A toy company's most trusted assistant turned out to be the reason its designs kept reaching shelves as cheap knockoffs almost as fast as the originals. Kurosagi was even handed the investigation into his own crimes, right up until his coworkers went around him and called in heroes.
Kurosagi presents as a corporate professional: a full suit, square tinted glasses, short pale hair, and a heavy squared jaw. The one flourish is his necktie, which is cut in the shape of a kendama.
Money appears to be the only thing Kurosagi values, and he will rob the person signing his paychecks and then discard that person the moment the arrangement stops paying out. There is a snobbery layered on top of it. Despite building his side business entirely on counterfeits, he holds copies in contempt, and people with copying powers along with them, Phantom Thief included, on the theory that an imitation can never match what it was taken from.

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The assistant's job came with access to the company's toy blueprints, and Kurosagi abused it, leaking designs to bootleggers whose knockoffs beat the genuine articles to market by almost nothing. Sales cratered, the CEO fell into a slump, and Kurosagi was put in charge of finding the leak.
Other employees went over his head and asked heroes to look into it. He tried to wave them off, but they kept digging, and suspicion landed on him fast. When they came back with questions they walked in on him stealing the master list of blueprints on his way out of the company for good. His denials collapsed within moments and he ran instead, dropping the building's shutters behind him. Phantom Thief overwhelmed him anyway. He was fired and arrested.
Kurosagi is a corporate villain who appears in My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions. He worked as a toy company CEO's trusted assistant while secretly running a counterfeit toy operation on the side.
Kurosagi used his access to a toy company's blueprints to leak designs to bootleggers, whose knockoffs reached shelves almost as fast as the genuine products. The scheme tanked the company's sales and sent its CEO into a slump.
Kurosagi was put in charge of investigating his own leak, but coworkers went over his head and called in heroes anyway. He was caught in the act of stealing the master blueprint list on his way out of the company, and Phantom Thief overwhelmed him when he tried to flee.
Kurosagi worked as the assistant to the CEO of a toy company, a position that gave him direct access to the firm's product blueprints. He abused that access to leak designs to counterfeiters for profit.
Kurosagi holds copies in contempt, despite having built his entire counterfeiting business on knockoffs. He looks down on people with copying based Quirks, including Phantom Thief, believing an imitation can never match what it was taken from.
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