For the novel, please go to Kazushi Niida (Novel). For the film, please go to Kazushi Niida (Film).
Kazushi Niida (新井田 和志, Niida Kazushi) is a supporting character in Battle Royale.
Backstory
Kazushi played on the football (soccer) team as a forward, and got reasonably good grades, but he still felt the need to try and impress people, which often resulted in him coming across as arrogant. He is shown as a self-absorbed killer in the manga. He lusted over Takako Chigusa; during the 7th grade (the first year of junior high school), when rumors appeared that they were a couple, he did nothing to dispel them, even though they were false. Takako strongly disliked Kazushi, who remained as her classmate into the 9th grade. Kazushi often hung out with the other jocks like Tadakatsu Hatagami. He had B-type blood.
In the Program
When Kazushi first leaves the school, he sees Mayumi Tendo's corpse and Yoshio Akamatsu's unconscious form. He picks up Yoshio's crossbow (better than his own weapon, a shamisen banjo), and when Yoshio wakes up and tries to find his crossbow, Kazushi shoots him in the side of the head, killing him. When Kazushi sees Mayumi's corpses outside of the school, he comments that he (Yoshio presumably) "Should'a at least fucked her first." He takes the weapons and exclaims he's going to be a star - "Going to get me all I can, Man-Tits! Blood and booty!" and refers to himself as "Niida, stone-cold killer". Kazushi then disappears into the woods. Later on, Kazushi comes across Takako Chigusa, and asks her to join him. He also propositions her, saying that they are both going to die, so she ought to have sex once beforehand. Chigusa sticks her finger into his eye and, while he lies on the ground, she crushes one of his testicles by stomping on them. She then tells him, "You're down to one eye and one nut. How much more do you want to gamble?", to which he responds that it is long past the time he could walk away and then turns around to attack her. She trips him and impales him through the mouth with an arrow. Yukie Utsumi uses Kazushi killing Yoshio as why the lighthouse girls don't trust boys.
Etymology[]
- The name Kazushi means "peace, harmony" (和) (kazu) and "purpose, will, ambition" (志) (shi)
- Kazushi's surname Niida means "new" (新) (niii), "well, town" (井) (i) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (da)