Kogure Yuuya

Kogure Yuuya (木暮 夕弥) is one of the supporting characters in the original Inazuma Eleven game, and anime. He was a defender for Manyuuji. He also played in Raimon in season 2, then became a defender for Inazuma Japan. In the Inazuma Eleven GO series, Kogure is a defender and the captain of the Akizora Challengers soccer team.

Background
During his childhood when he was only a toddler, while being with his mother. She and him were at a train station when he was told by her to sit on a bench. His mother told him that she will be right back, and after waiting many hours for her to come back. Kogure believes that his mother abandoned him at the train station on purpose. To get over this horrible tragedy in his life he became a prankster.

Personality
Kogure is a supporting character with a very prankster attitude, it is shown how mischievous he can be through his signature laugh (ushi shi shi shi) which he does after he makes a statement made to make someone get shocked or after he plays a prank. He likes to trick other people. After some interaction with Otonashi and rethinking his attitude. Kogure wishes to join the Raimon team and helps them defeat Aliea Gakuen, after watching Aliea Gakuen demolish his team. He stows away on the caravan and becomes a longtime member of the team, using his impressive agility and capoeira skills during the game. He is seen scribbling in Megane's favorite comic, doing something to Kurimatsu's items, etc. The only one who has even the slightest control over his prankster tendencies is Otonashi Haruna.

In GO, it seems that he has a matured a little. Though some of his signature characteristics remain. He does not prank Otonashi anymore, and honestly shaked hands with her without tricking her. Though he still does his signature laugh.

Appearance
He has blue hair with two spikes on each side, and golden eyes. His hair can bend downwards like cat ears on some of the occasions he also has pointy ears. He is one of the shortest members on the team. His original clothing is Manyuuji's uniform which are beige color Yukata-like uniforms with a pair of short beige pants.

In GO, he is much much taller and wearing a pair of dark blue trousers and a dark-blue coat. His hairstyle is still the same, though his hair color has become a slightly darker blue and his chin has gotten sharper. He also seen wearing the Akizora Challengers uniform with a purple captain's band.

Season 2
He is from Manyuuji in Kyoto, and Otonashi was the one that urged him to be in the Raimon Eleven. Kogure made his debut in episode 35. His prankster attitude and mistrust of everyone stems from an event in his youth, when he was left at a train station by his mother. He was often off the team most of the time due to his lack of trust towards others and his pranks. The Inazuma Caravan visited his school during their travels and the Aliea Gakuen team "Epsilon" threatened to destroy Manyuuji if they couldn't defeat them. During the match, he becames scared with Raimon's and Epsilon power, saying that they are crazy. After the match, he joins Raimon Eleven.

Thanks to Otonashi's help, Kogure has found out his true abilities, and thus created his first hissatsu: Senpuujin. And then, in the match against The Genesis, he along with Touko and Tsunami formed a new defense hissatsu called Perfect Tower.

Season 3
In the FFI arc, Kogure is called by coach Hibiki to the Japan representative selection match. During the game, he uses Senpuujin to steal the ball from Sakuma. Later, he, along with Kazemaru Ichirouta and Kurimatsu successfully deflected Tsunami's Tsunami Boost. He is then chosen as one of the sixteen members of Inazuma Japan. During the match against Fire Dragon, Kogure becames scared with their tactics: Perfect Zone Press. After the game between Inazuma Japan and Knights of Queen, he smirked that Tachimukai didn't have his own hissatsu, and laughed that he was a Captain-copycat, urging Tachimukai to learn his own hissatsu.

Though they fought against The Empire and Kogure stated that they (he, Kabeyama, Tobitaka and Kurimatsu) will handle the passing of the ball even with the hissatsu tactics of the The Empire in effect. They also helped Tachimukai in completing Maou The Hand. In episode 100, after he pranked Someoka, Kogure lost himself in the forest. After some time, he encounters Hiroto after being tangled in leaves and vines. Later, the two enter in a match with two Kappas, but were unable to pass by them until Hiroto improved himself. In episode 126, he played in team B with the other Raimon members that joined later on.

During the match he is shown to have evolved Senpuujin to the "真" level. He also used the technique 真 Perfect Tower. It's also known that Kogure became Manyuuji's new captain.

Inazuma Eleven Go (Anime)
He appeared in episode 21 with his team, Akizora Challengers. They planned to play against another team, and it was said that the team was very excited because they haven't had a match in long time. But after it was canceled, Kogure didn't want to say it to the team, and arranged that they would play against Raimon instead. It is seen that he uses Senpuujin and stopped Sidewinder, but couldn't stop Buttobi Jump.

He lives in Kogarashi Manor with the other members of his team. Ten years later, he appears to be less mischievous and more smarter as Kidou has said that he works at a good company.

Quotes

 * Don't worry I won't trick you

Knownable Relatives

 * Unnamed Mother

Trivia

 * His birthday is ???.
 * His bloodtype is ???.
 * He is one of the few characters in Inazuma Eleven 2: Kyoui no Shinryakusha that have a chara change.
 * He shares his first name with Haibara Yuuya, a supporting character in Danball Senki W.
 * His English version name is Scott "Scotty" Banyan.

Voice Actresses

 * Japanese : Nami Miyahara
 * English : ???
 * all information on Kogure Yuuya came from http://inazuma-eleven.wikia.com/wiki/Kogure_Yuuya