Personality: Hiruma's personality on the whole is rather bizarre and he demonstrates this in almost every situation, intimidating others with his eccentricities and his belligerent attitude. He chooses to approach his circumstances in a unique fashion; from the way he copes with stress to how he teaches people lessons, he is shown to be an amoral, vulgar character – an “anti-hero” in the eyes of the Eyeshield 21 cast. The Deimon quarterback is disreputable for being a foul-mouthed cretin whose violent behaviour scares the wits out of everyone he meets. He calls everyone by a specific nickname which starts with “fucking” and ends in the most descriptive feature of a person. “Fucking monkey” and “fucking fishlips” are two among many – anyone who disagrees with the derogatory name is subject to the wrath of his weaponry. He carries guns around everywhere and he always, always has one on him at any given moment. Hiruma even went as far as to build a weapon's silo underneath their team's clubhouse.
Being the excitable person that he is, when he's faced with exciting situations he tends to go all out to the point of ludicrousness. He celebrates things like well-executed plays by his team, touch-downs and winning games with flashy reactions including setting off fireworks, confetti, spraying fire hoses at large crowds and shooting dangerous weaponry into the air (a very common reaction, whether something happens as planned or not). He's prone to manic cackling during these activities when he's particularly pleased or is plotting something sinister... not to mention at the misfortune of people around him. He is rather easily entertained by such things as idiocy, overconfidence and failures and extremely quick to anger – say something uncultured about American football, mess with him personally or doing something inexplicably stupid. His short fuse is seen frequently, though one case is when Monta – the team's wide receiver – almost got disqualified for fighting with a referee. Hiruma ran after him screeching and firing bullets at him.
He holds no special regard for authority, his superiors, those he trains or any of the general populace. This is clear from the way he is constantly exploiting peoples' weaknesses through blackmail – where his infamous “Book of Threats” or the “Devil's Handbook” comes into play, a notebook supposedly filled with dirt on everyone he meets. He has managed to get funding for the American football club from the principal of Deimon High with relative ease as he threatened to tell the man's wife about an affair he was having. The extent of his manipulation is so notorious that his name is even known in the United States and when they travel there for training, they have no trouble getting into restricted places like casinos because of Hiruma and his extremely wide net of dirty information.
Known as one of the “brainy three” on his team, Hiruma is as intelligent as he is cunning. He makes up inventive ways of communicating to his teammates without the use of words to confuse their opponents, can see through enemy football teams' plays with ease and has an exceptional photographic memory. He can memorize an entire multi-paged booklet of unique sign-language cues the club manager, Mamori, created... in a matter of seconds. In Las Vegas at the end of the team's Death March across America, Hiruma won ¥20 000 000 (around $255 232) playing Black Jack by “counting cards”, basically keeping a running tally of all high and low valued cards seen by the player, an extremely difficult mathematical, memorization approach to the card game.
Hiruma hates the idea of showing his feelings to others. Having feelings would ruin his image, the carefully sculpted demon persona almost everyone but his teammates see when they look at him, would ruin the frightening factor, the element of surprise. He is verbally extroverted, but mentally introverted; he goes home alone, he sits alone on more than a few occasions (like on the Devil's Bats Death March across America) and shrugs worrywarts off. This is clear when members of his team – Musashi and Mamori – point out his struggles. He belittles the things they have to say, tells them it's all in their heads, replies sardonically in order to deflect the conversation away from himself...
He is goal-oriented – one of the main reasons why he acts the way he does. He says that “In American Football, you'll win if you scare the opponent outta their wits! You gotta become a badass in order to deal with the enemy!” Hiruma believes a lot of the game is about psyche-outs, tricks to confuse his opponents, taunts and intimidation. The writer of Eyeshield 21, Inagaki, stated that he intended to make a character “only concerned with winning” and who will do “whatever it takes to win”. He is unfalteringly stubborn, refusing at times to rest when he sees a goal is in sight – even when he received a broken arm in a later chapter, he asked Mamori to hide it with bindings so he could support is teammates. He's rarely ever seen slacking off or doing something that isn't for the benefit of the Devil Bats; his incessant hard-work is an important staple in the development of the Devil Bats, he even helps Musashi – a former construction worker who rejoins the team as their kicker – renovate and build parts of the football clubhouse.
