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Saiki Kusuo
From The Codex
Articles About Kusuo Saiki
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Media | Main Series - Live Action - J-Stars Victory Vs |
“ | And that boy... in other words, me, is now a high school student. As you can see, my psi power is still going strong. I can bend spoons without touching them, and even read cards that are face-down. I can even see what that girl is thinking and even slot machines are nothing more than mechanisms for spewing money. Surely this life is like a dream! The world's happiest man who was blessed with everything from the moment of his birth!! That is me, Saiki Kusuo... ...If that's what you thought, then you're gravely mistaken!! My life is completely screwed up thanks to this power. Being able to bend spoons? That just makes eating curry difficult. Being able to read face-down cards? Playing concentration is just a chore. Knowing what a girl is thinking? I honestly couldn't care less. A money-spewing mechanism? For blowing my nose, tissues are just fine. World's happiest man, who was blessed with everything from the moment of his birth? What a joke. I am the world's unhappiest man, who has had everything snatched away since the moment of my birth. | „ |
~ Saiki Kusuo |
“ | Good grief... you guys really are a pain... seriously... | „ |
~ One of the few times Saiki actually vocally spoke |
“ | I guess my peaceful life ends here... Yet strangely, I can't say that I'm upset. I guess I might actually like troublesome things. Goof grief... My name is Saiki Kusuo and I'm an esper. | „ |
~ Final lines of the manga |
Background
Kusuo Saiki is the main protagonist of Saiki Kusuo no Ψ Nan/Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) who has all kinds of psychic related abilities. He usually tries to avoid getting into troublesome situations. His trademark appearance contains his green-tinted glasses and two pink antennas located slightly above each ear, which have the function of limiting his power. In the beginning, he was always seen alone but as the story progresses he eventually gets along with his schoolmates, especially Riki Nendou and Shun Kaidou. Kusuo was starred by Kento Yamazaki in the live action movie based on the series.
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General Information
Name: Saiki Kusuo, Saiki Kusuko as a girl, Sai as a cat, Psi as his hidden band persona
Origin: The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
Sex: Female at birth (Noted that he was at first born a girl due to his constant transformation), Male regularly, Female through Transformation (Has transformed themself into a female)
Age: 15 in Volume 0 (Directly notes he's 15[1]), 16 up to Chapter 208 (Notes in a flashback that an event started 2 years before he was born, thus 18 years ago. Saiki is a 2nd year highschool student with him and his other friends all being 16, with the characters at one point mistaking his birthday with his dad's, and thinking he was thus 17 due to it), 17 from Chapter 208 onwards (Noted that it was his birthday, making him 17, became a third year student)
Classification: Psychic, PK Academy Student
Species: Human, Cat
Occupation: None
Status: Alive
Alignment: Neutral Good (Despite Saiki's powers, due to being raised by his mom, he has grown up to be a good nutured son. Despite claiming he doesn't use his powers to save people and only do it for his own benefit, he has saved the earth about 6 times in the past and clearly cares for others. It is shown in alternate timelines that if anything bad were to happen if he never saved someone with his psychic powers, it would cause Saiki to think about how he wants to use his powers to save everyone. Saiki notes he refuses to use his powers to cause trouble to others)
Protection Level: Global Protector (Saiki has defended the planet from global ending events on several occasions)
Threat Level: Global Threat (Just from Saiki having one controller removed by accident it caused a massive catastrophe that a Chiyaka-Hoppaopeke Village say the world will soon no longer exist)
Codex Statistics
Grade: S
Tier: 10-B physically. 7-C with controller. At least 7-C with Damaged Controller, 5-B with controller removed
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Human level physically (Saiki is still a regular human with his great feats of strength being due to his powers, as such, if one tries to come at him with a lethal weapon without him knowing he can die, but if he is aware they would not work against him). Town level with controller (Casually blew a hole into a cloud, which gave this levels of energy. Through a punch, he could destroy not only a wall, but also everything up to 7 kilometers behind it. Created a massive energy ball that completely obliterated a small island. Noted if he wanted, he could annihilate humanity in only 3 days, with towns being destroyed like those in sim city. Noted he could destroy the world without too much effort if he felt like it. Casually destroyed a wall with a flick). At least Town level with Damaged Controllers (With his controller damaged, he is far more powerful as he can't control his power level). Planet level with controller removed (Noted that his mind control reached a point that anything he imagined would come into existence in the real world, being an ability that could easily explode the entire world if he made one mistake. Just from Saiki having his controller removed by accident it caused a massive catastrophe that a Chiyaka-Hoppaopeke Village say the world will soon no longer exist. The mere wind pressure from him turning obliterated an entire area. Could casually fly through the moon as a kid with no controllers and should be far stronger as a teenager)
