.
  • Debt Detester: The one thing he hates more than standing out is owing someone a favor.
  • Deliberate Under-Performance: He knows that he could ace every test with his nigh-infinite Psychic Powers, but doesn't want to draw attention to himself and just wants to live a quiet life — so he uses his powers to get grades that are just high enough to keep him in the middle of the rankings.
  • Family Theme Naming: Everyone in his family, including him, has a given name that starts with 'Ku'.
  • Fourth-Wall Observer: Saiki's inner monologue is specifically addressed to the reader, but he doesn't Break the Fourth Wall aloud.
  • Freudian Excuse: He doesn't like Takahashi very much since he resembles a bully who used to torment Akechi when they were in elementary school, which eventually caused Kusuo to snap, unleash his psychic powers, and transfer schools after mind wiping them.
  • Friendless Background: His aim. His classmates don't collaborate.
  • He Who Must Not Be Heard: In the beginning, it was left ambiguous whether he can't speak, won't speak or doesn't speak on screen until a few scenes began to clarify that it leaned towards won't speak or at least not on screen.
    • A a few Imagine Spots have characters imagining him speaking, so it's likely they've heard him before off screen. Furthermore, it's established early on that he can communicate telepathically as his father was able to give Saiki a direct answer when he asked why his parents couldn't move their furniture on their own. The speaking off screen theory also gains some support when Saiki appears to have said that he wasn't going to the beach with Nendou out loud, as his mother instantly scolded him into going. As his head was turned in that example, it's very likely he was moving his lips and we just didn't see.
    • His interactions with Toritsuka in the latter's introduction clearly have him using telepathy to communicate without moving his lips, although one shot in the anime seems to have him physically talking as his mouth changes position, but it's too zoomed out to tell if he was moving his lips.
    • The first unambiguous case of him speaking physically on screen in the anime occurs in episode 5, where he says "Oh, wow" after realizing that he didn't need to get a buzzcut since while his class lost sports day, they beat the specific class they made the bet with.
    • Later on, he can be seen shouting “Dammit!” when Nendo catches him without his glasses and gets petrified as a result.
  • Hypocritical Heartwarming: Towards his parents. While he might find them embarrassing, especially his dad, but he does not react well to anyone mocking them.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: He doesn't really want to become a normal person but he wants to live quietly as one.
  • I'll Kill You!: He hilariously threatens to kill Toritsuka with a sharpened roll of toilet paper if he ever reveals that he's a psychic to his classmates.
  • Irony: Despite his best attempts to blend in with the crowd by acting as normal as possible, he refuses to say "offu/oh wow!" to Teruhashi thanks to his Pride... even though any normal male character would say "offu/oh wow!" the moment they see her. As a result, he ends up on Teruhashi's radar as she continues to pester him into saying the phrase.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's normally cold and says some really mean things about his classmates in his head, especially about Nendou, but when it comes down to it, he'll help any of them, including Nendou.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": The only consistent time he gets emotional for real is when he's gushing over Satou's average mundane life.
  • Leitmotif: I Am a Psychic, The Daily Life of a Psychic, and The Psychic is the Most Unhappy Person in the World!
  • Light Girl, Dark Boy: Saiki's hair becomes a much lighter shade of pink when he transforms into a girl.
  • Logical Weakness: He can read minds, but it takes time for him to listen and understand what the mind is saying. That means he cannot detect someone who barely thinks, and that's how Nendou often get the drop on him, despite Saiki's attempt to avoid him.
  • Loners Are Freaks: Subverted, as everyone in his school tries their hardest to get his attention despite his loner tendencies. It helps that his psychic powers give him a far better ability to read social cues and have the skills normal examples of the loner archetype lack.
  • Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: He's constantly annoyed by the classmates who consider him a "friend", but they make his life a lot more interesting and his interactions with them do humanize him.
  • Magnetic Hero: Ironically, he would rather not be one, but his classmates insist on befriending him anyway. It's lampshaded on multiple occasions (such as when Kuboyasu transfers in) that Saiki is the character that ties the main cast together.
  • Medium Awareness: The way his thoughts are framed makes it clear that he's speaking to us, and that his psychic powers let him know he's a fictional character. Best demonstrated when he makes him self visible to the viewers of the show so that the audience can see him while remaining invisible to the other characters in the story. When other characters gain the ability to break the fourth wall later on, only Saiki still knows how the show really works.
  • Mistaken for Romance: Teruhashi's fan club comes to the conclusion that Saiki is her boyfriend and Yuuta is their lovechild. They're right that Teruhashi has feelings for him, though.
  • Morton's Fork: With his telepathy, he's forced to listen to everyone's thoughts in a rather large radius. Without his telepathy (by negating it via the germanium ring), he becomes The Paranoiac and is more nervous around people because he can no longer read their thoughts and predict their actions.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Played for Laughs and Deconstruction purposes instead Deus ex machina. Saiki always has a power useful for solving the crisis at hand, but because of his powers' limits, shenanigans usually ensue.
  • No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Saiki goes out of his way to try to avoid Teruhashi and Yumehara's advances.
  • Not Bad: Saiki will never admit he actually likes something (not even coffee jelly). Instead, he'll just claim that he "doesn't dislike" it.
  • Not Distracted by the Sexy: Saiki is notable for being completely immune to Teruhashi's beauty and charm (it comes with the mind-reading). He's also unaffected by Aiura's buxom figure, even though many other guys point it out.
  • Not So Above It All: For all of his criticism of other characters' wackiness, Saiki can be just as silly as any of them, especially when sweets are involved. He also has a thing for truly heartwarming moments.
  • Not So Stoic:
    • Accidentally using psychometry on a person who can see ghosts causes him to look terrified.
    • He visibly freaks out when confronted with bugs.
    • Becomes more expressive and turns into a fanboy whenever around the utterly average Satou.
    • When he thinks that Nendou received a love letter, he is just as shocked as everyone else.
  • Obsessively Normal: Saiki makes an effort to be totally average in grades, sports, and appearance so he doesn't stand out. Of course, he's anything but normal, and winds up nearly always surrounded by an increasing number of larger-than-life personalities. Lampshaded by Rifuta, who can't understand why Teruhashi would like a guy as mediocre as Saiki pretends to be.
  • The Omnipotent: Of the Type 5. Possibly Type 3. Saiki basically has every psychic power in the book, and can utilize them in creative ways, leading to this trope.
  • Only Sane Man: To virtually every other character in the series — Saiki loves to call out their flaws and quirks. Despite this, he's also Not So Above It All.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    • Saiki tends to act very apathetic to most situations, only expressing annoyance at worst. This changes the moment it looks like someone might find out he's a psychic, upon which he can become very rash and quick to anger. Unless it's on his own terms, Saiki doesn't take the idea of people learning he's a psychic very well, nor does he take any potential risks lightly even if they're only tangentially related to him. This has ranged from him wiping the memories of his friends who went to his house on Christmas, threatening to kill Toritsuka after learning he transferred to PK Academy and worrying Toritsuka can't keep his mouth shut, petrifying Akechi and trying to alter history when it looks like Akechi found out and wants to know what happened when they were younger, and sabotaging Aiura's fortune telling business to prevent people from thinking she's a legitimate psychic, albeit the last one is tempered by him also trying to protect her from those that would want to abuse her powers.
    • In his childhood, the normally stoic Saiki happened upon a serious instance of Akechi being severely abused by bullies, resulting in him completely losing his composure and wrecking both the bullies and the entire classroom. This is one of the very few instances in the series NOT Played for Laughs at all.
  • The Paranoiac: Only when he has sealed his telepathy with his germanium ring. He's very paranoid of everyone around him having gotten used to hearing their thoughts.
  • Power Incontinence: He has problems controlling his own strength (see each specific power for description). It temporarily becomes an even greater problem after Nendou briefly unplugs one of his antennae. It gets so bad that it could create an apocalypse.
  • Power Limiter:
    • The antennae on his head keep his powers in check.
    • He can wear a germanium-alloy ring to shut-off his Telepathy, as shown when he went to a movie theater.
    • His glasses also restrain his petrifying gaze.
  • Pretending to Be One's Own Relative: Saiki runs into his female classmates while in female form and they find his notebooks in "Kuriko's" bag. They end up assuming "Kuriko" is Saiki's younger sister. Saiki rolls with it so they don't find out about his powers.
  • Pride Before a Fall: While Saiki doesn't really have an inflated ego, he's still absurdly confident in his intelligence and powers. He very often underestimates the stupidity and determination of everyone around him, which can sometimes result in unexpected problems.
  • Psychic Powers: Saiki has just about every basic psychic power in the book, plus a variety of others powers that are described as psychic in origin. A list with his known powers is in a separate folder below.
  • Punny Name: "Saiki Kusuo" sounds like "saikikku", the Rōmaji form of "psychic".
  • The Quiet One: As the main POV character who constantly gives commentary, this doesn't appear to be the case, but close inspection shows Saiki rarely ever actually talks, instead using his telepathy to communicate. He only ever talks out loud three times, saying "oh wow" to Teruhashi, affectionately telling his friends that they are all a pain, and expressing bewilderment he would have to be protected and then thanking Nendou, thanks to his telepathy having disappeared.
  • Randomly Gifted: He's the son of a perfectly normal couple and just happened to be born with godlike Superpower Lottery.
  • Reflectionless Useless Eyes: Saiki's eyes don't normally have reflections, possibly to indicate his psychic powers and serious no-nonsense nature. This acts often as a visual clue to the viewer about who is the real Saiki, for example when a) he transforms into someone/something else (where he retains his reflectionless eyes), b) someone else is transformed to look like him (but have eyes with reflections), or c) someone is having an Imagine Spot featuring him (usually Imagination!Saiki has reflections in his eyes to make him look more lively/softer).
  • Second Year Protagonist: Saiki and most of the other student characters are in their second year of high school. This allows the story to have both younger freshman and older senior characters without having to deal with things like college exams. And thanks to Comic-Book Time, they remain sophomores for quite a few in-universe "years" — Saiki deciding to put a stop to the loops and move on to senior year happens near the end.
  • Secret Secret-Keeper: Because of his telepathy, he already knows all secrets everyone around him has yet still pretends to not know. Particularly about Teruhashi's true personality, Kuboyasu being a Former Teen Rebel and his grandfather being a big Tsundere.
  • Serious Business: Anything that he "doesn't dislike", but particularly sweets.
  • Shading/Colour Dissonance: Saiki's deep pink hair is shaded black in the manga panels, akin to characters with black or very dark hair.
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: Saiki has the appearance of a guy with pink hair as his default form. He has the ability to transform into anything he wants, which manifested before he was even born. Throughout his mother's pregnancy, the CT scans showed Saiki taking crazy different shapes, but his parents and the doctors brushed it off as the machine malfunctioning.
  • Shipper with an Agenda:
  • Signature Headgear: He always wears a pair of antennae/"hair pins" on both sides of his head. These are actually special devices that serve as a Power Limiter for his psychic powers.
  • The Silent Bob: Played With. Saiki almost never talks with his mouth, since he prefers using telepathy to communicate with others. His older brother Kusuke invented a headgear that blocks off Saiki's telepathy, but he can still hold conversations with his brother because Kusuke can accurately guess what Saiki wants to say to him.
  • Silent Partner: He has never been seen talking to another living being till the final chapters.
  • Sobriquet Sex Switch: He calls his female form Kusuko or Kuriko, which is only slightly different from his given name Kusuo.
  • The Social Expert: An unconventional example, because despite preferring being left alone, his powers let him easily figure out what makes other people tick.
  • Stalker without a Crush: He makes something of a habit of following Hiroshi Satou around the school so he can gush over how ridiculously normal Satou's daily life is. It gets creepy when Saiki goes to the extreme of using his clairvoyance to spy on Satou at the toilet.
  • The Stoic: He constantly wears a bored, deadpan expression and rarely cracks a smile. Enhanced by his Stoic Spectacles.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He's stone-faced, cool-headed and very sarcastic. Beneath that, he's a good and helpful guy who cares about his family and friends.
  • Supering in Your Sleep: If Saiki's head device is taken off or malfunctions, he can have "accidents" where his powers activate in his sleep and he only realizes it after he wakes up. Such as making an entire hotel disappear or traveling to the past.
  • Superpower Lottery: A big winner. Saiki has nearly every psychic power in the book, but considers them a hassle and would prefer to live a quiet life.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:
    • During the shipwreck chapter, he was suddenly beset by a mysterious illness that knocked him unconscious. It was most definitely not seasickness.
    • He dislikes bugs because he is unable to read their thoughts. He's certainly not afraid of them because they are gross.
  • Sweet Tooth: He's completely obsessed about sweets, especially coffee jelly.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: He will do anything for coffee jello.
  • Tsundere: Saiki constantly claims that he cares very little for the people around him, but in reality, it doesn't actually take as much prodding as you'd otherwise think for him to help them. He outright admits that he inherited this from his grandfather.
  • Unhappy Medium: He has access to seemingly every psychic power in the book, but is unable to shut them off, which has resulted in them robbing his life of any surprise, challenge, or sense of accomplishment. This includes being able to hear the thoughts of everyone around him, but he has enough mental fortitude that it's simply an annoyance to him.
  • Unreliable Expositor: Sometimes, Saiki is not completely sincere in his inner monologues, both to the reader and himself. Some examples are more obvious, like his incapacity to admit he likes something or his attempts to rationalize his fear of bugs. Other are more subtle and open for interpretation.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Kusuo can't tolerate bugs because he can't read their thoughts. It isn't because they look disgusting and he doesn't want to touch them even with psychokinesis.
  • Willfully Weak: If Saiki wished it, he could end the world in three days. However, he restrains himself a lot and almost never willingly uses his powers to their full potential.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: He is aware of his potential to rule or destroy the world, but he just wants a quiet life, and he never uses his powers to anything dishonest, only to help the people he believes to deserve help or punish those he thinks deserve it.

