Kazuya Makino

Kazuya Makino (牧野 和也) is the main male protagonist of the Pumpkin Night series. Initially appearing as the love interest of Naoko, Kazuya would soon go insane after her apparent death and briefly become the second person to use the Pumpkin Night title before he creates his own persona as the Pumpkin King.

History
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Personality
Kazuya is the only member of his circle of friends shown to be a genuinely good person, he is shown to be a kind and decent person and the only person to not bully Naoko. He is also shown to be a very shy person, being unable to tell Naoko his feelings towards her, this is something that carries on into him being unable to protect Naoko during all the times she was bullied by Naruto and the rest of his friends, resulting in him coming across as cowardly for not stopping his friends sooner, however as he learns more about what had happened to Naoko he begins to finally stand up to Naruto and Arata after he stops them from almost killing Naoko and finally confess his feelings to her.

After Naoko seemingly dies in front of him Kazuya has a complete mental breakdown, going insane and hell bent on getting revenge on Naruto, his father and Agata, the three he held responsible for Naoko's death, and inspired by Naoko he briefly takes on the mantle of Pumpkin Night before creating his own identity as the Pumpkin King. As the Pumpkin King Kazuya is shown to be just as violent and sadistic as Naoko can be, although thanks to how severe his insanity is he is incapable of preparing complicated plans to murder his victims like Naoko can, while being able to plan his kills out he doesn't make them as complicated as Naoko's, although he still has the mental capacity to stalk and psychologically torture his victims; as seen with Naruto as he both purposely chased him through a crowd that wouldn't believe his claims and laughed at his attempts to call for help, mirroring how Naoko must have felt after her face had been burnt, and then showed Naruto he was going to kill him with an entire bottle of sulfuric acid, terrifying him all while getting revenge for what Naruto had done to Naoko.

After killing Naruto Kazuya's mental state worsens to the point that he is unable to escape getting caught and sent to a mental hospital, with orderlies seen having to stop him redoing the dance he did after killing Naruto, all while having a vacant look on his face while smiling. A year later however it seems he finally had the chance to recover mentally somewhat but became depressed due to believing Naoko was dead, going into a semi catatonic state and having started self harming himself much like Naoko had done. When he's told by Matsui that Naoko was in fact alive his entire behaviour and mental state changes completely, crying tears of joy after hearing of Naoko's survival, while having recovered almost entirely from his catatonic state he's still shown to be mentally unhinged with very violent tendencies; merely grinning and laughing after being beaten by the orderlies working for Sae Kuroki and not long after biting the nose off of one of the orderlies.

Trivia

 * Kazuya's Pumpkin King mask bares a resemblance to the mask worn by Winslow Leach in the 1974 musical Phantom of the Paradise.
 * Similar to how Naoko has traits from horror icons Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Micheal Myers Kazuya shares traits from two slasher villains from the Friday the 13th series, primarily Pamela Voorhees and Roy Burns:
 * Much like how Kazuya lost a loved one so too did Pamela and Roy; seemingly Jason according to Friday the 13th and Joey Burns in Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning respectfully. While Kazuya shares his desire for revenge and descent into insanity from the death of a loved one with Pamela he closely resembles Roy Burns as not only do they desire revenge against the people who caused the death of the person close to them but they also briefly take on the role of the previous villains before them; with Roy Burns assuming the identity of Jason Voorhees for one film (who in turn became the main antagonist of the series following his mother's death), while Kazuya takes on the identity of the Pumpkin Night from chapters 21 to 25 before becoming the Pumpkin King in chapter 26.