Durability: Human level physically. Town level with controller. At least Town level with Damaged Controllers. Planet level with controller removed
Striking Strength: Human Class physically. Town Class with controller. At least Town Class with Damaged Controllers. Planet Class with controller removed
Lifting Strength: Human Class physically. Class K (Noted with his psychokkinesis he can lift a standard 2 floor home with ease. Can lift an entire plane. Casually pushed aside a house. With no controller as a kid, he could easily lift up roppongi hills and should be far stronger as a teenager)
Travel Speed: Regular Human (His speed should be the same as his other psychic abilities where he actively uses his psychic powers to amplify all of his statistics). Faster Than Light (Even with his controllers on, he can accelerate faster than the speed of light. Can speedwalk faster then a motorcycle. Can control his running speed from 1 km/hr to 120 km/hr)
Attack Speed: Regular Human. Faster Than Light (Stopped a charged gun before it could hit a target. Can throw a ball ten times 120 km/h or 1200 km/h, or Mach 0.97), Speed of Light Attack Speed (Can shoot out fast powerful lasers from his eyes. Can shoot a laser that upgrades one's computer to windows 10)
Reaction Speed: Regular Human. Faster Than Light (Was able to eat a coffee bean jelly in 6 milliseconds before it could hit the floor)
Stamina: Superhuman (Repeatedly used his powers over 13000 times in a six second loop)
Range: Standard Melee, Hundreds of Meters with Telepathy (His telepathy reception becomes a little unreliable around the 200 meter range), Kilometers with attacks (Through a punch, he could destroy not only a wall, but also everything up to 7 kilometers behind it. Can shoot energy blast all the way into the clouds), up to Planetary with abilities (Abilities such as his psychic photography allow him to transfer images of anything that is happneing at the current moment in the world. Saiki has the ability to use mind control across the entire planet, where he can change peoples thoughts of unnatural things to natural things, this extends further to him being able to change people's mode of life, allowing them to survive and quickly heal from injuries that would otherwise last a long time, heavy injuries and diseases are cured faster then normal, buildings being destroyed will return back to normal by the next week, humans brain functions have increased far faster, a person's clothes getting torn will have the part of clothing between the leg never get torn, a person with a small body canhave ridicolous strength, a person can become unconscious by doing a "ton" to the back of the neck, and far more. Has teleported all the way from Japan to Texas. Can telekinetically control a meteorrite to come down and not hit anyone. With a single controller removed, he can hear the entire planet with his telepathy. Restores the entire earth back by a year. With no controllers as a kid, he could cover all of Japan and his powers have only increased with age), Universal with Time Travel & Time Manipulation, Multiversal with Dimensional Travel (Saiki is able to travel to alternate timelines, where the series runs under many worlds interpretation)
Intelligence: Supergenius Intelligence (As a two week year old infant he was able to speak telepathically, and make conscious use of his powers. Noted that due to his own knowledge he can easily get full points on any high school test. Saiki is aware of and knows 50 different languages)
Knowledge: Grandmaster level
Powers and Techniques
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Multilingualism (Saiki is aware of and knows 50 different languages), Vehicular Mastery (Is able to ride a motorcyle), Stealth Mastery (Saiki can completely hide his presence to sneak around people), Acrobatics (Can perform acrobatic flips in air), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance; Saiki can breathe in space), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Saiki directly speaks to the auidence explaining how he hates his powers. Answered a question given to him by an audience member and acknowledged he was in a manga the entire time through. Has directly addressed the viewer and acknowledged the manga being in color. Directly points at and acknowledges past panels. Can buy and read chapters of his own manga), Psionics, Intimidation (Just seeing Saiki has one feel that if they even lay a finger on them they'll have their heart ripped from their chest. Instantly tamed a tiger from his intimidating aura. Can let out bloodlust to scare people away. His bloodlust is described by Hairo to be