Nakanishi Kouta

"If your skills were long hair, mine would be eyelashes."

- to Kusuo about magic

Kouta Nakanishi(中西 宏太, なかにし こうた lit. Nakanishi Kōta), known professionally as Chouno Uryoku (蝶野 雨緑, Chōno Uryoku), was married to Nendou Riki's mom in the past. Kouta is one of the main characters of the series and was starred by Muro Tsuyoshi in the live action of the series.

Appearance
Nakanishi sports a wavy neck length green hair and a green eyes. He usually wears his uniform purple suit and a capotain hat where he usually hides his birds.

Personality
Nakanishi is terrible with money, as shown when he spent 1 million yen on a trick box.

Background
Kouta used to be a business man, but got fired after he made a mistake.

History
He's a homeless magician that first appeared playing tricks in the street with his partner Michael. Basically Chouno goes in and out of being a homeless failure and a semi-successful magician. Saiki ends up helping him out every once and a while just on a whim, but doesn’t think very highly of him. Chouno has seen some of Saiki's powers, but thinks it's just stage magic. Because of this, he treats Saiki like a veteran illusionist and even calls him "master". At his most successful, Chouno had a weird comedy magic act going on.

Trivia

 * He used to work at a very famous publishing company.
 * Nakanishi Kouta (中西 宏太) -> Naka ni Shikonda -> hidden within (ie- like hidden up a magician’s sleeve)
 * His stage name is a pun on "supernatural power" (超能力 chou nouryoku).