Kazuyoshi Usui

Kazuyoshi Usui, also known as Switch, An-chan, Mr. Wild Pitch, Megane and Suiko, is one of the main characters from the SKET Dance series.
== Charactah Account ==
Switch is the brains and secretary to the Sket-Dan. He is an otaku (no matter how many times he denies it) that has information about EVERYONE in Kaimei High. Switch appears to be the most serious of the group, but his fooling around says otherwise. Switch is tech-savvy to an extreme: his scientific bent puts him at odds with Yuuki Reiko, the devout occultist. Mysteriously, he prefers not to speak, instead communicating via a text-to-speech synthesizer in his laptop.
In a past, he was quite laid back and devoted to protecting Sawa and his younger brother. He's calm and a perfect figure of an older brother for Masafumi. Switch began to envy Masafumi as he created something by himself and impressed Sawa. After the death of his brother, he tried to come to school but he felt hurt, so his homeroom teacher told him to not come to school when he doesn't feel strong enough.
After recovered from shut-in problems due to his dark past and prior graduating high school, he is calm, reserved, and stoic, rarely showing any emotion. He has a deadpan sense of humor and seems to enjoy teasing others. Because he always communicates through speech synthesis software and has a tendency to joke with a straight face, it is difficult to tell what he is really thinking. While he usually "speaks" without much emotion, he would sometimes purposely raise his "voice" to abnormally high levels for comic relief. He often becomes very passionate about anime and often provides a very detailed and hilariously in depth commentary on the various animes featured in the series.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Gintama'
* SKET Dance
* SKET Dance OVA
* SKET Dance: Demystifying Special
=== Manga ===
* Gintama
* SKET Dance
* SKET Dance (One-Shot)
=== Video Games ===
* J-Stars Victory VS
== Trivia ==
* In the original oneshot, his first name was written whereas it was changed for the serialization. Both are read as "Kazuyoshi," however. Shinohara stated that originally, Switch was named after the musician Kazuyoshi Nakamura. After the change in kanji, he then made reference to also liking the musician Kazuyoshi Saito.
* In the manga, Switch says his favorite Arrancar from the manga Bleach is Aaroniero Arruruerie. In the anime, this line is changed to his favorite Visored being Kensei Muguruma.  This is likely due to the fact that his voice actor, Tomokazu Sugita, also voices Kensei.
** Gintoki and Kagura were shocked when they learned that Switch's speech synthesis software had the same voice as Gintoki (Sugita).
* Switch's first encounter with Bossun was an accidental collision in the school hallway, prior to the start of his backstory. Additionally, his backstory takes place during the spring and summer of the first year of high school. 
* Switch's laptop voice is a mixture of his deceased brother's and his voice.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kazuyoshi Usui at Sket Dance Wiki
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