    Saiki Kusuo - Psychic Powers 
Saiki has a big variety of powers, but every one of them is described as psychic in origin. As the series advances he keeps to reveal or discover even more of them, so the trend is that this list will just continue to grow.
  • Astral Projection: He can separate his soul from his body willingly.
  • An Ice Person: He can create ice with his powers.
  • Brought Down to Normal: The final arc has him lose all of his psychic powers, and he's able to live like a regular human being...for a while, at least. The final chapter shows that they came back over time.
  • Clairvoyance: By crossing his eyes, he can see and listen things happening in other places. It only works if he's visited and seen the place before in real life. A similar power, "Psychic Photography", consists of concentrating in somebody or something during one minute to draw an illustration of its present location.
  • Clap Your Hands If You Believe: If his Mind Control effects enough people, it can change reality such that the implication becomes fact. For instance, when he made everybody believe that pink hair was not unusual, it ended up causing a genetic mutation such that pink, alongside various other technicolor hair colors, were now the norm, many peoples' hair changing overnight to colors such as blue, purple or red and very few being plain brown or blonde anymore.
  • Dreaming of Things to Come: His dreams will occasionally warn him of future happenings.
  • The Empath: He can tell the affection rating of a person toward someone and illustrate it as percentage value in a heart-shaped digital display.
  • Equivalent Exchange: He can exchange something of another object of either equal or within a 10% difference monetary value.
  • Healing Hands: He has the power to heal wounds and injuries.
  • Invisibility: It takes a full minute of concentration to activate and lasts for 10 minutes. The effect is canceled if Saiki is touched by other people. Also, it doesn't work against people who can see ghosts.
  • I See Dead People: Saiki becomes able to see the ghost of Nendou's father, but not other ghosts as Reita, for unknown reasons.
  • Jedi Mind Trick: The "Mind Control" power. Although it serves only to convince people that something unusual is not really uncommon, it's actually Saiki's most dangerous power. If he convinces too many people that something is not unnatural, reality will actually change and not just that particular thing will become natural, it will cause a snowball effect that will affect a series of related things. Case in point, his world's physics follows gag manga tropes in the first place because he was careless with this power as a child.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: The "Memory Removal" power can erase up to one minute of memories by delivering a strong impact to the head of the target. The downside is that the brain of the victim will automatically fill the blank by creating a completely new memory that he can't choose. Also, because his Super-Strength, Saiki needs to use this power in combination with Restoration or the victim will die.
  • Living Lie Detector: Comes with being able to read people's minds.
  • Mass Hypnosis: Without his antenna shaped power limiter, Saiki's Mind Control ability spans all the world.
  • Master of Your Domain: Saiki has a great control over his body functions, from sweating freely to fool others into thinking that he's putting physical effort into races and sports activities to freely dislocate, contort and reassemble each one of his joints.
  • Memory-Wiping Crew: He can erase a specific memory from people's minds by hitting them in the head, which he sometimes does to protect the secret of his powers. Although, he can't choose the replacement fake memory.
  • Mind over Matter: Can use his mind to move people, objects, and even himself around.
  • Mundane Utility: Because he doesn't want to stand out, Saiki uses his powers for humorously mundane reasons like lifting shelves or going to the store.
  • Playing with Fire: Ranges from simply making objects feel hot to the touch to incinerating them to cinders.
  • Psychic Radar: Based in to estimate the distance and position of each mental voice. 200m range.
  • Psychometry: He can "see" an object's past by simply touching it; touching a person allows him to see and feel the same things they do in real time. Since it cannot be turned off, he constantly wears transparent gloves to prevent himself from seeing all of the unpleasant things associated with each object.
  • Self-Duplication: He develops the power of creating clones of himself because after several failed attempts, he realized only one of him isn't enough to stop the massive eruption of Mt. Owari. However, the clones are all have some form of Clone Degeneration, so most look like Gonk versions of Saiki.
  • Sex Shifter: Saiki's transformation ability lets him assume a female form known as Kusuko or Kuriko. He was born in the female form because his transformation powers were already active when he was in the womb.
  • Shock and Awe: Can summon lightning to just about anywhere he pleases.
  • Sizeshifter: He can shrink himself to a very small size; the effect lasts an hour.
  • Speaks Fluent Animal: He can communicate with animals using telepathy.
  • Spider-Sense: Has the ability to notice dangers and menaces before they happen.
  • Super-Speed: Can reach Olympic level speeds with relative ease.
  • Super-Strength: He has problems matching the strength level of ordinary people.
  • Taken for Granite: Why he wears his glasses. Anyone that looks directly at his eyes will turn to stone for a day.
  • Telepathy: Can't be shut off normally, causing him to have to constantly listen to others' thoughts within a 200 meter range. It doesn't work on Nendou for some reason, likely because he's an idiot. It can be shut-off by wearing a germanium-alloy ring.
  • Teleportation: He can teleport wherever he pleases, but it requires a three minute cooldown before he can use it again.
  • Time Master: The "Restoration" power can turn back the time for people and objects, bringing them to a prior state. The main downside is that other people and objects nearby may be accidentally affected too. When used on people, this power doesn't affect their memories.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: With his "Transformation" power, Saiki can change his form at will. He can turn into a woman, an animal or even aliens or inexistent beings. Completing the transformation takes two hours and has a ton of unmentioned downsides.
  • Weather Manipulation: He is able to part clouds and make the sun come out during a strong downpour.
  • X-Ray Vision: This power activates itself automatically after 5 seconds whenever he gazes at anything. A largely spread mistranslation claims that this power doesn't work against other telepaths, but that is wrong information .

Family Members

    Saiki Kuniharu 
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Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (Japanese), Chuck Huber (English Funimation), Michael Sinterniklaas (English Netflix), Arturo Mercado Jr. (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Seiichi Tanabe

Kusuo's father, a salaryman. Immature and greedy, he has fewer scruples about how his son should use his powers.


  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: He manages to humiliate Kusuo almost everytime they both interact with the same people.
  • Bumbling Dad: As the resident Butt-Monkey, he tends to be a rather clumsy father.
  • Butt-Monkey: His main role in the series. Besides being very unlucky, he will usually suffer the consequences of his immaturity.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: In Chapter 1/Episode 1 of the series, he and Kurumi are portrayed as having regular, violent fights with each other that are typically resolved by Kusuo telepathically broadcasting their true love to each other. This is never seen again, and they are instead always portrayed as unambiguous Happily Married Sickeningly Sweethearts for the rest of the series.
  • Extreme Doormat: He licks his boss' shoes (literally) whenever he commits a mistake or misses a deadline on his job.
  • Forced Creativity: When Kusuo learns Kuniharu became the editor for his favorite manga SiCy right when it took a dip in quality, he decided to spy on the meeting with the author. Said meeting consisted of Kuniharu disparaging the initial cyberpunk version and making needless changes, including forced romance, a needless catchphrase, and trying to get a female character to show some cleavage, the author being meek and cowtowing to all but the last one while secretly despising Kuniharu. Kusuo decides to intervene and possesses Kuniharu so that he can tell the author not to listen to Kuniharu's advice anymore, but Kuniharu is such an idiot that he genuinely believes Kusuo controlling him was his own ideas and takes credit for it.
  • G.I.R.L.: The RPG Episode shows he plays as a female character so he can join a party of better players who think his real life self is a girl too. Saiki ends up giving away his real gender when playing in his stand and his party leaves him.
  • Happily Married: To Kurumi, his lovely wife. He usually calls her "Mama". And despite all problems (that he usually provides), they will reconcile with each other at the end.
  • Hidden Depths: He's a passionate manga editor and even earns Kusuo's respect for how professional and passionate he is. And for all his bumbling antics, he can actually be a surprising insightful father to Kusuo, particularly when his friends came over for his birthday and Kusuo was making Kuniharu look like him to get out of it, Kuniharu convincing Kusuo to appreciate the efforts his friends went for him and go spend time with them himself.
    Kusuo: Don't give me advice like you're my father.
    Kuniharu: I am your father!
  • Just Think of the Potential!: His outlook on Kusuo's powers even ponders into things like burglary. He even calls his son "Kusuemon" when he gets into trouble and wants the help of his psychic powers.
  • Leitmotif: Please, Kusuo.
  • Love at First Sight: He fell hard for his wife the moment he first saw her 20 years ago, comparing her to an angel.
  • Manchild: Acts very immature for his age.
  • Open-Minded Parent: He took the discovery of his son's power in stride and tries to take full advantage of them on several occasions.
  • Salaryman: His original job, though he was mostly licking his bosses' shoes. He seems to have changed from this to a manga editor, as it looked more comfortable.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Kurumi Saiki, to the annoyance of their son.

    Saiki Kurumi 
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Voiced by: Rikako Aikawa (Japanese), Morgan Garrett (English Funimation), Tara Sands (English Netflix), Isabel Martiñón (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Yuki Uchida

Kusuo's mother, an archetypal housewife. She is very nice and kind, if a bit naive, and raised her son to never use his powers for evil.


  • Almighty Mom: One of the only characters who can badger Saiki into doing things.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Becomes physically violent when she's in an argument with her husband.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Saiki actually becomes terrified when she suddenly insists that he hangs out with his friends at the beach.
  • Cannot Keep a Secret: She can't hold herself back from spilling the beans about Saiki's powers; it just slips out naturally in front of his friends or his friends' moms. She is terrible at covering her slip-ups and Saiki always has to intervene.
  • Comes Great Responsibility: Her outlook on Kusuo's powers is that he shouldn't use them for selfish reasons. Usually.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: In Chapter 1/Episode 1 of the series, she and Kuniharu are portrayed as having regular, violent fights with each other that are typically resolved by Kusuo telepathically broadcasting their true love to each other. This is never seen again, and they are instead always portrayed as unambiguous Happily Married Sickeningly Sweethearts for the rest of the series.
  • Extreme Doormat: It's almost impossible for her to say no to people and it takes practically noting to make her give into persuasion. This causes her to buy a lot of useless stuff from door-to-door salesmen.
  • Full-Name Ultimatum: A variation. She uses the name "Kusuo" when angry, instead of the usual "Ku-chan".
  • Happily Married: To Kuniharu, whom she calls "Papa". Despite all adversities (and fights that she and Kuniharu may have), they will reconcile at the end.
  • Housewife: Usually stays at home and keeps the house tidy.
  • Like Parent, Like Spouse: Her husband and father are actually quite similar, though his father-in-law hides it under the facade of a Grumpy Old Man, being immature and silly and overly loving for their family.
  • Morality Pet: She's the only human being Kusuke ever treats kindly.
  • Nightmare Face: When really angry, her face becomes like a Hannya Mask.
  • Not So Weak: She gets very easily persuaded to buy useless stuff, but when Saiki uses telepathy to let her hear the salesman's thoughts, Kurumi puts on her Nightmare Face and chases after the salesman because he wants to leave her family poor.
  • Open-Minded Parent: She took the discovery of her son's power in stride. Her main concern was to teach him to not commit crimes with it.
  • Pinocchio Nose: According to her mother, she hides her thumbs when she lies.
  • The Pollyanna: Kurumi is very nice, optimistic, and she always thinks for the best of others. However, there are times that her good will crosses the line of Stupid Good.
  • Rescue Romance: She and her husband like to tell the story of how they first met when he defended her from a punk that was harassing her over and over. When Saiki accidentally travels to the past, however, Saiki discovers the "punk" was Nendou's father and the way his father acts makes it clear he probably "saved" his mother by accident.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Kuniharu, her husband, to the annoyance of their son.
  • Unstoppable Rage: If pushed far enough, she will become really violent and chase her target to a massive beatdown.
  • Wrestler in All of Us: Subdues her husband with an array of wrestling moves when she's really angry.

    Saiki Kusuke 
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Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (Japanese), Chris Patton (English Funimation), Joe Zieja (English Netflix), Marc Winslow (Latin American Spanish)

Kusuo's elder brother by three years. He has a genius-level IQ of 218 but lacks Kusuo's psychic abilities, and thus constantly loses to him in challenges and feels inferior.


  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: One sided variant, but in a Bad Future where Kusuo mysteriously died, Kusuke tried inventing a Time Machine just to save his life. And while he did pull a gun on Kusuo when he teleported in, once he realized it was his little brother and wasn't an intruder or his ghost, he was overjoyed to see him alive, demonstrating that for all his times acting as a Big Brother Bully, he does love Kusuo.
  • Big Brother Bully: Sort of. He tries very hard, but it's difficult to bully a little brother who has psychic powers and could destroy the world in three days. Kusuke's just fortunate that Kusuo wouldn't intentionally harm his family, no matter how much of an ass Kusuke is.
  • Bullying a Dragon: He has the nerve to insult Teruhashi, causing her to turn on the Crocodile Tears. This results in Kusuke being swarmed by a massive mob and having to escape via helicopter.
  • Competition Freak: A history of losing to Kusuo has caused him to constantly challenge and conflict with him, both for the thrill of messing with Kusuo and because he gets off on inevitably losing to him.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: For all his nasty, sociopathic personality, Kusuke does seem truly fond of his mother at the very least.
  • Fantastic Radiation Shielding: Invented and wears a "Telepath Canceler" on his head that prevents Kusuo from telepathically reading his mind or controlling him, similar to Magneto's helmet.
  • Freudian Excuse: Not having his immense genius acknowledged growing up as a result of his younger brother's powers left him with an incredibly twisted personality.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Is capable of inventing things such as mind-control prevention devices, drones, power armor, teleportation devices, youth restoration pods, and time machines, amongst others. On a passing whim.
  • Hates Their Parent: Downplayed and Played for Laughs, as while Kusuke loves his father Kuniharu, he expresses it much less towards him than he does his mother Kurumi. He'll more likely try to screw with Kuniharu for shits and giggles whenever he gets the chance. A prime example being his giving the robot cat Warp to them as a pet since Kurumi is allergic to normal cats while Kuniharu loves cats in general. While Warp will gladly act affectionate with Kurumi and respond to whatever she says, anything Kuniharu says to it is met with an "I don't understand", and it acts more like a household appliance than a pet towards him.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His bangs cover one of his eyes and his favorite pastime is coming up with dirty schemes to mess with his superpowered psychic brother.
  • Improbably High I.Q.: He has an IQ of 218.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: How he feels towards Kusuo. Despite being a genius capable of creating fantastic inventions, he lacks Kusuo's powers, and thus is constantly challenging him to prove his worth in some way.
  • Insufferable Genius: Believes himself to be above everyone else in the world (except Kusuo) and shows it.
  • It Amused Me: The primary reason why he messes with Kusuo the way he does.
  • Jerkass: He's a huge ass to Kusuo because of his own inferiority complex, and his attempts to one up Kusuo range from childish and obnoxious to being able to cause civilian casualties at worst if they weren't in a gag manga. One attempt to one-up Kusuo involved trying to kill him with a bomb in a coffee jelly box and then gloating about it.
  • Leitmotif: Kusuke Appears and Mad Scientist.
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg: Kusuo likes the rest of his family well enough, but he is constantly averse to and wary of Kusuke, referring to him as "that guy" internally.
  • No-Sell: In addition to his "Telepath Canceler" making him immune to Kusuo's telepathy, he is also immune to Teruhashi's charm and beauty.
  • Not So Above It All: The few times Kusuo can actually see into his head shows that Kusuke isn't averse to the wackiness of the series, one such example being thinking about a "Cat Tank", as in a tank that looks like a cat on a roomba with treads and a cannon barrel sticking out of its mouth, which he then goes ahead and builds later on.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: As he himself notes, Kusuke possesses a superior intellect and was already incredibly accomplished as a child. However, his supreme talent is nothing compared to his brother's psychic powers. The funniest part is that no one knows he's being overshadowed since, unlike Saiki, he's open about his intellect to the public and lives a prestigious life, but the truth is what bothers him.
  • Parental Title Characterization: Uses the words "mama" and "papa" to refer to his parents.
  • Signature Headgear: He invented his own iconic head device to block off Saiki's telepathy.
  • The Sociopath: Played for Laughs, but he counts. Kusuke is a super genius who thinks of every other human being on the planet as stupid monkeys, which leaves him easily bored despite his ability to invent literally anything he wants. The one thing that brings him thrill is challenging his younger brother Kusuo to ridiculous games to test the latter's psychic powers, both because he loves annoying Kusuo out of jealousy over the latter's superhuman status and Kusuo is the only person in the world who can beat Kusuke at anything.
  • Successful Sibling Syndrome: Kusuke has a genius-level IQ of 218 and is one of the richest and most powerful people in the world through his company which sells his inventions, yet he still feels inferior to his younger brother, Kusuo, who has overwhelmingly powerful psychic abilities till a point it is not much of an exaggeration to call him a god if it wasn't for Power Incontinence. Kusuke keeps trying to challenge his younger brother with his inventions but always loses.
  • Troll: He gets off on messing with Kusuo and pretty much everyone around him.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In a specific Bad Future Kusuo arrives in via time travel, Kusuo somehow died, and Kusuke decided to invent a time machine in order to bring him back alive. However, the countries of the world ended up fighting over possession of this time machine, sparking World War III and reducing most of the world to smoldering ruins.

    Saiki Kumagoro 
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Voiced by: Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese)

Saiki's maternal grandfather.


  • Berserk Button: For a Grumpy Old Man with a petty grudge, it's pushed every time his son-in-law is present no matter the reason.
  • Doting Grandparent: Exaggerated. Kumagoro loves his grandsons to the point he moans and make fake scenarios with them, much to Kusuo's disgust.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be much of a Jerkass to Kuniharu, but he dearly loves his grandsons to an exaggerating degree (he doesn't want to openly admit it).
  • Obnoxious In-Laws: He genuinely hates his son-in-law Kuniharu for his foolishness. Kusuo telepathically calls his grandfather out for his inconsideration.
  • Secretly Selfish: He wants nothing but to spend time together with his grandsons and take Kuniharu for granted.
  • Shipper on Deck: Unlike his wife, he thinks Kusuo and Teruhashi would make a good couple.
  • Tsundere: Kusuo describes Kumagoro as a Harsh type word-for-word — he acts like a Grumpy Old Man around his family, but inwardly adores his grandsons and wishes they could spend more time together, often thinking like a girl with a crush whenever they're involved.