like the intensity of facing down a starved grizzly bear. Releasing his bloodlust had all the animals open up their inner instinct of strong eating the weak), Aquatic Breathing (Can stay underwater without drowning), Extrasensory Perception (Through unknown means, Saiki gained the power to see spirits. Can get a chill sent down his spine that warn him of something going to happen regarding him), Body Control (Can dislocate his joints to get around being stabbed by 20 swords), Surface Scaling (Can stick to ceilings), Water Walking (Has shown in the title illustration that he can walk on water which title illustrations are acknowledged by Saiki), Burrowing (Can burrow underground to escape), Pressure Points (Can hit pressure points to instantly knock someone out), Instinctive Reaction (After doing the same thing over and over again in a time loop, Saiki became able to use his powers without thinking), Adaptation (Saiki's body is noted to have evolved beyond that of a normal human in order to keep up with the powers he's had since birth, making it where the structure of his muscles and brain have evolved beyond whats normal in order to withstand his ESP, so that even if one removes his powers they will still come back due to his evolved body), Aura (Saiki's aura is so large that it coves a 200 meter radius, overlapping all other auras making people who can see auras unable to see them due to his existence), Transformation (Shapeshifting; Saiki has the ability of transformation, allowing him to change his form at will to a woman, or an animal, or even an extra-terrestrial being, has transformed himself into a cat and noted he can transform into bugs. His transformation can also let him affect his age, becoming a 5 year old kid), Bulletproof & Pierce Resistance (Standard Pierce Resistance; Through being aware of an attack common, Saiki notes that guns nor sharp objects would work against him), Accelerated Development (Passive; Physical Stats and Abilities; It's noted by Saiki that he put controllers in his head to halt the rapid pace his powers and strength were growing at), Time Paradox Immunity (Grandfather Paradox; Caused a change in the past that made him die in the future, yet he was still alive and well when he returned to the new future), Afterimage Creation (Can create afterimages), Telepathy (Passive; Saiki is able to hear other people's thoughts telepathically speak to people even if he's not paying attention, his ability has him passively hear the persons thoughts, this extends even to one's subconscious thoughts that they are not aware of. Can force two people to hear each other's thoughts, and even read animals minds. Can hear the thoughts if people on a screen if he felt like it. Can read the mind of even the viewer. Can telepathyically read the minds of all animals and speak to them. Can significantly impair a targets thinking by sending them a large wave of thoughts. Through physically touching a target, Saiki can use telepathy to send them not only voices and sounds but visual imagery as wel), Enhanced Senses (Due to being a psychic, Saiki can see through walls, see the insides of people. Can fully see and locate a kids mother from so far away she appears as a black outline), Astral Projection (Can separate his soul from his body, allowing him to interact with ghost and souls), Reality Warping, Telekinesis (Due to being a psychic, Saiki is able to manipulate objects through the power of will alone is able to bend spoons can unlock doors, move his napkins back into his pocket. Can telekinetically force someone to not move their hands. Has teleported all the way from Japan to Texas), Psychometry (Is able to use psychometry to read the "remaining wills" from an object by touching it, such as seeing a book by touching it he can see the process of making it, spoilers of pages he hasn't read and the opinions of the people reading it at the store, and the manga artist hovering near death. His psychometry also allows him to have other people's powers while touching them), Flight (Can float off the floor. Can sit criss cross in the air. Noted he could fly through the moon if he wanted to), Spaceflight (Saiki can freely fly in space), Teleportation(Has shown the ability to teleport and notes he has this ability, where he can accidentally have it instantaneously activate if he feels in danger. Can teleport to places he's seen on screen. With Apport, an ability that lets Saiki bring things far away right to where he is as long as the object has 10% less or greater equal value to the object he uses), Dimensional Travel (Saiki was able to somehow travel to an alternate timeline), Time Travel (Saiki is able to travel exactly 20 years back in the past), Battlefield Removal (Forced Teleportation) & Spatial Manipulation (Saiki is able to teleport an object or a human to and from places, though he needs to swap the object with something of equal value to do so. Alternate timeline Saiki sent Saiki back to his timeline and Saiki by extension should be able to do the same), Precognition (Premonitions; Saiki is noted to have precognition where he can see premonitions of the future. Saiki gets premonitions that shows him an event from the future