Niyada Asahi

Asahi Niyada is the main protagonist of Astral Academy. He is 14 years old.

Appearance
Asahi has relatively short, gray hair with two parts at the side being longer than the rest. His hair puffs out a little to the side due to him not brushing it. He also has dark gray sheep horns. He wears a frilled blouse with a cape on top.

He is sometimes mistaken for a girl because of his hair, but doesn't want to cut it so he looks different from his older brother.

Personality
Asahi is not shy, but doesn't like talking and opening up to others. Although he tries his best to seem formal, he sometimes stutters, since English is not his first language. He has a huge fear of embarrassment, and it's hard to have a solid conversation with him when you're not close to him.

He gets flustered easily. He has a strong disliking to people like Sayu, but the other boy's constant flirting towards him make him have mixed feelings.

Even when he senses a problem, he keeps silent to preserve his friendships with his classmates, since he never had much friends when he was growing up. He doesn't want people to pay attention to him or worry about him. This is a trait he shares with Zenya.

He feels safe talking to anyone close to him, and won't hesitate to share secrets. Kuroi uses this against him.

Early Life
Asahi and his older brother, Kira, were both born with sheep horns. While his brother put all of his time into researching this phenomenon, Asahi did not choose that lifestyle and wanted to enjoy life like a normal kid. He especially enjoyed playing with toys and drawing pictures. However, his brother had often dragged him into his experiments.

Due to Asahi's request to go shopping, the two brothers along with their mother traveled to the nearby town. People were gossiping about the two's sheep horns, and Asahi could hear everything. While they got the snack Asahi wanted, their family would not be the same after that.

After being homeschooled, they were enrolled in a middle school in the town due to their dad being accepted to his dream job. Kira joined the science club, while Asahi joined the art club. They had an average middle school life since they covered up their sheep horns.

One day, in Asahi's second year, Kira came home with a bottle of poison, something he learned how to make while in the science club. While Asahi was painting in the living room, Kira opened his bottle of poison and was greeted by a strong smell. He was momentarily controlled by one of the Hands of the Clock, and threw it out into the nearby town. Asahi heard the glass cracking and ran to the room, to see a extremely pale Kira.

The poison quickly spread to the entire town, poisoning and killing many people. In a rush, Kira created another potion- a healing one, and gave it to Asahi for both him and their mother. Asahi went down to give it to her.

The town was shrouded in a purple cloud of poison. Since his dad was at work in the town, he also got poisoned and died. Almost all of the people in the town were dead, and Kira was missing.

Niyada Kira
Kira is Asahi's older brother. Prior to Asahi's enrollment in Astral Academy, the two of them were on good terms until Kira seemingly ran away from home.

Kurunu Sayu
Sayu's crush. Asahi is initially wary of him at the beginning of the story, mostly because of him being able to read his mind. He gets used to it eventually, but never notices Sayu's obvious romantic attraction to him. In chapters 9-10, Asahi thinks he is sided with Kuroi since the two act similar, but thanks him for saving him.

Trivia

 * He's really scared of horror.
 * He used to cover up his sheep horns because he doesn't want to be noticed. However, the school bans hoods and hats that cover your whole head.
 * He says "I'm fine" a lot, since he wants to be seen as a regular guy that nobody should worry about.
 * Sayu comments on this in Chapter 6.
 * Asahi once entered an art contest and won. He thinks he's better at drawing backgrounds than people.