He's selfish and exploits people to get whatever he wants whenever he wants, but at the same time selfless. He puts his team and their physical needs first – he is shown on the Death March to have neglected the health of his own legs while running in order to train the team's rookie players. It's clear that while Hiruma actively pretends not to harbour a conscience of any kind, on occasion he is sympathetic and even shows compassion to his fellow Devil Bat teammates. When someone tries their hardest and gives the absolute maximum they can possibly manage, he reaches out to help the underdog to bring their hopes up. When he made potential recruits for the American football team grab bags of ice, forcing them to climb the Tokyo tower before all of the ice had melted, Hiruma is seen assisting Yukimitsu – a cram school student with no talent at sports – at the last second by dropping an ice cube into Yukimitsu's bag, declaring that there was still one unmelted cube left.
And finally, more than anything, Hiruma is inspirational. He may be loud, crude and mischievous on and off the field, but when a chance to teach his team valuable lessons appears, he seizes each and every one of those chances. He is a walking, talking pep-rally for his friends, encourages his players to give their all whatever the circumstance and has a surprising amount of charisma that enables him to receive the hope and faith of his team, in some cases just by shouting “There's no fucking trashes that would think like that in the Deimon Devil Bats, right?!”
Abilites: • Excellent right throwing arm; it is seriously like a cannon, he beams the ball • Photographic memory, recalls the tiniest details, can memorize things in seconds • Tactical/strategical genius, good at solving problems and puzzles • Creepily good at card games like poker and blackjack • Pretty fast, his 40 yard sprint clocking in at 5.1 seconds • Is a great actor, using his skill in drama to confuse opponents Other: • Eats sugarless gum often • STATS: Position: Quarterback Jersey: 1 40 yard dash: 5.1 seconds Bench press: 165lbs (75kg) Height: 5'8" (176cm) Weight: 148lbs (67kg) Birthday: 02/07
Edited (Added his stats! orz) 2012-09-06 00:52 (UTC)
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Re: YOUICHI HIRUMA | EYESHIELD 21 | RESERVED
Being the excitable person that he is, when he's faced with exciting situations he tends to go all out to the point of ludicrousness. He celebrates things like well-executed plays by his team, touch-downs and winning games with flashy reactions including setting off fireworks, confetti, spraying fire hoses at large crowds and shooting dangerous weaponry into the air (a very common reaction, whether something happens as planned or not). He's prone to manic cackling during these activities when he's particularly pleased or is plotting something sinister... not to mention at the misfortune of people around him. He is rather easily entertained by such things as idiocy, overconfidence and failures and extremely quick to anger – say something uncultured about American football, mess with him personally or doing something inexplicably stupid. His short fuse is seen frequently, though one case is when Monta – the team's wide receiver – almost got disqualified for fighting with a referee. Hiruma ran after him screeching and firing bullets at him.
He holds no special regard for authority, his superiors, those he trains or any of the general populace. This is clear from the way he is constantly exploiting peoples' weaknesses through blackmail – where his infamous “Book of Threats” or the “Devil's Handbook” comes into play, a notebook supposedly filled with dirt on everyone he meets. He has managed to get funding for the American football club from the principal of Deimon High with relative ease as he threatened to tell the man's wife about an affair he was having. The extent of his manipulation is so notorious that his name is even known in the United States and when they travel there for training, they have no trouble getting into restricted places like casinos because of Hiruma and his extremely wide net of dirty information.
