
He stopped playing soccer to study more because of his father's will.

Kazuhiro Hiramatsu He's one of Toshi's best friends, since they were young. He has a crush on Kazumi, but they always end up arguing, and he can't seem to bring himself to tell her so directly. Later he was called 'The miracle left,' he became the new no. But after rigorous shooting training when Kubo tested his left leg and ordered him to shoot using his left leg, Toshi discovered that he has immense weapon striker left leg that even caused Kubo to be amazed. At first Toshi was disgraced and protested against him. This caused Kubo to put him at separated training apart from their teammates. After examining his legs, Kubo found out that Toshi's true strength lies in his left leg, not right leg. He's anxious when see Toshi was not balanced in stepping. Kubo recognized that Toshi has different footings than other members. But later on, as the team started to recognize how great he was during middle-school, they let him join the training. At the very beginning when he joined the soccer club of Kakegawa High he's only assigned to do the laundry by Co-Captain Kamiya. Characters Toshihiko Tanaka The Main character of Aoki Densetsu Shoot! He's a freshman on the soccer team. The whole team decides to follow Kubo's example and play fun soccer, vowing to get to the Nationals in his name. He decides to join their team after making a bit of mayhem. Soon after, Mahori, a Brazilian-Japanese student appears. In the end, he joins the Kakegawa High School soccer club because he loves soccer and playing in the golden trio.Īfterwards, the team can't get over Kubo's death and lose to Fujita East before they get to the Nationals.


Shiraishi on the other hand quit soccer because he lost his temper and got into a fight that ended up disqualifying their team. It turns out that his father played soccer during his youth and, remembering how much he loved it, decides to let Hiramatsu play soccer but under the condition that he will keep his grades up as well. However, Hiramatsu loves soccer and wants to play so he confronted his father and says that he wants to play soccer with his friends and that he would never understand his love for soccer. Hiramatsu is forced to study by his father so that he would become a respectable adult. Now in high school, his friends do not want or cannot play soccer anymore. When Toshi played in junior high with two of his friends Kenji Shiraishi and Kazuhiro Hiramatsu, they were known as the Kakenishi golden trio. Toshihiko 'Toshi' Tanaka joined the same soccer club that his idol, Yoshiharu Kubo plays for at Kakegawa High School.
