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Yasutomo Arakita is a second-year student at Yonan University and a member of Yonan University Bicycle Racing Club. During his high school, he was a student of Hakone Academy and was a member of the Hakone Academy Bicycle Racing Club, which he served as Juichi Fukutomi's assist in races.
Appearance[]
Yasutomo is known for his narrow eyes with eyelashes on his lower eyelids, his expressive mouth and for the different hairstyles he had through the years. During his middle school, Yasutomo had a shaved buzz-cut hairstyle due to his time at the Yokohama Hinoe Middle Baseball Club, following the Japan's baseball players pattern of doing it in order to learn discipline and perseverance.
After graduating and going to high school, Yasutomo styled his hair into a pompadour, but he later cut it off after meeting Juichi and going to the Hakone's bicycle club. His hair was quite short afterwards, but his bangs have grown out into his current hairstyle, still short, but long enough to reach his eyes.
Personality[]
During his middle school, Yasutomo was arrogant because of his incredible talent in the baseball club. He constantly bragged himself about his skills and looked down on the other members of the club. After the injury that hampered his baseball skills and for being mocked up by other members of the club, Yasutomo turned into a more explosive person on high school who tends to take out his frustrations on others, even by the simplest things.
Eventually, Yasutomo met Juichi and started to practice in the Hakone's notorious bicycle club who gave him results from his training and matured him as a person. Although he still have a somewhat aggressive behavior and constantly externalizes it with his words, Yasutomo became more respectful towards his teammates and acknowledges someone's efforts and skills. He still has a competitive personality which he inherited from the baseball club and is usually doing his best in order to bring victory to him and his team overall.
He can also use his nose to "smell" and analyze others, seeing if they are hardworkers, can slack off or even if they are prideful persons. Because of his straightfoward and shouty way to others, people end up fearing him or, in some cases, gradually growing some respect for him due to his skills and actions. Yasutomo has also become more respectful towards his seniors and is constantly seem talking formally with them.
Skills and Techniques[]
During his middle school, Yasutomo was a notorious pitcher on his baseball club, being able to do uncatchable throws and making his team win with great scores. Eventually, because of his achievements on the team, he became the ace of the club. After injurying himself and not being able to play like before, Yasutomo quit the baseball and went to Hakone's bicycle road racing club in his high school, the strongest one at the time for its countless victories on Inter High's.
As a cyclist, Yasutomo improved himself and was able to win races representing the club, eventually becoming a regular in during his third year. Yasutomo is capable of riding at dangerous angles, even leaning over far enough to brush against the guardrail that runs along the road and his pedals hitting against the ground. He can also analyze the small gaps between the cyclists and pass through them, always seeking for the best timing and position to perform his attacks.
Known Personal Achievements[]
Trivia[]
- Likes
- Meat
- Soft drinks (Bepsi)
- Selfish girls
- Is a cat lover
- Sweets and would accept valentine’s chocolate.
- Talents
- Turning corners on his moped
- Can do a backflip
- Cooking (Is only good at making scrambled eggs.)
- Kendama
- Hates
- People who tell others to "hang in there!"
- Misc
- His hometown is Yokohama, and his family lives in a high-class neighborhood. They own a dog called Akichan, whose name Yasutomo based his e-mail address on. Akichan is a Papillon.
- Has a driver's license.
- Yasutomo got his bad mouth from fighting with his two younger sisters.
- The pose he makes with his hand is called the "gabu gabu" ("bitey bitey") pose. Watanabe thought it looked strong.
- He is susceptible to cold because he has very little body fat.
- After graduating, Yasutomo lives in an apartment on his own.
- Yasutomo's Bianchi is named "Bian". He keeps it with him after graduating.
- After Shinkai, Yasutomo is the Hakone member that eats the most.
- Watanabe says he means to draw Yasutomo ugly.
- He feeds the black cat that lives near Hakone Academy to the point that it's grown overweight.[1].
- Yasutomo doesn't do well on roller coasters.[2]
- Yasutomo uses many shortcuts for his schoolwork.[3][4] However, when necessary, he can push himself and use his "wild beast sense" to do well on exams, and his scores are good when he uses scantron sheets.
- He attends Yonan University after graduating High School instead of Meisou University, where Fukutomi and Shinkai attend, because Meisou doesn't have the department he wanted. He got into the university not from recommendation, but by passing its entrance exam.
- He's afraid of eyedrops.
- He has a talent to 'sniff out' underclassmen's potential, which offended Kuroda, but turns out to be accurate.