Anime Main Character Mistakes His Mom for His Sister

Yuu Otosaka (乙坂有宇, Otosaka Yuu) is the master protagonist of the story and a showtime-year transfer pupil at Hoshinoumi University. He has the ability to temporarily possess a person for 5 seconds. However, it is later revealed that his actual ability is stealing the abilities of the ability-user he possesses. Towards the end of the serial, he becomes widely known (and feared) as the One-Eyed Grim Reaper. He is as well the younger brother of Shunsuke Otosaka, and the older brother of Ayumi Otosaka.

Appearance

Yuu has dark dark-brown hair, and maroon eyes, various outfits throughout the series but is by and large seen in his Hoshinoumi compatible, which consists of a black jacket and a white nether-shirt with a dark blue shirt underneath, black pants, and brown shoes. He is too considered handsome by his peers and friends.

As for Happiness, Yous Did Non Notice he is seen wearing the summertime variant of the uniform, which consists of a white shirt, black pants, and dark-brown shoes. Subsequently Ayumi's death (The End of the Exodus), Yuu wears a dark blood-red hoodie with a red undershirt, blue pants, and brown shoes. During this time he has dark rings under his eyes, implying malnutrition.

Other outfits donned by Yuu include his Hinomori High Schoolhouse wintertime uniform, which consists of a white blazer with a turquoise tie and white undershirt, gray pants, and black shoes. Interestingly, the uniform of his centre schoolhouse is identical in pattern to his Hoshinoumi uniform, except that it is turquoise in color.

While he uses his original ability, his irises get lime green and his pupils become lite teal. When he uses telekinesis, a purple glow surrounds his body. When he uses time-leap, his eyes glow bright blue with white lines spinning within the irises.

After the events of Charlotte, during which Yuu'due south right middle is slashed by an enemy assailant's knife, a scar is clearly visible where he was injured. Therefore, he wore a medical eye-patch while he was hospitalized

During the second half of Memories to Come, Yuu is seen wearing a black coat with a hoodie and rolled up sleeves, a red undershirt, bluish pants and black shoes. He as well wears a blackness watch on his left wrist. He is noticeably taller, his hair is longer and almost completely covers his scarred centre.

Personality

Yuu, at the showtime of the serial, is a selfish, arrogant and narcissistic boy, who misuses his ability on a daily basis. It is unsaid that he is an academically poor student and hence needed to crook to achieve summit-ranked grades; whether this is accurate or he simply saw information technology as easier than having to study is unknown, but Nao implies that his standardized exam scores are depression. Despite this, Yuu is clearly intelligent, being able to devise carefully calculated schemes to accomplish his stray goals. He is besides able to calmly analyze situations, shown during the baseball game in Moment of Earnest. Furthermore, because the fact that he is able to memorize the answers of the smart students under 5 seconds he shows the potential to exist exceedingly diligent notwithstanding he does not put his bookish abilities and talent to use. While a master of his own crafts, Yuu isn't the best at socializing with others and is quite rude at the beginning of the story. He acts differently only when talking with his younger sister, Ayumi, with whom he tones downwardly his personality and becomes more open and brotherly. It is also implied that he has a sister complex. While masquerading as a model student, he hides his narcissistic personality merely occasionally starts laughing like a villain if his plan succeeds, even if others are present. Yuu tin also exist perverted at times whenever he possesses a girl'due south torso. He uses his power to crusade fights among people he dislikes and to cheat on tests by possessing smart students and memorizing their answers. He cares picayune for other people, including his classmates and strangers; he fifty-fifty orchestrates an accident to "save" Yumi Shirayanagi without any business concern for the truck driver he possesses. The only exception to this apathy is his younger sis. Although he attempts to form a relationship with Yumi, when he leaves her behind later she fell while he was trying to escape Nao, it becomes articulate that he merely likes Yumi for her looks.

