Katsuo Tanaka

Katsuo Tanaka is a minor character who appears in the episodes Let You Down and Like A Boy in.

Appearance
Katsuo has a slim build. Dermal implants are visible on the right side of his face and has generally sharp features. His hair is a blue mullet-bowl cut. He wears the standard Arasaka Academy uniform.

Early Life
Due to being the son of a high ranking Arasaka executive, Katsuo has been able to attend the expensive Arasaka Academy, where he would eventually meet David Martinez.

Let You Down and Like A Boy
During one day at school, David's outdated braindance wreath spiked the rest of his class due to a faulty software update, angering Katsuo.

The next morning, Tanaka and his friends ambush David. They take David to a back-alley, where Tanaka verbally antagonizes him, then beats him up with a martial arts chip. Later that day, Katsuo calls David and mocks him about his mother's death.

Katsuo's bullying would be the inspiration for David Martinez to implant himself with the black market Sandevistan he found among his mother's things.

Some time later, David would beat up Katsuo using his recently installed Sandevistan. Due to David's high compatibility with it, Katsuo's father would try to make David to go back to the Academy so that they can use him as a test subject for cyberware. The plan was to offer him free scholarship, however David would refuse their offer. David would work on the assumption that Katsuo was out for revenge, rejecting all of Arasaka's Academy's offers for reinstatement on the assumption that they were part of a revenge plot by Katsuo.

Cyberware

 * Cyberoptics
 * EMP Threading
 * Reflex Chipware (Kung-fu chip)
 * Strong Arms 400 (A variation of the Gorilla Arms)

Other

 * Braindance Wreath