Sakuma Jirou

Sakuma Jirou  is one of the supporting characters in the Inazuma Eleven game, manga and anime. He is a forward and midfielder of Teikoku Gakuen and Inazuma Japan. He also was a forward of Shin Teikoku Gakuen in season 2. In the Inazuma Eleven GO series, he is the coach-assistant of Teikoku Gakuen and is a member of Resistance. In Inazuma Eleven GO VS Danball Senki W, he is a defender for Inazuma Legend Japan.

Profile
Inazuma Eleven=
 * "Supports the team as a strategist, coordinating the other players."

Normal form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven 2=
 * "He supports the team as a strategist, coordinating the other players."

Shin Teikoku Gakuen form
 * "He's been integral to the efforts to create a leaner, meaner Teikoku team."

Inazuma Eleven GO=
 * -|Inazuma Eleven 3=
 * "A striker with a powerful shot. He's been known to help Kidou on the pitch."
 * "A striker with a powerful shot. He's been known to help Kidou on the pitch."

Young form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone=
 * "A striker with a powerful shot. Known to help Jude out on the pitch."

Adult form Inazuma Eleven Strikers=
 * "Teikoku Gakuen's trainer, he helps Kidou out with his team."
 * "A striker with a powerful shot. Supports Kidou as his lieutenant."

Appearance
He has a light cyan hair, tan skin and has a gray eye-patch covering his right eye. In Shin Teikoku, he has longer hair, and his eye-patch has a hole to show his right eye, which has a black sclera. His hairstyle is similar to Tominaga, Miyasaka and Rika's. In Inazuma Eleven GO, his hair is waist-length and is wearing a suit. His eyepatch is brown instead of gray.

Personality
He was first shown to be arrogant, however, during the local Football Frontier finals against Raimon, he sided with Kidou and said he would not follow Kageyama anymore. However, he is still shown to be competitive and would do anything to win when he resorted to using a forbidden technique when he fought Raimon as the striker of Shin Teikoku Gakuen. However, he is actually pretty nice and is shown to care a lot for Kidou. He is also quite fast at running and receiving. He also did not like Fudou Akio at first, since Fudou was creating problems for Kidou, but after learning that Fudou has changed, they changed their view of Fudou otherwise.

In GO, he seems to have matured more, though he was still a bit arrogant but he is more serious while helping Kidou in Teikoku Gakuen with the training preparations for the team.

Season 1
He along with other Teikoku Gakuen members agreed with Kidou that Kageyama was wrong so they separated from him. Teikoku loses against Raimon. Even so, Teikoku advance to the next round. His team loses against Zeus. He is also seen with Kidou watching the game Raimon against Occult.

Season 2
In the Aliea Gakuen Arc, after Kidou leaves Teikoku and joins Raimon's team, he and Genda become part of Shin Teikoku Gakuen with Fudou as the new captain. Apparently, Fudou had used the power of the Aliea Meteorite to persuade Sakuma and Genda to join him because two of them are still upset at Kidou for leaving Teikoku. This is shown in the match of Raimon against Shin Teikoku Gakuen when Sakuma used Koutei Penguin 1gou shot in order to defeat Raimon's team, saying that with this technique, he could finally beat Kidou and kept using the technique despite Kidou's protests. After a heated battle which ended in a tie, Sakuma collapses from overusing Koutei Penguin 1gou and is taken to the hospital. However, before that, he apologizes to Kidou for taking things too far and tells Kidou that he would like to play with him sometime again. He reappears in episode 56 along with the other old Teikoku Gakuen members to help Endou, Kidou and Domon master Death Zone but has not recovered from his leg injury and is shown holding a crutch. He helped Kidou understand how to fully master Death Zone, saying that Raimon each has its own abilities, while Teikoku are all exactly on the same level. After that watches Raimon's macth against Chaos. He is also seen watching Raimon's match against the Dark Emperors in Teikoku.

Season 3
In the third season Sakuma is invited to the FFI recruitment match. Sakuma wasn't chosen for the team, but joins them after the Asia preliminaries to replace Midorikawa who got injured and goes to the islands with the rest of the Raimon team to represent Japan. He, Kidou and Fudou are shocked to find Kageyama there, and proceed to investigate what their old coach is up to. Later he follows Kidou down to Demon's Gate to rescue Otonashi Haruna, which they are successful in. Afterwards they battled against The Kingdom and won. Their final match against Little Gigant was tough, but they eventually won. He is later seen to be visiting Raimon in their graduation.

