Kenji Kazama

Kenji Kazama is the main character of the anime and manga short series D-Frag, also known as D-Fragments. 
Kenji is the leader of the Kazama gang, forced to join the Game Creation Club (Temp) against his will by the group of girls that were members of the club in order to dodge a permenant shutdown. The series follows his misadventures and encounters with his eccentric new companions and enemies. 
==Personality==
Despite being labeled as a delinquent, Kazama is actually a kind-hearted boy who is very honorable. He is shown to be honorable when he speaks against sabotaging their enemies' to win the Freedom Festival, shouting "Aren't you all better than that?!". As a child, the hideout of his gang was located on the department store roof, and when a fire suddenly started, Shaun Konekone saved their lives. When he asked for a way to pay him back, he told them to protect and help the innocent. That incident shaped him into who he is, making him now a falsely accused delinquent. He considers himself forever in that teacher's debt. 
He might be falsely accused due to being very rowdy and boisterous. However, he is still nice and has good morals. One of his rules is that he will never hit a girl. And he feels a moral obligation to help people in need. While he does feel compassionate towards others, he is also very ambitious about his own goals. His most ambitious goal is to become the strongest person in the school. However, upon meeting the members of the Game Creation Club, he comes to the shaking realization that all the girls he meets in his misadventures are much stronger than him. These girls make strong allies since Kazama has the ability to attract them. He hasn't really shown romantic interest in any of them though, as he seems pretty unromantic. In the manga, 6 girls have a crush on him. 
==Appearance==
Kazama is a 5'7" male high school student with light brown eyes and very spikey orange hair. The spikiness of his hair has been noted, and seems to run in his family, as her sister shares the same trait. He is commonly shown with an opened blue school jacket that everyone wears. Under that uniform he wears a white button down shirt over a red T-shirt that is just visible from under his collar. (see image below). He is also commonly seen in his more casual attire, most likely worn whenever he is not required to wear his school uniform. This casual attire does not have his school jacket, and just has his white button down shirt, now opened, and showing his red jacket (see Infobox for casual attire). He always wears dark gray khakis. 
==Story==
He and his gang members have known each other since they were in middle school. It is unknown if they've known each other before that. A teacher, Mr. Konekone saves them from a fire that would've burned their hideout on top of a roof and he is indebted to him. One of the members of his clique, Ataru, became the vice president of Fujou High when they went to high school, while the rest of his gang sank to delinquent status likely because they always hung out with each other and weren't necessarily great students. They still remained great friends. Kazama is then forced to join the Game Creation Club (Provisional) (or Temp), which happens in the beginning of the series. He then has to put up with the antics of his classmates and new clubmates every day, for every episode of the anime and every chapter of the manga. Despite being forced into the Game Creation Club (Provisional), he considers his clubmates Roka Shibasaki, Sakura Mizukami, and Chitose Karasuyama as allies. Roka is the leader of the Game Creation Club (Provisional). Chitose is the current school president. The teacher that supervises them, Minami Oosawa, is a totally negligent teacher that is not really considered one of his allies. 
He soon meets a so-called Real Game Creation Club, calling the group Kazama joined "fakes". Some more fun ensued from their antics and Kazama took off their disguises and they revealed themselves. The leader of this real or fake game creation club was Takao, who later becomes one of Kazama's friends, actually developing feelings for him. He shortly learns that Roka, Kazama's leader, was once a member of Takao's club. When she defacted, she created her own game creation club, unknowingly betraying Takao. They then became enemies, and bad blood boiled between the two. Kazama was innocently caught in the midst of it. They start a contest at a school festival to see who can create the better game, and Kazama's Game Creation Club (Provisional) won by deviating from the inverbally agreed digital-only rule and making a non-digital amusement themed game-- Game Castle.
Takao comes to Roka and tells her that Game Creation Club (Provisional) won despite being annoyed about it at first. Roka obliviously asks her to join her club instead, not knowing how upset that would make her, but Takao puts on a poker face. Takao never becomes a member of Kazama's game creation club, but hangs around nonetheless. She develops feelings for Kazama, as does Roka, silently becoming love rivals. 
Kazama is also taken hostage by the Band of 14 Devils, an infamous gang at the school. They find in Kazama's backpack a lewd board game that Roka created at the game club and play it. More antics ensue until the girls come to save him. 
As the final part of the show, Kazama is kidnapped by a girl named Tama Sakai . She happens to be Chitose's nemesis; the girl she could never beat in anything. Tama was the former school president, and her authority is supreme in Fujou Academy, so much so that even the teachers obey her. She is recognized as the strongest at Fujou Academy, a title Kazama wants to usurp. The other former members of the student council assist her, and when the girls go to rescue Kazama, they have to put up with comedic fights with them. Meanwhile, Chitose is being beaten up by Tama. Tama's goal is to forcefully disband the club, and she'll only stop if they beat her somehow. 
When Kazama is rescued and makes his way up to Chitose fighting Tama, he helps Chitose beat her. However, Tama is ridiculously strong, and it takes assistance from Takao, Ataru, Hachi Shiou (a secret member of the Game Creation Club (Provisional) that Kazama recently met), and Roka with the finishing blow to defeat her by slamming a bag over her head by surprise. Tama soon develops feelings for Kazama, and is seen hanging out with their club at the end of the anime. 
==Trivia==
*Kenji Kazama is also the name of a Japanese martial artist who starred in movies.
*Kazama usually skips all of his classes except for Mr. Konekone's class.
*In the manga, 6 girls have a crush on Kazama.
*In the English Dub, he is voiced by Austin Tindle, who also voices Karma Akabane from Assassination Classroom, Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul, Vali Lucifer from High School DxD, Accelerator from A Certain Magical Index, Neito Monoma from My Hero Academia, among others.
*Kenji can be considered as an expy of Ichigo Kurosaki. Kenji looks and sounds almost exactly like him, especially in the English dub.
*Kenji is the greatest source of snarking over his situation.
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