Gender: Male
Age: 16-17
Birthday: April 10 (Aries)
Height: 5'7" (172 cm)
Occupation: Student
Affiliation: Minegahara High School, 2nd year
Sakuta Azusagawa (梓川 咲太, Azusagawa Sakuta) is the main male protagonist of the Seishun Buta Yarou series. He is incredibly selfless, kind and helpful, but also very snarky. He has a very similar personality to Mai: both are quick-witted, with a sarcastic streak, yet very kind and helpful, with an excellent heart, and always do what's right.
Sakuta's most iconic trait is his consistent deadpan face and manner of speech regardless of his emotional state. He will often voice whatever he has on his mind with a calm demeanor. Sakuta is a socially isolated and calm individual as a result of his ordeal with Adolescence Syndrome.
While he states that he is not bothered by what people think about him, or care about trying to fit in and be accepted by his classmates, he does admit that rumors about him are sometimes quite painful to hear. Nonetheless, he states that he doesn't care if the whole world would hate him, as long as one person would need him, and isn't hesitant about defying social norms.
Sakuta is also not afraid to show his perverted side and will often make blunt and straightforward lewd remarks to the girls he interacts with. However, these comments are mostly jokes he directs at others and are by no means ill intended.
When waking up one morning, Sakuta's chest was bleeding to the point where he had to be hospitalized. Fed up with the situation, he'd snuck out and went to Shichirigahama Beach, where he met and told his story to a girl named Shoko Makinohara. Upon asking her why she chose to believe his story, Shoko simply replied that she wanted to spend her life being kinder than before. Moved, Sakuta asked if he could live like she did, which she approved.
Later on, as a way to sympathize with Kaede and to prevent further injuries, Sakuta threw his phone in the ocean. His hospitalization would later start the false rumor that Sakuta had engaged in violent activities that sent people to the hospital, which was dubbed the "Hospitalization Incident".
On May 6, Sakuta was at a library when he noticed the celebrity and fellow classmate Mai Sakurajima walking around in a bunny suit. She was surprised to discover that Sakuta could see her but told him to forget what he just saw.
The next day, Sakuta went to the train station after school, where he noticed Mai. On the train, the two had a brief conversation about Sakuta's alleged involvement in the "hospitalization incident", which he said was false. Mai suggested he call them out for being wrong, but Sakuta stated that if would be futile to fight back against "the atmosphere" (the rumors). It was then that Mai revealed to Sakuta about her stressful past as an actor which made her want to be forgotten, and how she later became invisible to most people. Sakuta suggested that her invisibility was the result of a phenomenon called the Adolescence Syndrome, which involved strange and abnormal occurrences.
Sakuta was shocked to discover that nobody in the school, except for Futaba, remembered who Mai was. While consulting with her, he learned that the school had become Mai's own version of Schrödinger's cat; his only option to revert this was to turn the school's indifference into interest. Sakuta further learned that sleep was the catalyst for memory loss; after getting home, Sakuta began to jot down his memories of Mai in a diary and decided to stay up through the night.
Next day, Mai invited him to a study session with her, but had secretly placed sleeping pills in his coffee. Sakuta attempted to remain conscious, but fell asleep not long after. As expected, Sakuta had lost any memory he had of Mai Sakurajima;
During the exam, Sakuta came across a question identical to the one Mai taught him during their study session, which caused him to remember Mai's identity. Intending to fight the "atmosphere" and force the memory of Mai Sakurajima into everyone, he immediately ran outside the school and cried out his confession of love for everyone to hear.
On June 27, Tomoe told Sakuta of her friend's crush on Yosuka Maezawa and her dilemma between accepting Maezawa's confession or rejecting them at the risk of being shunned. When Tomoe told him that she didn't want to appear lonely to the school, Sakuta was reminded of his sister. He agreed to keep up the lie and accepted Tomoe's subsequent date proposal.
After the day Sakuta and Kaede went to the zoo to see the giant pandas, Kaede said she did not remember their trip to the zoo. He brought Kaede to the hospital with their father, where they learned she had no recollection of when she was an amnesiac. Distraught over the loss of the Kaede he took care of for two years, Sakuta ran outside the hospital to lament with anguish, causing his scars to re-open. Just then, he was assured that things would be all right by a person in front of him, who turned out to be the older Shoko.
