 Being one of the smallest in the team, as seen in the first year tryouts, he was reassigned to the guard position by Akagi.He is one of the five first year students who passed the tryout, alongside Sakuragi, Rukawa, Sasaoka and Iishi.It was revealed in the anime that he is inspired to become better at basketball because of Sakuragi and Rukawa's success as newcomers in the team.