Kasaki

Kasaki Nanba (難波・カサキ) is one of the main characters of *Haime! Sweet and Sour Boys.* He seems to sit between Gasu and Tuzi in relevance within any given episode. He works as a cashier and chef at Iris Chinese Restaurant.

## Appearance

Kasaki is a catboy with slightly tan skin (noticeably darker than Gasu and Tuzi's), shaggy brown hair, and red eyes. He sports a blue pair of ears and a tail.

His standard outfit consists of a faded olive t-shirt worn over a red long sleeve shirt, blue shorts that have had the legs rolled up a bit, and blue tennis shoes.

His work outfit consists of an off-white long sleeve shirt, red apron, and cyan pants.

His sleepwear consists of a white tanktop with a heart on it, pink and yellow underwear, and white socks.

His nighttime casual outfit seems to consist of a dark blue shirt with a black and white striped shirt underneath. It is unknown what pants he wears with it.

## Personality

Kasaki's personality has varied throughout the series thus far, but in general, he seems to be a kind, if a bit haughty individual. However, in Episode 2, it was shown he struggles functioning under pressure, as he had to be reassured by Gasu that the day could be saved. In Episode 3, he reveals that he tends to speak to himself, and is annoyed with this fact.

## Name Etymology

Kasaki's name is very unusual, as "Kasaki" is typically a woman's name. His last name is made of the kanji characters for "difficulty" and "wave." The difficulty part could be an allusion to his difficult feelings considering Gasu.

## Prior to the series

He attended Bentonokumi High with Deli-Chan. According to her, he used to "hit on all the fucking girls," something she was unimpressed by.

Towards the end of high school, he kabedon'd a student named Minamimorimoto, and was going to take her to a love hotel after school, a proposition she wanted, until Kasaki's biology betrayed him and caused him to get an erection, which she found hilarious, and led the school in laughing at his apparent eagerness.

Shortly before the series began, he successfully landed a job at Iris Chinese Restaurant at Mall 105.

## Background

In Episode 1, he met Gasu when Tuzi introduced him. He asked if the General Tso's Chicken he made for him was good, which he affirmed. He then went on about how, despite being unusual for a Japanese person to work at a Chinese restaurant, he has no problem doing so because he's "always been multicultural," and went on about how this (somehow) made him superior to others. He later joked about Gasu's subsequent nosebleed, before getting called to the kitchen to help prepare an order consisting of nothing but several egg foo youngs.

In Episode 2, Ming-Yue sent him on an errand to buy chicken breast for the restaurant from Food Koibito. By coincidence, he ran into Gasu there. He attempted to flirt with Deli-chan while buying the chicken, which she replied to by eventually recounting an embarrassing story of his from high school. After Gasu reassured him everyone had embarrassing stories like that, he laughed it off with him and Deli-chan. Shortly after, the store was held hostage by robbers, and although unsure what he and Gasu could do about it, he agreed to go with Gasu after a pep speech. When Gasu stopped the robbers, he blushed and started developing an apparent crush on him.

In Episode 3, he had a dream he was naked in a pink dreamworld full of clouds, and subsequently had homoerotic visions. After waking, he complained about how that must've been the "yonth" time he had that dream that week. He then drove off into the night to find something to do since he couldn't sleep, and didn't appear again in the episode.

## Relationships

### Gasu Mochiramune

Kasaki's relationship with Gasu started as a mild friendship, joking about the latter's nosebleed. In Episode 2, he seemed pleasantly surprised to run into Gasu at the store. He wasn't too embarrassed when Deli-Chan revealed a story of his to Gasu, and was comfortable laughing it off. When the store got held hostage, he eventually had faith in Gasu, and after the day was saved, began having romantic feelings for him.

### Tuzi Spears

Little is known about their relationship, outside of the fact they're friends and occasional co-workers. Tuzi seems to hold a position of seniority over him at work, as he refers to him in a more respectful manner at work. The two laugh at Gasu's nosebleed.

### Deli-Chan

Kasaki went to the same high school as Deli-Chan, and seems to want to have some kind of relationship with her; Deli-Chan, while she doesn't see him as anyone bad, does seem to regard him as an embarrassing floozy, as she immediately brings up how he's always trying to hit on women, before putting him in his place with a story about him embarrassing himself in front of a girl. Nonetheless, she joined in his and Kasaki's laughter when he decided not to let the story embarrass him anymore.

### Ming-Yue

Given she's barely had any screentime herself, very little is known about his relationship with one of his employers, Ming-Yue. Despite being a new hire, she seems trusting enough to ask him to help prepare a staggering order of egg foo young. She also lends him her debit card to buy chicken for the restaurant, and apparently even told him he could buy a small snack with it.

## Gallery

Official key art of Kasaki.Kasaki in a flashback, propositioning Minamimorimoto.A surprised Kasaki from Episode 2.
## Trivia

* According to this post, Kasaki is the youngest out of him, Gasu, and Tuzi. Unusually, he has been referred to on occasion with honorifics that would imply seniority.
* He beats several similarities with Hitoshi-San from Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls, including the same tendency to end sentences with "nya, rawr." It should be noted however that he does this far less frequently than Hitoshi does.
* His last name was revealed on Yogi-Kohai's blog, same as Tuzi's.
* For reasons unknown, his mic quality seems to be *much* lower than Gasu and Tuzi's, sounding quite loud and noisy.