| “ | I know things about you that even you don't know. | ” |
—Tomohiko | ||
| Tomohiko Kazami | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Kanji | 風見 智彦 |
| Romaji | Kazami Tomohiko |
| Personal Information | |
| Born | 06/06/1983 |
| Age | 15 |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 168 cm/5' 6" |
| Eye Color | Indigo |
| Hair Color | Dark Blue |
| Occupation | High School Student |
| Vital Information | |
| Affiliation | Class Officer "Deaths of August" (Anime only) |
| Status | Alive (In all other adaptions) Deceased (Anime) |
| Cause of Death | Died from head hemorrhage inflicted by Izumi Akazawa. |
| First appearance | |
| Manga | Chapter 1 |
| Anime | "Rough Sketch" |
| Voice Actors | |
| Japanese | Mitsuhiro Ichiki |
| English | Josh Grelle |
Tomohiko Kazami (風見 智彦, Kazami Tomohiko) was a student from the 9th Grade Class 3-3 in 1998, and one of the class officers along with Yukari Sakuragi and later Izumi Akazawa at Yomiyama North Middle School. In class, he sits in the first row on the second column desks from the corridor. To his left sits Yukari and behind him sits Noboru Saruta.
Appearance[]
Tomohiko introduces himself in the manga.
Kazami was a pale boy of slightly above average height. He had short dark blue hair and indigo eyes of the same color. He wears square-shaped green-rimmed glasses. In addition, he is usually seen wearing the school male standard uniform, but his casual clothing consists of a white T-shirt with blue details, and grey pants.
In the manga, he has the same appearance; however, his glasses are oval-framed, and his hair is darker.
In the film, his appearance is quite similar to the manga's. He has black hair and black eyes. He also isn't wearing glasses.
Personality[]
Tomohiko was calm and collected. He was also pretty mature for his age, and had a very serious attitude, especially about his work. He and Naoya Teshigawara had been best friends since they were children, and he seemed to have a good friendship with Yukari Sakuragi, as hinted when he blames Kōichi Sakakibara for her death. He seems to have held a grievance against Kōichi, and his association with Mei Misaki, for having caused the deaths of so many of their classmates. When attacking Kōichi in the inn, he accused him of being the Extra and blamed him for the year's calamity. However, since he had murdered both Kyōko Kaneki and Aki Matsui before, it is unknown how he rationalized killing them, only emotionlessly asking Kōichi if he still remembered Aki, and then concluding that she wasn't the Extra.
Plot[]
Tomohiko visits the hospital in "Rough Sketch" while Kōichi Sakakibara was recovering, but seemed to act very strange around him, along with his fellow class rep Yukari, and the countermeasures head, Izumi Akazawa. He was among the students who officially welcomed Kōichi on his first day of school, but because he needed permission from Izumi, he and Naoya didn't tell him about the curse.
Tomohiko was more often than not a background character from then on out. In "Bone Work", when the exam schedule is posted, Tomohiko along with Naoya makes the most conversation about it and what high school each is likely to attend. He and Naoya live next door and have known each other since they were little. Later in the episode, he and Kōichi are walking between buildings when Kōichi looks up, sees Mei on the roof, says "Hang on," and runs off. Tomohiko is soon seen with Naoya as Naoya calls Kōichi to tell him that Izumi is furious at him for "messing with things that don't exist".
When Izumi declared the class needed to ignore Kōichi in addition to Mei, Tomohiko was one of the students who did so. Following this development and the death of Yukari, he became more closely involved with countermeasures, and was occasionally seen accompanying Izumi and Takako Sugiura on breaks. Tomohiko attended the class trip to the shrine in Episode 10, where he shared a room with Naoya.
