Sangoku Taichi

Sangoku Taichi (三国太一) is one of the main characters in the Inazuma Eleven GO anime and game. He is the goalkeeper for Raimon.

Appearance
He is tall and has a brown hair and his eyes are black. He has a fair skin color. Tenma noted that Sangoku was a good cook in episode 9.

History
Sangoku suddenly had a flashback while playing during the match against Tengawara. It was shown that he was playing cheerfully with his friends in his childhood and how he was playing soccer with them as their goalkeeper.

Season 1
He is first seen along with the whole Raimon team that is led by Shindou Takuto to help the team that got attacked by Tsurugi Kyousuke. Afterwards they had a match against Tsurugi's team. He used Burning Catch to try to block Death Sword of Tsurugi, but he wasn't able to succesfully block it. Just like the other members he gets badly beaten. Afterwards Shindou releases a hissatsu and steals the ball but is severly tired and was sent to the hospital with Kirino Ranmaru by Shindou's side.

Later many members of the Raimon team quit which devastated the ones who were left. And Tsurugi comes in later stating that he is joining the Raimon team to which suprised everyone in Raimon. Afterwards, they had a match against Eito and had to lose since that was instructed to them by Fifth Sector, making Sangoku uneasy.

During Episode 9, Sangoku saw Matsukaze near the fields while he was going home after buying supplies. Sangoku invited Matsukaze at his home and taught him that he should also practice passing the ball, not just dribbling.

In Episode 10, the second half of the match against Tengawara, Sangoku suddenly has a flashback while playing. It was shown that he was playing with his friends in his childhood and how he was playing soccer with them as their goalkeeper then, the flashback ended. Suddenly, he got his will power back and focused on the game and protecting the goal. He threw the ball to them and one of the members of the opposing team thought the ball was open, but Shinsuke got it. Afterwards he had to block a Keshin hissatsu of another team but he was able to block it, in the end he was happy that the team won with a score of 2-1 meaning that Raimon will advance in the Holy Road tournament.

Afterwards, in the next match against Mannouzaka, the Raimon team and the others had a rough time and also Sangoku since he wasn't able to block most of Mannouzaka's hissatsu. But with the help all of the team members, the Raimon team won against Mannouzaka.

Hissatsu

 *  [GK] Burning Catch (バーニングキャッチ)
 * [GK] Mountain Giant

Trivia

 * His surname means "three kingdoms".
 * In the GO opening 2, it is seen Sangoku has learned a new hissatsu technique.
 * He shares the same seiyuu as Yamino Kageto﻿.