Kazuichi Souda

Souda is a highly emotional character, though he tries to play it smooth. People tend to note his scary appearance does not match his compulsive and rather timid personality. Souda seems to be a very bad liar, leading him to be contradictory at times; such as when Nidai reveals they had tied Komaeda up, or when trying to get into the all-girls beach party. Souda has a tendency to neglect his need for a verbal filter, and blurts things he thinks out, such as when he was contemplating whether he liked Sonia’s wetsuit or not. Souda is normally trying to repair any broken items on the island with his ability and familiarity with mechanisms. He also has a great fear of dying on the island, which causes a lot of stress and panic for him. He tends to carry around a spanner/wrench. He is a very jumpy person, and tends to exaggerate his reactions. Souda is also seen to have taken a liking to Sonia, to an extent of being almost like a pervert and in constant jealously with Tanaka.

Souda’s life before despair seemed to been fairly tougher than a normal child’s. It is noted that he and his father ran his family’s bike shop, but nothing was ever sold. The bike shop wasn’t always inactive, however– many customers would ask for them to fix their bike tires or inflate them. Despite this, the family was still often low on money. In result, though, Souda got plenty of practice with making and building things.

As a child, Souda was very skittish, and easily picked on. He let other children step all over him, but before he entered Hope’s Peak, he changed his appearance entirely. From changing his hair color, to losing his glasses, and assumedly sharpening his teeth, so that he could fit in better with people around him. It seems as if it’d do the opposite, but that may just be how his mind works. At this point, he began to put up the “Tough punk” facade to avoid more bullying, which, to this day, continues to break almost constantly.

In addition to Souda’s rough childhood, with money and bullying problems, his Dad seems to have constantly beat him. In one of his free time events, he states that he had never been on a field trip, and spoke quite casually about his father beating him when he didn’t attend school on those days. This confuses Hinata, but Souda doesn’t seem to register the severity of it. Such behavior suggests that he was a subject of excessive abuse.

Souda is one of the few people who survived at the end.