before it happens, with the event being 100% certain. His premonitions can also show exact play by play events of what will happen), Clairvoyance (Saiki is noted to have clairvoyance where going cross-eyed, Saiki can view distant areas unobstructed), Transmutation (Noted that Saiki can change objects, such as a shoe into a steak), Heat Manipulation (Saiki has the power of pyrokinesis, a power which raises the temperature by causing violent molecular motion via remote manipulation. Can vibrate molecules at high speeds and then send the heat to a target), Electricity Manipulation (Saiki is able to electrocute beings), Thoughtography (With psychic photography, enables him to transfer images of an object, person, or place in mind on to a piece of paper, with Saiki being able to transfer images of anything that is happneing at the current moment in the world), Energy Manipulation (Can shoot out energy blast. Created a massive energy ball that completely obliterate an entire small island), Information Analysis (With the favorability ranking meter, can tell how much someone likes him. Saiki gains an ability to see how popular he and other people are in another world), Time Manipulation (Can turn back the time of an object by one day, which affects all things nearby. Saiki's time leap unconsciously causes time loops to occur at random), Mind Manipulation (With Hypnotism, can trick people into viewing someone as someone else. Saiki can remove the idel thoughts in ones mind that interrupts their thinking), Light Manipulation (Made his friend shine brightly), Memory Manipulation (Through delivering a strong impact to someone's head and using body restoration to make it where they don't feel the effects of it, Saiki can erase one minute of memories), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Can pull one's soul out of their body when they're unconscious), Sound Manipulation (Can use telepathy to transmit a different sound that was loud enough to cancel out his terrible playing. Can shoot out a laser that cancels songs), Curse Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Can place death curses on people where in a certain amount of time, blood will come pouring out of every pore of their body), Size Manipulation (Can shrink himself to 1/100th the size of his normal body, where he keeps his strength, and can grow twice his size, with it later being revealed that his shrinking and growing powers are one and the same with him growing due to him thinking "become 80 meters"), Air Manipulation (Through using his telekinesis combined with his pyrokinesis, he can create massive gusts of wind), Text Manipulation (As a baby could remove drawings and text from the wall with a wave of his hand), Water Manipulation (Can control the rain to not hit him), Healing (Saiki can heal injuries and wounds), Immersion (Saiki's psychic powers can affect the world of fiction), Invisibility (Can go invisible and control his visibility so that the readers can see him), Power Suppression (Statistics Suppression and Abilities Suppression; His controllers were made to keep his powers from growing out of control and heavily suppress his full powers), Durability Negation (Has shown he can affect one's insides with his powers), Petrification (If nothing is covering Saiki's eyes, he can turn one to stone just by staring at them, this effect cannot be undone by turning back time as being turned to stone is treated the same as being dead), Erasure (Space-Time Erasure; Through Saiki transforming into a person he essentially erases them from the timeline as the same person cannot exist twice in the same world), Power Manifestation (Saiki can gain random powers), Illusion Creation (Standard Illusions; Can make people see things that aren't really there).
Limited Resistance to Power Nullification (Through coming into contact with a metalloid called "germanium" Saiki loses his telepathy until it's no longer in contact with him, though his other powers remain), Resistance to Extreme Heats & Extreme Colds (Didn't care much when fire was surrounding him. With the use of his pyrokinesis he is unaffected by cold or hot weather), Penetration Damage (Through being aware of an attack common, Saiki notes that guns nor sharp objects would work against him), Disease Manipulation (Saiki due to being an esper, has never caught a cold before, he notes this is due to the fact that all viruses he kills off through raising his body temperature)
Equipment
- Controllers: Controllers placed on Saiki's head to suppress his powers, the left one suppresses his powers, the right one was originally used to if Saiki removed it, his powers would be broadcasted to the world, however, after a while his brother disabled that function.
Notable Techniques
- Apport: The power to pull something from somewhere else and have it appear before you[2]. Works in tandem with teleportation. Anything teleported needs to be exchanged using Apport with something of exactly equal value or within a 10% difference. Kusuo can cause trouble if he isn't careful, as the item that Apports takes the place of the Apported item. On one occasion, he accidentally destroyed school property after swapping a ball with a umbrella.