    Saiki Kumi 
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Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese)

Saiki's maternal grandmother.


  • Age-Inappropriate Dress: She dresses like a trendy young woman even though she's a grandmother.
  • Cool Old Lady: She's Kusuo and Kusuke's friendly and outgoing grandma who's into youthful, trendy fashion.
  • Gyaru Girl: An elderly variant. She acts and occasionally dresses up like a gyaru, which led her to meet Aiura and eventually became a Shipper on Deck for her and Kusuo.
  • Housewife: Her occupation is stated to be this, just like her daughter.
  • Older Than They Look: She is mentioned to look like she's in her forties despite having two grandsons in their late teens.
  • Shipper on Deck: Unlike her husband, she roots for KusuoxAiura.
  • Teens Love Shopping: Inverted since she's a Cool Old Lady who shops for clothes worn by younger women.

PK Academy

Saiki's Friends and Associates

    Nendou Riki 
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Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (vomic and flash anime) and Daisuke Ono (TV anime) (Japanese), David Wald (English Funimation), Jason Charles Miller (English Netflix), Dafnis Fernández (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Hirofumi Arai

"Come out and play! Heeey, are you there, pal?"

A really idiotic delinquent that thinks he is best friends with Saiki. He's actually a nice guy, but his stupidity and appearance cause his good deeds to backfire.


  • The Ace: When it comes to sports, or anything related to physical activity, no one is able to match Nendou, who pulls off athletic miracles effortlessly.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Nendou in the one-shots that the manga started as was Saiki's bully who forcibly copied Saiki's homework and was an all-around asshole. He only became Saiki's friend when Saiki stood up for him when he was framed for stealing someone's wallet. Nendou in the manga proper is a genuine Nice Guy who has never intentionally harmed anyone.
  • Affectionate Parody: Of the Dumb Is Good Bumbling Sidekick type whose positive demeanor won't shine through The Stoic Saiki.
  • Always Someone Better: In terms of physical abilities, he's this to Hairo, who can never catch up to him.
  • Badass Normal: Able to pull off tremendous feats of strength and speed. Unlike Saiki though, Nendou is more or less a completely normal human who just happens to be that physically strong.
  • Beautiful All Along: When he ends up with a normal hairstyle, his thuggish looks are instead hunkish, earning him the interest of girls, until he screws it up by picking his nose and eating it.
  • Best Friend: Considers himself as this to Saiki, much to Saiki's disagreement and chagrin.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: He lists all the bad things Saiko did to his friends and their families (sending Kuboyasu to jail, sending Saiki and Kaidou to Siberia, putting boogers on Nendou's comics) as revenge on Teruhashi for turning him down in this way.
    Nendou: Yeah, boogers, Siberia, or jail... they're no big deal!
    Kaidou: Placing our case on the same level as boogers is annoying, but he's right.
  • Characterization Marches On: The first couple of chapters have him drawn a bit more rugged with Saiki calling him a delinquent, likely a carryover from his portrayal in the one-shots where he was one. Later chapters would stray away from this portrayal, with Nendou instead being characterized as an incredibly dumb, but nice, guy with a Face of a Thug.
  • Covert Pervert: Nendou may be a kind Dumb Muscle, but he has a possession of porno magazines in his room on Season 1 Episode 14, and later on, he picked a revealing fanservice outfit for Teruhashi on Season 2 Episode 2.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: He never reacts well when Kaidou is popular with the girls, but they ignore him.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is really athletic, can be a pretty decent person and is a great cook despite his stupidity.
  • Dead Guy Junior: His mother named him after his father who died in an accident before Nendou was born.
  • Delinquent Hair: Nendou has a blond mohawk with a strip of hair shaved around like a ring, that is noted to be such a terrible haircut that he looks better when forced to completely buzz his hair.
  • Disability Superpower: He's immune to mind-reading and telepathic detection because he's so stupid that he's never thinking anything at all. He's the only person who could sneak up on Saiki and theoretically kill him.
  • Dreadful Musician: His singing is bad enough to traumatize his classmates and knock them all unconscious.
  • Dumb Is Good: He's a very nice guy and he's as dumb as brick.
  • Dumb Muscle: Makes up for his low intelligence with his impressive strength.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He's not bright at all, but even he will mock Kaidou's antics as stupid on occasion.
  • Face of a Thug: He's a very nice guy, but most people are either scared or disgusted with him because of his looks. His hair is the worst part, as he morphs into a Hunk when his hairstyle is changed.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Due to his appearance, nobody wants to be around him.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Well, maybe not humans, but various animals seem to love Nendou due to how friendly and caring he is with them.
  • Gag Penis: Apparently his is big enough to intimidate Takahashi and his crew in an onsen to never make fun of him again.
  • Giftedly Bad: He clearly has no clue of how destructive his singing voice is. He even thought that all his classmates looked half-dead after hearing him play karaoke because his voice was so gentle that it put them to sleep.
  • Gonk: Heavily downplayed, but his chin looks like a pair of testicles, and his Face of a Thug combined with some of the nightmare faces he accidentally pulls tends to scare people off. When he gets a haircut though, he turns into a genuine hunk... albeit while still having a chin that looks like balls, requiring he hide it with a scarf.
  • Graceful Loser: He admits defeat when Kaidou beats him in air hockey which makes Kaidou feel guilty that he cheated.
  • Heroic Bastard: His mother had him when she was only 15 years old and his father was killed in an accident before he was born. Therefore, Nendou's parents could never get married and he has his mother's surname. While he's a big idiot, Nendou is a good guy.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: How he sees his relationship with Saiki. Saiki doesn't agree.
  • Hidden Depths: Nendou is a surprisingly capable cook, even if Saiki doesn't appreciate him making tuna crepes he knew what he was doing, and is a surprisingly good caretaker. For example, he takes excellent care of the hamster that Saiki gets him to take, performing actions such as knowing to leave some of the old shavings with her scent when cleaning the cage so she doesn't get confused. It certainly helps that he had a hamster before when he was little, so he knows exactly how to care for her, to the point she accepts him as her new owner.
  • Hollywood Tone-Deaf: His singing actually caused his class to faint and pass out. Kaidou stated it was like hearing death itself.
  • Identical Stranger: Downplayed, he looks nearly identical to the Baron Cola, the villain of a Kamen Riderish show.
  • Informed Flaw: While Nendou's low intelligence is undeniable, he supposedly is so stupid that he is literally never thinking at all, hence Saiki's inability to read his mind, and puting him below that of animals and instead that of insects. This doesn't really show itself in practice, as there are multiple scenes where he clearly thinks about his actions, even if his reasoning skills leave much to be desired.
  • Japanese Delinquents: He has the looks that would make anyone think he is a bad guy or a delinquent... except that he is very nice to people. And that he is very dumb.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: What Nendou lacks (severely) in intelligence, tact, or common sense, he makes up for by being very caring and loyal to his friends.
  • Leitmotif: Partner.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Excluding Saiki's psychic powers, Nendou is physically the strongest and fastest of all the characters.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Saiki remarks that Nendou not only looks like his dad but even acts like him.
  • Mistaken for Pedophile: Kaidou mistook him for one once (he was out buying flowers, cake and watching young girls with their dads), when he was actually going to visit his father's grave, the flowers and cake were offerings, and seeing the kids with their dads reminded him of his own father.
  • Nice Guy: Or at least, he tries to be one. He truly is a nice guy, but his looks and intelligence make it hard for him to get the point across.
  • Nightmare Face: He can easily make these even when trying to smile.
  • Punny Name: "Nendou Riki" means "Telekinesis".
  • Slasher Smile: Fitting his face, some of his smiles look like this.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: His mother and father have the same chin, scars, and face as he does. His father looks exactly like him, hairstyle and all — it's the location of their scars what sets them apart.
  • Too Dumb to Fool: So dumb that Saiki can't read him.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Quite oblivious to the snake biting his crotch, but at least didn't bite through the fabric of his pants. If that wasn't enough, he declares that he doesn't need to be involved in a safety drill which causes Hairo to berate him for it.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Ramen. He invites Saiki out to eat it regularly.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Shun Kaidou, after both try to win Saiki's companionship.
  • When All You Have Is a Hammer…: How does he aid an unconscious person? By beating the shit out of him.
  • World's Strongest Man: Again, excluding Saiki's psychic capabilities, Nendou is by far the physically strongest character in the series, beating out both Hairo and Kuboyasu.
  • Younger Than He Looks: He's 17, like the rest of the main cast, but he looks like he's in his late thirties at the youngest.

    Kaidou Shun 
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Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (vomic and flash anime) and Nobunaga Shimazaki (TV anime) (Japanese), Micah Solusod (English Funimation), Zach Aguilar (English Netflix), Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Ryo Yoshizawa

"I will protect the world! For I am the Jet-Black Wing!"

Shun Kaidou is the Secret Identity of Jet-Black Wing. Using the power of Black Beat, an godlike force imprisioned in his right arm, he fights to protect the world from the Dark Reunion, a Secret Society that plans to steal Black Beat and use its power to weed out the unnecessary elements from humankind and create a new world.

Or not. Actually, Shun Kaidou just believes he's Jet-Black Wing, and that Saiki is his sidekick in the fight against the Dark Reunion. Yeah, he suffers from Chuunibyou despite being sixteen.


  • Affectionate Parody: His appearance and the Jet-Black Wing's setup spoofs Battle Shounen stories.
  • Bait-and-Switch Sentiment: On the Valentine's Day Episode, Chiyo writes a love letter for Kaidou where she confesses that she likes him. The next day, Kaidou tells Chiyo he likes her too and accepts to upgrade their relationship… from friends to best friends because that's what he thinks the "code" in Chiyo's letter was asking him.
  • Best Friend: With Kuboyasu, after discovering his delinquent past and being rescued from delinquents by him. Both get along well and are on First-Name Basis with each other. Kuboyasu also entertains his antics the most, such as when they made a secret hideout.
  • Book Smart: Kaidou tests rather well during Class Exams. It makes sense since it's later revealed that Kaidou has an Education Mama.
  • Calling Your Attacks: Even though he has no real attacks. He also uses this trope for mundane things.
  • Chick Magnet: He's actually decently popular with girls. Two girls tried to pick him up in the Beach Chapter and he even got a chocolate for Valentine's day. He even got Yumehara to like him during the school trip.
  • Chuunibyou: He's a Conspiracy Theorist who has a Secret Identity known as Jet-Black Wing, fighting to protect the world from the Dark Reunion. In actuality, it's implied that Kaidou only keeps up the antics as an outlet because he comes from an extremely strict household with an Education Mama.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: It's unknown how much he really believes in his own fantasies... although there are times that he gets lost in them while ignoring what is going on around him (especially when he gets into trouble) or he admits that it's just fantasies.
    Kaidou: [to a bunch of thugs] Huh? I thought I took you down. [..] Oh wait, that's my fantasy.
  • Coat Cape: Kaidou uses the jacket of his school uniform like this, since he believes he is some kind of hero.
  • Comical Overreacting: He has an exaggerated reaction to almost everything that he borders on being a Drama Queen. His reaction to Nendou receiving a love letter in particular is so over-the-top. He first has a Freak Out, then he throws up just because he finds it that unbelievable, then he goes into another Freak Out and starts picking his hair apart when Nendou considers turning the letter owner down all because, according to Kaidou, he doesn't have "the liberty to be picky."
  • Conspiracy Theorist: Claims that Dark Reunion is behind every bad thing that happens to him and his surroundings.
  • Cowardly Lion: In general, he'll stand up for his friends if pushed into a corner, but he doesn't have the brawn to back it up. For example, has the guts to protect his classmates from a runaway snake despite being utterly mortified while doing so. Even Saiki is impressed by this act of bravery.
  • The Cuckoolander Was Right: He's right about Saiki having powers, but not the way he expects. He tries to convince others that he saw Saiki float a book but no one ends up believing him when they find that nothing backs up his claims.
  • The Dog Bites Back: In the Valentine Day's chapter, Nendou tricks Kaidou into thinking he got chocolate from Teruhashi and then revealed it was a joke and then even mocked him over it. But Kaidou got the last laugh when a girl comes to their class to give him chocolate, he even takes the time to smirk in Nendou's direction.
  • Friend to All Children: He's so friendly around children that he'll temporarily snap out of his Jet-Black Wing persona while talking to them. He actually has no problem hanging out with them at a game room, though he gets super embarrassed when Nendou mocks him for it.
  • Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Usually, his eyes are narrow and simplistic. Whenever he lets the Jet-Black Wing persona slip, they turn very wide and friendly.
  • Handwraps of Awesome: Invoked, since he wears them in order to appear tough. Supposedly, they seal Black Beat's power.
  • Height Insult: Since he's the shortest student in their class, Nendou and Saiko always call him "runt" and "tiny peasant" respectively. Although he only takes offense to being called poor.
  • Hidden Depths: He's actually smart and a few girls have expressed attraction to him, indicating he'd be a lot more popular if he dropped his Jet Black Wing act.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: He acts arrogantly and pretentiously, but beneath his Jet-Black Wing persona, he's a nice guy.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: His deep desire to be seen as amazing and have people fawn over him is one of the reasons behind his Chuunibyou fantasies.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: He desperately wants to make friends, even praying for friends on New Years. In one segment, he's conned into spending a huge amount of money on a necklace that will grant him a hundred friends. Later, he, Nendou, Saiki, and Kuboyasu form something of a friend group.
  • Incoming Ham: Whenever Kaidou is particularly hamming it up, his Leitmotif will start playing in the background; Judgement Knights of...
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's rather timid, but it's hard for anyone to tell when he's acting like the arrogant Jet-Black Wing all the time.
  • In Touch with His Feminine Side: Kaidou is a pretty boy who's defined by his absolute lack of athleticism and physical strength, wimpiness in any heated confrontation (he immediately gives some Japanese Delinquents his wallet the moment they corner him), and how easily he bursts into tears over silly things or gets tongue-tied. His voice goes high-pitched whenever he's nervous, upset, or excited, as well.
  • Large Ham: He talks like a Battle Shonen protagonist and he's so loud all the time.
  • Leitmotif: Judgement Knights of Thunder, Dark Reunion, and Problem! Jet Black Wings.
  • Lovable Coward: Despite how pathetic he acts in the face of trouble and Saiki being tired of seeing his lameness all the time, his friends still care about him and a few ladies even find him attractive.
  • Miles Gloriosus: None of his exploits as the "Jet-Black Wing" ever actually happened. At least he's capable of being brave when he's in a pinch.
  • Mr. Imagination: Has a severe case of Chuunibyou, even though he is already in his second year of high school. He's convinced that in a previous life, he was a high level soldier of Dark Reunion who went rogue after he discovered their plans for world domination.
  • No Indoor Voice: He has a shouty voice in general, and since he treats everything like it's Serious Business, he's always yelling for no reason, sometimes out of nowhere.
    "THIS MUST BE A MISUNDERSTANDING, NO, A CONSPIRACY!"
  • No Sense of Direction: He's downright terrible at following directions and worst of all, he tends to guide himself and his friends into the worst possible places after getting lost.
  • Non-Action Guy: He pretends to be a competent fighter in his daydreams, but the truth is that unlike the other male characters (gifted athletes Hairo and Nendou, former gang leader Kuboyasu, and psychically strong Saiki), Kaidou is notoriously unathletic.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: His uniform shirts and jackets are always slightly tattered, to reflect how he thinks of himself as some sort of urban fantasy shonen hero.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: His hammy Chuunibyou persona is mainly a coping mechanism for his very strict lifestyle outside of school. Kaidou is really quite studious and well-versed due to being raised by an Education Mama.
  • Oblivious to Love: He's utterly clueless about Chiyo's blatant crush on him. On one occasion, he gets a love letter from her and he somehow ends up mistaking it for a hidden code that makes him think Chiyo wants to be his Best Friend instead of his girlfriend. Justified due to his low self esteem and social awkwardness, as while he does consider the possibility it was a love letter and correctly figures it's from Chiyo, he gets so caught up in his own head at the idea of someone being in love with him that he convinces himself it has to be written in code.
  • Opaque Nerd Glasses: His mom makes him wear those over the winter vacation alongside wearing a proper, zipped-up uniform and a nerdy side part in preparation for college. However, being a Gag Series, these changes are all gone by the end of the episode they appeared in.
  • Otaku: He regularly reads Shonen Jump magazine and has some sort of understanding of manga tropes as he remarks that Saiko having his servants at school is something out of a manga.
  • Pædo Hunt: Downplayed and it's caused by a misunderstanding on his side, but he gets squicked out when he sees Nendou look creepily at a child and goes on a brief tirade over how disappointed he is in him.
  • Punny Name: A play on "Shunkan idou", or teleportation.
  • Running Gag: Him being physically weak, unathletic, and having a hard time doing anything that needs strength.
    His male classmates: [after seeing him throw a ball] He throws like a girl?!
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: He has a rather high pitched scream in the anime.
  • Secret-Keeper: He accidentally discovers Kuboyasu's violent habits and Kuboyasu then admits his delinquent past to Kaidou when saving him from some thugs. Kaidou protects Kuboyasu's secret and they become good friends.
  • Shonen Hair: It's very spikey, and likely intentional on Kaidou's part.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he's so cool, acts cocky sometimes, and makes up stories about himself being all awesome especially to his little brother. However, he's actually nothing but a bluffing coward who desperately wants to impress others.
  • The Smart Guy: Due to his mom's strict academic upbringing, he is more or less the most well-read and knowledgeable of the group (outside of Saiki). This is most apparent when he suggests competing on a quiz game at the arcade with Nendou because he knows he'll definitely win in that area.
  • Super Drowning Skills: He can't swim, and he won't get into the water without wearing an unnecessary number of life preservers. It's revealed that he can swim fairly well if it isn't pointed out that he's swimming.
  • Terrible Artist: He tries to scribble down a picture of a child's lost dog based on its description. It ends up looking horrendous.
  • Tiny Schoolboy: Despite being 16, he doesn't even manage to scrape 5'3, and seems to be the shortest student in his class, girls included.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Riki Nendou, after competing with him over Saiki's companionship.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Played for Laughs. He thinks he's The Chosen One of an urban fantasy battle shounen. In reality, he's a major character in a gag manga, so he just comes off as a tryhard nerd.

