Kyousuke Kousaka

About Kousaka, Kyousuke

Kyousuke is the seventeen-year-old protagonist, and he's the first to tell you he's aggressively average. Average grades, average looks, average everything—he lives in a comfortable upper-middle-class household with his parents and younger sister Kirino. He's a first-year at a local high school where he knows Manami, his childhood friend, and eventually meets Kuroneko. He's planning to follow Manami to the same university after graduation, assuming things go according to plan. The real story kicks off because of his relationship with Kirino. For years, the two had basically been in a cold war—distant and awkward around each other. That all changes when he stumbles across one of her adult games and realizes she's an otaku. Turns out there's a lot about his sister he never knew: she's a model, a track star, one of the top five students in the prefecture. Discovering all this while she's been living under his roof makes him feel a little inadequate, but he gets over it and learns to be genuinely proud of her instead. Once he's in on the secret, Kirino ropes him into playing eroge and giving her "life counseling." He agrees to tag along to one of her offline meetups, which is how he befriends both Saori and Kuroneko. He's picked up enough otaku terminology that he now casually drops terms like "flag event" and "tsundere" when talking about real life—which honestly tracks for someone who got thrown into this world by accident. Kyousuke's a genuinely good person. He's loyal to the point of recklessness when it comes to his friends and Kirino, willing to help them with almost anything. When Kuroneko started at his school friendless, he joined the computer research club with her despite knowing absolutely nothing about computers, just so she'd have a way to meet people. He shows the same protective streak toward everyone close to him. As for Manami, a few classmates assume they're dating, but he insists they're not—though he admits he'd feel pretty uncomfortable if she actually started seeing someone else.

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