- Astral Projection: The power to separate his or someone else's spirit from their body[3]. He can fight spectral beings such as ghosts in this state.
- Possession: When astral projecting, Kusuo can take over someone's body by switching his spirit with theirs.
- Bilocation: Kusuo can use this power to duplicate himself. It is one of his most difficult powers for various reasons. He cannot control how the clones look or act, he needs to remove his limiter to use this power, the clones have all his powers and can feel anything he feels, including the removal of his limiter, which means that they could cause serious damage if left unchecked. As the original, any damage he suffers will also be reflected on the clones themselves.
- Clairvoyance: Without having to move, this power allows Kusuo to view objects or people anywhere that are obstructed from his view by crossing his eyes[4].
- Cryokinesis: The ability that allows a person to create and control ice with their mind.
- Curse: The ability to create misfortune to others and can be done by touch. The course of the curses can be changed at Kusuo's discretion.
- Electrokinesis: The ability to manipulate electricity.
- Flight/Levitation: The ability to fly/float.
- Hydrokinesis: The ability to freely use water or create water. Also the ability to create sweat on the body.
- Hyponsis: Kusuo uses this power to disguise other people, making Reita look like himself, or making his father look like himself. He cannot use this power on himself.
- Invisibility: The power to turn himself invisible for 10 minutes. It is canceled if someone touches him while he's in that state. When the time runs out, or if someone touches him, he has to wait 1 minute before turning invisible again.
- Mediumship: The power to see and communicate with spirits. This is not a power Kusuo typically possesses and seem to work exclusively with Takeuchi Riki's spirit. This can also be used with Psychometry when he is with Toritsuka Reita.
- Memory Alteration: Delivering a strong impact to someone's head to eliminate the desired memory. In the anime a wacky yellow bat resembling TV Tokyo's mascot must be used. In the manga anything that causes an impact (ex: crowbar) may be used.
- Memory Supplementation: The drawback of this power as Kusuo uses restoration on the brain of the person, the memory is filled with a random different memory on each person. For example, when Kusuo erases the memory of Kaidou learning that Kusuo does not make friends easily because he is a psychic (as accidentally revealed by his mother), Kaidou's brain automatically fills in the memory error that Kusuo was unable to make friends due to his eighth-grader syndrome, a personality trait Kaidou himself struggles with internally.
- Mind Control: The power to subtly influence the minds of every single person on the planet. He can make others perceive that something unnatural is actually natural, even rewrite human biology itself, making it one of his most powerful abilities. Kusuo uses it without his limiter and considers it his most dangerous power, able to recreate the world with his imagination alone. He has to be careful using this power, because changing how others think affects the people around them, and he could destroy the world with a single thought. He used this a few times, at a young age, to make unusual hair and antennas commonplace due to the oddity of his own appearance at birth, and it is how he avoids standing out. Kusuo could also rewrite human biology at the genetic level. He has made it natural for people have a variety of hair colors, heal rapidly from minor injuries, evolved them to think fast at critical moments, have clothes ripped to pieces leave the crotch intact and return to normal afterward, slender people strong, and people can knock others out with a simple chop. In one episode, he also made students having part-time jobs normal. To deal with the exploding volcano, Kusuo also uses mind control to change people's perception of time, repeating his junior year and allowing powers to grow over time until he becomes strong enough to stop the disaster.
- Petrification: The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye. This happens automatically unless he is wearing his glasses. It takes a full twenty-four hours for an affected being to return back to normal. This is one of his abilities that he can't control and one of the few not to be affected by his limiter.
- Precognition: The power to see events that will occur before they actually happen, usually accompanied by a headache[5]. This can happen when he is asleep. Kusuo has no control over his ability and can misinterpret or even cause what happens.
- Psychic Hold: The ability to throw an electric current to the opponent to bind him.
- Psychokinesis/Telekinesis: The ability to bring forth a physical energy just by thinking it, which can be used to do things like move or break objects[6]. It's one of his most commonly used powers.
- Full Force: Without any precaution, Kusuo's power increases every time he attacks.