    Teruhashi Kokomi 
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Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English Funimation), Kayli Mills (English Netflix), Georgina Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Kanna Hashimoto

"Life is in 'very easy' mode. This is all because I am gorgeous."

The prettiest and most popular girl in school. Everyone falls under her charms, except Saiki.


  • A-Cup Angst: Downplayed; the Beach Episode proves that she's far from flat, but she acknowledges that one thing Aiura has her beat in is chest size. What makes this funnier is that both characters are drawn with realistic high school girl proportions, so the difference isn't that extreme.
  • The Ace: At least she thinks she's this, being beautiful, kind and a great singer.
  • Affectionate Parody:
    • Teruhashi is a Parody Sue. While she plays up the image of the pampered yet sweet beautiful girl who snags all the men she wants while seemingly being unaware of this, she is actually very aware of the power she has over the guys and hides her true thoughts to maintain the image of an ideal girl.
    • She's also a parody of the "hot girl seeks a mysterious loner" trope in that it's blatant that she likes Saiki since she can't control him with her looks.
  • Attention Whore: She revels in the attention people give her, to the point where she counts how many Oh wows she hears and is constantly figuring out how to increase the number, even Rifuta, as a newcomer to PK Academy, was easily surpassed by her. This is justified due to her being fawned over since birth.
    Teruhashi: I'm sorry, but [Rifuta] must learn [her] place. The world doesn't revolve around [her]. It revolves around me.
  • Beautiful Singing Voice: Her classmates are moved to tears when they hear her sing karaoke and they all tell her she should become a singer.
  • Beneath the Mask: Beneath the saintly, stunning facade, she's constantly calculating how to maintain and improve her image. Only Saiki (and possibly his older brother Kusuke) is aware of this.
  • Betty and Veronica Switch: On the surface, the seemingly sweet and polite Teruhashi looks like the Betty to the flirtatious Gyaru Girl Aiura's Veronica, with Saiki as the Archie. However, Saiki is the only one who knows Teruhashi is really a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who just pretends to be perfect to get attention.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Teruhashi acts nicely and kindly, but she's manipulative and hides a deep contempt for her classmates. Saiki can see through the facade, in more ways than one, though he's the only one that can do so, as she never drops it.
  • Born Lucky: If Teruhashi wants something (except Saiki's affections), the heavens will conspire to give it to her. Even Teruhashi herself acknowledges this and use it to her advantage. Lampshaded by Saiki that his attempts to foil her luck always end up futile.
  • Calling Your Attacks: In desperate times she'll break out one of her "super moves" such as Angel Tears, which are just Crocodile Tears that cause all nearby bystanders drop what they're doing and rush to her aid.
  • Child Hater: Downplayed, she has a harder time with kids because her looks don't really affect them.
  • Class Princess: Invoked. Kokomi knows she has the entire school population (except Saiki and Hairo) enamoured with her beauty. Instead of acting like an Alpha Bitch, she tries to maintain the image of being nice and kind because that makes others adore her even more. Later on, her interactions with Saiki and other classmates make her kindness more genuine.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: She never likes it when other girls show interest in Saiki, especially when that girl is Aiura.
  • Closet Key: She unknowingly becomes one for Rifuta, who falls for both her and her brother.
  • Crocodile Tears: Her "secret weapon" is what she calls "Angel Tears," which she uses to send an angry mob at someone by pretending to cry.
  • Crush Blush: When Saiki mutes his powers in the Giga chapter, Teruhashi gets flustered and blushes when Saiki stares at her (unable to maintain her perfect exterior).
  • Curtains Match the Window: She sports matching navy blue hair and eyes.
  • Determinator: She will stop at nothing to maintain her image as the perfect girl, to the point that Saiki wonders if that does truly make her one.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Not that most people could tell she was icy on the inside, but her pleasant demeanour gradually stops being a facade over time as she gets closer to Saiki's friends. She's still very vain, but not so dismissive of 'regular' people.
  • Dude Magnet: Nearly every man she meets falls head over heels for her the second they meet her.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: It's downplayed for the most part. She's popular with her female classmates and there's a scene where two girls are staring at her with visible blushes. However, most of the girls at PK are shown to be explicitly straight and are also jealous of her beauty and popularity with men, as shown with Yumehara. It is eventually played straight though with Rifuta. Aiura also was attracted to her at first.
  • The Fake Cutie: On the outside, Teruhashi acts like the most lovable and purehearted girl ever, which makes everyone adore her even more. Saiki, who can see her inner thoughts, knows Teruhashi is just putting up a front to maintain her popularity as her real personality is narcissistic and manipulative.
  • Favors for the Sexy: Exploited. Teruhashi knows that guys will bend over backwards to do nice things for her because of how beautiful she is, and usually doesn't hesitate in taking advantage of this.
  • Feather Motif: When Aiura sees her aura, she notes that it is a cascade of angelic feathers, with a few black ones scattered in, which implies her hidden bitchy side Beneath the Mask.
  • Foil: To Aiura. They are openly described as attractive and beautiful by everyone (they use their beauty for their advantage) and are in love with Saiki. However, Aiura is a Nice Girl who helps everyone with her fortune-telling powers is closer to Saiki for being psychics, while Teruhashi is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who, despite being a justified Attention Whore, secretly holds disregard for anyone who gets in her way from having Saiki for herself.
  • Freudian Excuse: Having been adored and fawned over for her cuteness since infancy, it makes sense as to why she would develop such an ego.
  • Gaussian Girl: Parodied. Teruhashi is so beautiful she actually has a golden aura surrounding her body at all times, giving off this effect. It extends to a larger, rainbow-colored one when she's feeling particularly happy and/or beautiful, and disappears when she's upset.
  • Gold Digger: Before growing interested in Saiki, she regularly stated she wanted to marry a rich man. Played with when she realizes that she doesn't need to marry rich since people just give her stuff. When the fabulously wealthy Saiko comes a-knocking, she's mostly turned off by him but expresses interest in his wealth.
  • Head-Turning Beauty: When she's walking down the street, guys can't help but to stop whatever they're doing and stutter at her looks. Despite all appearances, she is very aware of this.
  • Honor Before Reason: Teruhashi's desire to always be seen as the perfect woman veers into this. When Nendou took her to some Lethal Eatery she refused to say she didn’t want to eat there. Even after Kaidou gave her an out by pointing out how disgusting the place was, she went in and ate its food.
  • "I Am Great!" Song: Played for Laughs. She sings a hilarious one in episode 18 of the anime, where she mentions that she does have a Beautiful Singing Voice because she is a perfect beauty.
  • I Love You Because I Can't Control You: How she interprets her growing interest in Saiki, who seems to be the only guy immune to her charms.
  • Informed Attractiveness: In her introductory chapter and onward, she doesn't stop reminding the viewer of how beautiful she thinks she is, not that the actions of those around her do anything to dispute this fact. Teruhashi is drawn in the same style as everyone else, however; a golden aura is the only other thing that marks her as superhumanly attractive.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She starts off as a vain and self-centered Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who only wants attention. Later on, her crush on Saiki allows her to genuinely care for his friends rather than seeing them as annoyances, she refuses to use any other gimmick to attract Saiki, and it's clear now that her crush on Saiki has evolved beyond a shallow I Love You Because I Can't Control You.
  • Joshikousei: Her school uniform is the traditional Japanese Sailor Fuku.
  • Leitmotif: Beautiful Girl Smile, Because I'm a Perfect Girl and Beautiful Appearance.
  • Logical Weakness: Teruhashi's entire gimmick is that she's so beautiful that she captures the attention of most men and some women; she can then make them do her bidding. That said, this obviously doesn't work on everybody, with the exceptions including:
    • Children who haven't developed romantic attraction (like Yuuta).
    • People who aren't interested in women (as was suspected with Hairo).
    • People immune to letting love controlling them (as Kusuke invokes).
  • The Man Behind the Man: In the live-action movie, she masterminded the entire plot by recruiting her many admirers to keep Saiki's friends busy during the school festival by actively Exploiting their characters' quirks all in order to keep the Moment Killers out of the picture for a Shoujo Genre Locked in a Room scenario with Saiki.
  • Manipulative Bitch: She's great at attracting guys and making them do what she pleases.
  • Narcissist: Inside her mind, Teruhashi rarely stops going on and on about how she's the most perfect and beautiful Bishoujo on the planet. She adores being the center of attention, which is why she can't stand the fact that unlike other guys, Saiki isn't hopelessly smitten with her.
  • Oblivious to Love: Teruhashi has no idea that her brother has feelings for her beyond familial, although she is aware of his clingy, perverting tendencies towards her, of all women.
  • Parody Sue: Teruhashi is a gorgeous young woman nigh-universally adored for her beauty, charm, and kindness. Beneath the Mask, she's manipulative and determined to maintain this image as much as she can, to Saiki's disdain. All of this is entirely Played for Laughs.
  • The Perfectionist: She won't allow herself to be anything but perfect.
  • Phrase Catcher: Whenever a guy excluding Saiki first sees her, they say "oh wow".
  • Proud Beauty: She pretends to be Obliviously Beautiful because that's more appealing, but she has really let all the praise from others go to her head and likes using her looks to make others do what she wants. That Saiki is the only man who doesn't say "oh wow" when he sees her is a big blow to her ego.
  • Punny Name: "Teruhashi" is a play on the word "telepathy".
  • School Idol: Easily the most popular student.
  • Slave to PR: Kokomi is hellbent on maintaining her public image of the "perfect Bishoujo". This is particularly the case when she is taken to a ramen shop. In order to keep from losing her image, she forces herself to eat spoiled ramen because she doesn't want others to see her acting rude by refusing the food.
  • Smug Smiler: She displays one whenever she is increasing her proximity towards Saiki. She also displayed a narcissistic one behind Rifuta's back to show who gains great attention from people.
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: Her interest in Saiki is initially because he doesn't fawn over her like every other guy, and she jumps through many physical and mental hoops to convince herself that he actually likes her deep down.
  • Spoiled Brat: Throughout her entire life, Teruhashi has been showered with attention because she's beautiful. People gladly give anything she wants and more just for being pretty, resulting in her incredibly self-centered and spoiled personality.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Her crush on Saiki, as well as her friendships with the rest of the cast, make it so she does care about people other than herself. But she's still pretty spoiled.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Inside Saiko's luxury cruise, Teruhashi pulled one of the bedridden Saiki's power limiters out of curiosity, causing the ship to collapse and sink via his partially uncontrolled powers (in which she is very unaware of). Thankfully, everyone survived, thanks to Saiki after his illness was lifted by the time the ship sank.
  • World's Most Beautiful Woman: She's has been deemed the most beautiful woman on Earth from the moment she was born and people compare her to an angel or a goddess because no human can be that pretty.

    Yumehara Chiyo 
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Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Jill Harris (English Funimation), Ryan Bartley (English Netflix), Montserrat Aguilar (Latin American Spanish)

"Saiki...even though I haven't spoken to you once yet...I always end up thinking about you like this..."

A hopelessly romantic girl with an unrequited crush on Saiki. She later falls for Kaidou.


  • Affectionate Parody: She's a parody of lovesick romance manga protagonists.
  • Cute, but Cacophonic: She is cute (but not as cute as Teruhashi), but she has a sqeaky voice to fit her Stock Shoujo Heroine personality.
  • Crush Blush: She sports a furious blush whenever a guy does something for her and has it on throughout the time she thought she and Kaidou were officially an item.
  • Crush Filter: Whenever she gets a crush on a guy, she imagines him as a typical handsome Bishōnen love interest, complete with Bishie Sparkle and Gratuitous English subtitles like "LOVE FANTASY".
  • Curtains Match the Window: Light brown hair and eyes.
  • Formerly Fit: Gains a large amount of weight in between appearances, to Saiki's abject surprise. After he inspires her with the image of Kaidou's disapproval, she works off the weight very quickly.
  • Fourth-Wall Observer: Chiyo is the only character besides Saiki that knows she's in a manga/anime. She's pointed out how she's been Out of Focus at times, annoyed at the lack of attention her bikini reveal had to Teruhashi and Mera in the Class Trip and even whining the staff made her fat cause she's a Flat Character.
  • Hopeless Suitor: To Saiki, who isn't interested in her. All of her attempts to get close to him fail because he predicts every single move she makes. She eventually gets over him and falls for Kaidou instead, and while she has somewhat better luck with him, he's still so painfully shy to reciprocate. Before being head over heels for Kaidou, Yumehara had many past relationships that eventually didn't work out every time.
    • According to Aiura, Yumehara's aura is made up of a tiny heart, which makes her qualified for this trope.
  • In Love with Love: It's very easy for her to fall for guys with the implication being she just wants to be in a relationship. Saiki compares her to a chick that imprints on the nearest thing.
  • Joshikousei: Her school uniform is the traditional Japanese Sailor Fuku.
  • Leitmotif: Love Flower and Sweet Sunset.
  • Love Bubbles: Appear behind her whenever she's having a moment with a guy she's in love with or during her Imagine Spots.
  • Love Can Make You Gonk: Her face becomes really weird as she starts drooling and goes cross-eyed when she mistakenly thinks Kaidou reciprocated her feelings. Teruhashi describes it as "melting."
  • Love Makes You Dumb: A Hopeless Suitor as she is, Yumehara is ranked #139 out of 181 students, which is considered below average given that Saiki and Satou typically aimed an average score that ranks both of them #90 in academics.
  • Loving a Shadow: Whenever she imagines Saiki, he appears as a very idealistic, Bishōnen Nice Guy love interest instead of the cynical, uninterested character that he is. It happens to her as well when she falls for Kaidou initially, though overtime she does start to accept the real him.
  • Marked to Die: In one segment, Aiura notices the mark of death on Yumehara's face, and she needed to keep her alive with Saiki's help. After he averted an accident involving Yumehara and a similarly-marked truck driver who'd fallen asleep at the wheel, the mark disappears.
  • Ms. Imagination: When she tries to lie about her weight, her monologue starts to approach Kaidou levels of ham.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: How she feels when comparing her looks to Teruhashi. Given the disproportionate amount of male attention Terushashi receives, it's not exactly unjustified.
  • Punny Name: A play on "Yochi yume", or "premonition dreams".
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She immediately crushes on anyone who acts manly in front of her or saves her from something:
    • She falls for Kaidou when he stands up for her against some guys who were mocking her on the school trip.
    • She develops an instant crush on Toritsuka when he catches her before she falls in a forest at night and she concludes that he's dependable but quickly gets over it when he runs away the moment a wild boar appears. She then re-falls in love with Kaidou when he ends up saving her instead.
  • The Social Expert: Yumehara is very good at making friends, easily able to win over some of the more anti-social characters.
  • Stock Shoujo Heroine: A parody of shoujo manga's lovelorn teenage protagonists. She would very much want to be one but circumstances and her own insecurities keep derailing her attempts.
  • Sweet Tooth: Yumehara enjoys sweets (though it isn't compared to Saiki's obsession to them), and she often worries if she gained weight or not (especially when she compares her own body to Teruhashi's).
  • Thinks Like a Romance Novel: In her introductory chapter, she constantly comes up with scenarios that put her and Saiki into over-romanticized situations. Saiki, who can see these thoughts perfectly, is not amused in the slightest.
  • Weight Woe: She's very worried about her weight, doesn't help she has a pretty big sweet tooth. At one point she becomes morbidly obese due to it and wouldn't have been able to work it off if Saiki hadn't caused her to think that Kaidou wouldn't be interested in her if she was fat, which forces her into overdrive and able to work off the weight in one day.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: She Thinks Like a Romance Novel, and is introduced trying to set up cliche romance manga situations that would enable her to kickstart a romance with Saiki (whom she imagines as a stereotypical Bishōnen love interest). She's actually a character in a gag manga, and Saiki (who can read her thoughts) goes out of his way to defy her expectations.

