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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: His second year is just not going well for him; first he loses a race to Midousuji and has to give up being a Sprinter, then at the first day of Interhigh, after a valiant effort, he winds up losing due to [[HeightAngst the very thing he tried to overcome]] and he has suffered from BrokenTears quite a few times already. These defeats are wearing down on his confidence and could potentially effect him as Interhigh goes on.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: His second year is just not going well for him; first he loses a race to Midousuji and has to give up being a Sprinter, then at the first day of Interhigh, after a valiant effort, he winds up losing due to [[HeightAngst the very thing he tried to overcome]] and he has suffered from BrokenTears quite a few times already. These defeats are wearing down on his confidence and could potentially effect affect him as Interhigh goes on.]]
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** [[spoiler: Happens again on the first day of his second Interhigh. After a valiant effort, he places second and narrowly loses to Ashikiba primarily due to the large difference in size. Naruko keeps up a brave face for the spectators, interviewers, and competitors; making the reader believe he isn't really effected by it. As soon as he is alone, however, he lets go of the emotions he'd been holding back and cries.]]
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** [[spoiler: Happens again on the first day of his second Interhigh. After a valiant effort, he places second and narrowly loses to Ashikiba primarily due to the large difference in size. Naruko keeps up a brave face for the spectators, interviewers, and competitors; making the reader believe he isn't really effected affected by it. As soon as he is alone, however, he lets go of the emotions he'd been holding back and cries.]]
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Imaizumi loves mentioning that Naruko's fans are mainly guys ([[WordOfGod Watanabe explains this]] decision is because Naruko is popular amongst the male readers), and as shown in the third day of Interhigh, while catching Sohoku up to Hakogaku, both the girls ''and'' the guys were watching him in awe, almost as if they had fallen for him.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Imaizumi loves mentioning that Naruko's fans are mainly guys ([[WordOfGod Watanabe (Watanabe explains this]] this decision is because Naruko is popular amongst the male readers), and as shown in the third day of Interhigh, while catching Sohoku up to Hakogaku, both the girls ''and'' the guys were watching him in awe, almost as if they had fallen for him.
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* GiftedlyBad: He believes himself to be a great singer. According to [[WordOfGod Watanabe-sensei]], Watanabe-sensei, it's not really the case. [[http://cherryfetish.tumblr.com/post/110063144766/you-can-download-this-ver-all-the-others-here Here's Toudou's rendition of the Love Hime theme.]]
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* TheNicknamer: Gives much of the cast a nickname. Namely: "Hotshot" for Imaizumi, "Quiet Senpai" for Aoyagi, "Captain Shades" for Kinjou, "Old man" for Tadokoro, "Perm [[SenpaiKohai Sempai]]" for Teshima, "Eyelashes" for Izumida, and so it goes. He also calls one of the other racers in the inter-high "Gorilla".
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* SenpaiKohai: The kohai to Onoda's sempai, he has also shown more respect and general adoration to Onoda in comparison to Imaizumi and Naruko.
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* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Dear ''lord''. If you somehow missed this from [[HotBlooded his]] [[GenkiGuy whole]] [[FieryRedhead attitude]] and the obvious [[KansaiRegionalAccent accent]], his biking gear has [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS KANSAI]] scrawled across it in block caps.
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* RatedMForManly: Serious and collected ([[NotSoAboveItAll most of the time]]), disciplined and leads his team with a great degree of charisma and a BadassBaritone baritone to boot, having a borderline fatherly relatiosnhip with most of the younger members of the cycling team.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Literally has blue hair.
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* AdaptationalMuscles: Downplayed. While he was fit in the manga as well, his anime design makes his physique more obviously muscular.
* {{Hunk}}: In contrast to Toudou's {{Bishounen}}.
* MrFanservice: Less blatant than Izumida, but still prominent. Hayato is a handsome, charismatic young man with a soft spot for animals, and he is muscular enough that his body stretches out his racing uniform, most noticably around his sleeves and shorts.
* MrFanservice: Less blatant than Izumida, but still prominent. Hayato is a handsome, charismatic young man with a soft spot for animals, and he is muscular enough that his body stretches out his racing uniform, most noticably around his sleeves and shorts.
* {{Bishounen}}: Hakone's most blatant one, arguably even more than Nanami.
* ProudBeauty: A RareMaleExample. He constantly displays almost narcisstic levels of pride about his good looks (and phyisical abilites).
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{{Foil}}: To both Hakone and Sohoku.
