Minato Sasaki

"*Isn't there something that is both stupid yet at the same time, you really like it? Maybe it's just me, but I'm starting to feel like I'm enjoying it.*"
—Minato Sasaki

**Minato Sasaki** (佐々木 港. *Sasaki Minato*) is a student of Class 1-E located in Kunugigaoka Junior High School, and often known for his singing and appealing tone. Albeit one that didn't save him from being sent to Class E because of his womanizing moments. Like everyone else, he is involved with the liquidation (also known as the neutralization) of a being known as Korosensei that destroyed the moon. At first when it presented with the reward, Minato Sasaki's first thought is whether or not he should take up the chance, but given that the money would give him a fortune, Minato Sasaki took on the chance. Already, he started to be known for enticing Korosensei into traps made by either the entire class or by himself, however, the results would always stay the same thing; utter failure. Despite this, Minato always wanted to be a musician, and he would rather not get in the legal costs of getting musical equipment.

## Appearance

A person like Minato Sasaki can be identified through his cyan colored eyes, blue hair that is shoulder length, tied in a ponytail, and is pale similar to the moon at night. To add in to his appearance, he looks handsome from the way he looks. He has a fair body, not too strong but at the same time, not that much of a weakling, so he's average in terms of body shape.

## Personality

Usually the "only sane man" of Class 1-E, Minato Sasaki's personality is one that not much people would really know about. And by only sane man, it means that whatever schemes and hijinks that Class 1-E gotten themselves involved in, Minato Sasaki is described as the only one who still tries to think up any kind of logic in a world gone mad.

## Abilities

**Singing:** On par with Kanade Saitō, it would appear as though Minato Sasaki is capable of becoming a good singer in the future, and this is further emphasized in that Minato used to be in a school band before his transfer to Class 1-E.

**Knifework:** Minato Sasaki is noted to be skilled with knifework, which makes him on the same level of of either Akira Kazama or Gorō Yamaguchi when it comes to using melee weapons.

**Intelligence:**

## Etymology

* Minato's surname **Sasaki** means means "help, aid" (佐) (**sa**) and "tree, wood" (木) (**ki**), the "々" being an iteration mark.
* His given name **Minato** means "harbor" (港).

## Behind the Scenes

* He is physically based off of **Mikaze Ai** from **Uta no Prince-sama**.
* His given name comes from **Wakamotoharu Minato**, a professional sumo wresler.
* Minato's surname comes from Japanese swordsman **Sasaki Kojirō**, famous for his duel against Miyamoto Musashi.
* His rank of 53 is based off of Jiang Jing from Water Margin.
* His birthday of April 2 corresponds with the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, the Frog Lake Massacre, when Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna, the Third Battle of Petersburg, and lastly, the day with the American entry into World War I.
* It also happens to be the same day that Chinese emperor Emperor Xian of Han, Frankish king Charlemagne, French novelist Émile Zola and Japanese golfer Ayako Okamoto are born, while it is the day that King of Jerusalem Baldwin I of Jerusalem, second Shia Islamist Hasan ibn Ali, Japanese martial artist Toshitsugu Takamatsu, and American inventor Samuel Morse died.