Kousuke Seto

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Kousuke Seto
Music/Novel Manga Anime Movie
Name
Kanji	瀬戸 幸助 セト
Rōmaji	Seto Kōsuke セト
Information
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Hazel
Gender	Male
Species	Human
Height	178 cm (5'10")
Weight	72 kg (158 lbs)
Blood type	O
Age	17
Birthday	March 28th
Occupation	Mekakushi Dan Member No.2
Ability	Stealing Eyes
Status	Current: Alive (Anime Route) Past Routes: Alive before rewind (Novel Route, Movie) Deceased / Inside the Kagerou Daze (Music Route, Manga Route)
Relatives	Kenjirou Tateyama (Foster Father) † Ayaka Tateyama (Foster Mother) † Ayano Tateyama (Foster Sister) Tsubomi Kido (Foster Sister) Shuuya Kano (Foster Brother)
Voice Actors
Japanese	Soichiro Hoshi Sayori Ishizuka (Young)
First Appearance
Music	Kuusou Forest
Manga	Kagerou Daze Vol. 01, 03. Kisaragi Attention
Novel	Kagerou Daze II -a headphone actor- (Tsuitou Forest)
Anime	Act 01: Jinzou Enemy

“	After all, making new friends... It's spontaneous. A coincidence that happens to turn out right.	”
—Seto to Marry, Kagerou Daze, Chapter 23: Kagerou Daze VI

Kousuke Seto (瀬戸 幸助 Seto Kōsuke) / Seto (セト) is the second member of the Mekakushi Dan.

He is the foster brother of Kido, Kano, and Ayano Tateyama and also Marry Kozakura's first friend.

Appearance

Seto is a tall young man with short black hair and hazel yellow eyes. He wears a green jumpsuit with a pair of goggles attached to its hood, an equally green belt and outer pockets, and dark green sneakers. He also wears a yellow hair clip on the left side of his head. His sleeves and pant legs are rolled up, showing the white inside of the suit. A black leather strap with a metal buckle on its end comes from each goggle of his hood.

When he was young, he wore a purple button-up shirt, a white hoodie, golden brown trousers and purple sneakers.

On August 14th in Mekakucity Actors, he wears a black shirt with a red neck underneath his jumpsuit and shoes that appear almost black. He changes to his regular outfit on the 15th.

At the end of Summertime Record, Seto is seen wearing a yellow shirt underneath a new white hoodie, which he wears with its sleeves rolled up to his elbows, along with the pants part of his green jumpsuit. He ties the arms of his jumpsuit around his his waist during this appearance.

In Kagerou Daze -in a day's-, Seto wears a short-sleeved green button-up shirt over a pair of dark blue (likely denim) overalls, which he wears with its bib down and legs rolled up to his knees to reveal its brown interior. He wears green socks that match his shirt and brown sneakers that match the interior of his overalls.

Sidu's design

Wannyanpoo's design

Child Seto

Personality

Often smiling, Seto appears reliable, hard-working, and friendly with a fondness for nature.

Seto seems to have a strong sense of responsibility over the others and is very loyal to the Mekakushi Dan, as he will obey Kido's commands and is willing to put his life in danger for them with little hesitation. Though brave in the face of danger, he can get embarrassed or overwhelmed more easily than others and will physically flee if emotionally pushed too far.

Despite his friendliness, Seto has had trouble understanding other people since he was a child and, while arguably improved, still carries this trait to the present. He also has a deep fear of people's true natures, especially the ones of his own family, which he admits to be what he fears most. When young, he was prone to crying at every inconvenience and felt that everyone hated him, a feeling solidified by his lack of parents and bullying from other kids. His personality remained similar after he was moved to an orphanage, where he was roomed with Kido and Kano. There, he frequently got in trouble with Kido for speaking politely to her.

After meeting Marry, Seto decided that he wanted to become the kind of person who saves others from despair. To try to overcome his cowardice, Seto started taking on multiple part-time jobs about three years before the present day.

Since he initially couldn't control his ability well, he would often accidentally read others' thoughts and sometimes even their emotions, which more times than not were negative. These instances often overwhelmed Seto to the point that he would try to physically run away from said thoughts, which would cause trouble for his foster family. As such, Seto dislikes using his eye ability for anything besides casually communicating with animals. Despite this, he is willing to use his power for the people he cares for, shown as how he uses it in the terrorist situation in the Anime Route and to understand Kano's plight in the Novel and Anime Routes.

Eye Ability

• Stealing Eyes (目を盗む Me wo Nusumu): Seto's eye ability allows him to hear the thoughts of others, includes animals. However, animals cannot necessarily understand him because he cannot speak their language. When he loses control of his ability, which he often did as a child, he can hear the true thoughts and emotions of everyone in a wide area. It it also shown in Shounen Brave's PV that it can read a person's memories and even their experiences from past Routes.

History

Main page: Kousuke Seto/History

Relationships

Main page: Kousuke Seto/Relationships

Songs

Main:

• Children Record
• Summertime Record
• Shounen Brave

Minor:

• Kuusou Forest
• Konoha no Sekai Jijou
• Kisaragi Attention
• Yobanashi Deceive
• Losstime Memory
• Ayano no Koufuku Riron
• Otsukimi Recital
• Yuukei Yesterday
• Outer Science

Trivia

• His dog's name was Hanako.
• He has a pet hamster named Hanao. Another hamster, called the Forest Chief, appears in Manga Route 2 that is the leader of all the animals in the forest by Marry's cottage and knows of Azami, but it is unknown if this is also Hanao in this Route.
• His favorite type of girl is someone like Yachigusa Kaoru.
• Like Kido and Kano, he is referred to with his last name rather than his first name.
• Before his name reveal, Wannyanpoo called him "フォレス男" ("Forest-otoko" i.e. "forest man").
• His white hoodie was a gift from Ayano when they were younger, but he gave it to Marry upon meeting her.
• He usually ends his sentence with "-ssu", a way to shorten desu, a Japanese polite copula.
• Because Seto has a lot of part-time jobs, he was designed to wear something comfortable to work around, as suggested by Sidu.
• Seto's designs had to be corrected the most when the anime production team presented the rough character sketches. According to Sidu, he looked like a whole new character.
• Shounen Brave's PV and Kagerou Daze VIII -summer time reload- indicate that Seto, likely in all but the first Route, learned with Stealing Eyes that meeting Marry would lead to his, Kido and Kano's deaths.

Etymology

• The name Kousuke means "fortune, happiness" (幸)(kou) and "help, assistance" (助)(suke).
• His surname, Seto means "strait, channel" (瀬戸).

Quotes

• "Yeah, how'd you come to know that girl in the first place, huh!? One of those, you know, 'casual encounters' sites, or...? "-(Kagerou Daze, Chapter 9: Headphone Actor)