Ken Shibasaki

* Official
* Child

**Ken Shibasaki** (柴崎 健 *Shibasaki Ken*) is a character featured in *Confession Executive Committee*, a main character of the Class 1-1 cast of the *Love Series*, and a student of Sakuragaoka High School. He is also a member of the "Idiot Trio" that consists of himself, Kodai Yamamoto, and Kotaro Enomoto.

## Appearance

Ken has neck-length light brown hair, with his bangs always pinned back by pink hair clips. His eyes are a similar shade of brown. The way he pins his bangs differs in middle school and high school; he has them clipped to the side with a center part in middle school, while in high school he pins his front bangs instead. Outside of school, he occasionally is seen forgoing pinning them back altogether, instead tying back some of his hair in a half-updo.
He is usually seen wearing a school-issued white shirt with a yellow undershirt underneath, or a sweatshirt hoodie. In pictures depicting him in middle school, he merely wears a white shirt. Regardless of year his uniform top is always kept open.
When he was younger, Ken had shorter hair and bangs that parted in the middle.

## Personality and Actions

Ken's major priority is women, and he doesn't like to hide it. Described as a *charao*, Ken is often seen flirting around with his female classmates, enjoys talking about them and frequently goes on dates with different girls. Despite his lax attitude with them, Ken is nicer to girls than he is with guys, and if he is interested in one will be direct with her.
With friends, he's nothing but cheerful and joking, often teasing them to their annoyance. His seemingly carefree attitude does hide a serious side underneath, but he buries it under positive interactions and playful banter. Whatever criticism he gets is also seemingly washed over, but he takes it to heart and stews over it when he's alone.
Back when he was a child, he was much more shy and not likely to stand out. He couldn't make any friends as a result, and cried often. His personality change in middle and high school reflects that.
## Relationships

### Arisa Takamizawa

One of the only girls shown to not immediately take to him. Arisa initially thought of Ken as a self-centered skirt chaser, constantly making comments about his behavior and ignoring his advances. Ken tries to get with her for the sake of it when he first approaches her, but as he gets to know her he slowly begins to take the possibility of coupling seriously, which he's never done with any of his previous flings. Eventually, he confesses to her, but gets rejected and agrees to take the relationship slow. Arisa openly returns his feelings after some time and confesses to Ken near the same shrine she rejected him at. This memory becomes cherished to Ken, and Arisa becomes the most important person to him.
As seen in Heart no Shuchou, he begins to take an interest in her during middle school, when she defended Karen Miura and was then bullied herself. Ken doesn't interact with Arisa at all here, only watching her from afar and asking Kotaro to keep tabs on her after she starts getting bullied. Ken is especially attentive when it comes to Arisa's middle school days, even shutting down girls who accuse her of bullying Karen and defending her character.
### Aizo

Younger brother. Aizo seems to not like Ken very much, due to the latter's constant dating around. However, given visuals, this is mostly from his time in middle school.
When they were children, Aizo and Ken appeared to be very close to each other, with their relationship beginning to fall apart only after their parents' divorce. As teenagers, they are more distant than most other sibling pairs in the series, but they still share a bit of a positive bond.
### Yuko Shibasaki

Ken and Aizo's mother. Divorced from their father since childhood, but retains custody of both brothers. Yuko used to be a loving parent, but following the divorce began to neglect Ken and leave home for long amounts of time. The two argued when Yuko tried to force Ken and Aizo to go to France with her, and eventually Yuko left Ken and Aizo behind in Japan while she moved to France with her new husband.
### Kotaro Enomoto

In his friends group since middle school. Usually teases Kotaro about his crush on Hina Setoguchi among other things, while Kotaro tries to keep Ken in line. Ken trusts Kotaro enough to interact with Arisa, and he knows that Kotaro is a good kid.
### Kodai Yamamoto

In his friend group since middle school. Kodai ends up talking to Ken about the things he doesn't usually get to say out loud, but only briefly. Their interactions are more teasing than that of Ken and Kotaro's.
### Hina Setoguchi

Knows her through Kotaro. Finds her very attractive, but doesn't pursue her.
## Etymology

* The name **Ken** means "healthy, strong" (健).
* Ken's surname **Shibasaki** means "brushwood, firewood" (柴) (**shiba**) and "cape, peninsula" (崎) (**saki**).

## Trivia

* Ken is the first named character to have his seiyuu replaced.
* Ken is often shown wearing CHiCO with HoneyWorks merchandise; in Ijiwaru na Deai and the third short story he is shown with a yellow shirt emblazoned with "CwHW" on it, and he also is shown wearing a hoodie with the same initials (also pictured in the official character portrait).