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Keep moving forward. All by myself, until I reach my limits. Until my arms and legs fall off... I will go further and further forward!
— Akira Midousuzi
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Akira Midousuzi is a third-year student at Kyoto Fushimi High School and a member of the Kyoto Fushimi High Bicycle Racing Club, serving as its captain during the storyline's third year and its ace since his first year after defeating the club's ace at the time. After claiming the ace position, he has ruled the club like a dictator.

Appearance[]

Akira is tall with a remarkably long and flexible body and limbs, wide shoulders, a long neck, and a slender frame. He is described by the others as someone big and intimidating. He has wide, dark eyes and uniquely square teeth, and is often seen baring his teeth in a smile. He's also known for his extremely long tongue, which hangs out of his mouth while racing.

Akira first appears with medium-length hair that flips up at the nape of his neck, but he shaves it at the end of the second day of the 41st Summer Inter High into a buzzcut. During the Osaka race against Shoukichi Naruko, Akira sports a yellow mohawk in the manga; his mohawk appears white in the anime. Most recently, Akira appears at the 42nd Summer Inter High with a hairstyle similar to his initial one, albeit with blunt cut bangs. He also has strapped his thighs tight, only cutting the bandage lose on the final sprint, exposing his better-developed thighs, given his lean and extremely long frame.

Personality[]

Akira has a severe and eccentric personality; he'll do anything to win, and this includes constantly causing others emotional distress. He appears to particularly enjoy harassing Shunsuke Imaizumi due to their history, but anyone he races against becomes a target for his psychological torment and cunning. Akira has a tendency to call others, including his own teammates, "small fry" or "zaku" interchangeably. A commonly used word in his vocabulary is "gross." While it varies, he usually uses the word to describe the passionate sentiments of others, such as camaraderie or vengeful feelings. Akira takes great pride in his teeth. This stems from a comment his mother made about athletes needing beautiful teeth.

In the storyline second year, he becomes obsessed with turning everything into a wager, even when it is not directly affecting him. He also become sadistic and obsessive with trying to metamorphosize his racing style. However: He is very doting of his late mother, but because of this: He'd race as if it was his final days on Earth, but by the time he burnt himself out and again dropping out 3km from the end of the race, while indirectly helping Imaizume break through and ride clear of him, it was too late for the team to heed or realize the seniors' warnings.

Skills and Techniques[]

As an all-rounder, Akira has impressive talent in every area. He beat Koutarou Ishigaki by over three minutes on the Uroshige Mountain Road. He uses his spindly frame and flexibility to his advantage in strange ways that surprise and disarm his opponents. Akira's greatest talent lies in his intellect and tactical prowess, exemplified by how he creates contingency plans for nearly every circumstance, from environmental changes to unexpectedly strong opponents, which helped him win the sprint and mountain checkpoints on Day 2 of Inter High. His combination of high mental and physical ability make him a truly formidable opponent.

Akira makes a point of researching every member from opposing teams that might pose a threat. He wastes no time in trying to break down his opponent's mentality so that he may use their pasts, fears, and weaknesses against them during a race. His efforts in this have been generally successful: Akira has bested Imaizumi multiple times through talking down to him by presenting to him worst case scenarios and blatantly laying out his weaknesses. In addition, Akira has researched Hayato Shinkai's past and used his trauma related to passing cyclists on the left to his advantage, though the that race didn't end up going according to Akira's plan. Even so, he was able to adapt in an all-out sprint and claim victory at the checkpoint, seemingly dropping Hakone Academy's morale as planned. He makes most of Kyoto Fushimi's strategies in race. Those strategies are divided into phases with certain numbers. These phases refer to certain task like: making rotation when drafting team to chases opposing team, dropping tired teammates on climb, etc. Although these term sounds rigid, Akira was able to make some adjustments in case the phases he had planned get disturbed or foiled.

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Akira's extreme dancing.

Akira's dancing technique involves leaning over the front of his bicycle to an extreme degree, where his body is leaned over his handlebars and his face is nearly touching the ground. This position streamlines his body in order to cut through wind resistance. His bike, a De Rosa he obtained as a child, has a modified saddle height and handlebar extenders to make up for the fact that the frame of the bike itself is too small. Akira claims that the reason he has a bike with such a build is because it cuts down on the weight. This build allows not only his extreme riding position, but it also gives him the ability to use his long limbs to his advantage, as seen during his sprint battle with Hayato.

His "real form" is activated when he rolls up the sleeves of his jersey and the legs of his shorts, followed by a gross extension of his neck and release of his full muscle power. This makes him terrifyingly powerful. He can still perform "Full-Throttle Dive Banks" to hug the pedal to the side of the curb while cornering at full speed. When he is in this mode in downhill section, he can ignore wind resistance and make up seemingly impossible time gaps all by himself. His bike control is also insane, as shown by his"dive bank technique", which is akin to a tight slalom turn, where he would carry dangerous speeds heading into a downhill corner before leaning and dropping his center of gravity as low as possible to the point of almost slipping out and falling, while lightly bounce off the road to right himself to regain balance.

His "Morphed sprint form" is called the "Grasshopper/Locust form", where his head and back are parallel to the ground, while having his elbows sticking as far back as possible. By year two, he can also use a form of it in climbs, but he also has his better-developed thighs strapped, and only releasing them in the final sprint. This is also a very helpful for bike control in the rain.

Known Personal Achievements[]

Year Race Placement Repesenting Team
? Arashiyama Hill Climb 1st -
? 15th Fushimi Road Race 1st -
1 Year Pre-Series 11th Chiba Cycling Road Race 1st Tachibana

Etymology[]

  • The name Akira means "soar, glide, fly" (翔).
  • Akira's surname Midousuzi means "control, honorable" (御) (mi), "hall" (堂) (dou) and "logic, muscle, stripe, line, plot, sinew, string" (筋) (suzi/suji).

Trivia[]

Favourite foods
  • Eel
  • Tofu
  • Egg
Hobbies
  • Bicycles; favourite manufacturer is De Rosa
  • He watches the Royal Forces anime, the same one that Sakamichi's stickers are from and is a fan of (his opinion on it is unknown)
Eyesight
  • 20/10 vision
Favourite music
  • Western music
  • British music
  • Children's songs
Misc

References[]

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