Kazuo Shiraga

Kazuo Shiraga (白髪 一雄) is a member of the Gutai Group.

He is a Talent user with the Talent named Chijikusei Gotenrai.

Appearance
Kazuo Shiraga is a fairly slim build with short brown hair, black eyes, and rather pale skin. He has bangs in the middle of his hair sweeping to the left.

His outfit consists of a plain white t-shirt covered with a Hakama which he made himself with streaks of red, black, and, white as well as long black pants.

Personality
A more quiet figure in comparison to his contemporaries, Kazuo is often seen as the balance between Jiro's calm and responsible personality and Saburo's more emotional personality. Even in most dire situations, Kazuo is able to keep his composure, but he is not invincible as sometimes he isn't able to dam heavy emotions. His peers see him as the straight man of the group keeping the various different personalities of the Gutai Group, stopping the quarrels that often fire up because of Jiro and Saburo's disagreements.

Rembrandt often comments that Kazuo is the most normal among the members of the Gutai group compared to the grand theatrics Jiro displays with his talent, Saburo's general rowdiness, and Yuko's "get things done quick" attitude.

Talent

 * Main Article: Chijikusei Gotenrai

Chijikusei Gotenrai is the Talent ability of Kazuo Shiraga which lets him control and change the state of paint. Using Chijikusei Gotenrai, Kazuo is able to use paint to his advantage both offensively and defensively, turning paint as a barrier or even using the paint to slice through other objects.

Background
Kazuo is a childhood friend of Saburo Murakami as well as classmates of Jiro Yoshihara and Yuko Nasaka during their time at school. He was a member of the art club and later on found out he owned a Talent while working on one of his artworks and eventually learned to muster his talent with Hokusai Katsushika.

Once the group was found, he eventually continued to work on his artwork using his Talent as a medium.

Beginning
Kazuo was the first person to discover the gruesome murder scene in the early hours of the morning, immediately callling Jiro Saburo, and Yuko to come to their headquarters. Kazuo was then immediately taken into custody for interrogation by the police because he was the first person to appear at the scene. After being released from interrogation he and the rest of the Gutai Group ended up going to meet with their mentor, Hokusai Katsushika who was willing to house them while the case was still going on.

After Rembrandt had arrived at the scene, the Gutai Group became good friends with him, eventually taking them back to the crime scene so he can investigate, only to find out that the murder scene was cleaned. Rembrandt used his Night Watch to see who was the person to clean the scene finding Kyōsai Kawanabe cleaning up the scene, a person he had previously met during a different case. The group then confront Kawanabe only for him to commit suicide by using his talent to kill himself after telling the group that he was working for a man named Yoshitoshi Tsukioka.

Trivia

 * His real life counterpart was a high school friend of . He was also part of an art collective along with before joining the Gutai Group.
 * His real life counterpart only gained fame after he had passed away in 2008.