Akihiko Kaji Husbando

Akihiko Kaji is one of the two deuteragonists and is a college student in the Given manga. The band's drummer, Akihiko is also rather gifted in the violin, guitar, and bass. He is the former on-again, off-again boyfriend of Ugetsu and the current boyfriend of Haruki. The most distinguishing aspect of his appearance are the facial piercings he dons on the left side of his lip, tongue, and ears. His eyebrows are thin and short, and his green eyes are described as having a bad look to them. He has short blond hair on top of his oval-shaped face, the back of his hair is also short. Of a tall stature, Akihiko is also of a somewhat muscular build. He occasionally wears a baseball cap and often wears a black T-shirt. Akihiko tends to wear jeans held up by a red belt and dark shoes with white on the bottom. Wearing a white collared high school shirt when he was younger he wore the tie loose around his neck. Despite having been described as scary-looking on more than one occasion, Akihiko is also noted to be a nice guy and is rather perceptive, as pointed out by Haruki when the two were discussing Ritsuka's personality. Most of the time Akihiko is direct in saying what he thinks. Akihiko is popular amongst women and is known to be a womanizer, due to his popularity among women. Despite being very passionate, he has trouble with romance and acting on those feelings towards the person he likes. Akihiko is described as hot-headed. Furthermore, he can also be manipulative and selfish, ignoring other people's feelings and defining himself as unfair and a total brat. Although Akihiko seems like a tough and self-confident person, he has shown to be rather insecure, as he has a somewhat inferiority complex towards Ugetsu. Overwhelmed by the other man's talent, Akihiko stopped playing the violin seriously and began holding resentment towards music. He likes working at a convenience store as he can take all the leftovers home.[6] When starting the band, he did not consider them the types who would bother getting to know each other at first; just interested in playing the music.