    Hairo Kineshi 
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Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Kyle Phillips (English Funimation), Billy Kametz (English Netflix), Ferso Velázquez (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Hideyuki Kasahara

"People get stronger by exceeding their limits!"

The over-enthusiastic Class Representative. His enthusiasm infects everyone, except Saiki.


  • Academic Athlete: Both a sports whiz and academically gifted.
  • Affectionate Parody: He's a parody of hot-blooded, sports manga protagonists.
  • Ambiguously Gay: Chapter 134 has Kaidou, Kuboyasu and even Saiki curious over his sexual orientation due to the fact he's the only male besides Saiki to not care about Teruhashi's looks, he's very popular with men, is very physical and serious in his rivalry with Nendou to the point of homoeroticism, and gets nude a lot. The chapter ends with the cast giving up trying to figure it out. In the end, Hairo admits he hasn't fallen in love before so he might be a case of ambiguously asexual.
  • Big Man on Campus: Is athletic, a Class Representative, a good student, and tries to improve everyone's wellbeing regardless of their background. Even Saiki admires him.
  • Chaste Hero: He seems to be the only guy, other than Saiki, not affected by Teruhashi's looks. Mostly because he's too focused on sports, he even admits he hasn't fallen in love before.
  • Class Representative: He's the class representative of Saiki's homeroom. As with everything he does, he's very proactive with his position.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: He's the most popular guy in his class, with most guys worshiping him due to his attitude. One guy even gave him valentine chocolate.
  • Fiery Redhead: Dark red and spiky hair, befitting his energetic personality.
  • Fist Pump: Does this when he's coming up with a plan, fired up to do something, or after he's accomplished something. He's just that enthusiastic about everything.
  • Genius Bruiser: Ranked in the top 10 during the School's Midterms.
  • Hot-Blooded: An exaggerated version of this trope. He is so hot-blooded that he can melt snow in a huge radius around himself in the middle of a cold winter just by standing there.
  • Infectious Enthusiasm: Hairo's charisma and popularity will inspire his classmates to give it their all in whatever activity he is currently doing or wants them to do. However, there are some times where Hairo's enthusiasm won't infect people.
  • Large Ham: He will even sweat dramatically without apparent cause.
  • Leitmotif: Get Hotter!, A Fiery Fire, Stand Up Even If It Falls Down!, and Unbeatable Battle.
  • Lovable Jock: Very athletic, and the most popular guy in the class, if not in the whole grade.
  • Loved by All: Hairo is the class rep. His classmates adore him and are willing to go above and beyond for events like Sports Challenges and the School Festival just because he motivates them. Even Saiki finds it hard to half-ass things like he normally does just because of how passionate Hairo is.
  • Manly Tears: Whenever he feels moved. There are times that he also inspires others to shed them.
  • Nice Guy: His hot-blooded passion for just about anything may come off as intense or annoying to some people, but he has a genuine desire to make others rise to their full potential. He's this trope to such an extreme degree that the first time Saiki walks home with him, Hairo carries an old lady to the station, directs a lost child and foreigner to it as well, cleans up vending machine trash, and stops a robbery (he succeeds on that last one due to Saiki's help, but the thought is there).
  • No Indoor Voice: Most of whatever comes out of his mouth is delivered in a loud, over-dramatic voice.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: His uniform is sleeveless, even in winter.
  • Not So Above It All: Hairo can get too competitive to the point of willing to play dirty to win.
  • Pointless Band-Aid: He always has an adhesive strip on his nose to emphasize his athleticism.
  • Punny Name: "Hairo Kineshi" is a play on the word "Pyrokinesis".
  • Running Gag: His pants fall down whenever he trips.
  • Serious Business: Sports, teamwork, hard work, carrying heavy objects down a hallway are all serious things to him.
  • Shonen Hair: His hair is red and spiked up.
  • Sleeves Are for Wimps: Wears a sleeveless version of the school uniform even in winter as a visual reminder of his manliness and physicality.
  • Spirited Competitor: He even prayed for a rival that could push him to his limits on New Year! He even found one in Nendo.
  • Stock Shōnen Hero: A parody of the stock Sports Story hero — a spiky-haired, energetic young man who deeply believes in teamwork, hard work, and The Power of Friendship.
  • Testosterone Poisoning: His fiery obsession with hard work, determination, and pushing himself (and others) to ridiculous limits is so outlandish that it crosses into comedic territory.
  • Too Dumb to Live: He breaks down the shutter blocking the front entrance in a safety drill. The reason there was a shutter is because of the announcement that tells the science lab will be on fire; therefore it is a test to see if anyone listened to the announcement to go to the back entrance instead. Hairo sure didn't and ends up breaking down the shutter alongside Kaidou and Nendou.
    Saiki: In a real fire, they'd be the first to die.
  • Universally Beloved Leader: Hairo is the president of his class and captain of the Tennis Club who is greatly admired by his peers. Lampshaded by Saiki when he compared the big differences between Hairo and Toritsuka.
  • Unknown Rival: Considers Nendou to be his sports rival after losing to him in 4 out 5 of the Fitness exams. Nendou being Nendou is completely oblivious to this fact.
  • Unusual Eyebrows: His brows are slanted and kinked at the end.

    Toritsuka Reita 
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Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese), Joel McDonald (English Funimation), Kellen Goff (English Netflix), Alberto Bernal (Latin American Spanish)

"I wanna master psychic powers so that I can do things like seeing girls' naked bodies and use precognition to win the lottery! I wanna live as I please!"

A high-schooler who was born the ability to see and talk to ghosts. He is aware that Saiki has psychic powers because a ghost told him so.


  • Abhorrent Admirer: While he can fool girls with his princely act initially, once he shows off how perverted he actually is, they immediately get creeped out and want nothing to do with him. Special note is Makino Arisu, who he ended up falling in love with after initially writing her off when establishing the Occult Club, except by that point she was already thoroughly creeped out by him.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In the last episodes of the anime, Kusuke kidnaps him and brainwashes him to act as a weapon against Saiki. However, Kusuke acknowledges that it doesn't work because Toritsuka genuinely likes Saiki.
  • Casanova Wannabe: Would like nothing more than to be popular with women, but his attempts always fail (or at least never last that long) because of his own incompetence and pervertedness.
  • Crush Filter: When daydreaming about Arisu, Toritsuka consistently imagines her as a cute girl, when it was previously shown that she was very plain under the bangs.
  • Dirty Old Monk: He was raised in a shrine, and is technically a monk-in-training. Ironically, he's the most perverted cast member.
  • Emergency Impersonation: Saiki uses his illusion powers so that his group of friends see Reita as him while he's busy trying to stop the eruption of Mt. Owari. He gets somewhat annoyed that all Reita needs to do is saying Saiki's Catchphrase to fool Saiki's friends.
  • Face Doodling: He does this to Saiki when he separates his soul from his body, as revenge for interrupting his porno magazine tournament.
  • Foil: For Saiki. While Saiki has regularly shown disdain for his powers, refusing to use them for his own benefit and overall trying to keep a low profile, Toritsuka is the exact opposite. He loves trying to use his powers for his own benefit which is usually to gain popularity.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: In the last episode of the anime, he briefly joins forces with Kusuke to hijack Saiki's body and take his powers for himself.
  • Guardian Entity: Has the ability to see each person's guardian entity thanks to his powers. His own personal guardian spirit is Nendou's lazy, deceased father.
  • I See Dead People: His special ability, which he's had ever since he was born, is to see ghosts.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Toritsuka may be a lecherous pervert who wants to abuse his powers for personal gain, but he isn't completely devoid of good. He is willing to help spirits pass on from time to time, genuinely considers Saiki a friend, and has tried to use his powers for things aside from hitting on girls... even if it ends up screwing him over.
  • Leitmotif: Annoyance, Medium, and Possession.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: Downplayed and Lampshaded by Saiki, who's surprised that someone can be so sincere and open about his own lewdness, but to call him "lovable" is a stretch, as most of the school hates him for being a lecherous perv, and Saiki barely tolerates him and would rather just ignore him. Even Hairo, who tends to see the best in everyone, is warry of him due to his reputation of being "like the plague".
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg: Unlike most of the other major students, who get plenty of Pet the Dog moments from him, Saiki doesn't like Toritsuka all that much and will go out of his way to ignore or berate him.
  • New Transfer Student: Transfers to Saiki's school the day after he introduces himself to him. Saiki complains that the development is way too cliched.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: One of the few times he tries using his powers to flat out help someone was when he tried catching the student stealing the girls' gym clothes. Even when the culprit's guardian spirit offered to spy on girls and tell Toritsuka what their panties looked like if he let the culprit go, Toritsuka refused, if only because he knew Saiki wouldn't approve and refused to take advantage of the spirit just for doing his job. Problem is, the culprit ran off during all this and left the clothes, so when Toritsuka went to give them back, the girls thought he stole them and beat the shit out of him.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: Wears a blue shirt under his uniform jacket, as well as a headband, beads, and a pair of geta shoes.
  • Punny Name: "Toritsuka Reita" is a play on "Toritsukareta", or "possessed" (as in, by ghosts).
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: He regularly attempts to use his powers for his own benefit from trying to peep at girls to his heart's content, getting them to fall for him or cheating on tests.
  • Secret-Keeper: He is initially the only person aware of Saiki's powers, which he finds out about from ghosts telling him.
  • Useless Useful Spell: As a medium, Toritsuka is only capable of seeing and communicating with spirits. He doesn't actually know how to exorcise them.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Pretty much every chapter he appears in highlights how much of a perverted sleezebag he is, and usually follows this up with swift humiliation in response. Tellingly, he's the only one of his classmates who Saiki genuinely dislikes.
  • Willing Channeler: Later he learns how to borrow the abilities of spirits by allowing them to possess him, at the risk of it being permanent.

    Mera Chisato 
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Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English), Ana Lobo (Latin American Spanish)

"Thank you so much, Saiki! I owe you my life! The truth is, I haven't eaten anything except ice since yesterday..."

A poor high schooler who is always starving and looking for something to eat.


  • Action Girl: Is easily able to hunt down snakes and other animals while on the island in the Shipwreck Arc and cut down trees even faster than Nendou and Kuboyasu. She also easily fends off hitmen hired by her father's debtees who try to capture her.
  • Affectionate Nickname: "Chisapoyo" by Aiura, and she is referred with a "-chi" honorific by Yumehara and Nendou.
  • Badass Normal: The harshness of living in poverty has significantly hardened Mera, giving her extraordinary strength and speed in times of need.
  • Big Eater: Since she is very poor, when she gets invited to eat something (or when she sees food samplings), expect her to eat a lot of that.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Matching maroon hair and eyes.
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: Although she gives her best efforts in working as a part-timer in Café Mami, she often breaks the dishes in the process.
  • Damsel out of Distress: She has been hunted down and captured by her father's debtees, but every time she managed to escape and hunt them down instead.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Due to being in Perpetual Poverty, Mera has been forced to eat whatever she can find, regardless of whether or not it's actually edible. She's openly admitted to eating snow and grass around New Year's, ate all of Saiki, Kaidou, and Hairo's failed crepes, was found by Saiki and Nendou having eaten poisonous mushrooms, ate bread filled with laxatives Saiko left as a prank after mistaking it for a gift, and even bit Yumehara after mistaking her for a pig walking on two legs. This gets lampshaded when she ends up eating the uncooked batter Saiki had intended on using to make crepes once, a caption box stating she could do this without getting food poisoning because she had "special training".
  • A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Played for Laughs in the second season finale. Mera gains a fortune investing in bitcoin over vacation and acts like a tacky, social-climbing rich person. By the next day, the bitcoin market has crashed and she's back to being poor.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is tied into two low bunches.
  • Going Native: Played for Laughs. During the Shipwreck Arc, she goes absolutely feral to survive, running around like a Nubile Savage and hunting, losing the ability to talk until Teruhashi coaxes her back out.
  • Jack of All Trades: She has several jobs to sustain her family — she works at the Café, as a morning newspaper and milk delivery girl, at the nighttime gas station, in a Chinese restaurant, in a diner, in a lunch shop, as a babysitter, at paper flower making, and tutoring... just to mention some of them.
  • The Not-Love Interest: Mera tends to be the only one of Saiki's female friends that he isn't annoyed by and is comfortable hanging out with at first. While initially it had to do with her cafe serving coffee jelly and taking pity on her, she tends to be the one person he regularly only has nice things to say about, is more forgiving of her personality flaws since he knows she's a good person at heart, and goes out of his way to help her despite normally wanting to be left alone. While this would normally be the setup for her being a compatible love interest for him, it's clear the two only see each other as friends.
  • Perpetual Poverty: All the income from her many, many jobs seems to go to her mother and siblings, and Mera never earns enough money to properly feed herself. She lampshades it when Akechi questions her.
  • Promotion to Parent: She's primarily responsible for feeding her younger siblings following her father's disappearance and her mother's illness.
  • Punny Name: One that gets Lost in Translation, but her name contains the kanji for "clairvoyance" ("senrigan").
  • Real Women Have Curves: Mera has a thicker frame than Teruhashi or Yumehara. Despite that, the series avoids going into Hollywood Pudgy territory. During the Beach Episode, Mera gets a longer glamour shot than the two other girls, with the male classmates admitting they love her curves.
  • Riches to Rags: Mera's family was originally filthy rich. One day, her dad's business went under and her entire family became extremely poor because of that. Not long after, Mr. Mera abandoned them and her mom got sick. And since she has little siblings, she is the only one who has to sustain her entire family on her own.
  • Triple Shifter: She's forced to work multiple jobs to support her entire family. Since working as a part-timer is forbidden for students in PK Academy, Saiki brainwashed everyone into thinking that PK Academy's students doing part-time jobs is perfectly normal to help her in keep maintaining her family.
  • Unwanted Gift Plot: Experiences this during her birthday episode, where she criticizes most of the numerous birthday gifts all her classmates give to her, to the point they get fed up with her ungratefulness and take their gifts back. She eventually gets better about it though.

