Kazuichi Soda

Kazuichi Souda (左右田 和一 Souda Kazuichi) is one of the characters featured in Super Dangan Ronpa 2: Farewell Despair Academy. He has the title Super High School Level Mechanic (超高校級の「メカニック). He was also a member of the Super High School Level Despair (超高校級の「絶望」).

Appearance
Souda, being a mechanic, wears a bright neon yellow jumper with a black streak on both sides and several hot pink markings that goes down to his ankles. Souda's shoes are also yellow, although they're a lighter shade than his jumpsuit, and seem to be Nike, but could easily be of another brand. His hair is dyed hot pink, and is somewhat badly layered. However, he covers said bad layering up with the gray beanie he wears. In addition to his punk rock appearance, he has thin eyes with pink pink prescription color contacts on them at all times. Above his eyes, his thin, pronounced eyebrows nearly touch his hairline. His teeth are sharp and resemble a shark's, giving him an intimidating grin.

Personality
Souda is a highly emotional character, though he tries to play it smooth. People tend to note his scary appearance does not match his compulsive and rather timid personality. Souda seems to be a very bad liar, leading him to be contradictory at times; such as when Nidai reveals they had tied Komaeda up, or when trying to get into the all-girls beach party. Souda has a tendency to neglect his need for a verbal filter, and blurts things he thinks out, such as when he was contemplating whether he liked Sonia's wetsuit or not. Souda is normally trying to repair any broken items on the island with his ability and familiarity with mechanisms. He also has a great fear of dying on the island, which causes a lot of stress and panic for him. He tends to carry around a spanner/wrench. He is a very jumpy person, and tends to exaggerate his reactions. Souda is also seen to have taken a liking to Sonia, to an extent of being almost like a pervert and in constant jealously with Tanaka.

Souda is one of the few characters that seem to sympathize with the fallen. He doesn't let it get him down, but he neglects to simply let the death of his classmates be shaken off. This is opposed to nearly every one of his classmates. Souda even makes a small toy out of Nidai's robot remains, for Akane, since she was very upset about his death. Souda even displays being a bit shaken up about Hanamura 's death, which no one else besides Hinata seemed to care much about. Hinata's grudge is only shown for a moment, and then later shown when he punches the helicopter used for Hanamura's excecution. Souda, however, is stunned, but shoved into pushing away his shock because of Saionji's comments. Despite this, he seems to still be heavily affected for awhile. This pattern repeats itself for nearly every death.

Pre-Despair Incident
Souda's life before despair seemed to been fairly tougher than a normal child's. It is noted that he and his father ran his family's bike shop, but nothing was ever sold. The bike shop wasn't always inactive, however-- many customers would ask for them to fix their bike tires or inflate them. Despite this, the family was still often low on money. In result, though, Souda got plenty of practice with making and building things.

As a child, Souda was very skittish, and easily picked on. He let other children step all over him, but before he entered Hope's Peak, he changed his appearance entirely. From changing his hair color, to losing his glasses, and assumedly sharpening his teeth, so that he could fit in better with people around him. It seems as if it'd do the opposite, but that may just be how his mind works. At this point, he began to put up the "Tough punk" facade to avoid more bullying, which, to this day, continues to break almost constantly.

In addition to Souda's rough childhood, with money and bullying problems, his Dad seems to have constantly beat him. In one of his free time events, he states that he had never been on a field trip, and spoke quite casually about his father beating him when he didn't attend school on those days. This confuses Hinata, but Souda doesn't seem to register the severity of it. Such behavior suggests that he was a subject of excessive abuse.

Island Life of Mutual Killing
In the beginning, after Monokuma announces that they must all kill each other to escape, this puts a lot of stress on Souda, sending him into turmoil. The only things that seem to calm him down are talking to or about Sonia, how nice the island is, and building/fixing things. His wrench also appears to comfort him.

Like Tsumiki, he's commonly Monokuma's and Saionji 's target, and usually ends up being the butt of their jokes. But in his case, Souda gets into much more horrible things escalated to the point that in Chapter 5, he flat out gets blown across the room by an explosion.

Hajime Hinata
Hinata is a close friend of Souda's. Souda latches onto Hinata, calling him his "soul friend". Throughout their friendship, a brief break up ensues when he blames Hinata for "leading them" into Monokuma's trap and ends up turning to Komaeda instead.

Sonia Nevermind
From the moment Souda first speaks to Sonia, he bows down to her. Sonia is the only one he uses an honorific for, calling her "Sonia-san." In addition, she is the only one he refers to on a first-name basis. Despite the amount of "respect" he gives her, he's constantly making comments about her body and appearance, in an almost gross fashion. It is unclear of whether he is simply objectifying her, or truly cares about her and does not know how to go about expressing that. However, it is much more likely that he simply objectifies her, considering he treats her as if she cannot do things for herself because she is a princess.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuyruu
At first, Souda and the Super High School Level Gangster seem to be at each other's throats quite often. Souda makes comments towards Kuzuyruu such as "If you didn't have that big Yakuza family, you'd be nothing but a midget!" Which, of course, is returned by Kuzuyruu's own sharp tongue. As time passes, though, their disagreement with each other seems to dissipate, and they become tolerant of one another. This may or may not be because of the stress of being on the island.

Nagito Komaeda
After trial one, Souda finds Komaeda to be a nutcase. (He's not wrong, either.) He and Nidai are the ones who tie up Komaeda. When this happens, and everyone asks where Komaeda is, Souda seems extremely suspicious. He's almost immediately blamed for murder. Despite him having such thoughts about Komaeda in the beginning, Souda still turns to him when he 'breaks up,' with Hinata.

Gundam Tanaka
Despite many people thinking that Souda hates Tanaka because of Sonia, this is untrue. Tanaka seems to attempt many times to be friends with Souda, although, these attempts are pushed away. Contrary to popular belief, it's not because Souda hates him, it's because he thinks Tanaka is weird. There are absolutely no hard feelings between these two individuals.

Quotes

 * "Name's Kazuichi Souda, "Super High School Level Mechanic." Atcha service!"
 * "Ah well. This ain't natural, but I guess it's nothing we can't handle, right?"
 * "Those things're goin' nowhere. I mean...they're not broken - if they were just broken, we'd be flying already, y'know?"
 * "Killing each other, huh... K...KILLING EACH OTHER?!"
 * "GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!...Oh, 's only you Hinata. Don't surprise me like that."
 * "Sonia-san!  May I call you Sonia-san? I'm gonna call you Sonia-san!"
 * "Oi, oi... don't say things like that! You’re gonna ruin my mood!"
 * “Y...You can't scare me with your threats!”
 * "Yawn... Ah... Woke up late. S’not like me at all..."
 * "W...What the hell?! You trying to give me a heart attack?! I'm just a tiny bit late!"

Trivia

 * Souda originally had black hair and wore glasses.
 * He likes cola, but hates anything that is sugar-free.
 * Souda gets blown across the room by an explosion, which afterwards he only complains of "bursted eardrums."
 * He appears to know how to read English, telling Hinata what a sign written in English meant.
 * Apparently, the scenario writer for Dangan Ronpa, Kodaka Kazutaka, has a personality very similar to Souda.