Gakushu Asano

Gakushu Asano is a student in Class 3-A in Kunugigaoka Junior High School and one of the Five Virtuosos. He is the Student Council President, the top student of the school and the only son of the Board Chairman Gakuhō Asano.

Personality
Like most of the stereotypical Main Building Students Gakushu looks down on those that are less intelligent than him, which is this case mostly incorporates the entire school as he is the top student. However he breaks away from this stereotype by putting up a face of benevolence and a charismatic smile.

Befitting his genius intellect and heritage Gakushu is a very driven individual who is very much like his father in a lot of ways, although one could argue that he is far less extreme in virtue than his father is. He is highly manipulative to the point of wanting to control everyone and puppeteer the strings. The most frightening aspect of this is his desire to completely dominate his own father. However he is a little conflicted himself in this manipulative nature to the point that he has to actively justify it in his mind as "this is how you raised me father". Another note is his keen desire for knowledge an sense of investigation to get to the truth. Hearing local legends and urban rumours about Class 3-E's supposed octopus (actually Korosensei) Gakushu has made it his top priority to get to the bottom of this mystery. Indeed he has gone to methods that he himself have briefly questioned in order to acquire this information, from blackmail, bribery and even legal backup (making Class 3-E sign a contract) to get to the bottom of this. However for all of his intelligence he tends to miscalculate certain more admirable aspects of the people he is trying to manipulate which has now led to his plots failing no more than two times in the story.

Abilities
Intelligence: As one of the school's Five Virtues he is one of the top ranked students in Class A, and even more impressive is that his grade score is the highest in the school. Indeed Gakushu is one of the smartest characters in the series and this cuppled together with his manipulative mindset makes him a dangerous enemy to Class E. The System in class A is that an incompetant teacher teaches the class straight out of the text book at high speeds and the fact that this system is how he is learning only further proves the evidence of his actual intellect given such an inept method to teach. A class A student once mentioned that he has the ability to make others "flock" around him.

Other Skills: Intelligence aside, Gakushu has also demonstrated super-human speed and is even trained in martial arts. He's also been shown to be multilingual as he has been shown freely manipulating four different languages for one of his plans.