    Kuboyasu Aren 
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Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English Funimation), Kaiji Tang (English Netflix), Carlo Vázquez (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Kento Kaku

"But the life of a normal person is tougher than that of a delinquent."

A former delinquent who wants to live as normal as possible when he is transferred to PK Academy.


  • Artists Are Attractive: Kuboyasu has a fairly attractive appearance after transferring to PK Academy and is very skilled in art (as shown with his drawings and clay model of a motorcycle).
  • Audience Surrogate: Kuboyasu's introduction episode had him reacting to the quirky students of Saiki's class much like an audience member would.
  • Badass Biker: He owns a motorcycle that he used to ride when he was with the Espers, his old gang. He still rides it from time to time.
  • Badass Longcoat: He previously wore a white longcoat, one of the few prominent aspects of his delinquent aesthetic. He has more of these in his bedroom.
  • Batter Up!: During his delinquent days, he used a baseball bat with nails.
    • This was downplayed in the Baseball Episode when he claimed that he used his bat for other things instead of fighting to conceal his residual delinquent tendencies.
  • Best Friend: With Kaidou after saving him from delinquents. Both get along well and are on First-Name Basis with each other. Kuboyasu also puts up with his antics such as when they made a secret hideout.
  • Berserk Button:
    • Seeing his friends get harassed or bullied by other delinquents, they will be KO'd by Kuboyasu.
    • Although he sensed it right from the start, his realization of being tricked by a group of thugs who made a fake love letter caused him to beat them up with brute force. Afterwards, Kuboyasu became the one to pick fights on anyone who run over to him. Obviously, he gets better on the next episode/chapter appearance (it's a gag anime, after all).
    • Aside from other delinquents, his buttons are typically pushed by Saiko for the latter's arrogance and stubbornness.
  • Blatant Lies: As a way to hide his punk habits, Kuboyasu tells very obvious lies to cover his acts in front of everyone, and they buy them (except Saiki, obviously). Once Kaidou finds out that Kuboyasu was a punk, he stops lying to him and his friends (Saiki and Nendou).
  • Blood Knight: He actually enjoys fighting.
  • Bully Hunter: Ends up beating the crap out of some delinquents who were trying to accost Kaidou and his new friends, as well as those who sent him a fake love letter.
  • Clark Kent Outfit: His physique looks average when he's wearing his school uniform. If he gets shirtless, you'll see his scarred and buff torso.
  • Covered with Scars: He tries to keep this hidden when getting dressed but, his cover gets blown when the other guys call him out on the fact that his body is covered in scars from the neck down. This only further convinces Kaidou that Kuboyasu used to be a punk.
  • Delinquent Hair: When he was still a gang leader, he had a mullet with long, floor-length hair.
  • Face of a Thug: Although his normal self's face looks very plain, if someone pisses him off, his face becomes very scary.
  • Former Teen Rebel: Kuboyasu is the former leader of a gang called the Espers. When he got sick of stepping on his own long hair, he decided to try and live like a normal student, but his habits never die as soon as he gets provoked to use his knuckles.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He tries his best to fit in PK Academy and tries to act normal, but he gets pissed off too easily by other people. In the case with Saiko, Kuboyasu has an innate hatred for the Rich Bastard.
  • Hunk: Even with his scarred abs, he appears quite attractive after being outgrown with his former delinquent phase. Aiura was attracted to Kuboyasu for a very short while until she found her actual crush, which turns out to be Saiki instead.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Accuses transfer students of being lame; Kaidou points out he was a transfer student himself.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: He transferred to PK Academy to leave his delinquent past behind and become a normal student, although it's very hard to put his old habits behind him.
  • In the Blood: His parents were full-time delinquents (in their youth) like him, so he went through their same way of life as he grew a mullet.
  • Japanese Delinquents: Played with. Originally, Kuboyasu was straightly a delinquent, completed with his long mullet with a ducktail, a pair of slanted shades, a mask, and a white Badass Longcoat. Even after transferring to PK Academy with a new look, he retains his delinquent tendencies with his Hair-Trigger Temper that can intimidate others easily, whether it's unintentional or not.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his former deliquent status, residual viciousness of his former lifestyle, and his struggles to get along with his new classmates, Kuboyasu is actually rather levelheaded and nice, and he ends up joining Saiki's circle of friends.
  • The Leader: Used to be this for a bike gang before transferring to PK Academy. In most situations, such as the Shipwreck Arc, he ends up being the leader of the group.
  • Leitmotif: Unreadable Heart and Thinking of My Dad.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Subverted after transferring to PK Academy with short, non-delinquent hair to blend in with others easily.
    • Played straight with his role as the original Taro Urashima during the School Play Arc.
  • Marshmallow Hell: Hilariously subverted in the manga, as Aiura suddenly clings into Kuboyasu with her boobs squeezing his arm shortly after reading his spiky aura.
  • Meaningful Name: Downplayed. Kuboyasu's full name, "Kuboyasu Aren", is an anagram for the Japanese spelling of the English word "clairvoyance".("kureaboyansu") In addition to being a Punny Name, it's also indicative of how, while not actual clairvoyance like Saiki, Kuboyasu has an unnaturally high level of awareness of his surroundings, being able to sense people that try to catch him off guard from behind, and even notice when Saiki is spying on him despite Saiki concealing his presence, Saiki comparing it to an animal's natural instincts.
  • New Transfer Student: He comes from an all-boys high school that was full of delinquents just like him. One day, he realized that he was tired of stepping on his own (mullet) hair, so he wanted to graduate from being a punk.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: Inverted. Unlike the other male characters except Saiki, he wears his uniform strictly to the letter. Akechi interprets this as someone trying too hard to look respectable, which fits with his conclusion of Kuboyasu being a reformed delinquent.
  • No Social Skills: Due to his history as a delinquent, he has no idea how regular people act at all. Though this becomes downplayed over the course of the series, as he evolves into the Only Sane Man, although second to Saiki.
  • Offhand Backhand: Uses this fighting technique to deal with some delinquents.
  • Only Sane Man: He occasionally takes this role, since Saiki is never quite vocal about his opinions. Unfortunately, Kuboyasu has his own quirks that make him Not So Above It All at times.
  • Poster-Gallery Bedroom: His bedroom is an extremely stereotypical gang member room.
  • Purely Aesthetic Glasses: His vision is fine; his glasses are non-prescribed and purely part of his attempt to transition away from being a delinquent and become a normal person.
  • Purple Is Powerful: Downplayed since he's not a psychic; Kuboysau has natural purple hair and is a badass Blood Knight with a higher level of awareness in his surroundings that is nearly the same as that of Saiki.
  • Real Men Cook: Just like Nendou, he is a surprisingly good cook.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Saiko.
  • Strong and Skilled: His strength rivals that of Hairo and Nendou and is skilled in motorcycling and art.
  • Younger Than He Looks: His former look as a delinquent made him look older than he was supposed to be (15 years old).

    Saiko Metori 
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Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese), Adam Gibbs (English), Ray Chase (English Netflix), Cuauhtemoc Miranda (Latin American Spanish)

"Let's get something straight. I don't intend to be friends with you commoners."

A fantastically rich corporation heir who transfers to PK Academy with the intention of wooing Teruhashi. This goes about as well as you'd expect.


  • Affectionate Parody: Of rich jerks who are used to buying their way through life.
  • Big Fancy House: Of course, as the resident wealthy character, his estate is incredibly large.
  • Break the Haughty:
    • During the shipwreck arc, he refuses to slum it with the other students and their "plebeian" food and winds up nearly starving for two days.
    • Happens to him again where he gets his school desk defaced with insults while getting told off by Kuboyasu on why nobody likes him. This causes him to storm off into the bathroom upset before considering transferring schools.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Even without getting into the guy with Psychic Powers, bullying the girl with a fanbase spanning a large number of students turned out to be a really bad idea.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Gray hair and eyes.
  • Entitled to Have You: His introduction has him coming to PK Academy so he can claim Teruhashi as his woman because he's convinced the son of the richest family in the world only deserves the World's Most Beautiful Woman. When she refuses him, he retaliates by trying to ruin her family's reputation.
  • Fiction 500: Parodied. He's so fantastically rich that he can give away millions of yen at the drop of a hat, sits in a tub of bills, and has a throne made of stacks of money. In one episode, he completely remodels his mansion to include an amusement park, a beach, an incredible game room and bar, and a room full of sweets all on a whim. Even discussed, as Saiki compares him to a very wealthy comic book character.
  • Fish out of Water: As part of a family tradition, Saiko is required to spend 24 hours to survive with a 10,000 yen on his hands without relying on his family's riches. As Saiki lampshaded this trope, he feels shocked and disgusted over walking home or eating ramen, both of which are very nonstandard to him.
  • Freudian Excuse: Yeah, he's a real jerk who loves to invoke Screw the Rules, I Have Money! but that's because his father taught him that "there's nothing in this world that money can't buy" and he had no reason to think otherwise until joining PK Academy.
  • Hairstyle Inertia: It's implied that he kept the same hairstyle since he was a toddler, according to his monologue.
  • Hidden Depths: Proves to be decent at basketball by exploiting Nendou, Takahashi, and Kuboyasu's personalities.
  • Honor Before Reason: When everyone was stranded on a deserted island Saiko refused to eat with the common peasants so after two days he could barely stand and was delirious from hunger. Even when they left food around for him to find he refused to accept their pity and brought it back to them.
    • Averted when he admitted he was doing it out of grief for thinking he was the one who caused an accident in the first place.
  • Ignored Epiphany: Saiko both deconstructs and inverts this trope when he forced his staff to set sail despite being told the ship was in the middle of repairs. So when it sank and everyone ended up on a deserted island he refused to eat with the peasants, because if he was stubborn enough to do that, how could he stop being stubborn now that he’s facing Laser-Guided Karma.
    • Played straight after they finally convinced him to eat.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends:
    • It's vaguely implied that this is the reason he went out of his way to win the approval of Nendou, Saiki, Kaidou, and Kuboyasu by remodeling his entire estate to suit their interests.
    • In a later episode, he considers leaving the school when he sees how much everyone hates him, showing that he does value being sincerely liked by others, and winds up turning his attitude around when Nendou tells him how much he considers him as a friend.
  • It's All About Me: When it turns out that the class wasn't doing the School Play ending that put Saiko front and center, he pulls out all his financial support, leaving the class to do the play without expensive costumes and sets.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Egotistical, arrogant, prideful, and petty, Saiko isn't exactly pleasant to be around at first unless he's paying you off. After spending time with the main cast however, Nendou in particular, he slowly Took a Level in Kindness and started considering them his friends... while still largely being a prideful dickhead.
  • Kick the Dog: Around the time Saiko transferred to PK Academy, he plotted conspiracy on each of his classmates who defied him, which includes:
    • Framing Kuboyasu for assault on his bodyguard, although the latter actually started the fight.
    • Using the mass media to accuse Toru Mugami for having an affair with a middle-aged woman after his younger sister turned Saiko down from becoming his wife with luxurious benefits. Thankfully, Saiki and the Teruhashi Fan Club raided his estate for abusing the siblings later on.
    • Forcing the Saiki and Kaidou family to move into Siberia, due to their respective fathers' work being transferred over there, of all places.
    • Turning Mera's water and power supply off to the point she couldn't pay with insufficient funds and giving her a spoiled bread in front of her house.
    • Planting a snot on Nendou's Shonen Jump magazine, although this isn't much of a big issue compared to the ones listed above.
  • Leitmotif: Rich Man and The Chosen One.
  • Mirror Character: To Teruhashi. Both were raised under a certain principle that they believed was absolute until meeting a member of Saiki's group who were so different that they had to rethink these beliefs.
  • New Transfer Student: Transfers into Saiki's class.
  • The Nicknamer: Saiko always refers to his classmates as "peasants" and a trait they have. He calls Saiki "glasses peasant", Nendou "mohawk peasant", and Kaidou "tiny peasant."
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: Doesn't wear the tie or blazer, presumably because he thinks he's above such things.
  • Not Good with Rejection: After Teruhashi rejects him because she likes Saiki, he decides to move Saiki's family to Siberia and create rumors to start a scandal surrounding her brother so that she truly is penniless.
  • Out of Focus: Saiko gets overall the least development and screentime of Saiki's classmates, only managing a handful of spotlight chapters after his introduction.
  • Pet the Dog: Despite his massive Jerkass attitude, he gives more and more of these over the series's course to the main cast, indulging and sharing the luxuries of his wealth with them.
    • The biggest one, and demonstrating his Character Development, is in the last episode of Awakened. When a meteorite is about to strike Japan and his family servants are hurriedly escorting him to a bunker, he tries to insist they also bring and save his friends too.
  • Poke the Poodle: He tries to pressure Teruhashi into dating him by making her life and the lives of those around her miserable. While this includes serious efforts like nearly transferring Saiki and Kaidou to Siberia, it also includes leaving laxative bread outside Mera's house (which she enjoyed eating anyway).
  • Punny Name: One of the most straightforward. "Saiko Metori" sounds like "Psychometry."
  • Rich Bastard: He looks down on everyone with less money than him as "peasants" and never gets tired of bragging about his ridiculous luxuries.
  • The Rival: Subverted. At first, he detested Saiki for being the main reason why Teruhashi wouldn't return Saiko's affections, as her love for Saiki was greatly above the promise of wealth that would come from marrying Saiko. Once Saiko was put in his place, however, he simply treats Saiki just as badly as everyone else.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: His defining trait. He honestly believes that money can buy anything.
  • Shout-Out: His hairstyle resembles Rohan Kishibe's (minus the headband), which is made more apparent whenever he uses the latter's "But I refuse." line and the art shifts to depict him in an Araki-like drawing style.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Kuboyasu.
  • Spoiled Brat: Saiko is used to paying everyone to get exactly what he wants, but he runs into a wall with the PK Academy students, who just find him insufferable.
  • Token Rich Student: Neither the school nor the gaggle of students the story follows (barring Kaidou) are mentioned to be particularly well off... except for Saiko. He's heir to a ridiculously rich family, who constantly flaunts his wealth and sticks up his nose at the "commoners" surrounding him. His given reason for slumming it when he could obviously afford much better is that he intends to woo Teruhashi.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: While still a pompous jerk, he does grow to care for the main cast due to all the times he interacted with them and considers them his friends.
  • Tsundere: He acts cold to the rest of the main cast, but if he's confronted by an opportunity to gain their affection or help them, he tends to take it.

    Rifuta Imu 
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Voiced by: M.A.O. (Japanese), Valentina Souza (Latin American Spanish)

"No...! There can't be someone cuter than me!"

A beautiful freshman who transfers to PK Academy with the intent of making all the guys fall for her. Again, given Teruhashi's presence, this goes about as well as you'd expect.


