Saiki Kusuo (genderbend)

The Core FriendsRiki Nendo: A thick-headed, dim-witted delinquent with a heart of gold. Saiki cannot read his mind because Nendou's brain is completely empty of complex thoughts, making him the only person Saiki cannot predict.Shun Kaido: A chuunibyou (delusional eighth-grader syndrome) who believes he is fighting an evil shadow organization called the "Dark Reunion."Kokomi Teruhashi: The self-proclaimed and universally adored "perfect pretty girl" who constantly tries to get Saiki to acknowledge her, though Saiki usually tries to avoid her to keep a low profile.Other Classmates and AcquaintancesKineshi Hairo: The hyper-enthusiastic class president obsessed with sports, passion, and burning a fiery spirit.Aren Kuboyasu: A reformed former delinquent trying hard to hide his old violent tendencies and live a normal student life.Chiyo Yumehara: Saiki's classmate who frequently falls in love and goes through endless romantic phases and heartbreaks.Chisato Mera: A perpetually starving classmate who works tons of part-time jobs to support her poor family.Supernatural PeersMikoto Aiura: A flashy psychic and gyaru fortune-teller who figures out Saiki's secret powers right away.Reita Toritsuka: A self-centered medium who can see ghosts and pesters Saiki to help him get popular with girls.

They first met in their elementary school's entrance ceremony, Touma wets himself due to nervousness, and Kusuo took him to the restroom. They ended up in the same class and sitting next to each other.One day, after school, Kusuo was about to teleport behind a bush, due to wanting to see a certain television show, and he witnesses his classmates bully Touma. Thinking Touma has passed out, Kusuo healed him by touching the tip of his shoe to Touma's arm.Prior to current Kusuo travelling back in time, Touma quickly wakes up and asks young Kusuo if he just healed him and if he is a psychic. Kusuo uses his "playing dumb face" while several other kids were around. The other kids leave but Touma sticks around, still amazed at what he has done. Kusuo takes a liking to him; Touma asks him to show him more and thus he tells Touma about his powers. After some events, Touma ends up telling the class he is a psychic and Kusuo ended up destroying the classroom. Kusuo then swore to himself to never reveal his powers to anyone after that.[50]
After current Kusuo traveled back in time, he influenced the event and everything changed. Young Kusuo leaves before Touma wakes up and unknowingly dropped his name tag. The next day, in PE class, Touma was bullied in front of his classmates. Right before he was about to be hit again, Kusuo uses his powers to their classmate on the pull up bar. At that moment Touma loudly exclaimed that Kusuo is a psychic but Kusuo just uses his "playing dumb face," to deter him.

Kusuo was born on August 16th by completely normal parents, housewife Kurumi Saiki and manga editor Kuniharu Saiki. He is raised by them alongside with his older brother, Kusuke Saiki.During his mother's pregnancy with him, Kusuo was using his transformation ability which can be seen in the CT scans. When he was born in the hospital, he came out as a girl but an hour later he became a boy.[44] Exactly 2 weeks after his birth, he spoke his first words to his parents via telepathy. At 1 month, he started to walk and fly. At 1 year old, he was able to run errands.[45] He enters Kindergarten, where he played rock paper scissors and always won against other children and his teachers. After a teacher got angered from losing and unsuccessfully attempted to punch him, rumors started to spread throughout TV and the internet about him.[46] Possibly due to this, at the age of 4, Kusuo was then pursued by a certain nation’s intelligence agency and he ended up erasing the entire nation.[47] After much effort to resolve matters, Kusuo decided to hide his abilities to avoid trouble; Kusuo always being wary on using his abilities when others are possibly around and distancing himself from classmates.
When he was 6 years old, he slowly started to befriended Touma Asumi, an observant boy who retorts to one of their classmates.

As time progresses, he grows from not having any friends in his first year of high school, having no single thought of becoming close to anyone, to later thinking of himself as a friend of several of his classmates after so much nearly endless pestering from Riki, Shun, Kineshi, Kokomi, Chiyo, Reita, Aren and Mikoto. He always takes care of them when they are in trouble and vice versa. He trusts them enough to nearly tell them about his psychic powers but ultimately did not, just so he will not burden them with a big secret.

Due to a combination of his introverted nature and his subconscious ability to read minds, Kusuo holds little interest in social activities. Therefore, he typically spends his free time alone; he is a bookworm, having several books in his room, and is frequently in his school's library.He enjoys watching television, including anime, due to electronics (unless he uses his psychometry) being mostly unaffected by his powers.While not being able to set foot in a movie theater without getting spoilers, he also enjoys watching movies.

Although he doesn’t believe he will ever fall in love, Aiura Mikoto, a soothsayer, has predicted that they are soulmates. Kusuo is also prideful, such as being irritated at the thought of being pickpocketed as he is an esper,describing how incredible his own powers are throughout the series and sometimes referring himself as a god.Not to mention, he is stubborn, such as the case when he refused to admit his obvious seasickness. Despite this, Kusuo is very good at listening to other people, and accepting that he is wrong when the evidence is very clearly against him; his pride doesn't get to his head. Other flawed characteristics include being somewhat pessimistic.