He besides loves to eat good nutrient to the betoken of crying, the reason being that his sis adds pizza sauce to everything she cooks for him (fifty-fifty french toast). After beingness forced to transfer to Hoshinoumi past Nao, Yuu'due south personality slowly begins to modify for the better. At beginning, he is clearly confronting using his ability for anything he doesn't desire to and simply does so after urging from Nao, though this changes as time passes. Although he dislikes Nao in the beginning, he feels sympathy for her regarding the situation with her brother and her hard past, too as her rocky relationship with other students. Throughout the serial, Yuu acts every bit a comedic direct man whenever something baroque or aberrant occurs due to the other members' antics. An example of this is his reaction to Jojiro Takajo's physical state afterward using his ability to get lunch from the cafeteria, or his reaction to Misa Kurobane's threats to burn things. He unknowingly begins to enjoy his time as a member of the pupil council, as evidenced at his excitement at winning the baseball match in Moment of Hostage. Equally of The Sound You Heard One-time, he becomes a fan of the post-rock ring ZHIEND.

Later Ayumi's decease, Yuu goes through severe low and instability. He goes as far every bit locking himself in his room for days, doing nothing but eating instant noodles and watching Telly. Subsequently escaping Hoshinoumi, Yuu'due south mental state continues to deteriorate, and he begins picking fights with gang members, finding joy in having them trounce each other up while he possess them and injures them. He is also shown to be borderline sadistic, every bit he laughs with glee after stabbing one such gangster in the leg with a wooden skewer. He continues to get in a downward spiral and even reaches a signal where he is nigh to utilize drugs. This goes on until Nao stops him.

Afterward returning to Hoshinoumi, Yuu is noticeably more grateful towards his boyfriend members and is much more accepting of their antics, seeing them as close friends. He begins to try to move on from Ayumi's decease just finds himself reminded of her constantly, including a number of times when he thinks almost calling home to tell her he'll exist late, only to realize she's non there anymore.

His encounter with Sala Shane allows him to realize that he has become more gentle and considerate towards those around him, and that information technology was Nao who caused him to change over time. This new mental attitude is shown when he takes Sala to meet Kazuki Tomori in the hopes of curing Kazuki's mental illness, despite there being no proceeds for him.

In the original timeline, his personality is the same as information technology was when he met Sala. Despite the fact that he never met Nao in this timeline, it is also implied that he never developed his villainous tendencies, perhaps because of his older brother'south good influence on him. He is still a caring older blood brother to Ayumi, and everyone thinks he has a sis complex. He as well cares greatly for and looks up to his older brother, Shunsuke, and has a lot of faith in him, even risking his own life to save Shunsuke and then that he could fourth dimension leap and alter the past.

As a child, Yuu is shown to be quite responsible for his age, as he helps Ayumi cook breakfast and later scolds Shunsuke for sleeping late instead of making breakfast.

During the events of Charlotte, Yuu ultimately overcomes his selfish nature completely; despite his initial fears, he attempts to rescue Nao and Kumagami from a grouping of foreign terrorists who want to use him for their own goals. Subsequently, Yuu is saddened when he learns of Kumagami's death, and he feels responsible for it.

As of Promise, Yuu is shown to intendance for his friends immensely and wants to be able to protect them from harm, no matter how much danger he may have to face up. This, as well as his promise to Nao, allows him to decide to take a huge risk and try to plunder all abilities outside of Nihon. His determination is stiff enough to snap Shunsuke out of his low over Kumagami's death.

Over the course of his journey, Yuu's abilities, also every bit the constant danger he faces, begin to accept their toll on him. He shows signs of PTSD and is unable to sleep, and if he does sleep he sleepwalks and attacks enemy ability users too as innocent civilians. Gaps in his retention showtime to form, and he finds himself unable to call up either his past or his goal. He isn't even able to recall Nao, but he is able to think their promise. He likewise appears to no longer fear decease, either considering he could salvage himself using his newfound abilities, or because he is condign emotionally numb. As time passes, he embraces the moniker "1-Eyed Grim Reaper"; it is implied that he has forgotten his ain name at this point, and he begins plundering abilities with glee. He briefly shows signs of his old, narcissistic, ability-abusing personality but ultimately forgoes this mode of thinking when Nao's flashcards bring on feelings of regret, as well as determination to go on his promise, despite his inability to call back who he made this promise to, or why. He continues to plunder abilities in a somewhat emotionless state, though does seem to get angry at enemies occasionally. At the stop of his journey, he is a shell of his onetime self, near completely devoid of emotion. He barely fifty-fifty shows much, if any reaction having three arrows shot into his back. Despite this, he saves the life of the last ability user and tells her to get to safety subsequently plundering her ability of backbone, thereby completing his mission.

