Kakeru Ryūen

Appearance
Kakeru is a young man of average height with shoulder-length magenta hair that is styled on either side, and sharp magenta coloured eyes that strikes fear and trepidation onto anyone he comes into contact with. In addition, he has a slim and muscular physique.

In the light novel, he wears the standard uniform of the school. Although, in the anime, his attire consists of a standard red jacket and an unbuttoned black shirt underneath without a tie.

Personality
Kakeru is a blameworthy and reprehensible person who loves causing trouble for others as seen when he and his gang purposefully caused conflict with Ken Sudō and wanted to expel him.

He also possesses a sadistic nature, as shown when he looked as if he was going to attack the vulnerable Ken after his men held him down only to instead flick him on the head while laughing at his fear. He was very ruthless as he took a glass bottle and hit one of his followers on the head with it, showing no remorse after the act. This and many other actions shows that he is willing to use followers for any goal as he sees fit to achieve his purpose of controlling the school and enjoying himself. He is also shown to be insubordinate and disrespectful to certain characters, as shown when he spoke with Suzune Horikita and Mio Ibuki even having Albert Yamada throw the latter down after telling her to come to his room.

Despite his intimidating and dangerous appearance, Kakeru is acute in his own way of thinking, as he was quick to cover his tracks by telling Honami Ichinose even when she witnessed the event by declared that it was out of self-defence. He would come up with many unexpected strategies such as when he and one of his followers attacked another injured follower who failed in his task to frame Ken Sudō for assault and get him expelled. He also chose not to pick a fight with Class 1-A while in the presence of Manabu Horikita, the Student Council president and knows that he isn’t capable at that moment to take on Arisu Sakayanagi.

Plot
Kakeru is first seen harassing Ken Sudō along with members of his gang where Kakeru voices plans for Sudō, but the near brawl is broken up by Honami Ichinose who sees through his obvious lie and threatens to call security if he doesn't cease his act and he complies.

Abilities
Kakeru is an infamous hooligan who has gathered many followers and as the representative of his class, he is the leader of his class ruling them not by loyalty but fear.

Intellectual Abilities
In spite of his regular violent actions and tenancies, Kakeru is shown to be someone who is very intelligent as he successfully persuaded and forged an alliance with Kōhei Katsuragi to aid him in the survival test. He also planted spies in the respective camps of classes 1-B and 1-D in order to learn the identities of the leaders to gather points for his own class without the respective class leaders finding out. He did this in a way to garner more points, due to the contract with Kōhei. His plan was able to outplay Suzune Horikita and would have been successful had he not been outsmarted by Kiyotaka Ayanokōji intervening. Eventually, he was able to convince Kohei to join his class and leave Class A by appealing to his complicated history with Arisu Sakayanagi. It is said that his leadership and presence in his class is the only reason they are able to remain competitive with the other classes and without him, his class would have would be in constant pandemonium.

Physical Abilities
Kakeru is shown to be very strong, as he was able to intimidate and have complete dominion over Daichi Ishizaki, who was a notorious delinquent in middle school who has seen his fair share of fights. He is also not afraid to pick fights and was able to terrify Ken, another delinquent. He is also seen being capable of physically harming Mio Ibuki, and overpowering her relatively easily, despite her knowledge of several martial arts skills and being stated to be the strongest second year girl. For instance, he didn't even flinch when she attempted to kick him.

Name Etymology

 * The name Kakeru consists of kanji that mean "soar, fly" (翔).
 * Kakeru's surname Ryūen consists of kanjis that mean "dragon" (龍) (ryū) and "garden" (園) (en).

Trivia

 * Kakeru shares the same birthday with Kiyotaka Ayanokōji.
 * Kakeru ranks #17 in "Male Character" category in the 2021 edition of 's  guidebook.
 * For the 2nd Year arc, when asked about his aspirations for the next year, he answered  'To crush Ichinose class and Sakayanagi's class. If anyone from the 1st year or the 3rd year interferes, I'll crush them too. That's all.'