Tanaka

Tanaka

Birthdate: Jul 25
Age: 16
Gender: Male

Height: 167 cm

Tanaka is a listless student who is always dozing and acts exhausted when awake. He can sleep in almost any location. His uncaring, sleepy nature forces Ohta to carry him to and from multiple locations often.

Tanaka has a thin physique with short, fluffy, dark-brown hair in the manga. His hair is black in the anime. The left and right side of his bangs are swept toward his ears, though the middle is left to reach down between his eyes. His black-colored eyes most often appear to be sullen and/or dull. He is most often seen with an apathetic expression. He is described to be handsome and like a prince by Saya, so it can be thought that Tanaka is more good-looking than one might come to expect of his character. When not wearing his school uniform, his casual wear is a simple T-shirt and jeans. It's hard to imagine that he cares about fashion, so it's likely that his choices in clothing are arbitrary at best and lazily thrown together otherwise.

Tanaka is a listless student who is always dozing off and acting exhausted when awake. He is constantly sighing and refrains from any tiring work, all while being accompanied by his friend, Oota. Due to his disdain towards hard-work, he often relies on his family and friends (namely Oota) to assist him with activities. He's apathetic and hardly ever outwardly expresses how he feels. When he does, it's normally done in an impassive-seeming manner as well and thus makes it seem like he's mature at best and emotionless and uncaring at worst. He rarely does anything where he exerts more energy than required; however, he shows a surprising dedication to maintaining his lifestyle and daily routine, even going out of his way sometimes to maintain it even at the cost of expending energy he'd rather not use.

Tanaka is somewhat scatterbrained or clueless at times, coming up with eccentric-at-best ideas that hold some form of merit or have some argument behind them but end up resulting in something stupid or bizarre. For example, when losing in an Othello match against Echizen, he managed to turn the remaining pieces into the Japanese character for the color white (白). Tanaka is very capable but chooses to use his head for things that interest him.

Sometimes, Tanaka's demeanor and personality may come across as self-centered or overly demanding. He sometimes acts like a child and other times like an incapable person. But he doesn't mean anything he does badly or harmfully. He just genuinely desires an uneventful, peaceful life.

(Source: Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge Wikia (edited), Wikipedia (edited))

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