Kuniharu Kakizaki

"Just because these new guys will surpass us, it shouldn't diminish my squadmates' true value."

- Kuniharu Kakizaki

Kuniharu Kakizaki is an All-Rounder and the captain of Kakizaki Unit. He is also a former member of Arashiyama Unit.

Appearance
Kakizaki is a young man with ash blond Ivy League hair and grey eyes. His uniform consists in a high-collared, zipped jacket in a bright persimmon color with matching headphones, a black undershirt, boots and dark brown pants (gray in the anime).

Personality
Kakizaki is quite friendly, demonstrated when he guided Yūma to the rank battle place despite being his upcoming opponent. He has a reputation of being overly cautious in combat, although Tokieda extols it as a quality and argues instead that Kakizaki has a tendency to shoulder all the responsibility himself. In fact, he has low confidence in himself, but high confidence in his teammates, and blames himself for their low position in the ranking.

Kakizaki Unit
Kakizaki cherishes his squadmates, whom he believes to be exceptionally talented, more than Border acknowledges. Although he was happy they decided to enlist in his unit, he still struggles to understand why they would choose to be by his side. He blames himself for the unit's low placement in the rankings and apologizes to them after their match against Tamakoma Second, but his teammates defend his leadership and he is both relieved and moved to see them suggest improvements and be invited to join them. His squadmates admire him deeply and defer to him when she speaks as their captain, but that does not prevent them from bantering when not strategizing. Ui refers to him by a nickname, implying closeness, while Teruya and Tomoe mostly call him "Captain" in combat. Kakizaki on the other hand appears to use their first names.

Jun Arashiyama
When they joined Border, Kakizaki admired Arahiyama but also felt inadequate when he compared himself to him. For his part, Arashiyama greeted him as a rival when he left. The two are currently friends and hang out together with other agents their age. Since Arahiyama has a tendency to fool around when going out with Tatsuhito Ikoma and Yūichi Jin, Kakizaki ends up looking after them.

Tatsuhito Ikoma and Yūichi Jin
Arashiyama, Kakizaki, Ikoma and Jin are part of the same group of friends and hang out together in their free time. With the normally level-headed Arashiyama letting himself be influenced by Jin's and Ikoma's penchant for skylarking, Kakizaki may find himself having to look after the others.

Yūko Kumagai and Ryō Utagawa
Kakizaki, Kumagai and Utagawa play basketball together in their free time.

Haruka Ayatsuji, Ken Satori and Mitsuru Tokieda
Kakizaki seems to be on good terms with the members of his former unit, with Satori calling him by a nickname and crying when he decided to leave, Ayatsuji finding an Operator for him as soon as he did, and Tokieda considering him one of his favorite senior members.

Quotes

 * "This team isn't supposed to be hanging around in this position."
 * (To Yūma Kuga) "Interesting... Show me what you've got, rookie!"
 * (At the press conference) "We will do our best to protect the city and its citizens!"
 * "My family or the people...?! How am I supposed to answer that...?!"
 * "I never thought that I was a good soldier."
 * "Fumika and Kotarō... and Madoka... I don't deserve such great squadmates."
 * "The fact that such great agents are are still wandering between the middle and low level in B-rank is all because of me, a captain who can't bring out their true strength."
 * "Just because these new guys will surpass us, it shouldn't diminish my squadmates' true value."
 * (To Yūma Kuga) "You're definitely strong, but... Sorry. I have no intention of handing victory over to you."

Trivia

 * "Kuhinaru" (国治) means "country government", while "Kakizaki" (柿崎) means " cape". Coincidentally, persimmon is the color of his unit's jackets.
 * He likes gyūdon, watermelon and all of sports.
 * His dog is listed among his family members.
 * The author described Kakizaki as a riajū (リア充), a pejorative term for someone who lives a happy and fulfilling life, and joked that he will live to the age of 92.
 * Kakizaki's teammate Tomoe received the same epithet.