** Hakone is an elite school whose cycling team is among the strongest in the country, has repeatedly won te Interhigh and each of their members could easily be TheAce in another team. Kyoto Fushimi isn't a very prominent school and their placements in the Interhigh up until Midousuji's arrival were modest at best (Top 16), and has been structured around Midousuji with the rest being mostly CannonFodder.
** Sohoku strongly values comradery and each of their members excells in ''at least'' one role. In Kyoto Fushimi, aside of a few dedicated climbers and [[AwesomeYetImpractical Komari]], the only true powerhouse is Midousuji who is a MasterOfAll and commands the team with an iron fist.
* OpposingSportsTeam: The third most prominent team in the story.
** Hakone is an elite school whose cycling team is among the strongest in the country, has repeatedly won te Interhigh and each of their members could easily be TheAce in another team. Kyoto Fushimi isn't a very prominent school and their placements in the Interhigh up until Midousuji's arrival were modest at best (Top 16), and has been structured around Midousuji with the rest being mostly CannonFodder.
** Sohoku strongly values comradery and each of their members excells in ''at least'' one role. In Kyoto Fushimi, aside of a few dedicated climbers and [[AwesomeYetImpractical Komari]], the only true powerhouse is Midousuji who is a MasterOfAll and commands the team with an iron fist.
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* PracticallyJoker: Has a preference for the color purple, constantly displays a SlasherSmile, eager to manipulate and riducules both enemies and allies, all while being TheDreaded. Oh, and he corrupts another character into becoming his NumberTwo thanks to his twisted charisma.
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* VillainyFreeVillain: Downplayed. He is a massive {{Jerkass}} and just ''barely'' avoids crossing the line into straight-out villainy.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: The most conventionally good-looking member of the team and also the most ethical among them.
* BitCharacter: Has a little bit of characterizations early on as one of Kyoto Fushimi's more resonable members, but quickly gets DemotedToExtra, staying in the background with little to no displays of emotion.
* GloryHound: Mizuta is painfully average as a cyclist, yet he still craves accomplishments and fame. This in turn is exploited by Midousuji to coax Mizuta into undertaking difficult endeavors by promising him (at best symbolic) rewards in return, with Mizuta usually ending up as little more than a glorified decoy for Midousuji.
* PuppetKing: ''De jure'' leader of the team, while Midousuji stays ''de facto'' leader.
* SuperGullible: It is very easy for Midousuji to manipulate Mizuta.
* PuppetKing: ''De jure'' leader of the team, while Midousuji stays ''de facto'' leader.
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[[folder: Hiroshima Kureminami Technical School]]
!!'''Eikichi Machimiya'''
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-->Played by: Creator/TomokazuSeki (anime)
Third year ace sprinter for Hiroshima.
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!!'''Eikichi Machimiya'''
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-->Played by: Creator/TomokazuSeki (anime)
Third year ace sprinter for Hiroshima.
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[[folder: Hiroshima Kureminami Technical School]]
!!'''Eikichi Machimiya'''
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!!'''Komari Kishigami'''
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Third year ace sprinter for Hiroshima.
A newcomer to Kyoto Fushimi who first debuts in the storylines second year. [[{{Understatement}} Has a particular fixation with muscles.]]
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: His penchant for grabbing his competitors muscles would have gotten anyone in real life disquilified long ago.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He can accurately estimate his opponents next move by observing the subtle movements of their muscles.
* AxCrazy: Due to Midousuji's ToxicFriendInfluence, his loss of inhibition also made him undergo a lot of SanitySlippage.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His backstory is akin to a ComingOutStory GoneHorriblyRight.
** His interaction with Midousuji when the latter finally lets him feel his muscles happens behind closed doors, while everyone else is wondering what are they doing inside...
* {{Expy}}: Due to his StartOfDarkness and his SanitySlippage subsequently going into overdrive thanks to the influence of Midousuji, who is PracticallyJoker, Komari can be seen as a sports manga version of Harley Quinn.
* FanDisservice: The character who praises the muscles of other characters the most, yet resorts to deplorable means in order to enjoy them himself.
* {{Fetish}}: For muscles, to the point of invading the privacy of other men to feel their muscles.
* GogglesDoNothing: Subverted. His special glasses let him better observe his opponents from a distance and greatly enchance his analitical abilities.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted. Ironically, despite of being a villain, having a relatively slender physique and him being a relative unknown to the cycling world until his debut, Komari is a legitimately trained cyclist (with some supervision/mentoring by Midousuji).
