Gakuho Asano Husbando

Gakuho Asano is the board chairman of Kunugigaoka Junior High School and the father of Student Council President Gakushu Asano who initially serves as an antagonist of the first half of the series, but he later acts as a supporting character. Gakuho has neatly combed brown hair and brown eyes (violet in the anime). He wears a formal business suit that is unique from the other staff members in Kunugigaoka as it's brown instead of the usual grey or black. He also wears a sawtooth leaf pin on his tie that was given to him as a present from his cram students. During his life running a cram school, Gakuho's hair was unkempt and reached down to his ears, similar to his son's hair. Also, he usually dressed more casually than formal when teaching. When he was younger, he used to have strawberry blonde hair like Gakushu Asano. Gakuho's most prominent aspect of his personality is his strong fixation on perfecting his pedagogy. His obsession with education gives him an abnormal sense of prioritization, putting the maintenance of his educational ideals over the world's future. He prioritizes its maintenance even over basic morality, willing to suggest things that has made even his own son question him, such as when he suggested that Class A poison Class E's restaurant food. Additionally, he is also unafraid to get his hands dirty to make sure that his system stays intact, notably when he takes his educational methods to the classroom for the first trimester midterm exams, giving the entire main school building a personal lesson and purposely excluding Class E just to ensure that they do not pass. The maintenance of this system is his primary driving force throughout the series and as a result, shows disappointment when Class E surpasses the other classes. Although he prioritizes the maintenance of his system above all else, he also seems to desire to prove his methods are indeed correct, so he never tampers with scores that have already been earned. For example, for the second trimester exams, he encourages the teachers to ramp up their difficulty to be akin to a college or university exam so that his students may compete with Class E on a level befitting their educational prowess. For those very exams, he allows the honest placement of the top students and grades without modifying or censoring them, showing the exact outcome of his educational bout with Korosensei, even though the outcome was unfavorable to him. Thus, although he's not above using underhanded methods to influence the final results, he respects whatever those final results may be. His skewed sense of morality is also shown with his relationship with his son, with constant pressure to produce results and utterly defeat his foes, such as Class E, in perfect victory being a defining point of their relationship. He also uses his son for his own aims, never once treating him as his own kin and instead only as a useful tool for the maintenance of his system. He is also willing to mock his son's inability to produce the desired perfect victory over Class E, viewing his son's frustration with loss as a way to make him stronger, regardless of the emotional toll. In the past, his personality and teaching methods were almost mirror images of Korosensei's. He allowed students to do mock assassination attempts on him only to evade them at the last moment, similar to Korosensei, during class time, saying that anyone who can land a proper hit on him can have free time. He also teased his students using his exceptional skills, much like Korosensei. Overall, he was a kind and caring teacher who wanted to raise his students to be "good". He particularly cared about three specific students who were the first to attend his cram school, which in ten years time will become what is now known as Kunugigaoka Academy. He kept a close relationship with them and even kept in touch with them after their graduation. However, when one of them was driven to suicide from constant bullying in high school, Asano's worldview was broken and his personality flipped. He came to believe that his ideal way of teaching kids to become "good" adults instead of "strong" adults was the reason for his student's death and blamed himself for it. He eventually used his charms and manipulative skills to ruin the bullies' lives by turning them into gambling addicts. He continued to change his teaching methods and thus created the current Kunugigaoka system. After his defeat at the hands of Korosensei, he appears to have somewhat reverted back to his old self after seeing that Class E follows his old principles of teaching; as a result Asano becomes more mellow; although Class 3-E still exists, he no longer encourages the students and staff to look down on them.