When Daisuke Wakui had his asthma attack, Tomohiko, sitting to Daisuke's right, was one of the students who tried to assist him. Shaken by this, he and the other students returned to their rooms. In Episode 11, Naoya burst into Mei's room and revealed he'd thought Tomohiko was the dead person, and went to confront him, as Tomohiko didn't remember a lot of their shared childhood. The confrontation turned heated, and Naoya accidentally Tomohiko off the balcony. Tomohiko suffered a head injury which bled profusely. However, when Naoya tried to show his friends where Tomohiko had fallen, he'd vanished, having regained consciousness and returned to the inn.
Yūya Mochizuki later reports that Tomohiko had come to his room, covered in mud and angry. He also admits to telling Tomohiko about the tape. In "Stand by Oneself", Tomohiko begins targeting his classmates, killing Kyōko Kaneki and Aki Matsui by stabbing them from behind. After murdering Aki, he encountered Kōichi, who was infuriated by the senseless deaths. Undisturbed by his actions, Tomohiko attacked Kōichi next, accusing him of being the Extra, but equally furious as he held Kōichi responsible for Yukari's death. Just before he could deal the final blow, however, he was struck from behind by Izumi with an iron rod. Having already encountered Tomohiko's victims, Izumi was furious, declaring he didn't deserve to live, and coldly taunted Tomohiko. However, before she could land the final blow, Tatsuji Chibiki intervened and admonishes Izumi, as classmates shouldn't be killing each other. Furious, Izumi fled, with a still unsatisfied antagonism towards Mei Misaki. Mr. Chibiki and Kōichi took Tomohiko's body out to his car where he'd been gathering the other survivors. Since Mr. Chibiki simply laid out Tomohiko's body and didn't attempt to provide first aid, he realized that Tomohiko was already past help. Naoya was dismayed to learn of Tomohiko's death.
In the manga, none of the events in the 11th and 12th episode of the anime took place, and he remains alive and sane after being saved by Naoya and Kōichi. In the manga, Naoya had sought help from Kōichi to finding Tomohiko's body after he had accidentally pushed him off of the cliff. They were glad to find that Tomohiko was still alive and took him back towards the inn to find medical attention for his injuries. They had also found out that he wasn't the "extra person/casualty."
Trivia[]
- Tomohiko is ranked A+ in the Another character ranking.
Kazami character ranking.
- In the film, he protects and saves Takako from Izumi. They both are seen together outside safe.
- His home address was 3-8 Yuumigaoka Yomiyama City.
- In the original novel, Tomohiko has a slightly larger role. Many of the actions given to Izumi in the anime were his in the novel (such as shaking Kōichi's hand at the hospital).
- In all adaptations except the anime, Tomohiko does not die. He survived the fall from the cliff and later seen in hospital together with Yūya with a broken leg. In the film, he protects Takako from a deranged Izumi and takes her outside, ensuring they both survive the fire at the inn.
- In the dubbed version of the anime, Naoya affectionately refers to Tomohiko as "Four Eyes" because of his glasses.
- Tomohiko is the only character to appear on the cover of Another Song Party but to not have his voice actor to sing a song.
- Tomohiko's personality varies drastically between adaptions. In the original novel, he's portrayed as somewhat unsure and cowardly; in the manga he has a more rational demeanor and is generally calmer; the anime version, which has the smallest role, is a vicious, remorseless murderer; oddly, his film incarnation is the most heroic of the four, as he refuses to participate in Izumi's witch-hunt and ultimately saves another student's life in the process.
- In the anime, Tomohiko is show to call Kōichi by his first name the most except for once or twice; it is believed to be that he calls him that at first because Izumi called him that and he wanted to go along with it, it is shown that he considered Kōichi a close friend too as the series began.
- Just like Takako, Tomohiko tried to kill Kōichi because he thought he was the dead one along with him blaming Kōichi for Yukari's death just like Takako tried to kill Mei due to Junta Nakao's death and she thought she was the dead one.
Quotes[]
- "These days high school acceptance rates are over 95% all over Japan, so don't worry. There's a high school out there even you could get into."
- "SHUT UP!"
Gallery[]
- Main article: Tomohiko Kazami/Image Gallery