Kyouhei Kadota

Kyohei Kadota (門田 京平, Kadota Kyōhei) is a member of Dollars and a former member of the Blue Squares.

Kyohei leads a small gang comprised of himself, Walker Yumasaki, Erika Karisawa, and Saburo Togusa. The four of them are almost always seen together and are fairly well known around the Dollars. His nickname is Dota-chin, which he despises.

Characteristics
Kyohei is a tall, young man with his usual attire consisting of a black beanie with a dark green jacket, jeans, and black shoes. A short sleeved version was also shown in Episode 12.5. When not wearing his hat, he is shown to have slicked back brown hair and eyes.

Physically speaking, Kyohei has handled more than his fair share of street fights and is very skilled in hand to hand combat. While not a powerhouse like Shizuo, or a devious planner like Izaya, Kyohei is one of the more normal characters in the series in terms of abilities.

Personality-wise, Kyohei tries to portray himself as the calm and collected type. He always approaches a subject with a serious mindset but he isn't above goofing around with his friends if there isn't any harm in it. Kyohei has also shown to have a bit of a heroic streak. He is always seen helping others out, especially his friends, and is always willing to give out friendly advice if needed. His sense of justice is exemplified when he saved Saki Mikajima without hesitation, despite the fact that it meant acting against one of the largest gangs in the city and also when he continued spying on Yagiri Pharmaceuticals for kidnapping people despite it having little to do with him. He is also very charismatic as he has several friends that he can call on for favors even outside of his usual circle. Kyohei has also been shown to be very perceptive and can read people's intentions fairly easily.

Background
Not much is known about Kyohei's early life other than that he attended Raijin academy along with Izaya, Shizuo, and Shinra. He, Saburo, Erika, and Walker became good friends early on and even joined the Blue Squares together. During the gang war with the yellow scarves, Kyohei grew disgusted with how their boss handled things and betrayed them during the final confrontation. He and the others rescued Saki Mikajima and took her to the hospital, renouncing their allegiance to the Blue Squares in the process.

A few months later, Kyohei and his crew were later invited to join the Dollars. He agreed, seeing it as a good idea at the time, and soon became one of the more well known members.

Dollars / Mika Harima Arc
Kyohei first appeared in the series being introduced to Mikado by Kida. A few days later, Kida asks Kyohei about the Dollars but all Kyohei says is to stay away from them. The next day Kyohei is tiling walls in a bathroom when Saburo, Erika, and Walker come in and tell him they're ready to go to Russia Sushi. Before they leave, Kyohei gets a text from Kazutano that says "I broke a plate." He tells the others, but Erika says that he probably messed up his kanji.

After eating at Russia Sushi they go to Kazutano's place to find it ransacked, and realized that Kazutano was kidnapped. Kyohei tries to calm down Saburo, who was upset about the kidnapping.

Hashim walks in and tells them the licence plate number of the kidnappers van. While searching for the kidnappers, Kyohei recalls when Saburo first met Kazutano.His reminiscing is interrupted by Erika and Walker who suggest calling Kazutano to see if he can answer. Kyohei does so but is surprised when Izaya is the one who answers back. Izaya explains how he found the phone and he gives them the location. Kyohei and the others arrive at the destination Izaya specified to find one of the kidnappers unconscious in the trash.

Kyohei takes the kidnapper's phone and calls his cohorts, impersonating his voice. Kyohei manages to get the kidnappers location which prompts them to celebrate. They arrive at the drop-off point and prepare to fight the kidnappers when the Black Rider shows up, scaring the kidnappers away. Kyohei chases after them and they catch one. He allows Erika and Walker to torture the man while he drinks milk with Saburo and Kazutano, but he stops Walker and Erika before they can stab a pentacle in the man's eye.

The man talks and says Yagiri Pharmaceuticals is responsible for recent human trafficking, as they need them for illegal human experiments. The next day Kyohei pretends to read a book while observing the Yagiri building. He then remembers that he promised the others he'd stop worrying about it and walks away.

The next day they are all in Saburo's car when Saburo jumps in and starts speeding after a car that accidentally kicked a pebble at his windshield. Saburo stops just in time to avoid hitting Mika Harima who had stumbled into the road. Kyohei then brings her to their car and tries to get an explanation out of her and what happened. Kyohei soon recieves a call from the Dollars admin to bring the girl to Celty on top of a roof. That night Kyohei gives the girl to Celty and walks away. He is later seen marveling at the Dollars meeting. He is later seen conversing with Izaya over recent events along with the true meaning of the Dollar's name.

Saika Arc
Kyohei and the others are driving around at night looking for the Slasher since it slashed a Dollars member. Then Kyohei hears Walker yelling at a book and asks him what's wrong. Erika replies it's about Walker's book.

