- Overview
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Kimitaka Koga is a former student at Sohoku High School and was a member of the Sohoku High Bicycle Racing Club, serving as one of its regular members during his first year and as club mechanic, in charge of maintaining the club's equipment.
Appearance[]
Kimitaka is relatively tall and has broad shoulders. He has short dark brown hair and wears glasses. He wears an old Sohoku uniform, which is pink and green in color, over the traditional yellow uniform when he rides.
Personality[]
Kimitaka normally is kind to his teammates and cares for their well being, such as picking up Sakamichi Onoda and giving him drinks to help with his motion sickness. However, he's shown to take the burden of responsibility on his wide shoulder and have a serious competitive streak while racing, especially given he would disobey doctors' and team orders to drop out and try to ride injured.
Kimitaka has also received a nickname from his peers about his obsession with working out too hard. (Some translations use "Stamina Idiot/Simpleton" while others use "Fitness Freak")
Skills and Techniques[]

Kimitaka's broad shoulders are said to make the sound of a train when he rides by, and he's well known by his peers for being obsessed with stamina. He is a strong all-rounder but isn't refined due to taking a break from cycling.
In the third year, he is able to use his broad shoulders to bump and block Junta Teshima and reduce side draft by riding as close to the wall as possible.
He also instilled great advice to Sakamichi about riding closer to the person in front (closer to and beside the gears of the back wheel instead of directly behind them) to save energy on the flats during a crosswind.
He has ridden the entire course for the 42nd Inter High by himself, so he used the reconnaissance video data to host the meeting in his apartment flat. In the actual race, he acted as support person, and legally push-started Kaburagi Issa on Day 2, just as he was about to retire.
Etymology[]
- The name Kimitaka means "nobility" (公貴).
- Kimitaka's surname Koga means "old, antiquity, ancient time, used, secondhand" (古) (ko) and "congratulations, joy" (賀) (ga).
Trivia[]
- Likes
- Broccoli, meat sauce, and pizza.
- Hobbies
- Kimitaka is very good at bike repair, and is "well aquainted with injuries."
- Misc
- Kimitaka tends to eat slowly, differently from his former teammates Shoukichi, Hajime and Jin.
- Kimitaka owns five pairs of glasses.
- When trying to see how long he could stay on the rollers himself his record came to 6 hours and 40 minutes.
- He lives in an apartment building, but given Yusuke, who hosted last year's meeting, lives in a multi-story mansion, Sakamichi thought that Kimitaka owns the entire building and many cars, a sentiment shared by Issa Kaburagi.
- Kimitaka was supposed to make his debut during the story's first year, but his appearances and speeches were replaced by the other characters, such as Miki and Junta.
- His favorite subject is Math.