Kailu Wieczorek

**Kailu Asuka Wieczorek** is a Polish-Altruran voice actor and ESPLAR race driver who will be driving for Podkarpackie Racing in the 2023 ESPLAR Elite Series season. Despite his half-Japanese heritage, he shares no affiliation to the Saihara Motorsports driver academy and instead affiliates himself to Polish elements of ESPLAR itself.

In 2019, Kailu became one of Altruras' youngest voice actors when he stared in the anime **ESPLAR Chronicles: Journies of Tempest** which detailed the early years of Kazuichi Saihara's efforts of making the Evanshire Super Pro League of Auto Racing, being cast as a young Kaz Saihara after winning the audition that was hosted by the animation company *Cauxu*. His casting won appeal by Saihara Motorsports after he was found to be very fluent in Japanese, besides his native Polish and English. Saihara owner Kazuichi Saihara himself later found that Kailu is of mixed Japanese-Polish heritage.

Despite his VA feats, Kailu aspires to be a racer in the Evanshire Super Pro League of Auto Racing and began racing in Europe in 2021, in Formula Europa. He dominated in 2022 at just 16 years of age, and in 2023 he will be one of the youngest racers ever in the ESPLAR Elite Series. He still does casting in the Altruras anime industry, but only on a part-time basis.

Outside of ESPLAR, Kailu is one of Lean278's signature character in **Phantasy Star Online 2.**

## Early Life

Kailu Wieczorek was born on September 24, 2005 to Karol Joszef Wieczorek and Hanna Asuka Mieczorwa in the small town of Reda in Pomeranian Voivodeship, just near Gdynia. Both of them met in the University of Gdansk while in college, and married in early 2004. The two were ideologically conservative in terms of fiscal topics, but were moderate in social issues. Kailu was the eldest of three children as his younger twin siblings Miwa and Elena were born in 2006.

The Wieczorek family moved to Altruras in 2009 and naturalized after Karol Joszef decided to attend Tyrgard Lake University in engineering, while Hanna already had a nursing degree. Kailu became a US citizen in 2011 and began a rapid climb through Altruras' public education system, reaching Year 8 by 2015 and graduating secondary by 2017. He was only twelve when he graduated, making him only the third person to graduate at that age. A similar feat was pulled by Kailan Tuornin at 14 years in 2016.

Kailu intended to major in public speaking, however he changed it to voice acting after TLU started a voice acting program. He then decided to double-major in both VA and ethnic studies. He graduated with bachelors in both areas in 2020.

## Present Day

For the 2023 season, Kailu is once again paired up with his most unusual teammate, Alaina Gwinska. Both have polar opposite personalities. While Gwinska is eager, excited and aggressive, Kailu is not so much and is very cautious on his race moves. He is pretty hesitant on risky situations and prefers to play it safe.

## Outside of ESPLAR - Phantasy Star Online 2

Since late August 2021, Kailu is Lean278's primary PSO2 character. His primary hair and eye color are currently dramatically different than his portrayal in ESPLAR, due to Lean278's very poor attempt to make his hair like Quaid from Brave Frontier. As of 10/31/21, Kailu's PSO2 look matches his ESPLAR description. Kailu is mainly a Braver/Bouncer main although Lean278 prefers to keep Bouncer as his main for now.

As part of Lean278's PSO2 headcanon of Kailu, he prefers to depict Kailu as a chivalrous, calm ARKS defender who is easily manipulated to serve the interests of both good and evil. He always follows the directions of his higher authority, who are easily corrupted by their own interests. When he first started in ARKS, Kailu was noticeably aware of how easily manipulated his higher ups were. Eventually, Kailu started to develop some sort of a "double-edged" personality. While he retains his personality as normal, towards his enemies Kailu has become extremely ruthless. This was especially true in some of his previous missions in the corrupted Xion mothership, where he has developed a reputation of clearing everything in sight before proceeding to the next area. In his current time in Aelio, this has not happened yet, however some of his peers fear what might happen to him if the higher ups assign him to a very dangerous mission, as his chivalrous attitude might get the best of him in combat. For this reason, Kailu mainly uses a bow.

Kailu's combat style is very different than some of his peers know. While he mainly uses a bow, he takes both a katana and soaring blades with him due to his ability to switch on the fly, which he has not mastered yet. He also takes jet boots as well, though in recent days he has begun using them less. In most situations, Kailu's bow/soaring blades combo is a preferred duo to his katana/bow style that he used traditionally.

As of 9 October 2022, Kailu is the main protagonist of Lean278 in-universe fanfiction story Phantasy Star Online 2: Silver Dragon Saga. His canon appearance has change dramatically since his first interpretation

## Trivia

* A major reason for Kailu's prospectus into voice acting is that his favorite anime series happens to be Sunrise's Future GPX Cyber Formula. Even though he is not as die-hard of a fan like other ESPLAR drivers like Naoto Kazami, Alio Kyugare, Mittyia Hala and Nate Crawford, Kailu credits the series for jumpstarting his VA ambitions.
* Kailu has been to every voivodeship in Poland except for Lubuskie Voivodeship.
* Kailu plays Elsword. He mains Chung but he has dropped him as of 12/09/20, and plays only Noah characters. He also plays Fire Emblem Heroes but has quit the game as of November 2020 in protest of anti-consumer policies.