Gakuho Asano

His skewed sense of morality is also shown with his relationship with his son, with constant pressure to produce results and utterly defeat his foes, such as Class E, in perfect victory being a defining point of their relationship. He also uses his son for his own purposes, never once treating him as his own kin and instead only as a useful tool for the maintenance of his system. He is also willing to mock his son's inability to produce the desired perfect victory over Class E, viewing his son's frustration with loss as a way to make him stronger, regardless of the emotional toll.

In the past, his personality and teaching methods were almost mirror images of Korosensei's. He allowed students to do mock assassination attempts on him only to evade them at the last moment, similar to Korosensei, during class time, saying that anyone who can land a proper hit on him can have free time. He also teased his students using his exceptional skills, much like Korosensei. Overall, he was a kind and caring teacher who wanted to raise his students to be "good". He particularly cared about three specific students who were the first to attend his cram school, which in ten years time will become what is now known as Kunugigaoka Academy. He kept a close relationship with them and even kept in touch with them after their graduation.

Gakuho's most prominent aspect of his personality is his strong fixation on perfecting his pedagogy. His obsession with education gives him an abnormal sense of prioritization, putting the maintenance of his educational ideals over the world's future. He prioritizes its maintenance even over basic morality, willing to suggest things that have made even his own son question him, such as when he suggested that Class A poison Class E's restaurant food. Additionally, he is also unafraid to get his hands dirty to make sure that his system stays intact, notably when he takes his educational methods to the classroom for the first trimester midterm exams, giving the entire main school building a personal lesson and purposely excluding Class E just to ensure that they do not pass. The maintenance of this system is its primary driving force throughout the series and as a result, shows disappointment when Class E surpasses the other classes.

Although he prioritizes the maintenance of his system above all else, he also seems to desire to prove his methods are indeed correct, so he never tampers with scores that have already been earned. For example, for the second trimester exams, he encourages the teachers to ramp up their difficulty to be akin to a college or university exam so that his students may compete with Class E on a level befitting their educational prowess. For those very exams, he allows the honest placement of the top students and grades without modifying or censoring them, showing the exact outcome of his educational bout with Korosensei, even though the outcome was unfavorable to him. Thus, although he's not above using underhanded methods to influence the final results, he respects whatever those final results may be.

Birthday
April 12th (Age: 41, Aries)

Gender
Male

Height
183 cm (6'0")

Weight
76 kg (168 lbs)

Relatives
Gakushu Asano (son)
Unnamed wife

Gakuho's most prominent aspect of his personality is his strong fixation on perfecting his pedagogy. His obsession with education gives him an abnormal sense of prioritization, putting the maintenance of his educational ideals over the world's future. He prioritizes its maintenance even over basic morality, willing to suggest things that have made even his own son question him, such as when he suggested that Class A poison Class E's restaurant food. Additionally, he is also unafraid to get his hands dirty to make sure that his system stays intact, notably when he takes his educational methods to the classroom for the first trimester midterm exams, giving the entire main school building a personal lesson and purposely excluding Class E just to ensure that they do not pass. The maintenance of this system is its primary driving force throughout the series and as a result, shows disappointment when Class E surpasses the other classes.

Although he prioritizes the maintenance of his system above all else, he also seems to desire to prove his methods are indeed correct, so he never tampers with scores that have already been earned. For example, for the second trimester exams, he encourages the teachers to ramp up their difficulty to be akin to a college or university exam so that his students may compete with Class E on a level befitting their educational prowess. For those very exams, he allows the honest placement of the top students and grades without modifying or censoring them, showing the exact outcome of his educational bout with Korosensei, even though the outcome was unfavorable to him. Thus, although he's not above using underhanded methods to influence the final results, he respects whatever those final results may be.

Gakuho has neatly combined brown hair and brown eyes (violet in the anime). He wears a formal business suit that is unique from the other staff members in Kunugigaoka as it's brown instead of the usual gray or black. He also wears a sawtooth leaf pin on his tie that was given to him as a gift from his cram students.