Kano

Kano Jurgen is the main character and protagonist of Kagerou. He was once a psychiatric patient in a mental hospital on Earth, but somehow ended up in Grey World when Fuuka called him to be her Champion.

Upon his arrival it was discovered that he had several other personalities that could occasionally take over and control the body, the confirmed ones being Red and Kid. With each different personality that controls the body his eyes change colour accordingly; red for Red and blue for Kid. It should also be noted that his eyes change colour when different foreign presences affect his mind, such as when he was shown Mindi's account of what happened to her (his eyes changed to her darker green), when he was possessed by the artefact in Ir (his eyes changed to a smouldering red with yellow irises), and when he tapped into the Council in chapter 44 (his eyes changed to black with green swirls). When there is no influence on him whatsoever his eyes are white, defined by a grey ridge.

Appearance

Kano has long red hair that often gets him mistaken for a girl, which was once tied with a blue shoelace that was given to the demon general Dali-Dalai in chapter 2. He had bright green eyes that changed to red in chapter 26. His clothes were described as making him look like a "goddamn Easter egg" by Red in chapter 20, and the once colourful wardrobe consisting of a dark green top with vertical blue stripes over another green top with a blue pattern of blobs was replaced with Red's picked clothes- a heavy brown trenchcoat, black trousers, and a black shirt with a vertical split at the front.

In chapter 33 he is stabbed in the stomach by Dreamwalker and remarked "there goes another shirt", referring to the numerous times he had been stabbed or otherwise injured. The shirt wasn't replaced until chapter 42 where he had to give up the shirt to a naked Cho, and the newest top (up untill the most recent update so far) is grey and goes over another (black) shirt which probably isn't the same one he used to wear because it has no split down the front.

He also has scars on his right hand, evidence self-mutilating behaviors. He shows them to Cho when she asks about his life on Earth in chapter 13, saying, "I cut off my fingers." There is a little x-shaped scar on the back of his hand as well as lines around the base of his little and ring fingers, suggesting that those fingers were in fact reattached. They are on his right hand because he would have been holding the knife in his left, as he is left-handed.

Personality

Kano is detached from "reality", often speaking as if talking to himself rather than to whoever is listening to him. He rarely talks about himself, and when he does, it rarely makes sense to those around him.

He is not aggressive by any means, fighting to defend himself only reluctantly. He has very little interest in being a champion of any kind, much less fighting hordes of demons to save people he's still pretty sure are hallucinations anyway.

Though we often see him in dangerous situations, the threat often doesn't seem to register on his radar unless it is one of the threats inside his own mind, his own bad memories, and even then his behavior is fairly detached and cynical. The only one he's really afraid to see is Red. And after he beats Red with a crowbar inside his head in chapter 26, Fuuka has him at sword-point, but he just glares at her and says, "What is this? What the hell are you doing?"

Background

Kano's background is shrouded heavily in mystery and is a major plot point of the comic. Kano seems to have been raised by a potentially abusive father known only as the Doctor. We know very little about his parents except that both Kano and Kid seem terrified of contact with his father, that Kano learned to sew up his wounds from watching his father's work, and that the Doctor claims that all girls go to hell.

As a child, it seemed that Kano was frequently bullied for looking like a girl but never reacted much to it. At some point when he was a teenager, Kano ran away from home and began hitchhiking. One night, while looking for supplies before making a trip out into the desert, Kano entered a gas station and spotted the man who would become Red raping and murdering the clerk. While their eyes and minds made contact, the victim shot and killed Red who jumped or was pulled into Kano's head. Kano then blacked out as his latent psychic power trashed the gas station and Red took over.

After the incident at the gas station, Kano was institutionalized. There, he met Heyoka who looked after him as a roommate. At some point before being summoned, it seems hinted that he or one of his other personalities may have killed Heyoka. Heyoka's death is somehow tied to an image of a soda can over a storm drain that Kano keeps flashing back to.  Apparently the soda is one that Heyoka used to like that Kano bought for him that day.

Kano was also institutionalized for cutting two of his fingers off. He was trying to chop his whole hand off (probably with a meat cleaver). It's hard to tell when this happened, but it seems like his fingers did not have stitches or scars at the joint when he lived with Heyoka. after the gas station incident.