
He also appears aloof and somewhat unmotivated before meeting Tsukushi. Unlike Tsukushi, though, Jin is considered a genius footballer, tall, good-looking, eccentric, and incredibly popular and extroverted. Jin Kazama ( 風間 陣, Kazama Jin) Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka He is a freshman in Seiseki High School, like Tsukushi, and like him he also plays as a forward. Tsukushi lost his dad as a child and lives with his mom, who is paralyzed and has to use a wheelchair. Although quite clumsy at the start, Tsukushi shows amazing perseverance and effort which allow him to become a fundamental part of the team. He manages to make it to the team despite being incredibly frail, weak and clumsy thanks to his continuous efforts and amazing perseverance, and further he shows incredible ability in motivating the rest of the team to work as hard as possible.Ĭharacters Main characters Tsukushi Tsukamoto ( 柄本 つくし, Tsukamoto Tsukushi) Voiced by: Takuto Yoshinaga He is a high school freshman who plays as forward for Seiseki High School. He finds out later that Jin will also be a freshman at Seiseki, and decides to join the football club to play with him, unknowing that the football club in Seiseki is nationwide famous and looked after by students from all the country. After a final sprint, Tsukushi manages to score the decisive goal, smashing his head against the pole by doing it. Short, young and clumsy, Tsukushi plays incredibly bad but keeps running throughout the whole match despite having injured his foot, showing such an effort that it motivates his other teammates. Tsukushi surprises Jin by showing up after running almost ten miles under the heavy rain and without one shoe, after another run-in with his bullies.

Jin then asks Tsukushi if he likes football and asks him to join him the same night for a futsal match as his team is one player short. Just as he is bullied after visiting Sayuri at her work, Tsukushi is saved by Jin Kazama, who scares away the bullies by attacking them with nunchucks, and declares himself to be a vagrant and lost in town.

He decides to get into Seiseki High School so he can be with his neighbour and childhood friend Sayuri Tachibana, who is one year his senior. Days follows the struggles of Tsukushi Tsukamoto, a shy, clumsy and bullied teenager about to start high school.