  • Always Second Best: She might be leagues more beautiful than the average girl, but everyone agrees that Teruhashi still has her beat.
  • Better as Friends: Downplayed. Her crush on Saiki eventually peters out once she has her Love Epiphany for Teruhashi, but she's fully aware Teruhashi has feelings for Saiki. While she isn't exactly close with Saiki and actually thinks he's a scumbag, it's because of this she wanted him to hook her up with one of his friends, so that the two of them wouldn't have to be "love rivals" for Teruhashi. Outside of that however, she doesn't go out of her way to antagonize him and is comfortable being part of his friend group, if only to be with Teruhashi.
  • Break the Haughty: It's implied that she was the most popular girl in her middle school and she plans to do the same at PK Academy. Seeing that Teruhashi was already more popular than her really damages her pride.
  • The Cutie: Invoked and subverted. She puts on a cute act in order to gain the attention and control the guys around her. She is really a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, like Teruhashi.
  • Dude Magnet: Second to Teruhashi, all of the boys at PK Academy are adored by Rifuta.
  • Fangirl: She becomes a huge fangirl of Makoto Teruhashi, when she realizes he's a male Kokomi lookwise.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in two pigtails, which are noted to make her look cuter.
  • Head-Turning Beauty: Guys tend to fawn over her when she passes by. However, guys consider her less beautiful than Teruhashi, much to her chagrin.
  • Hidden Depths: She's pretty good at reading people, as she's able to accurately predict what Saiki was envisioning she meant by "boyfriend material", manages to summarize the characterizations of all the guys Chiyo tries introducing her to just by looking at them, including figuring out Kuboyasu is a former gangster, and figures out Chiyo was only getting involved out of fear Rifuta would be interested in Kaidou.
  • Leitmotif: New Beautiful Girl.
  • Love Epiphany: She thought she hated Teruhashi because the latter one-upped in every aspect of beauty. It's when she prevents Teruhashi from seeing Saiki and Aiura together that she realizes she has a crush on Teruhashi and doesn't want her to be hurt by Saiki.
  • New Transfer Student: She is introduced when she transfers into the school.
  • Punny Name: "Rifuta Imu" is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of "time leap".
  • Sherlock Scan: Not exactly on the same analytical level as Akechi's, but Rifuta can easily observe and analyze the boys of PK Academy and then rate their "boyfriend-material" standards for each of them.
  • What Does She See in Him?: Rifuta's reaction to Teruhashi's interest in the seemingly average Saiki, since Teruhashi is so far out of his league by in-universe standards. It becomes worse when Saiki tries to make it look like he's already in a relationship with Aiura to get them to leave him alone, since it just makes Rifuta see him as a scumbag playboy.

    Aiura Mikoto 
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Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Japanese), Faye Mata (English), Liliana Barba (Latin American Spanish)

"When I meet him I should definitely be able to tell by his aura... but I am definitely going to find him."

A Gyaru Girl who also possesses psychic powers, mostly in the vein of fortune telling and aura vision. She transfers into the school because her fortune said that a psychic with the initials "S.K." at PK Academy is her Mr. Right. Saiki is unamused.


  • Ambiguously Bi: Her crush on Saiki is made very clear, but it's implied she may be interested in Teruhashi as well. Aiura blushes during their first meeting and even says that Teruhashi is cute.
  • Aura Vision: She can see people's auras, except when she's around Saiki (because his aura is so big he blocks everyone else's).
  • Betty and Veronica Switch: At first glance, the flirtatious Gyaru Girl Aiura is the Veronica to the seemingly sweet and polite Teruhashi's Betty, with Saiki as the Archie. However, Aiura is also one of the few people that Saiki lets into his secret of having psychic powers because she also has supernatural abilities and Saiki finds her behavior less difficult than Teruhashi, who is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: Has the largest bust of Saiki's female friends. When she first transfers in, the guys note that she might not be as beautiful as Teruhashi, but her big rack kind of makes up for it.
  • Custom Uniform of Sexy: Her school uniform sports a lower neckline and more legs than the standard, befitting her status as Ms. Fanservice.
  • Foil: To Teruhashi. Both of them are considered attractive by everyone (they even took advantage of their beauty) and are in love with Saiki. In contrast, Teruhashi is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who wanted every guy to get out of her way, so she can get Saiki for herself, while Aiura is a Nice Girl who helps anyone with her fortune-telling abilities and is able to keep Saiki's big secret from everyone.
  • Fortune Teller: She can tell peoples' fortunes and does so with a crystal ball and various other incomprehensible rituals. Saiki confirms that her powers are the real deal.
  • A Friend in Need: In contrast to Saiki, whereas he largely wants to be left alone but will ultimately lend a hand, and Toritsuka, who largely uses his powers for profit or popularity but does occassionally try to help out, Aiura doesn't hesitate to use her powers to help others the minute they ask. Prime example being her willingness to help Mera find her Disappeared Dad, as while Saiki is wary of whether meeting him would actually help Mera, especially when she starts taking extra jobs to afford a trip to Puerto Rico where Aiura located him, Aiura is more concerned with just helping Mera out overall. This ends up irritating Saiki since he still wants to remain unnoticed and is worried someone may go after her for her powers, leading him to occasionally sabotage Aiura's predictions so her clients don't think she's a legitimate psychic.
  • Good Bad Girl: She's open about wanting to make love with Saiki. When Saiki also asks for a favor, Aiura interprets this as a sexual one and quickly jumps into bed almost naked.
  • Gyaru Girl: She is noted to have this aesthetic; she's dark-skinned with light hair, energetic, and fashionable.
  • Hopeless Suitor: She falls hard for Saiki after seeing the extent of his powers, but he still hates the mere idea of romance.
  • Leitmotif: Gyaru Transfer Student.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Not as "beautiful" as Teruhashi but certainly curvier and shows off more skin. She's also more open while flirting.
  • New Transfer Student: Yet another transferee into Saiki's class.
  • Nice Girl: Despite being a bit crass and somewhat nonconservative, she is very easygoing and quickly befriends most of the class. She also often goes out of her way to help her friends, such as Saiki, Chiyo, and Mera.
  • The Nicknamer: Tends to give unique nicknames to her female classmates, such as "Chiyopipi" for Chiyo, "Chisapoyo" for Chisato and "Terukoko" for Kokomi.
  • No Dress Code: Her school uniform violates several rules by showing her cleavage and long legs.
  • Pet the Dog: Buys Mera a rice omelette while at the maid cafe she works at, to give her a chance to relax and eat real food with friends. Afterwards, she also helps Mera reunite with her father.
  • Punny Name: The kanji in her name is derivative from different kinds of fortune telling terminology.
  • Secret-Keeper: Like Toritsuka, Saiki lets her know about his powers because she is supernatural herself.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Subverted. Even after being told off by Saiki for using her powers in public, Aiura was too naive to fully realize how risky her fortune-telling job was, as she was held at gunpoint by a client who wanted to exploit her psychic powers.Thankfully, Saiki took care of her life-or-death situation at the last minute.

    Akechi Touma 
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Voiced by: Yuki Kaji (Japanese), Bryce Papenbrook (English), Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish)

"Yes, [Saiki] and I were classmates in elementary, albeit only up to second grade. So I'm curious as to what kind of person he's become..."

Another transfer student. Akechi was Saiki's classmate in elementary school and is determined to find proof of Saiki's powers. He's also an exceedingly fast talker.


  • Awesomeness by Analysis: He's considered one of the "PK Psychics" solely because he's so observant and smart that his observations are as good as Aiura's predictions.
  • Badass Normal: Toritsuka and Aiura begrudgingly accept him among the "PK Psychics" after his powers of deduction prove more useful than their actually supernatural abilities. And whereas Toritsuka managed to figure it out with help of ghosts and Saiki was forced to reveal himself to Aiura, Akechi managed to corner Saiki into revealing himself.
  • Bait-and-Switch: He's led up to be someone malicious who could possibly expose Saiki's powers. Once Saiki gives up on changing the past so Akechi never suspects him and lets him in on the secret, Akechi tells him that he just wanted closure on the incident and vows to never reveal his secret.
  • Bully Magnet: He was bullied by a group of kids in his class at elementary school. The bullying only stopped after Saiki went on a rampage due to seeing Akechi being beaten and Saiki changed the memories of the bullies so they would think Akechi destroyed the class instead.
  • Hidden Depths: In addition to being good at deductive reasoning, Akechi is shown to be somewhat philosophical and existential, as evident when Kaidou asked him his thoughts on death, and he responded with a thought out analysis on the ideas of death being an inevitability but his disbelief on people being "equal" in death. Were it not for his Motor Mouth and inability to be concise, he'd likely be able to provoke more thought with his statements.
  • Leitmotif: Childhood Friend.
  • Meaningful Name: "Akechi" is most likely in part derived from Akechi Kogoro, Japan's archetypcal Great Detective character, befitting someone with genius deductive reasoning skills.
  • Motor Mouth: Big time. He talks so fast that his sentences overlap. He even lampshades that it's his gimmick.
  • New Transfer Student: Another transferee. By the time of his introduction, the class is so sick of this trope that they're uninterested.
  • Potty Failure: He had a habit of wetting himself when he was in elementary school.
  • Punny Name: A pun on the Japanese word for invisibility.
  • Secret Chaser: Wants to find out if Saiki really does have powers, and goes to extreme lengths for it. Once Saiki lets him in on the secret, he becomes a Secret-Keeper.
  • Secret-Keeper: As a child, he found out about Saiki's powers then let it slip when he was being bullied hoping that Saiki would save him. Saiki erased Akechi's memories and swore to never tell anyone his powers for fear of being betrayed like this again. It should be stated that Saiki doesn't blame or hate Akechi as he knows Akechi was just desperate. When Akechi finds out about the Saiki's powers in the present, he's matured enough to truly be a secret keeper.
  • Sherlock Scan: Akechi is very observant and good at deductive reasoning. For example, he managed to figure out that Kuboyasu was a former delinquent immediately. He notes that his glasses, hair, and proper uniform was something he used to make himself presentable but his manner of speaking and muscles were a dead giveaway.
  • Stalker without a Crush: Tailed Saiki for six months in order to find oddities that could prove Saiki is a psychic, and he eventually found out after Saiki finally decided to tell him the truth.

    Suzumiya Hii 
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Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Brianna Knickerbocker (English), Jocelyn Robles (Latin American Spanish)

An extremely unlucky girl and new transfer student to PK Academy, whom Saiki is roped into helping to prevent her from (unwittingly) causing mass destruction.


  • Born Unlucky: To supernatural degrees. Just being near her is enough to cause death marks to appear on people, including even Saiki. It turns out that at least part of this is because her Guardian Entity is an alcoholic slacker hobo, and this is mitigated after the psychics manage to reform him.
  • Cosmic Plaything: The universe seems completely out to get her. Incidents she has to deal with include stepping on poop inside a school building, to almost being struck by a meteor.
  • Curtains Match the Window: She has green hair and green eyes.
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: Portrayed as fairly cute, but the clumsy part is mostly due to (or perhaps synergizes with) being Born Unlucky.
  • The Klutz: She thinks bad things happen to her because she's just clumsy. While not necessarily false, it doesn't help that she's a Cosmic Plaything of epic proportions.
  • New Transfer Student: Yet another transferee. Saiki lampshades yet again lampshades how dead this trope is by now.
  • Nice Girl: Despite the hardships and misfortune handed to her by the universe, she is still extremely kind and nice to those who interact with her.
  • Punny Name: The kanji for "Suzumiya" can also be pronounced as "Ringu". "Hii Ringu" = "healing".

Minor Students

    Takahashi 
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Voiced by: Taishi Murata (Japanese), Travis Mullenix (English), Eleazar Muñoz (Latin American Spanish)

A recurring side character. Typically unlucky and on the butt end of situations, as well as another nuisance for Saiki to put up with.


  • Big Jerk on Campus: In elementary school, he was the most popular kid in his class. Unlike Hairo in the present, Takahashi used his popularity to bully the kids he didn't like.
  • Butt-Monkey: None of the cast like nor care for his presence, and frequently make jokes at his expense or towards his frequent misfortune.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite seeming like he was only around Saiko for his money, Takahashi actually considers Saiko a friend, and if anything got annoyed at Saiko forcing money onto him, since it just made him feel like Saiko thought their friendship was based entirely on his money.
  • Jerkass: While he has slight shades of it, he definitely fell into this in elementary school.
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg: Not that he's even really friends with Saiki, but he regularly gets treated like trash in almost all his appearances, even by the Rich Bastard Saiko.
  • No Full Name Given: To emphasize his Mook character status, he is the only student character known solely by one name. Although it's typically a surname, it isn't even clear if it's either that or his first name.
  • Out of Focus: Has never received his own focus chapter/episode, despite appearing since the original one-shot chapters.
  • Those Two Guys: Is typically accompanied by two, much more nondescript friends.
  • You Remind Me of X: The ultimate reason why Saiki tends to dislike him is because of this. Takahashi vaguely resembles a bully from Saiki and Akechi's old school named Takashi, sharing similar physical features including eyes and pronounced lips. As Takashi is connected to an incident Saiki very much wants to forget and put behind him, Takahashi is an unintentional reminder of what happened for Saiki.

    Kongou Tsuyoshi 
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Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese), Dave Woodard (English)

A violent, self-centered, and delinquent third-year student.


  • Affectionate Parody: Of brutish, delinquent student bullies.
  • The Bully: Regularly torments and extorts money from other students. It doesn't work very well on Saiki.
  • Character Development: Saiki projects images of the hardships Matsukazi faces in trying to teach Kongou properly and dealing with the consequences of his actions to force Kongou to genuinely reform himself.
  • Heel–Face Turn: By graduation, he is a kind, upstanding honors student who gives the farewell speech, and has been accepted to Tokyo University.
  • Japanese Delinquents: A very deliberate example of one compared to the reformed delinquent Kuboyasu. He sports spiky hair, a villainous face, a hulking physique, a modified uniform with the sleeves messily cut short, and spiked wristbands.

    Makino Arisu 
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Voiced by: Nozomi Furuki (Japanese), Apphia Yu (English)

The sole member of the Occult Club outside of the main cast.


  • Beautiful All Along: After a receiving a makeover from Chiyo, she is actually remarked upon as being quite attractive. Even Saiki thinks she looks like a completely different person.
  • Goth Girls Know Magic: Downplayed. She doesn't demonstrate actual magic powers, but she displays knowledge in occult practices and rituals right from the get go, being the only member of the Occult Club actually interested in the occult.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair covers her (rather plain-looking) eyes. She was at first shown as shady and creepy-looking, but due to Chiyo's influence, she changes her image to a cuter one.
  • Important Hair Accessory: After her makeover, she gets two hair clips to pull back her long hair bangs and uncover her eyes. She currently switches between hairstyles to whichever better suits the atmosphere.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: Thanks to Chiyo giving her a makeover, she ends looking more conventionally attractive, her bangs now gone, and her hair more wave like. She tends to switch between her new look and her original one depending on the mood.
  • Sphere Eyes: Has these as opposed to the typical Big Anime Eyes everyone else has, much to Toritsuka's disappointment.

    Jouten Manako 
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Voiced by: Azusa Enoki

The unscrupulous president of the Newspaper Club.


  • Alpha Bitch: Downplayed. While she is not on the same popularity level as Teruhashi, Jouten is the detestable club president who abuses her powers by spreading every gossip in PK Academy, especially the Shipwreck incident.
  • Frame-Up: She framed Saiki for being The Peeping Tom who saw Teruhashi "pooped" in the island forest.
  • Kick the Dog: Averted thanks to Saiki, as Jouten wanted to mess with Teruhashi to complete her next issue.
  • Punny Name: Another character whose name is a pun for "Joutengan", or clairvoyance.
  • School Newspaper News Hound: Her role. She will do anything for a good story and hounds the cast following the Shipwreck arc in the hopes that they'll get a good scoop. She'll even stoop to spreading slander, fake news, and manipulated images to further this end.
  • Stalker without a Crush: As a revenge of tanking the club's reputation, Jouten and the club's photographer Kameima Shouzou spied on Teruhashi to take her down by publishing an ugly picture of her.
  • Worst News Judgement Ever: Since she finds Saiki's account of the shipwreck boring, she (for some reason) instead tries to spice it up with a picture of Teruhashi pooping, and headlines the paper's next issue with this.

    Hiroshi Satou 
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Voiced by: Kensho Ono (Japanese), Israel Nuncio (Latin American Spanish)

A very normal student that Saiki idolizes.


  • Anti-Magic: Namely, Hiroshi is the only person who is able to counteract Hii's unluckiness (though with slight delay). In her presence, Hiroshi does suffer from her misfortune; however, because his luck is extremely average, something positive counteracts this negativity, restoring his effective luck average. With other people, Hii only spreads her unluckiness and nothing positive counteracts it.
    • His counteract luck seems to often relate to the fact that he has crush on Hii, and her misfortunes often give him a reason to help her out.
    • Case example: He is next to Hii when three students trip next to them and spill their drinks on him and Hii, causing them both to get soaked and Hii's text book to get ruined. However, Hiroshi has his textbook intact, and he can share it with Hii and thus sit right next to her. (Right after the incident Toritsuka tries to one-up this by offering his text book for Hii, claiming to have memorized its contents. The earlier three students again splash drinks on him, ruining his text book - which he didn't actually memorize.)
  • The Generic Guy: Exaggerated to an extreme degree. He is thoroughly average in grades, physical exams, and appearance. He has a completely normal name, backstory, personality, friend group, interests, and reactions to situations. It is for all these reasons Saiki idolizes him.
  • Generic Name: His name is completely normal and generic, as obviously lampshaded by Saiki.

