Kaede Kayano

**Kaede Kayano** (real name **Akari Yukimura**) is a student in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School, taught by Korosensei. She is one of Nagisa Shiota's best friends and is, by her own admittance, currently in love with him.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Kaede Kayano, Akari Yukimura (real name), Haruna Mase (stage name)
* **Origin**: Assassination Classroom
* **Gender**: Bender
* **Age**: 16
* **Birthday**: January 9 (fake birthday); November 9 (real birthday)
* **Classification**: Human, Assassin-in-Training, Actress, Class 3-E Student, Kunugigaoka Junior High School Graduate
* **Blood Type**: AB
* **Height**: 146 cm (4'9.5")
* **Weight**: 39 kg (86 lbs)
* **Skin Color**: Light
* **Eye Color**: Hazel
* **Hair Color**: Green
* **Relatives**: Unnamed Parents, Aguri Yukimura (Older sister, deceased)
* **Alignment**: Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **B-Class**
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**:
* **Voice Actor**: Aya Suzaki

## Appearance

Kaede is an Asian girl with a short stature. She has a little frame, hazel eyes, and light green hair which is always fashioned in unique, cat ear-styled pigtails. A running gag for her appearance is that she is "forever flat", referring to her not having noticeable breasts like the other female students in the class. Despite this gag, many characters describe her beautiful based on her pigtails and short size that compares her to a human-like nekomata (a cat yōkai in Japanese folklore).

She is wearing a grey blazer with lined-black edges, buttoned thrice with one undone, over a white button up long-sleeved shirt and black tie, grey mini skirt with black-lined edges, knee high black socks, and the school's issued loafers.

## Personality

Kayano is one of the most cheerful, kind, and passive members of the class. She frequently acts as support in assassination attempts with her ability to assess the situation and adapt herself to them.

Despite her apparent passive nature, Kaede is an empathic and strong-willed person who can be extremely determined to the things that interest her or cares about, such as her love for sweets, and more tragically, her sister's fate. She also experiences a severe complex when it comes to her sex appeal, loudly voicing her discomfort when being around large breasted women.

## Abilities and Equipment

**Acting**: As a professional and prodigal actress, Kaede is renowned for her skill to play any type of role flawlessly, due to her remarkable adaption skills and empathy. Due to this, she was able to fool Class E's students and staff during the school year, and after the graduation, she started to professionally act again in her own way. All of them believed the fake identity she created. However, her acting abilities become unaffected or dulled to Karma, Nakamura and Nagisa after her failed assassination attempt on Korosensei at the field.

**Intelligence**: Kaede is revealed to have a very high level of intelligence, as she was noted for being the first one to pass the Kunugigaoka transfer student exam on her first try, and even could implant the tentacle cells into herself in order to control them in a very short time. Unlike Itona, and despite not receiving any kind of treatment, her intellect isn't impaired in the slightest by the tentacles. Perhaps her true level of intelligence was first hinted at during her first attempt to kill Korosensei, devising a plan based on her love of pudding, and although the plan failed, the simplicity and how well thought out the plan was immensely impressed her classmates. In the environment of Class 3-E, Kaede has great logistical skills to support planning of assassinations.

**Assassination**: Although hidden during most of the *Assassination Classroom* series, Kaede clearly excels in the skills required for a talented assassin, being able to blend into the background very easily, keeping her true objectives and intentions hidden from friends and foes alike, regardless of their skill at discernment, and being able to strike without being noticed. Shiro states that, out of all of the Class E students, she is the most qualified one to be an assassin but Kayano herself states that Nagisa was the best assassin in the classroom after she was defeated by Nagisa through a French Kiss.

**Perseverance**: By far her greatest talent, as she was able to withstand the hellish pain from the tentacles, without any kind of treatment, for over a year. The average person wouldn't be able to function normally and would expire out of pure pain in three days without help. In spite of that, she keeps a completely normal front and can go through her entire school year without showing any kind of discomfort.

**Mobility**: For most of the series, Kayano was shown to be among the least physically capable of the girls, though this was due to the intensity of the tentacles secretly implanted in her body. Unlike Itona, the tentacles did give her the ability to move and strike extremely fast. Once the tentacles were removed and no longer subduing the accompanying pain, Kayano was able to focus and move quickly to different spots, thanks to the physical training she had done as an actress before she injected the tentacle seed into her, to the point that her speed allowed her to easily kept track of Okano's movements and match them despite having to keep this a secret for most of the year.

## Weaknesses

Grows reckless or lacking in foresight during combat while focusing on her target.

## Relationships

*Main Article: Kaede Kayano/Relationships*