Shuuya Kano/Relationships

Relationships

 * Kenjirou Tateyama: The adoptive father of Kido, Seto, and Kano. At Kano's suggestion, the three of them moved out from the Tateyama's household after Ayano's death, which left only Kenjirou behind. In the anime, Kano begged the snake to release Kenjirou, but without results.


 * Ayaka Tateyama: The adoptive mother of Kano, Kido, and Seto. Along with Kido and Seto, he was crying during the small funeral they held for her.


 * Ayano Tateyama: When they were all younger, Ayano's mother told her to be a "big sister" for Kido, Kano, and Seto. Ayano was happy to befriend all the three of them, which turned out to be difficult as they thought of themselves as "monsters" because of their red eyes and abilities. Eventually, Ayano came up with the plan to create a secret club of heroes. Donning her red scarf, she announced the four of them as heroes and members of a "secret organization" known as the Mekakushi Dan. In the Novel Route, Ayano and Kano met before the three were taken in, and he appeared to be the most depressed after she died. When Ayano found out about her father's experiments on Takane and Haruka, Kano was the only person she spoke to about it. She asked him to use his ability and go to school as her while she investigated, to which he complied. When Ayano jumped off the roof, Kano couldn't stop her in time. In present-day, Kano describes her as a person who was really nice but very scary when being angry, mostly because Kano got scolded by her the most.


 * Tsubomi Kido: Kido first met Kano outside her orphanage, where she gave him her scarf so that "there wouldn't be anyone dying in the cold". He didn't notice her at first, which upset her, so he used Deceiving Eyes to make himself look like Ayano and then his mother to cheer her up. He then asked her to hit him with all her might to cancel his ability, a request which she obliged but also caused her to thereupon have a bad impression of him. He joined her and Seto in their room in the orphanage, and the three quickly learned about each others' abilities. Kano sometimes used his ability to cheer Kido and Seto up by making himself seem like a cat. All three were eventually adopted together by the Tateyama family and looked up to Ayano together as an older sister. Kano tends to tease Kido a lot, and gets hit or kicked by her as a result most of the time, since she doesn't show any tolerance for it. Even though he gets called an "idiot" by Kido a lot, they seem to be rather close friends. Kano describes Kido's past self as "cute," causing her to, often times, react violently towards him. They had both called each other by first name when they were young until Ayano's death. In the fifth novel, Kido notes that she will continue hurting Kano if she feels like he isn't being honest and using his eye ability. Of course, this isn't the only reason that she punches the boy. Most of the time, it's her reacting negatively and violently to his teasing and joking. After Ayano's death, Kido is unaware of his involvement with the Snake of Clearing Eyes but complies with his suggestion that they and Seto move out from the Tateyama household, which now only has Kenjirou. Kano was the one who suggested that Kido become the Mekakushi Dan's new leader and that the three of them should use their last names as code names. Kano becomes very internally distraught after her death in the novels and asks why it had to be her out of all people, and in Manga Route 2, he uses Deceiving Eyes to make himself seem smiling and composed around her body, which he says goodbye to and that he will be joining her soon.


 * Kousuke Seto: Seto was with Kano and Kido in the same orphanage, therefore they're childhood friends. When he was introducing Seto to Shintaro, he calls him a "giant frog". The fifth novel showed that they have had an extremely close relationship, especially as children. Both of them shared concern over Kido's disappearing acts and would go off and look for her together. Kano also stood up to Kido whenever she threatened to hurt Seto for his use of keigo (formal speaking), and the two would frequently talk to each other telepathically. They have called each other by their first names until the death of Ayano. Seto looked for Kano after he disappeared and showed empathy to Kano when he broke down crying in front of him.


 * Marry Kozakura: Kano likes to tease Marry whenever he gets a chance too. In the manga, Kano teases Marry with a job offer only to get frozen by her for a short period of time. Despite this, they seem to have a rather close relationship.


 * Takane "Ene" Enomoto: Kano first meets Takane at the culture festival, together with Kido. The latter nearly beats Takane in the video game her class is offering as a challenge with a prize, losing by only 100 points, and Kano reveals that his friend cheated without the other noticing, and makes Kido apologize, later telling Takane that Kido has a "psychic ability". In the fifth novel, it is revealed that Kano finds that her most prominent feature of all is her ability to be easily agitated and that she really is spiteful and difficult to deal with. When Takane asks Kano (disguised as Ayano) if there is anyone she likes, she immediately takes it back, seeming extremely flustered and shy, causing Kano to think that she is stupid for getting that embarrassed over nothing. While at the beginning, Kano seems either disinterested or annoyed by Takane's antics, he eventually ends up helping her find her real body and comes clean to her about how he pretended to be Ayano. At the end of the novel Takane teases Kano for posing as Ayano, and when she finds out that he is shy from Seto, her teasing increases, much to Kano's discomfort. In spite of this, since Ene does listen to everything he has to say, Kano considers her the first person he ever had a real conversation with. In the anime, Kano uses his ability to transform into Haruka to scare Takane.


 * Shintaro Kisaragi: When he met Shintaro during the hostage scene, he called him "interesting" and went along with his idea to free the hostages. He refers to him as "Shintaro-kun" and seems to tease him every now and then. In the third novel, he disguised himself as Momo and Ayano in front of Shintaro, making the latter starting to think that Kano might hate him. After Ayano killed herself, Shintaro met "Ayano", Kano in disguise, while walking home. When he scolded her about her usual lack of work ethics, Kano quietly retorted and brushed Shintaro aside. In present-day, Kano still thinks that Shintaro is kind of an insensitive idiot, but also a good person.


 * Konoha: In Kagerou Daze IV, Kano helped Konoha search for Hibiya and Hiyori, and referred to him as the Mekakushi Dan's "Combat Specialist". Kano became shocked when Konoha began to cry, after losing Hibiya again, but later on, expressed interest in his eye ability.


 * Haruka Kokonose: In the past, Kano actually met Haruka (in the guise of Ayano), and said that he was a really nice guy. In the beginning, he had tried to torment him, along with Kido and Seto, thinking Haruka is the boy Ayano keeps talking about. Seto had read Haruka's mind and seen he was thinking of a girl (Takane), and the trio immediately misunderstood it and assumed it was Ayano, which made Kano barge in disguised as his sister to accuse him of looking at her with perverted eyes. Haruka becomes flustered and even slightly annoyed, so it's evident Kano could even make the tranquil Haruka become grumpy. It is most likely that Kano is aware of the link between Haruka and Konoha, and he did in fact witness Konoha being placed in the tank in Kenjirou's laboratory. In the anime Kano made himself look like Haruka to torment Ene.


 * Snake of Clearing Eyes: After Ayano's suicide, Kano threatened to kill it, but the Snake in return threatened to brutally murder Kenjirou, Kido, and Seto if Kano tried to interfere.