- Assist: When full force is applied, there is a great increase on the power and speed of the object/person the psychokinesis in being used and is possible to continue until exhaustion.
- Psycho Bit: One of the main techniques Kusuo uses which allows him to move multiple rocks and inflicts damages to someone regardless of his/her distance.
- Limit Released Psychokinesis: The ability to create a ball of energy in the air. Its power was able to destroy a whole island.
- Psychometry: The ability to receive information stored in an object if he touches it without his gloves. When Kusuo touches a person, he experiences their senses, including those that are impacted by psychic abilities, as if they are his own. This power, by extension, allows him to see and communicate spirits when he is in physical contact with Reita.
- Pyrokinesis: The ability to generate and control heat and fire with their mind. He can use this power to heat objects and areas, make other people blush, or heat his own body to keep himself warm or kill viruses to never get sick.
- Restoration: The power to revert a person or object, and everything it touches, by 24 hours with the restriction of reviving the dead and undoing petrification. May only be used once a day per a target.
- Shrinking Power/Size Augmentation: The power to shrink down his body to small sizes. It takes an hour to return to normal size. Later it's revealed that he also has the power to grow huge, but it's basically useless. Shrinking = fast, growing = slow.
- Super Strength: The ability of having extreme strength, beyond what is believed to be normal. It is easily one of the powers he has the least control over, though he has mitigated this somewhat by training on throwing balls. He also can't control this power when he is in a non-human form.
- Telepathy: The ability that is used the most, due to the mode of Kusuo's communication. The power to read and talk through minds. It works on humans and animals, but Kusuo can't turn it off[7]. It doesn't work on people with low intelligence like Riki or tiny lifeforms like bugs.
- Angel Whisper: The ability which telepathically speaks of the crime on the doer to stimulate guilt.
- Brain Lullaby: The ability that sends a lullaby to the opponent's brain to put them to sleep, however this may differ to whom it was used.
- Bug News: A pseudo "foreboding" that feeds telepathic advice or call for help.
- Favorability Meter: The ability to quantify the favorability using telepathy. Relationships and human's nature significantly changes it.
- Foreboding: The ability to telepathy to plant an idea/sense of foreboding in someone's head.
- Forced Telepathy: The ability to forcefully relay feelings/thoughts from one to another.
- Immediate Telepathy: The ability to give others visual information with audio via touch.
- Subliminal: An ability which is a bit similar to that of Angel Whisper but only one word.
- Telepathic Broadcast: Sending a big load of 'thoughts' to other people but significantly interferes with thinking.
- Teleportation: The power to send back himself and something he touches to a faraway place.[8] He can only teleport once before needing to wait three minutes until he can use it again.
- Thoughtography: The ability to create picture perfect photos just by thinking it.
- Time Travel/Time Leaps: The power to escape the flow of time by jumping to either the past or future. It also activates itself randomly, getting Kusuo stuck in a loop, and the only way to get time to go back to normal is for him to completely empty his mind of all thoughts.
- Transformation/Shapeshifting/Morphing: The ability to physically transform his body into anything. It takes two hours to fully transform. When he takes on a non-human form, it's hard for him to control his physical strength.[9]
- X-Ray: The power to see through things you normally couldn't like underside of a face-down card, or the contents of an airtight box.[10] Like his telepathy he can not control this power. The permeability to view through things increases with every second he stares at the object: clothes in three seconds and skin in five. When the limiter is removed the rate increases, being able to see bones near instantaneously. Because of this, he often sees through the skin of other organisms and views their muscular and skeletal systems, which results in him unable to perceive the attractiveness of other humans or the cuteness of animals. The ability is reset whenever he blinks or closes his eyes.
Other
Standard Tactics: Saiki will utilize one of his many psychic powers to get out of a situation, usually if the threat is annoying enough he will use mind control.
