Kusuo Saiki


Kusuo Saiki is a fictional character and the protagonist in the Japanese manga series The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. created by Shūichi Asō. In the manga, he is a Japanese high school student who possesses psychic abilities.
The first appearance of Kusuo Saiki was in the one-shot manga Special One-Shot: The DiPSIster of Psychic Saiki Kusuo, published August 16, 2010.

Description

Physical appearance

Kusuo Saiki typically has pink hair, of which he was born with, wears green glasses, and has two antenna-like "limiters" in his head. Saiki wears his glasses to stop his power of turning people into stone and wears his limiters to limit his psychic powers.
He also wears invisible gloves due to having psychometry as a psychic power.

Personality

Saiki, despite his extraordinary powers, is reserved, wishes to be left alone, and typically very introverted, and level-headed. He shows little-to-no emotion due to his psychic powers. His favorite food is sweets, especially coffee jelly; Saiki also has an extreme fear of bugs, such as cockroaches. Despite Saiki's wish to be left alone, he has many friends, including Riki Nendo, Kaido Shun, Kokomi Teruhashi, and Aiura Mikoto. Saiki's catchphrase, "yare yare", translates to "good grief" or "what a pain."

Psychic powers

Despite both of his parents being normal people, Saiki has immense psychic powers and numerous special abilities.. He has altered aspects of reality multiple times, such as making it normal for people to have odd colored hair or changing accepted rules, retroactively, at his school so that students are allowed to have part time jobs.

Clairvoyance

The power to view objects or people anywhere. Saiki must cross his eyes in order to use it.

Hypnosis

The power to change people thoughts on certain things or a person. For example, in the episode were Saiki and his class go to the beach, he uses hypnosis to disguise Reita Toritsuka to appear as himself so Kokomi Teruhashi would think its him.

Invisibility

The power to turn himself invisible for ten minutes. If touched, he becomes visible again. Reita Toritsuka can still see him while he's invisible.

Telekinesis/Psychokinesis

The power to bring about energy just by thinking.

Telepathy

The power to know what other people are thinking. Saiki can also use telepathy to talk to people without speaking aloud. He can not read the minds of tiny lifeforms or people of low intelligence.

Teleportation

The power to transport himself to other places, One disadvantage is that if he has already teleported he has to wait 3 minutes to teleport again.

Appearances

Kusuo Saiki most notably appears in the manga The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. and its anime adaptation, but also appears in other media, such as the Netflix exclusive anime The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened, the live-action adaptation of the manga Psychic Kusuo, crossover fighting game J-Stars Victory VS, and a cameo in Assassination Classroom.