Kyohei sees a man following Anri at night and he tells Saburo to follow him. When things are about to turn violent, they run over him and Walker yells at Kyohei for doing that. Then the man gets up and tries to slash at them but Kyohei manages to hold him off while telling Anri to run. Suddenly Celty and Shizuo ride in with Shizuo incapacitating him with Saburo's car door. Shizuo soon walks away, muttering about murdering Izaya which causes Erika to talk about her Yaoi fantasies, much to everyone's chargin. Kyohei and the others attempt to interrogate the alleged slasher about the recent attacks but get nothing significant. Eventually, they leave him tied up on the side of the road.

Yellow Scarves Arc
Kyohei is seen talking with his friends about the recent resurgence of yellow scarves members around town. Masaomi comes in and brings the whole crew to a private room what he should do about the situation with the Dollars. Kyohei tells him do what his gut says but also warns him that the Dollars will fight back eventually. Then Dennis, angry at them for talking about that type of stuff at his restaurant, throws a knife at them and purposely misses. He tells them that they shouldn't be talking about that stuff in his restaurant.

Kyohei later participates in helping Anri escape from the yellow scarves. Realizing things have gotten out of control, Kyohei and Saburo gather a bunch of other Dollars members to infiltrate one of the Yellow Scarves meetings and put an end to their attacks. He and the others witness Masaomi confronting Horada as well as the arrival of Mikado and Anri. As Horada is about to order their deaths, Kyohei springs his trap and the warehouse erupts into chaos. Amidst the confusion, Kyohei brings Masaomi to the hospital.

Hollywood Arc
Kyohei, Walker, and Erika are hanging out when they spot Mairu and Kururi being harassed by a few members of Toramaru. Kyohei and Mairu easily dispatch them while one of the younger members runs off to get back up. Kyohei tells the twins to head home but they insist on searching for the black motorbike. Kyohei sees that they aren't going to back down and offers them a ride to a safer place than a back alley. Kyohei calls Saburo and, as they are about to get into the van, several Toramaru members begin chasing after them.

As they drive away, Erika and Walker spot Mikado and the others getting harassed by remnants of the Yellow Scarves. They cut off the Yellow Scarves and rush Mikado, Anri, and Aoba into their already crowded van. Kyohei apologizes for getting them mixed up in their own problems. After several hours, they run into Celty who is also being chased by Toramaru and the ten of them begin a grand chase through the streets of Ikebukuro. Eventually, Celty sees an overpass and gets an idea. She tells Kyohei via her cell phone and he agrees.

After Celty makes her net at the entrance to the overpass, Kyohei drops everyone off a few blocks away form a police station while he and Saburo go to give Celty a hand. When they arrive, they get ready for a huge brawl when Egor bursts out of the bag Celty was carrying. The assassin tells them to run away while he dealt with Toramaru. Ruri Hijiribe also joins the fight while Kyohei and the others watch on. Kyohei and Saburo then drop everyone off at their homes and attend the hotpot party at Celty and Shinra's place the next day.

Akane arc
After separating from Walker and Erika, Kyohei starts walking and notices Rokujo Chikage following him. When they get to a more secluded street, Kyohei confronts Chikage about why he was following him. Kyohei soon realizes that Chikage is the one responsible for the recent attacks on the Dollars and Chikage attacks him.

Kyohei asks if Chikage was there to avenge the guys that were beaten up during the chase with Celty. Chikage denies that, saying those men got what was coming to them. Chikage reveals that several of their members were attacked unprovoked a few weeks ago along with their friends and relatives who weren't in the gang to begin with. Kyohei explains the "no rules" policy in the dollars and asks why Chikage was after him instead of the guys who attacked their gang. Chikage states that everyone called Kyohei the "boss" of the Dollars. Kyohei says that there is no real leader in the Dollars, comparing the "chain of command" in dollars to a swarm of locusts or a school of fish (the founder is in there somewhere but no one can tell who it is). Eventually, Kyohei suggests they take their battle somewhere else and the two of them take a taxi to Raira and resume their fight in the practice fields.

Dollars and Blue Squares Arc
They have a fierce brawl with both Kyohei and Chikage becoming heavily bruised and exhausted. Eventually, Kyohei comes out on top by a thin margin due to Chikage passing out before he does. The two of them wake up and Chikage admits defeat but feels ashamed to having lost twice in a row (due to his "fight" with Shizuo). Chikage sensed that Kyohei pulled his punches due him being injured but Kyohei says that he just didn't want to get sent to prison for going too far. Kyohei then asks Chikage to withdraw Toramaru from Ikebukuro but promises to find the guys who attacked his gang and make them apologize. Chikage is surprised at how easily Kyohei would sell out other Dollars members like that but Kyohei just says that there's no rule that said he couldn't. Kyohei also states that he's doing this not as a member of the dollars but simply as Kyohei Kadota and that he hates those who involve innocent people in a gang war. Chikage calls Kyohei a scoundrel and he replies that the Dollars are full of them.

