Renji Yanagi
Name	Renji Yanagi
Kanji	柳 蓮二
Romanji	Yanagi Renji
Nicknames	Master Data Master Professor 3 Demons/Monsters of Rikkai
School & Class	Rikkaidai (3rd Year) - 3-F #19
Birthday	June 4
Notable Relatives	Unnamed (Parents) Unnamed (Grandparents) Unnamed (Older Sister)
Playing Style	Counter Puncher Data Tennis Right-Handed
Voiced by	Eiji Takemoto (Japanese)
Debut - Manga/Anime/Games/Movies	Chapter--/Episode--/--/The Battle of The British City

Renji Yanagi (柳 蓮二, Yanagi Renji) is a 3rd year regular at Rikkai Dai and is known as one of the Three Demons (Sannin Bakemono). He is a childhood friend of Sadaharu Inui, from Seigaku. He is known as the Data Master.

Contents 1 Background 2 Appearance 3 Personality 4 History 4.1 Three Years Prior To The Storyline 4.2 Two Years Prior To The Storyline 4.3 One Year Prior To The Storyline 4.4 Regionals 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

Yanagi usually plays in singles, but sometimes in doubles. He is the friend and former doubles partner of Sadaharu Inui, having been known as the "Professor". He keeps his eyes perpetually half-closed just as Inui hides his eyes behind his thick glasses. He is Inui's rival in using Data Tennis, having taught Inui in the first place. In New Prince of Tennis, reveals that he learned the Data Tennis from Mitsuya Akuto.

AppearanceEdit

Yanagi is a tall middle schooler with a bob cut hairstyle. He is often seen with his eyes slightly closed and he rarely opens them. His eyes are brown.

PersonalityEdit

Yanagi is quiet, mysterious, soft-spoken and and has a somewhat acid sense of humor though he is somewhat more approachable than the aloof and serious Sanada. Still, Yanagi can be as rough as the other Demons (Sanada and Yukimura) when required; in the manga, he once hit Kirihara for asking him a stupid question in public, and also asked Sanada to slap him if he lost against Inui.

HistoryEdit

Three Years Prior To The StorylineEdit

Yanagi and Inui attended the same Grade school and together formed a powerful Doubles team that went undefeated. They then decided to find out which one of them was the stronger one, so they decided to have a match which finished 5-4, which they vowed to continue. However, Yanagi moved to Kanagawa which meant they did not see each other for 4 Years, 2 Months and 15 Days as calculated by Inui.

Two Years Prior To The StorylineEdit

Yanagi won the Nationals in his freshman year at Rikkai Dai along with Yukimura Seiichi and Sanada Genichirou.

One Year Prior To The StorylineEdit

At the start of this year, during tennis club training, he meets Kirihara and utterly defeats him. Yukimura and Sanada do the same.

Yanagi won the nationals for the second time in a row, this time, in the Award photo is Yukimura Seiichi, Sanada Genichirou and Yagyuu Hiroshi.

RegionalsEdit

Rikkai Dai's Kirihara, Yanagi, and Sanada appears watching the Kanto Regiona's Round 1 match between Seigaku and Hyoutei- Tezuka and Atobe's match to be exact. They stay and watch Ryoma's match with Hiyoshi as well. It is interesting to note that during this appearence, the Rikkai tennis uniform appears red.

He played doubles with Sanada against Fudomine and won. Later, he played singles against his childhood friend, Inui but lost.

NationalsEdit

Yanagi pairs up with Kirihara for the D2 match against Inui and Kaidoh for the National Finals. When Kirihara goes into Devil Mode after Kaidoh hits him, Yanagi allows his teammate to continue on in that state, though he calms Kirihara down when Kirihara steps and breaks Inui's glasses. Yanagi does not stop Kirihara from hitting Inui, but tells Inui to give up because the match was pointless. They then win as the Seigaku pair forfeits, angering a Fuji who played S2 next against Niou.

Prior To U-17 CampEdit

Yanagi and Inui work on an Inui Juice recipe and Yanagi decides to bring the drink to the Rikkai tennis club.

U-17 CampEdit

Yanagi arrives to the U-17 camp with all of the other Rikkaidai regulars. He notices after watching Momoshiro's planned match that they should watch out for the coaches.

He pairs up with Kirihara during the Tiebreak elimination match, and was 1 point away from winning but then forfeits the game. He tells Kirihara that he needed to stay behind in the camp, saying "crawl higher," and then leaving with Sanada while his teammates looked on. Yanagi realized that Kirihara had to grow in order to lead the Rikkai tennis team to the Nationals next year.

All the Middle Schoolers that lost their tie-break are taken away from the camp by coach however the driver takes a detour and they are met by the Mental Coach who takes them to to a mountain. He tells them to climb a mountain by the camp if they want the chance to stay in the camp. Yanagi and the 26 other middle schoolers complete this task and end up meeting the High Schoolers who were unable to attain a ball from the helicopter. They train in the mountains.

Yanagi then leaves with the rest of the middle school losers and trains in the mountain, where he plays with the middle schoolers against the losing high schoolers on the court with an irregular bounce due to its topography.

However, he and Inui use their Data tennis and play the high schooler until it was 2 vs. 3 this was an unfair competition as in reality, the Middle Schoolers had won due to the High Schoolers having far more players on their team than the middle schoolers giving them the unfair advanatage. The Middle School losers are then forced to sleep in the cave due to losing this encounter so tightly. The next challenge involved having a balloon attached to all the members of the Mountain training's waist, both Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers.

The Middle Schoolers return back the main U-17 Camp, and completely defeat 2nd Court and send them away from the camp. Yanagi faces his Data Tennis teacher Mitsuya Akuto the All-Japan Junior No. 17. He utterly loses despite giving his best, Mitsuya effortlessly outplays him. Mitsuya then arrogantly challenges Inui Sadaharu who played audience between Mitsuya defeating Yanagi. Inui however, defeats Mitsuya, but Yanagi is seen wearing the No. 17 badge.

Yanagi and the majority of the camp play audience to the match between Top 10 and their Middle School challengers and he and the data players comment on the players of the 1st match No.10 Mouri Juzaburou his former Rikkai teammate in the year above him and No.9 Ochi Tsukimitsu.

Tennis RecordEdit

Playing Style and TechniquesEdit

Data Tennis - A style of tennis based on data gathered on the opponents. Inui also uses this style but Yanagi is able to calculate further than him even being able to predict what people are saying.

Kamaitachi - A super high speed slice that changes direction midair. While releasing what appears to be wind blades that stagger the opponent.

Cicada - A drop shot similar to Tezuka Kunimitsu's Zero Shiki Drop. The ball rolls toward the returner after landing.

TriviaEdit

• In the Musical, he is played by Kento Ono and by Yūki Yamaoki.
• His birthday is one day after his childhood friend's, Sadaharu Inui, June 3rd.
• He is the tallest member of Rikkaidai.