Jindai High

Kurz Weber

Kurz is a member of Mithril and has the rank of Sergeant in the SRT (Special Response Team) of the Tuatha de Danaan (TDD-1) Pacific Battle Group. He has the call sign Urzu-6 and his ID number is B-3127. He is an SRT Arm Slave pilot and designated marksman, equally proficient with sniper rifles and Arm Slave long range precision cannons. It is said he can visualize the exact trajectory of a bullet, resulting in an almost inhuman accuracy. Which speaks volumes when he isn’t able to get a single shot in on the silver AS when he first meets up with Gauron. He most often forms a three-man cell with squad-mate Sousuke Sagara and squad leader Melissa Mao. He is regarded as a finicky genius, burdening the Mithril mechanics with extremely difficult to understand complaints and requests. He tweaks his mech tediously between each mission, assuring the adjustments fit his precise shooting style.

Kurz is a Caucasian male, roughly six feet tall. He is of German decent, and sports a blond mullet and has blue eyes. He is very good looking, and combined with his outgoing personality easily befriends most people. His reputation with women in romantic terms is largely spoiled by his unflinching and overdone pursuit of “the fairer sex.” He is quite proud of his modeling for The Tag Magazine, and has been featured in the pages of Esquire.

Kurz can speak Japanese, English and German fluently. His affinity for the Japanese language is attributed to his father, as a newspaper employee he relocated his family to the Edogawa section of Tokyo until Kurz was forteen years of age. He had aspirations of becoming a professional blues singer before he was a soldier. From this, Kurz can sing and play the guitar quite well, entertaining the hostage Jindai High students with his rendition of “Take me out Mariana Trench!” in the novel, A Dancing Very Merry Christmas!.

In the scope of the main anime and novel series, Kurz is shown being deployed in Tokyo with Melissa and Sousuke in protecting Kaname Chidori. During the course of the show, he displays his extreme talent with a WA2000 rifle. A notable shot is made from a back of a moving truck into the open gun port of the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon of the Behemoth. Later, Kurz assists Sousuke in subduing John Danigan and Guen Bien Bo, two SRT members turned defectors after Gauron had hijacked the Tuatha de Danaan. His hand to hand combat skills in this incident are harshly judged as being “worse than a city punk” by Melissa Mao.

He is known to be a hard hitter on women and speaks in vulgar and flippant language. Despite the negative attitude he has received from women, he is still Sousuke’s best friend from Mithril. Kurz annoys Melissa Mao greatly due to the open nature of his sexual feelings for her. Although, when he’s reached his limit he doesn’t have a problem flipping his superior off. The AI equiped in Kurz’ mech is attuned to the voices of his favorite Japanese singers. In essence, he is Sousuke’s complete opposite in personality.

At the time of the novel “Dancing Very Merry Christmas!”, 1st Lieutenant Grouseax and the newly-promoted 2nd Lieutenant Melissa Mao placed him under observation for promotion to Sergeant Major. In the serialized novel “Tsudou to Make My Day”, Kurz is the SRT’s Sergeant Major.

His alias is Kalius, a name he used during the snatch operation on Vincent Bruno.—MIZ

BONUS: Classified Mithril Intelligence Data Sheet