Kusuo is one of the most responsible characters in the series. He helps with chores around the house, such as cleaning and buying groceries.Despite being able to get anything he wants without using any money, Kusuo saves up money to buy the things he wants, e.g. the Coffee Jelly Maker.He is capable of cheating in exams to get a good score, but he decides to get average scores to avoid attention.He also protects the other students' privacy and wellbeing.Most of all, he tries heavily to not rely on his powers, wanting to achieve things for himself.

In spite of his kind-hearted nature, Kusuo does have some faults. While he is quite intelligent, he lacks some common sense on some concepts, especially when it involves social boundaries and the internet. For example, he nearly got scammed by an online shop, believing an item would be cheap and not checking for delivery details. He can easily be manipulated with any sweets, especially coffee jelly. He likes to pry on the other characters, though it is often for their own good; for example, while he has stated that he personally does not think he will not fall in love, he will watch others who are in love and help them if he can. Examples include deciding to spy on Chiyo and Shun walking together the day after Valentine's Day and helping Satou Hiroshi with his crush on Suzumiya Hii.

Despite being completely anti-social, Kusuo is more than capable of making selfless choices, willing to sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of others. He gave up his coffee jelly to get a baseball back to a child,gave Chisato a plane ticket to Okinawa knowing that it will lead to Kokomi winning her way, and preferring to let his father be him, himself being left alone, just so he does not ruin the fun for the other characters.Due in part to this trait, he hates burdening others or owing favors. He always helps Kineshi after he helps him and was visibly disappointed in himself for making his mother keep his abilities a secret.[19] Kusuo is also careful to never disrespect or insult his acquaintances in their faces. With these characteristics, coupled with his reserved nature, those that know him well, and even Kusuo himself, consider him a tsundere.

As the main character whose narrative more or less drives the story, Kusuo is a fully rounded character that changes over the course of the series.When Kusuo was a child, he was more open to his emotions. Part of it was due to the fact that he was unaware of what his powers did, such as breaking a whack-a-mole machine in an arcade and thinking the machine was giving him praise.[9] He was highly mischievous, such as making his parents look for him for 5 hours after he teleported, and smiled around others without a second thought. However, over the course of time, with having to hide his psychic powers from others and his abilities slowly ruining experiences for him, he started to close himself up.

Thus, in the present, Kusuo is a reticent, self-centered, reclusive shut-in who hates being the center of attention, he is quite reserved and rarely uses his voice, instead preferring to project his words via telepathy into the minds of others. To avoid interactions, he tries to make other people disinterested in him or avoid others as much as possible. For example, Kusuo hiding from the other characters in the bathroom and Kusuo talking to Imu, knowing Kokomi would not like it. Despite this, Kusuo is very adept at determining what people want and executing plans based on them. He was able to single-handedly raise Chiyo's favorability of Takeru from 54 to 95, and to raise Reita's of Arisu to 98 on a whim.

As a child, depending on the time period, Kusuo does not wear any limiters nor his glasses, showing his pale purple eyes. He has always had his striking hot pink hair, that differs from both of his parents and the rest of the world, until he used mind control.

As of the finale, he no longer wears his limiters or glasses. However, right in the end of the epilogue chapters, he reprises them due to his powers begin to return.

Kusuo has an average build and height. He has short hot pink hair, fair skin, and pale purple eyes with no signs of pupils nor emotion. Kusuo wears a pair of controller devices, one on each side of his head, which are never removed except in situations of absolute necessity or by accident. The devices resemble white, cyan antennae, with pink, lollipop-like spheres. Accompanying the devices, Kusuo wears white glasses with lime green lenses to prevent his petrification power. During the days he has school, he wears the standard PK Academy uniform that all male students wear. On his days off from school, he occasionally wears clothes that are sewn by his mother. However, there are times he is forced to buy clothes since his mother has an exotic taste in clothing patterns.Kusuo's physical appearance is unlimited, since he can transform himself into any other living being, but each transformation has a 2-hour interval. While in his female/genderswap form, Kusuo goes under the name Kuriko (formerly Kusuko. In this form, he has lighter pink hair (slightly larger), lacks visible limiters, wears clear glasses, and is usually wearing the female standard PK Academy uniform. In his cat form, Kusuo is known as Psi/Sai and has white fur. In this form, he still wears his glasses and his limiter is in the form of a collar around his neck.

her Core TraitsIntroverted and Stoic: He shows little visible emotion, communicates mostly through telepathy, and just wants to be left alone.Pragmatic and Cynical: He views life through a dry, sarcastic internal monologue, often sighing ("yare yare") at the chaos around him.Secretly Caring (Tsundere): While he claims to dislike his peers, he routinely uses his powers behind the scenes to save, protect, and help his friends.Simple Weaknesses: He has an absolute love for sweets—especially coffee gelatin—and a phobia of bugs like cockroachesRelationship with His PowersDesire for Normality: Views his overwhelming psychic abilities (telepathy, mind control, teleportation) as a burden that prevents a normal life.Low Emotional Expression: Suppresses his facial expressions and speaks via telepathy to keep people from getting close or finding out his secret..

Kusuo Saiki is fully aware that he is a character in a manga and anime. He constantly breaks the fourth wall, acts as his own narrator, and talks directly to the audience about the rules of his series.Fourth-Wall AwarenessDirect Narration: He speaks to viewers in his head to complain about plot points, episode lengths, and manga chapters.Meta Commentary: He jokes about anime tropes, character introductions, and why everyone has weird hair colors.Production Jokes: He occasionally references budget limits, running out of time, or being in a weekly magazine