Hiroshi Yagyū
Name	Hiroshi Yagyū
Kanji	柳生 比呂士
Romanji	Yagyū Hiroshi
Nicknames	Gentleman
School	Rikkaidai (3rd Year)
Class	3-A #20
Birthday	October 19
Notable Relatives	Unnamed (Parents) Unnamed (Grandfather) Unnamed (Younger Sister)
Style	Serve and Volley Right-Handed
Voiced by	Eisuke Tsuda (Japanese)

Hiroshi Yagyū (柳生 比呂士, Yagyū Hiroshi), is known to his peers as the Gentleman, though he did not live up to his alias at the Kantou finals when playing against the Golden Pair.

Contents 1 Background 2 Appearance 3 Personality 4 History 4.1 Two Years Prior To The Storyline 4.2 One Year Prior To The Storyline 4.3 Regionals 4.4 Prior To Nationals 4.5 Nationals 4.6 Prior To U-17 Camp 4.7 U-17 Camp 5 Tennis Record 6 Playing Style and Techniques 7 Trivia

BackgroundEdit

He is known to like Golf because the first club he joined in Rikkai Dai was the Golf club, until shortly after Niou persuaded him to join the Tennis club. Yagyuu is shown in an OVA to be a member of the Rikkai Dai student council, living up to his nickname The Gentleman.

AppearanceEdit

Yagyuu wears glasses and in the anime has purple hair while in the manga his hair is ginger. The anime shows his eyes to be silver and also somewhat beady.

PersonalityEdit

Yagyuu is shown to be respectful living up to his nickname as The Gentleman. He tends to always use honorifics. Yagyuu has a habit of frequently pushing up his glasses. Yagyuu and Niou are shown to be best friends, at first worrying about one another about the fact that the loser of their tie-break may have to leave the camp. Also to the fact that Niou managed to persuade him to join the Tennis club.

Like Tezuka and Sanada, he is serious in most things that he does. Also, he does not smile often like the former two. During the match with the Golden Pair, he sweats but does not show he is exhausted the way Nio did. As Nio was tired from the match, he played by himself for awhile until he could not hit Kikimaru's return, Nio returns it instead. It shows he was willing to assist his friend that taught him and convinced him into tennis.

He also has a habit of saying "AIDEU"

HistoryEdit

Two Years Prior To The StorylineEdit

Before joining the tennis Club, he was a member of the Golf Club of Rikkai. When Niō Masaharu invited him to join the tennis club. At first he declined Niō's invitation, but he joined eventually due to Niō's stubbornness. He trained tennis with Niō and even surpassed him. He became a regular after that.

One Year Prior To The StorylineEdit

During this year, Yagyuu won the Nationals with Rikkai Dai as he is shown in the Nationals winners photo.

RegionalsEdit

While impersonating his doubles partner Niō Masaharu, Yagyū took Niō's nasty personality to heart, creating the opportunity for Niō to knock Kikumaru Eiji temporarily unconscious.

Prior To NationalsEdit

Yagyū attended the ABC Tournament where he and Kaidō Kaoru defended Rikkai and his captain Yukimura Seiichi against members of Murigaoka.

NationalsEdit

Yagyū suffered his first official loss of the year in the National semifinals, but it was later revealed that the loss was deliberate to help Kirihara Akaya grow.

Prior To U-17 CampEdit

Yagyuu and the rest of Rikkai Dai carry on with their training after the Nationals, Yukimura Seiichi decides to make sure the players have fun while playing tennis after suffering his first official loss. However, during a training session, Yanagi Renji arrives to practice with a large amount of Inui Juices to show Rikkai Dai. The team, believing that Seigaku also enjoyed it, (unfortunately) willfully drank the drink. This is due to Rikkai Dai refusing to attend the Prince of Yakiniku challenge that Seigaku, Hyotei, Rokkaku, Higa, and Shitenhōji took part in just before the Nationals final (they were unaware of what side effects the Inui Juice put on those who drank it). The drink ended up wiping all members of the club.

Also sometime during this period, Yagyuu and Niou bumped into the Fuji Siblings at the cosplay section of the department store as shown through the Anime PairPuri. They were there because Yagyuu wanted to know where Niou got all the things he used for his tricks. With the appearence of the Gentleman and the Trickster, the Mizuki of the St. Rudolph regular & co. that were following the Fuji siblings believed both Seigaku and Rikkaidai were trying to recruit Yūta Fuji.

U-17 CampEdit

Yagyuu and the rest of his Rikkai Dai teammates Niō Masaharu, Yukimura Seiichi, Sanada Genichiro, Yanagi Renji, Jackal Kuwahara, Marui Bunta, Kirihara Akaya and recieve invitations the All-Japan Junior Training Camp. Which for the first time, allowed Middle Schoolers to compete for Representative places along with High Schoolers. Yagyuu like all the 50 middle schoolers, was able to obtain a ball that fell from the helicopter where the conditions were those without a ball must go home.

Afterwards, the Mental Coach arrives and asks individuals to pair up. Yagyuu pairs up with teammate and close friend Niō Masaharu. The Mental Coach coldly requests all pairs to play short tie-break games. The loser of the tie-break games must go home. Niou and Yagyuu play an entertaing tie-break game as Yagyuu breaks through Niou's tricks eventually and reveals his new Curving Laser Beam. Yagyuu wins against Niou, and then watches Yanagi and Kirihara's match along with Niou and Marui. Pair Puri Vol. 4 reveals that Yagyuu was amongst the first Middle Schoolers to win their place in the 6th Court along with Kirihara Akaya, Tachibana Kippei and Shiraishi Kuranosuke however the latter were fortunate to be put forward for additional shuffle matches and advanced to the 5th Court while Yagyuu stayed in the 6th Court with Hirakoba Rin, Sengoku Kiyosumi and others.

Yagyuu looks on with fellow 6th Court member Yukimura Seiichi as part of the large audience made by the rest of the Camp that watches the Team Shuffle between 5th Court and 3rd Court where the 5th Court became victors and swapped places with the latter. The middle schoolers then get involved in a massive pillow fight upon the return of the middle schoolers that lost their tie-break games. Yagyuu is then present at the camp for the return of the Top 10 and the shock upset news that No.s 11-19 have all been replaced by Middle Schoolers.

Tennis RecordEdit

Playing Style and TechniquesEdit

Yagyū is a serve and volley player, giving him an excellent net game. His most notable ability is a Golf Swing that rockets across the net like a Laser Beam and is powerful enough to blow the racket out of his opponent's hand.

Golf Swing A move where Yagyū performs a swing with the racket the same way one would swing to hit a golf ball where the ball has a precise path.

Laser Beam A high speed technique that is nearly impossible to return.

Curving Laser Beam The same speed and power as the laser beam but takes a curving path similar to Kaido's snake.

TriviaEdit

• Yagyuu's eyes have only been shown once in the series.
• Yagyuu is shown to be excellent at golf also.
• Yagyuu appears in the photo of Rikkai Dai winning the Nationals last year, implying Yagyuu was part of the team that won while they he was in his Second Year of Rikkai.
• Yagyuu came 23rd in the first in the 1st New Prince of Tennis Character Popularity Poll.