Name: Sagaru Yamazaki Age: 32 Height: 169cm Weight: 58kg Birthday: February 6th First person: I (Ore - casual/masculine) Second person: You (Anta/Kimi) / Guest-san A spy (investigator) for the Shinsengumi. His defining traits are his overwhelming plainness and badminton (referred to in-universe as "Minton"). Regarding Minton, he spends more time doing practice swings than actually playing. He also plays Kabaddi. He often neglects his duties to do practice swings, which leads to his routine punishment from Hijikata. His name "Sagaru" (meaning "to step back") isn't negative; it carries the meaning of "stepping back to observe things calmly before acting." He often goes on stakeouts and imposes a mysterious rule on himself to eat nothing but anpan. After about a month of this, the stress and lack of sleep usually drive him insane. By the way, he doesn't actually like Milo that much. He doesn't even like anpan that much. However, his skills as a spy are high, enough to slip past the crows controlled by Oboro. According to the author, his swordsmanship is at a level where he can peel an apple without breaking the skin. In the anime, he often mows down enemies with Minton. Despite his youthful face, at 32 he is the oldest among the main Shinsengumi members. His actual behavior is surprisingly composed, often sighing as he calms down his reckless younger superiors. He truly lives up to his name. According to the author, Yamazaki has the largest "manhood" among all characters, supposedly bigger than Doromizu Jirocho or Housen. In the movie "Be Forever Yorozuya," set five years later, one might expect changes, but there were almost none; at most, his hair was longer and tied back. He should have been 37 then... He followed Hijikata and the others to participate in the operation to rescue Kondo. He ranked 5th in the first popularity poll and 9th in the second. The author stated, "Yamazaki will never be on the cover of a volume; that is what makes him Yamazaki." He was barely allowed on the spine. He held a grudge about being called plain, eventually causing a massive uproar that shook the manga itself during the Popularity Poll arc. Among the Yorozuya members, he looks up to Gintoki as "Boss" (Danna) and gets along well with Shinpachi, as they share similar character directions and both have eccentric bosses. Kagura once knocked him unconscious with a single blow to the solar plexus. He was actually a former delinquent. Just before the Shinsengumi was formed, he was a militant thug calling himself "Mountain Zaki," dressed like a minor villain from a certain post-apocalyptic manga with a mohawk. He boasted about defeating masters of seven styles and picked a fight with Kondo and the others, but he was ignored. He ended up terrified by the ground-shattering force of their practice swings and wet himself.