At the end of the serial, Yuu has lost all of his by memories. Equally a event, his personality is a blank slate. However, he is still similar to how he was before he left, every bit he tells Nao not to cry, showing he has retained his kindness despite the trials he has faced. Yuu at present looks forward to making many new, fun memories with his friends as he moves towards the hereafter.

Plot

In Happiness You Did Not Discover, when anybody discovers that Ayumi might have a dangerous ability called "Collapse", they become to her middle school but are likewise tardily every bit Ayumi'south ability awakens causing the building around her to plummet and she dies.

Yuu starts getting frantic about the blow and searches for Ayumi's body. While searching, a piece of the edifice falls on Yuu and he awakens in The End of the Exodus to the shocking news that Ayumi has died. He goes into a state of shock and becomes mentally ill. Due to this, he ignores Yusa, Jojiro, and Yumi when they visit.

He runs away from home to avoid the pupil council from finding him and picks fights with ruthless people and wins due to his ability. He spends a lot of coin on instant noodles and pizza during this time. Afterwards assaulting multiple people, Nao appears just before he uses cocaine and reveals that she has been watching him the unabridged fourth dimension being invisible to only him. She makes him a dish with one of Yuu'due south female parent'due south recipes which Ayumi used to make. To which he starts crying even though he thinks information technology is too sugariness and icky.

Later he promises to rejoin the student council. The day that Nao announced that she had tickets to encounter ZHIEND, Yusa, Misa and Jojiro had forced Yuu to go with her. Information technology was too on that very twenty-four hour period that he had coincidentally met with the pb vocalist, Sala, exterior of school. He was and so forced into taking her to swallow only was shocked to believe he was right, that she was indeed the vocalist. Her capability in beingness able to exercise things whilst blind had kind of fascinated him, especially when she's able to detect his expressions from his breathing.

Yuu had politely and kindly taken her many places, one of them was dorsum home so that she could pray to his little sis, who he told her about. He fifty-fifty thought that Nao would desire to come encounter her but Nao had declined the offer. It is then revealed that, over the phone, he asked Nao if he could have Sala to meet her brother just in example a miracle were to happen if she was there. Nao said it was a possibility and allowed them to get so Yuu took Sala out to the hospital where Kazuki was "composing" music.

Sala then began singing and subsequently she finished, Yuu thanked her considering Kazuki had finally become sane. The outset thing he even did was to ask if Kazuki remembered his sister. Later that night, Sala went back with a bodyguard for the concert the adjacent solar day, and Yuu went back home. Outside his apartment door, he received a call from Nao, who thanked him for his help. It is also shown that he might have some dearest interest with Tomori Nao since The Audio You Heard Old. In The World that is No Longer Hither, it is confirmed that Yuu has feelings for Tomori Nao, as he keeps staring her fourth dimension to fourth dimension and blushes virtually of the time he sees her face and is not able to meet optics to eyes with her correctly. He is even shown to feel uncomfortable when he see's Nao and his brother Shunsuke getting along so well. Peculiarly seeing Nao'southward modify in attitude only towards Shunsuke, not seen towards anyone until this episode.

In Plunder, it is revealed that Yuu gained the abilities of those he possessed in the past who had special abilities. He later possesses his blood brother, Shunsuke, in order to take his time-bound ability to go back to the day earlier Ayumi dies and save her. Subsequently gaining time-leap, he goes back in time and wakes upwardly the morning time before the day Ayumi dies. He successfully stops and saves Ayumi from her classmate then on the fashion dorsum domicile they run across Kumagami and Medoki. Yuu asks them to have them to meet their brother, Shunsuke.

In Charlotte, a grouping of foreign terrorists took Kumagami and Nao Tomori as captives to get Shunsuke to bring Yuu to them. Shunsuke convinces Yuu to go lone to face them with his ability. But when Yuu had arrived, he found that the terrorists take planned out everything very well. While fighting he tries to employ time leap merely cannot because the attacker had slashed his correct center. Then due to that Yuu cannot help but use the collapse power and succeeds in stopping the terrorist assault, but was not able to control his power thus causing Kumagami to cede himself to protect Nao Tomori.

