Kanji Ike

Appearance
Ike is a short young man with brown hair that has bangs hanging on the right side and brown eyes.

He is often seen wearing the standard school uniform but has also been seen wearing a red vest and blue shorts. When at the pool, he wore black swimming trunks.

Personality
Kanji is one of and commonly known as the "3 Idiots of D-Class". This was further proven true when he like many of his classmates, irresponsibly blew through his private points in a matter of weeks on materialistic and unnecessary things like video games.

He also possesses a perverted side to him as he was easily attracted to Kikyō Kushida because of her alluring appearance. This is further extended to him as he once actively participated in a plan to peep on the girls at the pool. He was even 'excited' just by being on a first name basis with Kushida.

However, in spite of all his idiocy and negative traits, on a positive note; he has experience in camping and used this to give his class an advantage in the school survival test. He has been shown to be willing to acknowledge his faults such as when he apologized to Satsuki Shinohara for his earlier disagreement about camping with her because he went through a similar event in his childhood.

Plot
Kanji is first introduced as a student of Class-D whose self-introduction is that he loves girls, hates hot guys and is looking to be in a relationship.

During the Uninhabited Island Exam it was revealed Kanji was intially participating in the exam with Ken Sudō and Hondō Ryōtarō in a small group of 3. In Volume 3 of Second Year Arc his group became a large group of 6 with the inclusion of Satsuki Shinohara, Komiya Kyōgo and Minori Kinoshita despite Komiya and Kinoshita dropping out of the exam prior to them becoming a large group.

Name Etymology

 * The name Kanji consists of kanjis that mean "generous" (寛) (kan) and "cure" (治) (ji).
 * Kanji's surname Ike  consists of kanji that mean "pool, pond" (池).

Trivia

 * The reason for his allotment to Class D is his below average abilities.
 * He shares the same birthday with Sakurako Tsubaki.
 * For the 2nd Year arc, When asked about his aspirations for the next year, he answered  'Studying, sports and... maybe love? I want to do my best, sorta like a normal student.'