Known as one of the “brainy three” on his team, Hiruma is as intelligent as he is cunning. He makes up inventive ways of communicating to his teammates without the use of words to confuse their opponents, can see through enemy football teams' plays with ease and has an exceptional photographic memory. He can memorize an entire multi-paged booklet of unique sign-language cues the club manager, Mamori, created... in a matter of seconds. In Las Vegas at the end of the team's Death March across America, Hiruma won ¥20 000 000 (around $255 232) playing Black Jack by “counting cards”, basically keeping a running tally of all high and low valued cards seen by the player, an extremely difficult mathematical, memorization approach to the card game.
Hiruma hates the idea of showing his feelings to others. Having feelings would ruin his image, the carefully sculpted demon persona almost everyone but his teammates see when they look at him, would ruin the frightening factor, the element of surprise. He is verbally extroverted, but mentally introverted; he goes home alone, he sits alone on more than a few occasions (like on the Devil's Bats Death March across America) and shrugs worrywarts off. This is clear when members of his team – Musashi and Mamori – point out his struggles. He belittles the things they have to say, tells them it's all in their heads, replies sardonically in order to deflect the conversation away from himself...
He is goal-oriented – one of the main reasons why he acts the way he does. He says that “In American Football, you'll win if you scare the opponent outta their wits! You gotta become a badass in order to deal with the enemy!” Hiruma believes a lot of the game is about psyche-outs, tricks to confuse his opponents, taunts and intimidation. The writer of Eyeshield 21, Inagaki, stated that he intended to make a character “only concerned with winning” and who will do “whatever it takes to win”. He is unfalteringly stubborn, refusing at times to rest when he sees a goal is in sight – even when he received a broken arm in a later chapter, he asked Mamori to hide it with bindings so he could support is teammates. He's rarely ever seen slacking off or doing something that isn't for the benefit of the Devil Bats; his incessant hard-work is an important staple in the development of the Devil Bats, he even helps Musashi – a former construction worker who rejoins the team as their kicker – renovate and build parts of the football clubhouse.
He's selfish and exploits people to get whatever he wants whenever he wants, but at the same time selfless. He puts his team and their physical needs first – he is shown on the Death March to have neglected the health of his own legs while running in order to train the team's rookie players. It's clear that while Hiruma actively pretends not to harbour a conscience of any kind, on occasion he is sympathetic and even shows compassion to his fellow Devil Bat teammates. When someone tries their hardest and gives the absolute maximum they can possibly manage, he reaches out to help the underdog to bring their hopes up. When he made potential recruits for the American football team grab bags of ice, forcing them to climb the Tokyo tower before all of the ice had melted, Hiruma is seen assisting Yukimitsu – a cram school student with no talent at sports – at the last second by dropping an ice cube into Yukimitsu's bag, declaring that there was still one unmelted cube left.
And finally, more than anything, Hiruma is inspirational. He may be loud, crude and mischievous on and off the field, but when a chance to teach his team valuable lessons appears, he seizes each and every one of those chances. He is a walking, talking pep-rally for his friends, encourages his players to give their all whatever the circumstance and has a surprising amount of charisma that enables him to receive the hope and faith of his team, in some cases just by shouting “There's no fucking trashes that would think like that in the Deimon Devil Bats, right?!”
Abilites:
• Excellent right throwing arm; it is seriously like a cannon, he beams the ball
• Photographic memory, recalls the tiniest details, can memorize things in seconds
• Tactical/strategical genius, good at solving problems and puzzles
• Creepily good at card games like poker and blackjack
• Pretty fast, his 40 yard sprint clocking in at 5.1 seconds
• Is a great actor, using his skill in drama to confuse opponents
Other:
• Eats sugarless gum often
• STATS:
Position: Quarterback
Jersey: 1
40 yard dash: 5.1 seconds
Bench press: 165lbs (75kg)
Height: 5'8" (176cm)
Weight: 148lbs (67kg)
Birthday: 02/07