In Promise, Yuu is shown to exist on a bed and his trunk is tied to the bed tightly restricting many movements. When he gets up he remembers what happened while fighting confronting the foreign terrorists and it activates the Collapse ability which is calmed downward subsequently getting injection in his hand from Shichino. Later he finds out that Nao was saved by Kumagami, simply he died in the process and he blames himself for information technology. His brother Shunsuke is likewise shown depressed and has not moved even a scrap and is sitting on a bench at the rooftop of the infirmary. Jōjirō comes to visit and brings beef tongue curry with him and feeds it Yuu which brings him back to a adept mood. Adjacent, Yusa comes to visit Yuu and brings cream stew with her and feeds information technology to Yuu which he compliments for beingness good. He after calls for Misa, and Yusa and Misa switch. He tells Misa that she should visit her parents while she still has time as a Special Ability User because they won't know when Yusa's ability will disappear to which Misa agrees.

Then Yusa goes to visit her parents and switches with Misa. She cries while eating her parents homemade food, knowing it'south filled with their love. After some days, Ayumi comes to wish happy birthday to Yuu when he turns 16,and feeds him omelet-rice made with the special pizza sauce only it is very tasty, even though convinced that the taste is the same, just knows that information technology is "filled with love" as Misa had said. Later he goes to try and cheer upward his blood brother and remembers about himself beingness in almost the aforementioned state when he had lost Ayumi in a different timeline. So he fails in cheering his brother upwards.

In Memories to Come, Yuu starts his journey to take everyone'due south abilities, first, he tries to detect someone who tin can search for other ability wielders, he starts off in a urban center in Philippines. After finding a guy named Angelo and taking away his ability to detect other power wielders, he continues searching. After going to Africa and and then Arab republic of egypt, other ability wielders have started to phone call him "The Ane-Eyed Reaper", which he remarks to exist an "embarrassing name". In a city in Cuba, Yuu is seen lying in bed, screaming at something to "close up" while hearing multiple voices in his caput. His irritation and instability because of this causes his to subconsciously activates Plummet, making everything around him crumble, including his phone which explodes, cancelling the incoming telephone call from his blood brother. He then stands upwardly from within the rubble, ready to strike at a random person with his telekinesis, however he stops himself just in time telling himself to non kill anyone. It is debated whether or not he was channeling.

In Western Kingdom of saudi arabia, he is seen lying in bed again, black middle-rings surround his eyes. He convinces himself to slumber with the help of some pills and falls comatose. He wakes up the side by side day and finds out that he had eradicated a terrorist forcefulness when he was sleeping, stealing the powers from the children the terrorists were using. After traveling from land to country, which included Italy, Portugal, the Uk and many others, he slowly loses his sanity, forgetting the hope he made with Nao, simply to be reminded by the deck of linguistic communication cards made past her. All the same ,he forgets who Nao is, saying that all he knows is that that person was dear to him. He accepts his proper noun "The 1-eyed Reaper" going well-nigh stealing other people'southward abilities in a carefree fashion, fifty-fifty saying that he is so powerful that he is god. Finally, in Beijing, where he has one final person'southward ability to steal, his physical strength at present is so weak that he requires a walking stick to stand. He is attacked past a man with a crossbow, who says that he can live a peaceful life after collecting the compensation that was put on Yuu'southward caput. Yuu is so saved by the power wielder he was supposed to steal, with the power of courage, he then steals the ability and sends the daughter home. As he walks away, he is and so shot in the back once more with a fourth arrow past the man, causing him to autumn onto the flooring. Yuu'southward brother and then comes in a helicopter and and saves him only in time.

Yuu wakes upwards in a infirmary bed, with Nao sitting beside his bed. He tells her that he does not recognize her, to the dismay of Nao. She tells him that he is her lover, to which he again says that he doesn't recognize her. She realizes he had kept the deck of cards throughout his journeying, he tells her that to him information technology was a adept luck charm, which she starts to tear up at. He then tells her to non cry, which shows that he regained his kindness. He holds her hand and comes to realize that in time he will be able to fully accept her equally his lover. They are so in a field, with Ayu, Jōjirō, and Yusa, with his words being "I'g looking forward to what's to come.".

