Shizuka Hakamada

About

Gender: Male
Birthday: September 3
Age: 16-20
Hair: short, black
Zodiac: virgo
Favorite color : blue
Likes/Hobbies: Basketball, Yuki
Dislikes: shrimp and crabs because they look like bugs

Shizuka Hakamada is a member of Misuzu Academy's basketball club, aged 16 (at the start of the story). He is calm and stoic around men, but also very shy and overly anxious around women, to the point he purposely hides from them, despite being extremely popular.

He was Shou Naruse's childhood friend. They were in the same basketball team during their elementary days, and promised to play against each other in the Inter-high championship, although Shou doesn't care much about it.

Although he easily gets annoyed by Shou's attitude, claims to hate him, and behaves like cat and dog with him, he's shown to consideri and respect him as a close rival, and sometimes even friend, throughout the story.

He deeply respects Yuki Machida for her dedication to the basketball club and quickly falls in love with her. However, he struggles to understand his own feelings and ends up making very clumsy attempts to express them, leading Yuki to misunderstand various situations.


He finally manages to clearly confess to Yuki the feelings he has for her. The situation doesn't change much, with Yuki not giving him an answer, leading to an awkward friendship.


After going too far in his advances, he is implicitly rejected by Yuki, saying that she feels sorry for him, but that she loves Shou, and that it will never change. This doesn't deter him, and he will continue to do his best to make her see him in a different way.


He consoles Yuki after an argument she had with Shou and asks her to go on a date with him for a day, which she agrees to. During it, they both realize that all she can think about is Shou, leading her to seriously reject Shizuka at the end of the day. He is ultimately satisfied to have had a clear answer. They remain good friends even afterward.