Kohei Kangawa | |
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Aliases/Nicknames Bancho
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Kanji | 寒川 航平 |
Romaji | Kangawa Kōhei |
Biological Information | |
Gender | Male |
Age | 14-16 |
Birthday | December 5 |
Height | 172 cm (5'8") |
Professional Status | |
Occupation | Student |
School | East High |
Affiliation | Higashi High Gang |
Club Position | Bancho |
Personal Information | |
Family | Minato Kangawa (Younger Sister) |
Miscellaneous | |
Status | Active |
First Appearance | Chapter 12 |
Kohei Kangawa (寒川 航平 Kangawa Kōhei) is one of Kurosaki Mafuyu's former followers, the current bancho of Higashi High and the older brother of Minato Kangawa.
Appearance[]
Kangawa has dark blue hair that is often messy, blue eyes and a mole under his right eye.
Personality[]
Kangawa is an outgoing and enthusiastic guy, who can be very silly and he is often shown messing around with Yuto Maizono. However, he is an excellent bancho who fights alongside his fellow gang members.
He admires Mafuyu Kurosaki to a great extent and holds her in high esteem and gets possessive of her easily.
Background[]
Kangawa used to go to Minami Junior High, but he challenged Mafuyu and was defeated and he subsequently decided to join Higashi High out of admiration[1]. The duo, along with Maizono became renowned as the strongest of Higashi High and were strong enough to unite all of Saitama.
One day, Mafuyu's followers held a commemoration to celebrate her victory but quickly ran away when a policeman discovered them, leaving Mafuyu behind. After she was expelled, Kangawa gained the bancho position.
Synopsis[]
Summer Holidays Arc[]
Minato Kangawa pesters Kangawa to go to the Summer Festival with her but he refuses[2]. He heads off to the festival alone, but Minato follows him, telling him that they were going to the same place. Annoyed, Kangawa tries to shake her off, walking and sneaking through obscure and high places to get to the festival.
When he arrives at the festival, Minato comments on how he looks terrible, and Kangawa remembers that they were going to the same place. Kangawa then runs off to join his friends. He sees Mafuyu Kurosaki at the festival with Asahi Sakurada and tries to deny her presence.
The next day, Kangawa hangs around the Higashi delinquents, who go to various places of Saitama with Mafuyu herself. However, Kangawa stays away from Mafuyu in anger. At one point, Mafuyu tries to chase after him but ends up spying on Kangawa alongside Yuto Maizono. Kangawa finds a kappa keychain in the park, given to him by Mafuyu. At first he smiles then looks depressed Mafuyu and Maizono they still don’t know what Kangawa is Mafuyu leaned close for a closer look then falls she lands in front of Kohei they looked at each other then Maizono come out of the bushes and tells him that he and Mafuyu is worried about him then he says that the keychain looks ugly and tells him he should get rid of it. Then, Kangawa asks them why Mafuyu should care about him and calls himself worthless. Kangawa then challenges Mafuyu with the deal being that if Mafuyu wins he will explain everything and if Kangawa wins then he will ask a favor of her. The challenge was to shave ice into all the bowls provided for them. In the end, Kangawa won, then immediately got sun stroke and collapses. While Mafuyu helps him, Kangawa explains that he hated seeing her with Sakurada at the festival and was saddened that she found Sakurada before him. He thus wanted to hide how upset he was that she did not go see him first and so he ran away from Mafuyu the whole day. Kouhei then tells her that his request is just that she find him before anyone else the next time she comes back home. Mafuyu is touched by Kangawa's feelings and agrees while smiling down at him.
Relationships[]
Mafuyu Kurosaki[]
Kangawa was one of Mafuyu's loyal followers and her right-hand man along with Yuto Maizono when she attended Higashi High and respects her greatly. He and the rest of the gang found it hard to get used to not having her around which led to Kangawa and Maizono giving her the cold shoulder when they were reunited. However, this was in order to prevent her from getting worried and involved in the battle between Higashi High and Nishi High.[3] They were planning to play with her the next day but she was leaving so they quickly reassured her that they will always consider her their comrade and that she's welcome to visit again.
Throughout the manga, Kangawa is shown to admire Mafuyu and even becomes jealous when she spends her first day with Asahi Sakurada at the festival in the summer. After getting heat stroke during their ice-shaving contest, he confesses that he wanted to be the first person Mafuyu went to meet when she came back. He worries about her despite her strength, as shown when Kangawa volunteers to go in Mafuyu's place when he assumes she's fighting alone somewhere. These misunderstandings escalate and he even gains enough strength to be on par with Takaaki Aoi just by wanting to be praised by her.
Yuto Maizono[]
Maizono and Kangawa are close friends and are the top two in their gang. However, Kangawa is creeped out by his masochistic desires at times and knows very little about his personal life.
Minato Kangawa[]
Minato is Kangawa's younger sister who seems to be on friendly terms with him, but she was kept in the dark about his bancho status. She was surprised when she found out but doesn't mind. Kangawa sometimes finds her to be a bit annoying, especially when it comes to her and Kotobuki Okubo. And thanks his friends for being Nice to him Kangawa thinks she acts like a visiting parent he doesn’t like her doing that.
Etymology[]
- The name Kohei means "navigation" (航) (ko) and "level, even, peaceful, flat, broad" (平) (hei).
- Kohei's surname Kangawa means "cold" (寒) (kan) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa/gawa).
Trivia[]
- Kangawa was number 2 during Mafuyu Kurosaki's reign.
- Kangawa ranked 2nd with a total of 4454 points in the character popularity poll conducted by Hana to Yume in early 2013. He was the most popular male character.
- Kangawa was voiced by Kimura Ryōhei in the Drama CD.
- Kangawa is the first person in Higashi High to get Mafuyu's phone number.