The two are interrupted by several rogue dollars members who want to beat Chikage and Kyohei to increase their reputation. When it becomes clear that, even though they're injured, Kyohei and Chikage can still go toe to toe with them, they reveal their hostages, Chikage's girlfriend, Non, along with several of her friends. Just as the rogue Dollars move in for the kill, Walker, Erika, Saburo, and several other Dollars members who were against the kidnapping appear and lend a hand. They get the girls to safety while several Toramaru members also arrive to help Chikage. With numbers on their side, the good Dollars and Toramaru proceed to duke it out with the rogue Dollars in the practice fields of Raira academy.

Eventually, the whole battle is interrupted by the arrival of Shizuo with Varona's bike on his shoulder. He came to take out the kidnappers and proceeds to knock the leader into the air and across the field. Realizing that they're outmatched, the remaining rogue Dollars retreat. After Shizuo switches his attention to Varona, Erika starts giggling after Chikage limps away with Non. Kyohei asks Erika what she's so giddy about and Erika states her newest fantasy about Kyohei and Chikage, much to everyone's chagrin. With the fighting finally over, Kyohei and the others head home.

Dragon Zombie Arc
Kyohei isn't seen until the end with Saburo and Walker at Russia Sushi. As the three of them talk, Kyohei sees Masaomi enter with a yellow scarf around his neck.

Kadota's Coma Arc
In the beginning it tells Kyohei's point of view of humans. He thinks that humans are simple wooden rods. If he were to use a metaphor, the human heart was a coarse rope, bound together from various components. If it were a wooden rod or a stone in question, what was broken would never again return to its original state, but when it came to humans, even if the only part left unbroken was no more than the thinnest, most fragile spider thread - there would always be the possibility of recovery. He thinks that because his father did too.

When Masaomi asks him if he wanted to quit the Dollars and join the Yellow scarves Kyohei tells him that he wanted everyone in the group to decide on that matter. After Masaomi leaves, Dennis tells them if they talk anything more dangerous then what they talked about in that room there'll be another mark on the wall. Then he tells Kyohei that Masaomi is probably trying to repay him for what he did. Kyohei replies that he thinks Masaomi has a sneaky plan coming up.

Later Kyohei is walking down the streets thinks about the situation with the Dollars being more violent and Masaomi and Mikado's friendship. When he was thinking a car hits him causing Kyohei to go into a coma for the rest of the arc. He does have surgery at one point and the surgery goes out well.

Volume 12
Kyohei wakes up from his coma.

Saburo Togusa
Main Article: Saburo Togusa

Not much is known about Kyohei's relation to Saburo other than that the two of them knew each other longer before they met up with Walker and Erika. The two of them seem to be very close to one another seeing as how when Kazutano was kidnapped, Kyohei was willing to go out of his way to save him simply for Saburo's sake (although Kazutano and Kyohei were also good friends as well).

Walker Yumasaki and Erika Karisawa
Main Articles: Walker Yumasaki, Erika Karisawa

Walker and Erika have both displayed fierce loyalty towards Kyohei on several occasions such as when they betrayed the Blue Squares. While Kyohei sometimes gets annoyed at their strange antics, he is still very caring and protective of his friends. In many ways, Kyohei is actually the only one that can rein in Walker and Erika when they start to go overboard whether it's about their anime obsession or when they take a step too far in torturing someone. When Kyohei was beaten into a coma in volume 10, it sends both Walker and Erika into a rage, causing the former to tear through various leads just to find the attacker. It is unknown how they met although it is hinted that Kyohei managed to help them turn their lives around in some way. It is implied in various side stories that Erika may actually have feelings for Kyohei but these are never addressed in the main series.

Rokujo Chikage
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While their initial meeting was less than cordial, both Chikage and Kyohei developed a strong friendship during their fight in the Raira practice fields (on an unrelated note, it also provided Erika with another source for Yaoi). Although the two of them never had much contact after the aforementioned fight, Chikage still felt the need to visit his friend in the hospital after Kyohei was attacked also wanting to find any leads as to the whereabouts of his assailant.

Trivia

 * His hobbies include reading, ink and wash paintings.
 * It was Izaya who gave Kyohei his nickname, "Dota-chin."
 * Kyohei incorrectly suspects that Izaya is the leader of the Dollars


 * Kyohei has a reputation of helping people out, and Masaomi frequently approaches him for advice.
 * He sang Tsuppari High School Rock 'n Roll in the rapping CD.
 * Kyohei's last name, Kadota, is a type of fig


 * It is hinted that he reads manga sometimes.


 * In the anime's second season, he admits to reading "A Certain Magical Index."


 * In Episode 23, at approximately 14 minutes and 34 seconds into the episode, Kyohei can be seen in the crowd of Yellow Scarves.