Power

Main article: Plunder

Yuu has the ability to take over someone'due south torso for approximately 5 seconds. He initially used this power to posses honors students during their exams to memorize and steal their answers. While in apply, his irises become lime green and his pupils become calorie-free teal. Still, his torso slumps into unconsciousness while this ability is in utilise. Recently, it has also been discovered he can utilize other abilities whilst decision-making their bodies. Still, the v seconds time limit all the same applies. As of The World that is No Longer Here, it is revealed Yuu's true ability is "Plunder" which takes someone'southward power abroad from them (They tin't ever use their ability again) and use it as his own. Plunder seems to take no limit to the number of abilities it can steal, which proved useful for Yuu'due south plan to plunder every ability in the earth.

Plunder, as with all other abilities, has it's faults and limitations. The kickoff is that while Yuu is possessing someone, he leaves his own body exposed to danger. This hasn't caused whatever trouble for Yuu though, as he uses his maximum of 5 seconds efficiently past injuring other opponents then the host before time runs out. While in some other person's body, Yuu as well feels the pain inflicted to the host, though he will sustain no lasting injuries due to him returning to his real body shortly after.

Another drawback is that with each power Yuu plunders, the more than he seemingly loses his memories, sense of cocky, and sanity every bit a result of the mental strain of possessing multiple abilities. While the effect is minimal and is hardly even noticeable, it is shown that the abilities Yuu plundered on his journey across the world built plenty of this effect that he was oftentimes capable of existence seen as mentally unstable, with Nao's deck of cards being the only thing dampening and even reversing this issue to an extent by reminding him of his purpose. By the end of his journey, it is clear that the likely tens of thousands of abilities Yuu plundered across the world provided enough of a toll on his mind that his personality was gear up to that of a bare slate, though he was able to proceed the kindness he had before he embarked on his journey. It is also remarked by Nao that it's a phenomenon Yuu is even capable of speech after handling the mental burden of perchance tens of thousands of abilities.

A 3rd limitation is that Yuu retains all abilities he plunders and uses retain their drawbacks and limitations for him, such every bit when his vision slightly worsened every bit a result of using Time Leap, which was the aforementioned drawback that eventually blinded Shunsuke later his countless uses.

Trivia

Even with thousands, or likely even tens of thousands of looted abilities at his disposal (Memories to Come up), he frequently uses Telekinesis and Bulwark every bit his go-to abilities during battle for criminal offense and defense force, respectively.
He has the same voice actor of Gin from Hotarubi no Mori e, Yuri Plisetsky from Yuri!! on Ice and the aforementioned English vocalization histrion equally Noctis Lucis Caelum from Last Fantasy 15.
His Japanese voice actor and Nao's Japanese vocalism actress play the master characters of Hotarubi no Mori eastward.
His surname might exist inspried past Tomo Otosaka,a baseball histrion in Yokohama DeNa Baystars

Yuu falls unconscious upon using his powers
A running gag occurs whenever Yuu uses his power to take command of someone else, his body slumps frontwards in a humiliating pose where he's bent over on all fours,with his caput face up-planted and his rear protruding upward.

References

↑ In episode 1, Tomori holds upward Yuu's recent medical report (at 11:00), which shows them every bit being fifteen.
↑ There is no official source that confirmes the date of birth.

Characters
Primary Characters	Yū Otosaka • Nao Tomori • Jōjirō Takajō • Yusa Nishimori • Misa Kurobane • Ayumi Otosaka • Shunsuke Otosaka • Takehito Kumagami
Supporting Characters	Maedomari • Medoki • Shichino • Furuki • Sala Shane • Kazuki Tomori • Yumi Shirayanagi • Tsutsumiuchi • Konishi • Udō • Arifumi Fukuyama • Saitō • Iori Sekiguchi
Minor Characters	Mishima • Kōta • Shō • Nomura • Oikawa • Sugimoto • Takato • Yoshiyuki Ōmura • Gondō • Hosoyamada • Mr. Kurobane • Mrs. Tomori • Honoka