Kinichi Tohyama

""Kinji, remember this. One act of greatness overshadows a life of nothingness!""

- Kinichi Tohyama (Kana)

Kinichi Tohyama (Kana) (遠山 金一 Tohyama Kin'ichi) is the older brother of Kinji Tohyama and genetic older brother of Kinzou Tohyama (GIII), Kaname Tohyama, and Kanade Tohyama as well as being the eldest sibling of the Tohyama family. He is also a former member of IU, which is later revealed to be a cover he took to destroy the organization. Kinji has always idolized Kinichi and has viewed him as his ideal throughout his life. As such, Kinichi's presumed "death" before the events of Volume 1 is one of Kinji's major motivations for attempting to transfer out of Butei High and quit being a Butei altogether. Often times Kinji has to correct himself when addressing Kana, as she does not respond to "Nii-san."

After the fall of IU, he declared neutral during the Far Eastern Warefare (FEW). When the conflict ended, he married Patra who is now pregnant with their child.undefined

Appearance
Kinichi is a well-built and pale-skinned young man with long brown hair, green eyes and defined facial features. He normally wears a tactical body suit underneath his black trench coat with matching black pants.

Under the influence of Hysteria Mode, he crossdresses as Kana with long braided brown hair, appropriately female clothing, long black stockings, and brown lace-up boots. In addition, his physical appearance become more feminine with large eyes and soft facial features like many female characters in the series. Kinji describes Kana as so beautiful that she seems to stop time. Kana's appearance is apparently somewhat inspired by the appearance of Kinji and Kinichi's mother.

Personality
As the head of the Tohyama family and an Ex-Butei, Kinichi normally conducts himself and a calm and professional manner. However, whenever someone mentions his alter ego Kana he lashes out in a fit of uncontrolled rage and embarrassment. Kinji describes his brother as incredibly kind, donating both money and effort to build hospitals and heal others.

Kinichi adopts a completely different identity when he turns into Kana choosing to speak and act in a more feminine tone akin to that of an older sister while talking to Kinji.

Despite being a self proclaimed fatalist (one who believes in fate and destiny), Kinichi seems to have an interest in Catholicism and will often recite quotes he memorized from The Bible.

After Kinichi got married, the power of his HSS began to decline and Kinji notes his brother's Kana form seemed to be more gentle, losing some of it's edge.

Background
Kinichi is the eldest son of the Tohyama Family and graduate of Tokyo Butei High. After his parents died he took up the responsibility of raising and training his younger brother Kinji. It was through overseeing Kinji training and distress he felt with Hysteria Savant Syndrome that Kinichi began to tinker with alternative ways to trigger or repress it. Thus, he developed the character of "Kana" and managed to trigger HSS through means of cross dressing.

During his high school years, Kinichi studied at Rome Butei High where he took Meiya Romano as his amica and worked together very well to take down criminals. During this time period, Meiya recited him passages from the Bible, which he was able to memorize quickly thank to his HSS abilities.undefined This lead to him to recite verses from the Bible.

At an unknown point in time, Kinichi joined IU as a double agent in order to bring the organization down. To make it seem like he was a genuine member, he participated in the organization's missions and shared the secrets of his HSS. In one more infamous case, he was a part of the special operations team that destroyed the Mamiya Family's household because they refused to cooperate with IU. Perhaps as a way to prevent Kinji from getting involved, Kinichi took a Butei assignment to save the passengers of the SS Annabelle. Following the evacuation of the passengers, Kinichi faked his own death by sinking along with the ship.

In the time he would spend dead to the world outside of IU, he would come to regret what he did as he did not count on the media backlash Kinji would suffer in the stead of his brother that was labeled a failure. He continued to operate with IU while monitoring Kinji from the shadows. Also at some point during his tenure, he and a fellow IU member named Patra would fall in love. After IU disbanded, the two got married and separated themselves from the criminal underworld to raise their child.

Etymology

 * The name Kinichi means "gold, money, metal" (金) (kin) and "one" (一) (ichi), which is a reference to being Konza Tohyama (Golden Cross) first son.
 * The name Kana (Kinichi's alter ego) also means "gold".
 * Kinichi's surname Tohyama means "far, distant" (遠) (toh) and "mountain, hill" (山) (yama).