* {{Mangst}}: Since he has a thin and frail body, and his parents raising him like a lady, it is implied that these circumstances were the impetus that lead to development of his sthenolagnia.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: ZigZagged. If he is intrigued by someone's muscles and approaches them, he will try to give himself some PlausibleDeniability as part of an excuse to touch their muscles without repercussions. That being said, during races he completely looses any self restraint and maniacally tries to touch other people's muscles.
* SanitySlippage: He was brought up in a strict, conservative background, forcing him to hide his fascination with muscles at the cost of severely damaging his psyche.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: [[spoiler: At first, his fixtation on muscles started in elementary school with Komari innocently wondering why another classmate had thicker arms. Over time, Komari slowly became aware of his compulsion to touch muscles. Then he met Midousuji who gave him an unique chance to finally get an outlet by promising him to let him touch Midousuji's muscles if Komari becomes a cyclist, catches up to him and passes him. Komari worked hard and after completing the challenge Midousuji keeps his word, with Komari being content with what he got... which only lead to Midousuji encouraging Komari to completely discard any semblence of self-restraint and fully embrace his obssesion.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Komari gets far better treatment from Midousuji than the rest of the team and is a lot more privy to Midousuji's more elaborate plans.
* WildCard: So much so that even ''Midousuji'' is unable to fully control him. [[spoiler: This come back to bite in the worst possible time during the third day of the storyline's second Interhigh.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Literally has blue hair.
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[[folder: Hiroshima Kureminami Technical School]]
!!'''The Hiroshima Team'''
* DemotedToExtra: A secondary antagonist threat in the storyline's first Interhigh, but are DemotedToExtra the following year.
* HufflepuffHouse: The fourth most prominent school in the story, but they only get very brief focus.
* OpposingSportsTeam: While the MeleeATrois between Sohoku, Hakone and Kyoto Fushimi is the focus of the story, Hiroshima along with Kumamoto Daiichi has the most prominent role amongst all the other teams.
!!'''Eikichi Machimiya'''
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-->Played by: Creator/TomokazuSeki (anime)
Third year ace sprinter for Hiroshima.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He can accurately estimate his opponents next move by observing the subtle movements of their muscles.
* AxCrazy: Due to Midousuji's ToxicFriendInfluence, his loss of inhibition also made him undergo a lot of SanitySlippage.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His backstory is akin to a ComingOutStory GoneHorriblyRight.
** His interaction with Midousuji when the latter finally lets him feel his muscles happens behind closed doors, while everyone else is wondering what are they doing inside...
* {{Expy}}: Due to his StartOfDarkness and his SanitySlippage subsequently going into overdrive thanks to the influence of Midousuji, who is PracticallyJoker, Komari can be seen as a sports manga version of Harley Quinn.
* FanDisservice: The character who praises the muscles of other characters the most, yet resorts to deplorable means in order to enjoy them himself.
* {{Fetish}}: For muscles, to the point of invading the privacy of other men to feel their muscles.
* GogglesDoNothing: Subverted. His special glasses let him better observe his opponents from a distance and greatly enchance his analitical abilities.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted. Ironically, despite of being a villain, having a relatively slender physique and him being a relative unknown to the cycling world until his debut, Komari is a legitimately trained cyclist (with some supervision/mentoring by Midousuji).
* {{Mangst}}: Since he has a thin and frail body, and his parents raising him like a lady, it is implied that these circumstances were the impetus that lead to development of his sthenolagnia.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: ZigZagged. If he is intrigued by someone's muscles and approaches them, he will try to give himself some PlausibleDeniability as part of an excuse to touch their muscles without repercussions. That being said, during races he completely looses any self restraint and maniacally tries to touch other people's muscles.
* SanitySlippage: He was brought up in a strict, conservative background, forcing him to hide his fascination with muscles at the cost of severely damaging his psyche.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: [[spoiler: At first, his fixtation on muscles started in elementary school with Komari innocently wondering why another classmate had thicker arms. Over time, Komari slowly became aware of his compulsion to touch muscles. Then he met Midousuji who gave him an unique chance to finally get an outlet by promising him to let him touch Midousuji's muscles if Komari becomes a cyclist, catches up to him and passes him. Komari worked hard and after completing the challenge Midousuji keeps his word, with Komari being content with what he got... which only lead to Midousuji encouraging Komari to completely discard any semblence of self-restraint and fully embrace his obssesion.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Komari gets far better treatment from Midousuji than the rest of the team and is a lot more privy to Midousuji's more elaborate plans.