Weaknesses: If a person never thinks, Saiki will be incapable of reading their mind, contextually in verse the person extends beyond people that empty their minds, animals, and completely brain-dead people. After teleporting once, he needs to wait a 3 minute interval to teleport again, though without his controller, he doesn't have to wait. Saiki has an immense fear of bugs as they are the only species that he can't tell what they're thinking and doesn't want to touch them. If he's touched at all during his invisibility will negate it and he can only stay invisible for 10 minutes. If a controller is removed he will have a hard time adjusting back to his powers. If there's too many people around, Saiki's telepathy becomes useless as he will not be able to tell who is who. Through coming into contact with a metalloid called "germanium" Saiki loses his telepathy until it's no longer in contact with him, though his other powers remain. Saiki cannot use his restoration power to bring someone back to life who was dead and cannot revert petrified people or anyone who is essentially in the same state as being dead. If anything covers Saiki's eyes, his petrification powers are sealed. Saiki can only use the revert power on the same target once per day, though with a controller removed, he can use it three times a day. After shrinking he can't return to his original size for a whole hour. When Saiki's invisible, he can't use any of his other powers other then telepathy.
Note
- Only the left controller suppresses Saiki's powers, the right one originally would make it where his powers were globally revealed to the world before they were disabled.
Trivia
- His name, Saiki Kusuo, is a pun on the word Psychics (サイキックス lit. Saikikkusu).
- He is scared of bugs and Riki because he can't read their minds; insects being too small and Riki being too stupid. He appears to have inherited his fear of bugs from his father.
- He has a sweet tooth. He loves any type of sweets, with coffee jelly primarily being his favorite.
- As the main focus character and front man of the series, Kusuo ended up doing several cameos and crossovers with different Jump series and media.
- He met Koro-sensei in brief crossover chapters and made a small cameo in Assassination Classroom.
- His father once invited him to go into Yukihira Diner. He meets Soma and the world of Food Wars.
- He was mentioned in a chapter of KochiKame, with the main character, Ryo, mentioning to copy their idea of a robotic replica. It thus leads to the creation of Chapter 259.[12] The creator of KochiKame also ended up drawing Kusuo to represent Asou-sensei in a comic.[13]
- His limiter made a cameo in Gintama, which is later referenced into the anime episode, Restarting! Everyday Life, "As Usual".
- He hates being in someone's debt.[14]
- He rarely talks using his voice, preferring to speak using his telepathy.
- He has only spoken out loud roughly 3 times in the manga.
- The first time is him saying "Offu" indirectly to Kokomi.[15]
- The second time is him saying "Good grief...you guys are a pain...seriously..." directly to the other main characters.[16]
- The last times is him saying "...To think I would actually have to be protected by somebody..." him unknowingly thinking out loud and "Thanks Nendou" directly to Riki, in the same chapter.[17]
- In the anime series, there are scenes where Kusuo speaks but were not originally in the manga.
- In Season 1, Episode 5, he says "offu" due to cutting his hair when he did not need to.
- In Season 1, Episode 15, he says "Oh no" after seeing Riki without having his glasses on.
- He has repeated his 2nd year of high school 6 times due to him resetting the Earth that many times.
- His attendance number is #7.
- He is ambidextrous.[18]
- His record in Janken is 296 wins, 0 losses and 58 ties.
- According to Kusuke, Kusuo had to transfer schools about 3 times, with the last time being in high school.[19]
- In different languages, Saiki's name can be translated into: Russian - Сайки Кусуо, Japanese - 斉木 楠雄/さいき くすお, Chinese - 齊木 楠雄, Arabic - كوسو سايكي, Greek - Κουσούο Σάικι, Hindi - कुसुओ साइकी, Korean - 사이키쿠스오
References
- ↑ Though certain things in Volume 0 aren't in the main manga, volume 0 is constantly referenced in the manga and the events are acknowledged
- ↑ Chapter 0.5
- ↑ Chapter 0.7
- ↑ Chapter 0.6
- ↑ Chapter 0.4
- ↑ Chapter 0.2
- ↑ Chapter 0.1
- ↑ Chapter 0.5
- ↑ Volume 0: cat and alien drawing of Kaidou,Chapter 37: Saiki Kusuko; Chapter 131: Saiko Kuriko (Kusuo female ver.)
- ↑ Chapter 0.3
- ↑ eyfey chapter 206 translation
- ↑ Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Chapter 259
- ↑ Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Volume 26
- ↑ Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Chapter 7
- ↑ Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Chapter 214
- ↑ Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Chapter 279
- ↑ Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Epilogue Chapter 1
- ↑ Anime's Official Twitter Post 2016-08-07
- ↑ Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Chapter 212
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