Born with an terminal illness, the otherwise ordinary Haruka Kokonose’s constitution had been weak since he was a young child. Due his frail body and constantly unstable condition, he wasn’t able to get out much as a child, and was repeatedly hospitalized throughout his childhood with only his sketchbook to keep him company. His illness progressively got worse over the years, as attacks and seizures became more and more frequent with time, and as he grew older, he eventually reached the stage that a sudden attack could be lethal.
Although Haruka was extremely intelligent and could have easily been at the top of his class in academics, in order for his health to be monitored, he was placed in a special class for handicapped students upon entering high school. The only other student in his class was Takane Enomoto, and after spending their peaceful, uneventful first year of high school together, they soon became close friends. Together with their teacher, Kenjirou Tateyama, they created and hosted a shooting game during the school cultural festival, through which Haruka discovered Takane’s skill and passion for video games in addition to her online fame. She introduced him to an online shooting game called DEAD BULLET 1989, and sparked his newfound interest in video games. He quickly created a player character (avatar) and named him Konoha, after his own name, kokonose haruka.
Because his attendance record in school was quite dismal, he was required to take make-up classes during the summer of his second year of high school. Since his intelligence wasn’t an issue, he often finished his assignments early and played on his laptop to pass the time, but on August 15th, Haruka suffered from an attack while Takane wasn’t paying attention and fell completely unconscious. After being brought to the hospital by Kenjirou, Takane collapsed and also fell unconscious, and woke up to find Kenjirou next to a large vat of liquid, in which the reborn Konoha’s body was suspended.
When two people die together on August 15th, they enter an everlasting world called the Kagerou Daze, or Heat Haze Daze. While the events that happen in the Daze are unknown, one of the two people eventually escapes and reappears unharmed at the place of their death with red eyes and a new power, or “eye ability”. After Haruka died, remaking his body into Konoha (via his eye ability) put a large strain on his mind, and he lost his memory in the process.
Two years later, when a young girl named Hiyori, Kenjirou’s daughter-in-law, and her classmate Hibiya visited the Tateyama’s home over summer vacation, they met Konoha and learned that he had been staying there for (presumably) the past two years. The next day, Hibiya and Hiyori tragically died and entered the Heat Haze Daze, and for an unknown reason, Konoha was brought in with them. However, neither of them were able to see him no matter how hard he tried to reach out and save them from their horrible, repeating fate (explained in the songs Kagerou Days and Konoha’s State of the World), as if he wasn’t completely there to begin with, but after Hibiya was given his eye ability, he and Konoha were finally ejected from the Daze.
Later, at the hospital, the two of them met the Mekakushi Dan: a group of teenagers with the same mysterious eye abilities. They were quick to recognize Hibiya’s red eyes, and Hibiya and Konoha soon followed them back to their base and later became members of the Mekakushi Dan.
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Born with an terminal illness, the otherwise ordinary Haruka Kokonose’s constitution had been weak since he was a young child. Due his frail body and constantly unstable condition, he wasn’t able to get out much as a child, and was repeatedly hospitalized throughout his childhood with only his sketchbook to keep him company. His illness progressively got worse over the years, as attacks and seizures became more and more frequent with time, and as he grew older, he eventually reached the stage that a sudden attack could be lethal.
Although Haruka was extremely intelligent and could have easily been at the top of his class in academics, in order for his health to be monitored, he was placed in a special class for handicapped students upon entering high school. The only other student in his class was Takane Enomoto, and after spending their peaceful, uneventful first year of high school together, they soon became close friends. Together with their teacher, Kenjirou Tateyama, they created and hosted a shooting game during the school cultural festival, through which Haruka discovered Takane’s skill and passion for video games in addition to her online fame. She introduced him to an online shooting game called DEAD BULLET 1989, and sparked his newfound interest in video games. He quickly created a player character (avatar) and named him Konoha, after his own name, kokonose haruka.
Because his attendance record in school was quite dismal, he was required to take make-up classes during the summer of his second year of high school. Since his intelligence wasn’t an issue, he often finished his assignments early and played on his laptop to pass the time, but on August 15th, Haruka suffered from an attack while Takane wasn’t paying attention and fell completely unconscious. After being brought to the hospital by Kenjirou, Takane collapsed and also fell unconscious, and woke up to find Kenjirou next to a large vat of liquid, in which the reborn Konoha’s body was suspended.
When two people die together on August 15th, they enter an everlasting world called the Kagerou Daze, or Heat Haze Daze. While the events that happen in the Daze are unknown, one of the two people eventually escapes and reappears unharmed at the place of their death with red eyes and a new power, or “eye ability”. After Haruka died, remaking his body into Konoha (via his eye ability) put a large strain on his mind, and he lost his memory in the process.
Two years later, when a young girl named Hiyori, Kenjirou’s daughter-in-law, and her classmate Hibiya visited the Tateyama’s home over summer vacation, they met Konoha and learned that he had been staying there for (presumably) the past two years. The next day, Hibiya and Hiyori tragically died and entered the Heat Haze Daze, and for an unknown reason, Konoha was brought in with them. However, neither of them were able to see him no matter how hard he tried to reach out and save them from their horrible, repeating fate (explained in the songs Kagerou Days and Konoha’s State of the World), as if he wasn’t completely there to begin with, but after Hibiya was given his eye ability, he and Konoha were finally ejected from the Daze.
Later, at the hospital, the two of them met the Mekakushi Dan: a group of teenagers with the same mysterious eye abilities. They were quick to recognize Hibiya’s red eyes, and Hibiya and Konoha soon followed them back to their base and later became members of the Mekakushi Dan.