Yuuji Kazami

Yuuji Kazami is the main protagonist from the Grisaia no Kajitsu anime and games.

Yuuji is a second-year student at Mihama Academy. Also known as "Ace number 9029", Yuuji is an assassin for a Japanese government agency, a black ops employed by Ichigaya. Growing tired of his aimless existence, he desires a normal school life. Cool, philosophical, and minimalist, Yuuji maintains a realistic outlook on life. He views himself as cowardly as he always plans and scouts before taking action. Other than his occasional orthodontic military methods, he is a fit young man disguised as an “exchange student from Canada” of his new school.

Appearance
Yuuji has short black hair and sharp black eyes. He's pretty well built under his clothes and is considered to be very handsome. He has multiple scars from stabs and bullets he has taken throughout his career.

Personality
At first glance, Yuuji Kazami is pretty uninteresting. Talk to him a bit more, and you’ll find that he is well mannered, intelligent and well spoken, though can never seem to shake the scary look in his eyes. He’s casual enough to the point that he won’t use honorifics, and he sincerely tries his hardest to make the girls of Mihama Academy trust him and become his friends. After a few days are spent around Yuuji, he’ll begin to act like his usual self. He’s sarcastic, makes jokes that don’t usually go over very well (his tone of voice and facial features tend to imply that what he’s saying is serious rather than messing around, especially due to the fact that he’s drawn with hosome eyes [eyes that come close to those that we have in the real world] which, in anime-style artworks, depicts a character that is either villainous or an adult) and is very analytical of both the people and places around him. Yuuji is cold, philosophical and minimalistic. It’s implied that the organization he works for, Ichigaya, is very militaristic and thus that kind of lifestyle has been ingrained in Yuuji, who exhibits traits of someone that has spent time in or around the military life.

Frequently throughout the visual novel, Yuuji describes himself as a coward though that doesn’t mean he’s afraid and runs away when it’s convenient. He uses this word to describe himself as the kind of person who plans and scouts before action, and would rather hide away from an enemy than outright engage them even though he has enough hand-to-hand and firearms experience to take down any enemies that he deems physical violence necessary upon.

Due to the PTSD which stems from his childhood, Yuuji has trouble with killing any living things. Whenever he does kill something, he would experience strong nauseous waves and vomit violently. This is also partially to do with the "safety pin" Asako placed on him to keep him from killing. While this "safety pin" remain intact throughout the majority of the series, it is shown that the command can still be overridden to some degree. During his time deployed by the Marines, Justin Mikemayer was able to temporary override the command, allowing him to kill as a mean of protecting his comrades. Also, during Amane and Makina's bad ending, it is shown that if the "safety pin" is being "fiddling around" too much, it may "come loose and fall off" as a result.

Though he is unwilling to kill, Yuuji is hardly a pacifist and is shown numerous times throughout the visual novel engaging in hand-to-hand duels with various enemies, as well as utilizing firearms to take down foes non-lethally. The visual novel’s plot begins because Yuuji has grown tired of being ‘the janitor of the underworld’, meaning that he wishes to lead a normal school life outside of the life he’s led with Ichigaya. Yuuji makes frequent references to his old ‘master’, Asako, who he claims to have had a close relationship with and claims that she is the one who shaped him into the man he is today.

Yuuji is very close to his older sister, Kazuki, as he did not have a close relationship with his parents. Kazuki was a prominent figure in Yuuji's childhood. While Yuuji get jealous of his prodigious sister, he's also very respectful of her. He even go as far as to describe her as his "god", and that her word is absolute, even to his parents. When Kazuki went missing, his life completely falls apart.

Yuuji tends to be the voice of reason among the Mihama Academy residents, though at times he will step off to the side and let things unfold rather than getting directly involved. It is claimed numerous times throughout the common route that Yuuji exhibits tsundere tendencies, and this is true. Though he’s not as full blown about it as, say, Michiru, and not as natural as Yumiko, he still has his moments. These moments tend to crop up either when he’s being teased or when he’s doing something nice for someone, much to his chagrin. Finally, Yuuji doesn’t appear to have a huge sense of self-worth, numerous times throughout the routes and sometimes during the common route wondering why he was the one that was saved and if someone as horrible as him really deserves the right to be loved, or deserves this normal school life that he’s going out for.

Abilities
Yuuji is skilled at martial arts and is a deadly sniper. Yuuji has shown to shrug off being shot by a shotgun, twice (in Makina's route and in Amane's route), despite knowing the fact that such injuries sustained from this weapon can be fatal and would kill a normal person.

Trivia

 * His first name (Yuuji) means "Heroic, Two". "Brave Second (son)."
 * His surname (Kazami) means "Wind, To see". "To see the wind".
 * Yuuji claimed to have first kiss with Amane Suou on Anime Timeline. Ironically, he has done this with the other girls before in order (only according to Anime Timeline).
 * In chronological order, the people who have kissed Yuuji before were Kazuki Kazami (during his childhood), Asako Kusakabe, JB (Yuria Harudera), Michiru Matsushima, Makina Irisu, Amane Suou.


 * During his time at his "school" in America, he earned the title "garbage eater" for his reputation of being able to eat anything, no matter how terrible.


 * In the final episode of the anime's second season, Yuuji somehow survives multiple cuts, a gunshot wound, a stab wound from a katana through the abdomen, and a nuclear blast.
 * In the visual novel equivalent, he survive through all of the above on top of torn muscles, booster and sedative drug side-effects, and possibly broken bones and drug overdose effect. He later mentioned that that after the incident, it took him 6 months to recover enough for him to stand again.
 * Yuuji says he's still living, while carring the final words that Asako left him, in his words: What was the point of keeping a piece of trash like me alive...?
 * Although later in Makina's route when they go to the grave where Asako is buried, he tells that the words Asako said to him just before dying were: Sorry, Yuuji... ran my big mouth about teaching you how to live, but training you to do an ugly job in the shadows was the best I could manage...
 * Yuuji can drive cars, despite being known to have no driver's license.
 * He bears certain similarities with The Irregular at Magic High School protagonist Tatsuya Shiba:
 * Both were disowned by their own family while their sisters were praised.
 * Both are capable of fighting anyone.
 * Both have served in the military.
 * Both have languid speech patterns
 * Their sisters have a significant contribution to their own lives.


 * It is hinted in Grisaia no Meikyuu's Cocoon of Caprice arc and in Grisaia no Rakuen's intro that the significant events of all five routes in Grisaia no Kajitsu happened with the exception of entering a relationship with Yuuji and a few others; such as the names they call Yuuji (Sachi and Yumiko still use his last name, and Makina doesn't call him Papa).
 * The first two visual novels often set Yuuji as the narrator in most of the scenes (or other characters depending on the scenario). Some scenes from Grisaia no Rakuen however use third person perspective, even in scenes involving Yuuji.
 * Yuuji mentioned in fruit of grisaia kajitsu episode 2 that he hates trains.