Asahi Kōbe Husbando

Asahi Kōbe is a main character in Happy Sugar Life and Shio's older brother. He is dedicated to find Shio in order to reunite their family and he regularly prints out posters to put up around the city and he sleeps underneath the park bench at night. Asahi has short blueish black hair and dark purple-ish blue eyes where most of it obscured from his hooded jacket, which consists of a dark green hood that transitions to black with large white stripes running vertically across the jacket. His sleeves are rolled up just below his elbows, revealing red fabric. Along with his jacket, he wears a light blue scarf over it and a white shirt underneath with two black stripes. He also wears long, black pants and red sneakers. On his face, Asahi has three bandages: one large, square bandage on his right cheek, and two bandage strips on his left. Because he often sleeps in the park, he is terribly dirty. People often describe his eyes as "having an evil look", whereas Shōko Hida described him as "rough/rugged" when she first met him, but his face was "cute" to her. Asahi is a kind and devoted boy who was quiet and well-behaved, listening to his mother at all times and he did his best to support her physically and emotionally as a child. When Shio Kōbe was born, Asahi encouraged his mother to work hard for Shio because she became a symbol of hope for the both of them. He cared so much about his mother and Shio to the point where he urged his mother to leave the house with her and that he would stay behind with their abusive father so that he wouldn't pursue his mother. Due to his father's extreme abuse, Asahi grew resentful of adults and chose to never trust them. Further symptoms of this abuse include his gradual descent into a rage manifestation, especially whenever his actions relate to the search of his sister. Ultimately, however, he wants nothing more than to live a happy life with his mother and Shio, and unlike Satō Matsuzaka, he doesn't favor hurting people to achieve that; only when his close ones are hurt—in Shōko Hida's case, mortally—does he ever resort to such measures, a trait which stays when he is pushed over the edge upon finding Satou with Shio.