* WildCard: So much so that even ''Midousuji'' is unable to fully control him. [[spoiler: This come back to bite in the worst possible time during the third day of the storyline's second Interhigh.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Literally has blue hair.
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[[folder: Hiroshima Kureminami Technical School]]
!!'''The Hiroshima Team'''
* DemotedToExtra: A secondary antagonist threat in the storyline's first Interhigh, but are DemotedToExtra the following year.
* HufflepuffHouse: The fourth most prominent school in the story, but they only get very brief focus.
* OpposingSportsTeam: While the MeleeATrois between Sohoku, Hakone and Kyoto Fushimi is the focus of the story, Hiroshima along with Kumamoto Daiichi has the most prominent role amongst all the other teams.
!!'''Eikichi Machimiya'''
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-->Played by: Creator/TomokazuSeki (anime)
Third year ace sprinter for Hiroshima.
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[[folder:Kumamoto Daiichi High]]
!!'''Kumamoto Daiichi High'''
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: They always get the shorter end of the stick no matter how hard they try.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Nominally the fifth most prominent school in the story. With Hiroshima getting their screentime in the first Interhigh race in the story, Kumamoto Daiichi gets a little more screentime as the next year's major secondary threat, but are quickly outmaneuvered even faster than Hiroshima and left in the dust.
* SuperGullible: BOTH Kyoto Fushimi and Hiroshima easily trick them into becoming their UnwittingPawn in similar circumstances.
!!Yoshiaki Taura
-->Voiced by: Tajiri Hiroaki
The loud, yet charismatic captain of the Kumamoto Daiichi team.
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* AnimalMotifs: Gorillas.
* DumbMuscle: Strong enough to be his team's captain, yet is easy to outsmart.
* HotBlooded: Sadly, guts alone can only get you so far...
* ReligiousBruiser: Downplayed. He pray in front of shrine before the race.
!!Shinya Ise
-->Voiced by: Yukitoshi Kikuchi (2nd year); Creator/MakotoFurukawa (3rd year)
Taura's successor as the Kumamoto Daiichi bycicle teams captain.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Subverted. He merely got a tan between his second and third year in high school, implied to be due to a lot of training outdoors.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Downplayed. While he is a bit of a jerk and wears glasses, it is clear that he is desperate to squize any sort of accomplishment before his time in high school ends, and partly to avenge his captain's humiliation from the previous year.
* RedBaron: 'Higo's Demon Sergeant'.
* TookALevelInBadass: In his third year race, he has taken charge of the team after Taura retiring, underwent TrainingFromHell and gained some extra muscle mass. It is still nowhere near enough to win.
[[folder:Kumamoto Daiichi High]]
!!'''Kumamoto Daiichi High'''
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: They always get the shorter end of the stick no matter how hard they try.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Nominally the fifth most prominent school in the story. With Hiroshima getting their screentime in the first Interhigh race in the story, Kumamoto Daiichi gets a little more screentime as the next year's major secondary threat, but are quickly outmaneuvered even faster than Hiroshima and left in the dust.
* SuperGullible: BOTH Kyoto Fushimi and Hiroshima easily trick them into becoming their UnwittingPawn in similar circumstances.
!!Yoshiaki Taura
-->Voiced by: Tajiri Hiroaki
The loud, yet charismatic captain of the Kumamoto Daiichi team.
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* AnimalMotifs: Gorillas.
* DumbMuscle: Strong enough to be his team's captain, yet is easy to outsmart.
* HotBlooded: Sadly, guts alone can only get you so far...
* ReligiousBruiser: Downplayed. He pray in front of shrine before the race.
!!Shinya Ise
-->Voiced by: Yukitoshi Kikuchi (2nd year); Creator/MakotoFurukawa (3rd year)
Taura's successor as the Kumamoto Daiichi bycicle teams captain.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Subverted. He merely got a tan between his second and third year in high school, implied to be due to a lot of training outdoors.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Downplayed. While he is a bit of a jerk and wears glasses, it is clear that he is desperate to squize any sort of accomplishment before his time in high school ends, and partly to avenge his captain's humiliation from the previous year.
* RedBaron: 'Higo's Demon Sergeant'.
* TookALevelInBadass: In his third year race, he has taken charge of the team after Taura retiring, underwent TrainingFromHell and gained some extra muscle mass. It is still nowhere near enough to win.
