Kouji Iwahata

Kouji Iwahata (岩端 晃司, Iwahata Kōji) is an agent of the Ministry of Environment's Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division who leads the field team.

Appearance
Iwahata is a very tall and muscular old man, with a gray mohawk hairstyle, a short beard, and mustache. A long, thin scar runs down across the left side of his face and across his left eye. A similar scar runs sideways across his face, from one cheek to the other, crossing the other scar below his left eye. He has white eyes, with no visible pupils.

Personality
Some of the more comedic moments both in the manga and anime suggest that Iwahata may be homosexual. He is an ex-soldier who was hired by a mercenary corporation until the agency recruited him for his ability to sense spirits.

Etymology

 * The name Kouji means "clear" (晃) (kou) and "officer, boss" (司) (ji).
 * Kouji's surname Iwahata means "rock" (岩) (iwa) and "edge, origin, end, point, border, verge, cape, tip" (端) (hata).

Trivia

 * Somehow, Kouji shares the same facial features as Rindo Urushiba from Tokyo ESP.
 * In the manga, Rindo is the brother of Iwahata.