Tengan Kazuo

{{char}} is the founder and chairman of the Future Foundation and is the Branch Office 1 Director. His responsibility as the director is leadership and deciding the consensus of opinion in the Future Foundation. He is also the advisor to Hope’s Peak, having been the previous Head Master. He likes taking walks, and dislikes conflict.

Not much is known about Kazuo's early life, but at some point he became the headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy, then later was succeeded by Jin Kirigiri. After that, he took on the role as the advisor to the school and was aware of some of the darker parts The Steering Committee were involved in.

During his time as the advisor to the school, he was present for the events of Chisa Yukizome's recruitment as the new homeroom teacher of Class 77-B. He also became aware, but strongly disapproved of the Izuru Kamukura Project, and even discouraged Hajime Hinata from participating as he should "not fear normalcy". Despite his advisement, he was disappointed to later learn Hajime agreed to do so.

Kazuo is an elderly adult man who is 140 cm tall and weighs 45 kg, usually portrayed with a hunched back. He has slightly greyed wrinkled skin, amber eyes with rectangle-shaped glasses, and cropped short gray hair with an up swept style. He has a maintained mustache and beard, the same color has his hair.

He wears a short dull green peacock coat with a Future Foundation logo pin on its lapel, a white button down dress shirt, a red tie tucked under a black vest, black pants, white socks, and brown oxford shoes. While normally unseen, he keeps a metal weapon cuff on his wrist hidden under his sleeve that fire small metal projectiles called a "chuusen".

Kazuo is a peaceful man that chooses to avoid conflict and violence whenever possible. He is wise and often gives advice to his younger coworkers of the Future Foundation and even to the students of Hope's Peak Academy. Despite his passive nature, he is not against fighting when need be if he is defending himself or defending others, even willing to fight to the death for what he believed in.

While Kazuo has no named talent or title, he is still an exceptionally capable fighter and able to hold his own against Kyosuke's swordsmanship skills and able to his own in unarmed combat with the Ultimate Boxer Juzo Sakakura.