Teachers

    Matsuzaki 
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Voiced by: Taro Yamaguchi (Japanese), Bryan Massey (English), Israel Nuncio (Latin American Spanish)

The school's PE instructor.


  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a rather strict teacher who tends to get on people's cases quite a bit, but he genuinely does care about his students and looks out for them. He once broke Takahashi's accessory by accident when confiscating it and spent the rest of the day fixing it before returning it.
  • Morality Pet: While Saiki has plenty of Pet the Dog moments with everyone, Saiki genuinely respects him.
    • He is also one to Kongou, who legitimately reforms after Saiki projects Matsukazi's hardships of trying to teach him properly while dealing with his antics.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Although he has a bad rep with the students, he genuinely looks out for their well-being and wants the best for them. He waits all night to gently shut down a student he thinks is interested in him and compliments Mera on her parttime job.
  • Stern Teacher: By reputation, he's a "bad cop".

    Shima Kyouka 
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Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese), Julieta Rivera (Latin American Spanish)

Saiki's homeroom teacher.


  • Only Sane Woman: She's fairly grounded compared to the rest of the cast and their antics.
  • Unlimited Wardrobe: Her appearance is Different in Every Episode, the only things consistent being her facial features, hair color, and clothing color. Hair style, clothing style, and whether or not she's wearing makeup though is a different story.

    Iguchi Takumi 
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Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese), Christopher Bevins (English), Gabriel Ortiz (Latin American Spanish)

The new homeroom teacher of Saiki's class.


  • Face of a Thug: Or rather, face of a pedophile. His face makes him look like a pervert and potential molester, resulting in most students distrusting and being wary of him, despite his genuine kindness.
  • Mistaken for Pedophile: He has a face that looks like a pervert and frequently looks like he's coming on to the students, which makes the students distrust him. He's also mistaken for a peeping tom when he passes by the nurse's office.
  • Nice Guy: He's actually an incredibly kind and respectful teacher who loves teaching and helping students. Although, it's a pity that his face looks so perverted.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: He genuinely tries to be a good teacher and tries to help out Nendo when he believes that other students are bullying him.
  • Shout-Out: Nendo's nickname for Eguchi is "Erosensei", which resembles the name of "Korosensei" from Assassination Classroom. Saiki lampshaded this.
  • Unfortunate Names: His name (井口 工) when written out can be read backwards as "eroi" (エロい) which means "erotic". His new students were disgusted by the fact that his name fits his perverting face before realizing he is not a pervert to begin with.

Other Characters

    Nakanishi Kouta 
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Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (Japanese), Austin Tindle (English)

A businessman-turned-wannabe stage illusionist who performs under the stage name "Chouno Uryoku". He has seen some of Saiki's powers, but chalks them up to Saiki also being a magician.


  • Catchphrase: "AMAZING!" ("Très bien!" in the English dub) when performing his tricks.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Green hair and green eyes.
  • The Ditz: Tends to make questionable leaps in logic (he thinks that since he made his career and wife disappear, he can translate this into being an illusionist who can make things disappear), and is horrible with money (such as deciding to spend over a million yen on a secondhand stage magic device).
  • Hopeless Suitor: He keeps trying to convince his ex-wife Midori to take him back, but his chances don't look good.
  • Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: He is drawn in the art style of the other members of the cast while Midori is meant to be extremely similar to her Face of a Thug son.
  • Leitmotif: Amazing Illusion.
  • One Degree of Separation: It turns out his ex-wife Midori is Nendou's mother. Saiki complains about the writing when he realizes this coincidence.
  • Punny Name: His real name is a play on "Naka ni Shikonda", a phrase meaning "hidden within". His stage is basically the word "Chounouryoku", meaning ESP.
  • Satellite Character: Mr. Ike only exists as Kouta's assistant.
  • Stage Magician: Post-career change, he's a magician who performs things for a live audience. The series explains his tricks.
  • Took a Level in Badass: He and Ike ends up cultivating their skills throughout the series and while they obviously aren't on Saiki's level, they can fluidly pull off expert magic tricks well enough that it leaves Saiki genuinely impressed.

    Takeuchi Riki 
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Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), David Wald (English Funimation), Dafnis Fernández (Latin American Spanish)

Nendou's deceased father, now Toritsuka's guardian spirit. For some reason, he is visible to Saiki even without Toritsuka's powers.


  • Amnesiac Lover: He doesn't remember anything about his life from when he was alive, so he can't recognize Nendou's mother as his former lover. Takeuchi still ends up falling for Nendou's mother all over again, but there's no way they can get back together when he's dead.
  • Been There, Shaped History: He turns out to be the punk that was central in the story of Saiki's parents meeting together.
  • Big Damn Heroes: He cleans up Hii's guardian spirit, effectively canceling out (or at least lessening) her bad luck.
  • Covert Pervert: Implied, given that A) he is Toritsuka's spirit guardian and B) his son secretly possesses porno magazines (in which Kaidou was eager to check on them all of a sudden).
  • Disappeared Dad: He died in an accident when Nendou's mother was still pregnant. His ghost still sees his son from time to time, but Takeuchi doesn't know about their relation due not remembering anything from when he was alive.
  • Friendly Ghost: Although a bit uncouth, he shares Nendou's base personality (cheery friendliness). Saiki finds him annoying, though.
  • Ghost Amnesia: He doesn't remember that Nendou is his son, but hangs around him anyway because he's curious about him.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He died saving a little girl from getting hit by a truck.
  • Lookalike Lovers: With Nendou's mother Midori, who has the exact same face as him and their son.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He is the absolute spitting image of Nendou, the only difference being which eye their scars are over.
  • Younger Than He Looks: Believe it or not, Takeuchi was only 17 years old when he died. Like his son, Takeuchi looked like a man in his late thirties.

    Nendou Midori 
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Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), David Wald (English Funimation), Jason Charles Miller (English Netflix), Gabriel Basurto (Latin American Spanish)

Nendou's mother and the widow to Takeuchi.


  • Good Parents: She is a single mother who works several jobs to properly provide for Nendou, always ensures he is properly fed and clothed and given gifts on important occasions, and earnestly dotes on and loves him. In addition to his appearance, Nendou probably inherited his Nice Guy personality from her as well.
  • Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: Her ex-husband Kouta is drawn to be the normal style of the other characters while she is drawn to be a strong resemblance of her Face of a Thug son.
  • Look-Alike Lovers: It's uncanny how much she and Takeuchi look alike. While it makes sense their son looks like them, Takeuchi and Midori could easily pass for twins, with Midori even possessing Takeuchi's scar over her eye.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Parodied. She looks and sounds exactly like her son Riki, to the point of even having his scar. She also looks just like Riki's late father Takeuchi, including having his scar.
  • Teen Pregnancy: She reveals to Kurumi and Kaido's mother that she was 15 when she gave birth to her son, much to their surprise.
  • Women Are Wiser: She appears to be more intelligent and sensible than her son and late husband, as shown when she scolded Nendou when he was playing with knives and when she took her credit card away from Nakanishi after he stated his plans to use it to purchase some expensive magic equipment.

    Iridatsu Yuuta 
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Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)

A five-year-old boy that upon witnessing Saiki use his powers to retrieve his balloon, thinks that he's actually his favorite superhero Cyborg Ciderman Version 2. It is also revealed that he is Saiki's neighbor.


  • Affectionate Parody:
  • Cassandra Truth: Knows about Saiki's powers, but because he's a kid and thinks that everything Saiki does is from his fictional favourite character, no one believes him. This works for Saiki anyway.
  • Entertainingly Wrong: Knows Saiki has powers, but thinks it's because he's Cyborg Ciderman Version 2 and not a psychic, and that Saiki's powers are soda based.
  • Fanboy: An extreme one who filters reality through Cyborg Ciderman. He also insists on saying its full name every time.
  • Logical Weakness: Was this for Teruhashi since young kids don't experience attraction yet, and he managed to get on her nerves instantly. Unfortunately for Teruhashi, Yuuta latches onto her since she passingly resembles another character on Cyborg Ciderman, which Saiki exploits as an anti-Teruhashi weapon.
  • Punny Name: A play on "Yuutai Ridatsu", or Astral Projection.
  • Ridiculously Loud Commercial: Cyborg Ciderman is this, and he has to constantly yell while watching TV, and funnily enough, the faintest whisper from anyone else will cause him to ask the person to be quiet so he can watch his show.
  • Tagalong Kid: Saiki invokes this by bringing him along on dates with Teruhashi, since he acts as an effective wedge against her.
  • Token Mini-Moe: The sole major child character in a cast of teens.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Thinks he is in a Saturday-Morning Cartoon while Saiki is a nearly omnipotent psychic who would rather have a quiet life.

    Anpu 
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Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)

A stray cat who starts hanging around Saiki after realizing that Saiki refuses to pet or feed him.



    Teruhashi Makoto 
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Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English Funimation) Chris Hackney (English Netflix), Tommy Rojas (Latin American Spanish)

Kokomi Teruhashi's older brother and a famous teenage actor and idol, who performs under the stage name "Toru Mugami". He hates Saiki and wants to keep him away from dating his sister (because his biggest dream is to marry her himself).


  • Big Brother Attraction: Inverted; he wants to marry his own younger sister.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts charming in front of the camera and Kokomi. When nobody is around, Makoto will openly insult Saiki and ramble about his plan to marry Kokomi (who apparently doesn't know about any of this).
  • Brother–Sister Incest: It's somewhat implied that his feelings for his little sister are not platonic in his introduction. Come his second chapter, and the subtext becomes text.
  • Clark Kenting: Several times he appears wearing sunglasses. When they come off, he ends up getting swarmed by fangirls.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: He's insanely jealous of Saiki because Kokomi likes him and will insult or berate him at the slightest provocation.
  • Dissonant Serenity: He keeps a calm, upbeat attitude while insulting Saiki and demanding he die.
  • Entitled to Have You: He claims that only he can have the right to marry Kokomi because as her brother, he's as good-looking as her and has known her longer than anyone. Hearing that logic, Saiki is appalled that Makoto doesn't seem to understand how creepy it is for two siblings to get married.
  • The Glasses Come Off: Subverted. The only action that happens after he loses his glasses involves him running away from fangirls.
  • Hate Sink: He's a two-faced jerk who is stalking his own younger sister.
  • Incest-ant Admirer: Kokomi doesn't seem to know that her brother wants to marry her, but she does find his overbearing attention and constant fawning over her to be extremely off-putting. At one point, she threatens to punch him when he buys her underwear for her birthday.
  • My Sister Is Off-Limits: He won't allow Kokomi to be with any guy that isn't him.
  • Pet the Dog: In the 100th skit, he's happy to do a bunch of impressions for Kaido for nothing in return.
  • Refuge in Audacity: It starts with Makoto declaring that he wants to date his own sister and just gets worse from there.
  • Relative Error: At first, it looks like Makoto is dating Kokomi, but it turns out he's actually her brother. Then it's revealed that he's actually in love with her despite this fact.
  • Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: In his mind, he and Kokomi are already dating and engaged. In reality, Kokomi can't stand his incestuous obsession.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: He has been obsessing over Kokomi since she was a baby and can't find other women attractive because they all pale next to Kokomi.
  • Slasher Smile: His fake smile becomes an insane, deranged grin when he declares that he will marry Kokomi.
  • Stalker with a Crush: He has been stalking his own sister since the day she was born. Among several creepy stuff, he sneaks into her room when she's out so he can smell her bed and has memorized every personal detail about her.
  • Stepford Smiler: He keeps a serene, smiling expression most of the time.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: His insistence that Kokomi would never want anything to do with Saiki.
  • There Are No Therapists: Lampshaded by Saiki, who's disturbed that someone like Makoto has gone unchecked for so long.

    Riki Jr. No. 2 
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Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu

A lost hamster that ran away from its owner to explore the world, only to discover the world is a dangerous place. It decides to head back home, but finds its owner has bought a new hamster, so Saiki finds it a new owner. It ends up being adopted by Nendou, who names it after his own former pet hamster.


  • Gender Reveal: Reveals herself to Saiki be a female, despite everyone (including her owner) thinking she is male.
  • Spoiled Brat: Before eventually becoming Nendo's pet, she wanted a new owner that she doesn't find him/her annoying or scary.
  • Tsundere: Towards Nendou, who actually takes very good care of it. Saiki even asks if it is one word for word.

    Mrs. Kaidou 
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Voiced by: Ayumi Tsunematsu (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English), Adriana Casas (Latin American Spanish)

Shun's mother.


  • Adaptation Dye-Job: She has light purple hair in the manga, but it's gray in the anime.
  • Curtains Match the Window: In the manga, her hair and eyes are purple.
  • Doesn't Know Their Own Child: She's largely unaware of her son's chuunibyou tendencies, expressing confusion when she came across one of Shun's diaries detailing them. Shun ends up shrieking in shame before she can get the chance to read any more of it.
  • Education Mama: She's very strict with her children's education, makes them study all day, and wants Shun to go to a first class university.
  • Ma'am Shock: While not as focused on, she's not at all happy when Nendo calls her "granny".
  • Parents as People: She genuinely loves her children and only wants the best for them in life, but it takes the form of being an overbearing Education Mama who doesn't budge on decisions. While Shun in turn does love her, he's also terrified of upsetting her, the first time he stood against her being when she initially didn't want him hanging out with Saiki and Nendo anymore, and even then she only changed her mind after Saiki finished the work she left them in 10 minutes, giving her the impression they'd be positive influences on Shun.
  • Quitting to Get Married: She's said to have quit her job when she got married.
  • Serious Business: Education is extremely important to her. Not only is she an Education Mama to her own children, but when she first met Saiki and Nendo, she asked about their plans for college, and when she was dissatisfied with their answers, made the two of them complete stacks of workbooks while trying to convince Shun not to hang out with them anymore, only relenting when Saiki finished them in 10 minutes and giving her the impression they'd be positive influences on Shun.
  • Unnamed Parent: Unlike other parents who appear in the series, her given name isn't revealed.

    Kaidou Sora 
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Voiced by: Reina Ueda

Shun's little sister.


  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to Shun's foolish. While Shun is a goofy Chuunibyou, Sora is a very serious girl who hates it when her older brother and his friends are being noisy and don't let her concentrate in her studies.
  • Punny Name: Using the on-yomi (kuu) of her given name (空), in Western order, her name is a pun on "spatial travel" (kuukan idou).
  • Strong Family Resemblance: She appears to look like her mother and older brother combined.

    Kaidou Toki 
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Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii

Shun's little brother.


  • Big Brother Worship: He adores his older brother Shun and thinks he's a true superhero since he's too young to get his brother is just a Chuunibyou.
  • Children Are Innocent: Because of his young age, he thinks Shun's exploits as the Jet-Black Wing are all real.
  • Goggles Do Nothing: He wears goggles on his head for no reason other than to look cool.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's learning martial arts at a dojo and he's already able to knock down someone twice his size.
  • Punny Name: Using the on-yomi (ji) of his given name (時), in Western order, his name is a pun on "time travel" (jikan idou).
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He looks like a small Shun.

    Mera Kiyoi 
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Voiced by: Masaki Terasoma

Chisato's father who went missing after his trading company went bankrupt.


  • Disappeared Dad: He walked out on his family, leaving Chisato to care for her mother and siblings. He does eventually return to Japan.
  • Driven to Suicide: He initially planned on killing himself so that his kids could get his life insurance and avoid the debt collectors that were hounding him, Aiura even seeing a mark of death on his face. He decides against it after Chisato tells him to stop shouldering the burden alone, and Saiki scares the shit out of the debt collectors enough for them to drop the entire debt.

Alternative Title(s): Chounouryokusha Saiki Kusuo No Sainan

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