Anya Kudō

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**Anya Kudou** (駆堂 アンヤ *Kudō Anya*) is a fighter-game uploader, which suits his often angry, cynical and violent attitude. This attitude partially stems from his sleep disorder which gives him regular periods of insomnia, causing him to have to take sleeping pills most of the time and take up game streaming to get rid of boredom during the night. He eventually befriends Akatsuki, but he quarrels a lot with Zakuro Oshigiri throughout the series.

## Appearance

Anya appears to be a young boy, fair-skinned, with a tough body. He has short black hair and stern red, baggy eyes. He wears a pair of ear clips (he refused to actually get pierced) located on each of his ear lobes. He always wears Kenya's (his deceased older brother) helmet as a memento. The helmet is black with a big, red line in the middle and is usually strapped around his neck facing his back. He also wears an anklet on his left foot.

### Outfits

* **Casual:** He wears a black tight undershirt (sometimes red) and a looser red T-shirt with split-neck as outer layer, covered by his black, long-sleeved, unzipped hooded jacket. The jacket is a size bigger. He also wears black trousers reaching to his knees and black and white sport sneakers. Underneath the sneakers, he wears black low heels socks. Both his jacket and trousers have two white stripes on the end.

## History

Anya was the youngest in a family of five, with two older brothers. The three brothers had a strong relationship with each other and were always happy. When he was younger, his older brother, Kenya (who also got the same sleep disorder as him), died in an accident due to falling asleep while riding his motorcycle. Anya keeps his helmet as a memento from when he was alive and carries it around with him everywhere he goes. He later experienced the same symptoms as his brother around the time when he was in junior high and was later diagnosed with the same sleeping disorder. This caused his older brother Shinya to aspire to become a doctor to create a cure for the sleeping disorder. Shinya is currently on the Tokyo Investigation Group searching for Anya.

Due to his sleep disorder, his parents treat him with extreme caution and the school, it came to be an uncomfortable situation for him. He got kidnapped while he was in the material storage near the sea (probably he was there because he wanted to get away from the suffocating attention).

## Personality

He is often seen wearing a bothered or annoyed facial expression. Anya is extremely short-tempered and straightforward, he often speaks his mind without filtering his words, no matter the person or situation. In most circumstances, he responds to people with aggressive emotions and tones. He often uses his body as a way to express his irritation and annoyance towards someone, constantly grabbing and glaring at people. Although he is shown to have an aggressive manner, part of it is due to his sleeping disorder and his inability to fall asleep quickly, causing him to be aggravated easily throughout the day. Although he has a disruptive personality, he is very caring and softer on the inside past his rough protective shell.

He doesn't express his true feelings honestly and often uses harsh words even though he means good (tsundere). He doesn't have any interest in girls or anything lovey dovey.

## Facts

**Favorite Subject**: P.E

**Favorite Game:** Fighting and Action Games

**Hobbies:** Creating a Secret Base

**Favourite Food:** Anything with Meat, Mint Gum

**Disliked Food:** Bell Peppers

**Handedness:** Right-handed

**Weaknesses:** Himiko with her switch on (when she brings out her flash grenade)

**Weapon:** Iron Pipe

**Family:** Father (Kenji), Mother (Shihori), Shinya (Middle Brother), Kenya (Oldest Brother, Deceased at 18)

A first-year student at a public co-ed high school (the number of his attendance days is already dangerous), Anya’s best subject is P.E. He is skilled in fighting games. He has a hereditary sleep disorder which makes him lonely inside. He is close friends with Akatsuki but is on bad terms with Zakuro.

 Character Stats

The perfect score is 3.

 Communicative
 Perception
 Mental
 Wisdom
 Agility

## Relationships

### Akatsuki Iride

At first, their relationship was a little rough, but after Paca started putting bell peppers in his food and Akatsuki offer to eat them they slowly became closer. Later they did have a fight because Akatsuki got Anya some sleeping pills from Paca without his consent, they quickly got over this though and their relationship returned to normal.

 Character Impressions

Volume 5

* Anya → Akatsuki: Best friends
* Anya → Zakuro: On bad terms
* Anya → Himiko: "Stop taking care of others" (He's saying it in a tsundere way that implies she should be taking care of herself more)
* Anya → Makino: "I don't hate him"

Volume 6

Volume 7

## Etymology

* The kanji for the name **Anya** was supposed to be "杏也" , but Osora wanted to write Makino and Kaikoku's names in katakana so everyone's first name is changed into katakana.
	+ "杏也" means "to be apricot".
* Anya's surname means "drive, run, gallop, advance, inspire, impel" (駆) (**ku**) and "temple" (堂) (**dō**).

## Trivia

* Anya is actually good at literature, he specializes at Modern Japanese and short essays and is a frequenter in local competition.
* He always brings mint bubblegum, caffeine pills, and sleeping pills.
* He is the tsukkomi in the group (the one who reacts or points out that something is ridiculous).
* His dog's name is Nui-san
* Extra information from Osora's tweets:
	1. His favorite ice cream flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip.
	2. In "13th District: toothache", Anya is said to be putting up with it but then got taken to his brother.
	3. In "13th District: two-person haori tournament", Anya is paired up with Kaikoku and got third-place because the rice went into his nose when Kaikoku tried to feed him.
	4. In "13th District: waiting 30 minutes for someone who oversleeps", Anya will grumble and then return home.
	5. In "13th District: childhood dreams", his childhood dream was to be Anpa\*man (A superhero character from Japanese TV anime).
	6. in "13th District: seeing price tag on someone's clothes", Anya is the type to read the price out loud.
	7. When he joins the peaceful duo (Himiko and Makino), a family-like meeting will start as he keeps saying to stop spoiling Makino.
	8. In "13th District: attaching message to friendship chocolate", Anya wrote "I'm in your care" but due to his tsundere tendency he replaced よろしく with the same sounding kanji (夜露死苦).

## Nicknames

 Akatsuki Iride
 Karin Sarayashiki
 Kaikoku Onigasaki
 Yuzu Roromori
 Himiko Inaba
 Zakuro Oshigiri
 Makino Aikawa
 Paca
 Shinya Kudou
 Kenya Kudou