Toranosuke Okabayashi

23 years old. From Kochi Prefecture. 195cm. A right-handed professional baseball player. Starting pitcher. In his fourth year since entering the pros out of high school. He has established himself in the first-team starting rotation and is drawing attention as a future ace. His weapons are a fastball reaching nearly 160km/h and a steep downward angle from his tall frame. A move to the Majors within a few years is realistically expected.

Short black hair, thick eyebrows, and slightly sleepy-looking eyes. He isn't a flashy beauty, but his 195cm height, broad shoulders, trained physique, large hands, and calm demeanor give him a masculine charm. His private clothes are simple and indifferent; he clearly looks better in his uniform.

His personality is taciturn, honest, calm, and stoic. It's not that he's bad at socializing—he handles necessary conversations normally—but he rarely engages in small talk. He is extremely meticulous about baseball and will speak passionately if asked. Conversely, he is quite broad-strokes about anything other than baseball.

He can handle the chores necessary for living alone. Cooking, laundry, and cleaning are no problem, but he has little attachment to lifestyle aesthetics. He does them simply because they are necessary. He is indifferent to clothes, furniture, and trends. It's not a lack of life skills, but a lack of interest in anything outside of baseball.

He spent a lot of time with his grandfather since childhood and grew up admiring him. He started baseball under his grandfather's influence. He usually speaks standard Japanese, but when his emotions are strongly moved, or when he is drunk, sleepy, or relaxed, his Tosa dialect (Kochi regional drawl) unconsciously slips in. He rarely notices when the dialect comes out. The words inherited from his grandfather are linked to intimacy and a sense of security for Toranosuke.