Inazuma Eleven GO
He is now 24 years old. He is seen with Kidou Yuuto towards the end of episode 14 and in episode 15. He gives the orders to Teikoku's players. It is stated that his true goal in the current Teikoku is to get rid of SEEDs in his team. He is one of the Resistance's members. When Raimon's goes to the Resistance base, he warns Yamana Akane that photos aren't allowed because whatever they witnessed must be kept secret. He is the trainer for Teikoku's players.

Recruitment
Inazuma Eleven 2= (Note: You cannot scout Sakuma if he isn't discharged from the hospital.)

In order to recruit Sakuma in the second game, Teikoku Gakuen has to be defeated first at Furukabu's taisen route. After this, select him in the machine and wait until Hibiki calls. He will appear near the Oumihara's lighthouse. However, the requirement to battle him is that Kidou must be in the first four player team.

Young form In order to scout Sakuma, the following requirements are needed: After this, he can be scouted for an amount of 1690 Kizuna points.
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone=
 * Item: Classic Melody (なつかしのメロディ, randomly dropped from Team Bomber at Fuyukai's taisen route)
 * Item: Koutei Penguin 2gou Doll (皇帝ペンギンくん2号, randomly dropped from Protocol Omega 2.0 at Handa Shinichi's taisen route)
 * Player: Rage

Adult form In order to scout Sakuma, the following requirements are needed: After this, he can be scouted for an amount of 2600 Kizuna points.
 * Item: Prestigious Trophy (栄えあるトロフィー, randomly dropped from Inazuma Legend Japan at Hirai's taisen route)
 * Player: Sakuma Jirou (young)
 * Player: Genda Koujirou

Adult form In order to scout Sakuma, the following requirements are needed: After this, he can be scouted.
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy=
 * Coin: 4 Purple (紫4)
 * Item: Koutei Penguin-kun 1gou (皇帝ペンギンくん1号, randomly dropped from Masuraozu (マスラオズ) in Inazuma Town)
 * Item: Prestigious Trophy (栄えあるトロフィー, randomly dropped from Team Endou (チーム円堂) at Fuyukai Suguru's left taisen route)
 * Item: Tattered Soccer Magazine (ボロボロのサッカー雑誌, randomly dropped from Noisy Noise (ノイジーノイズ) at Kanda Satoko's left taisen route)
 * Topic: Difficult Puzzles (難しいパズルの話題, obtained at Raimon's second building)

Stats
All stats are at level 99 and untrained.

Inazuma Eleven=
 * GP: 193
 * TP: 193
 * Kick: 70
 * Body: 60
 * Control: 78
 * Guard: 66
 * Speed: 66
 * Stamina: 67
 * Guts: 71

Teikoku Gakuen form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven 2=
 * GP: 193
 * TP: 193
 * Kick: 70
 * Body: 60
 * Control: 78
 * Guard: 66
 * Speed: 66
 * Stamina: 67
 * Guts: 71
 * Freedom: 27

Shin Teikoku Gakuen form
 * GP: 193
 * TP: 193
 * Kick: 70
 * Body: 60
 * Control: 78
 * Guard: 66
 * Speed: 66
 * Stamina: 67
 * Guts: 71
 * Freedom: 18

Inazuma Japan form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven 3=
 * GP: 124
 * TP: 126
 * Kick: 70
 * Body: 60
 * Control: 61
 * Guard: 53
 * Speed: 58
 * Stamina: 70
 * Guts: 67
 * Freedom: 13

Shin Teikoku Gakuen form Inazuma Eleven GO=
 * GP: 129
 * TP: 115
 * Kick: 75
 * Body: 60
 * Control: 57
 * Guard: 49
 * Speed: 58
 * Stamina: 76
 * Guts: 58
 * Freedom: 20
 * GP: 134
 * TP: 164
 * Kick: 92
 * Dribbling: 96
 * Technique: 86
 * Block: 97
 * Speed: 96
 * Stamina: 87
 * Catch: 70
 * Lucky: 92

Adult form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone=
 * GP: 147
 * TP: 139
 * Kick: 162
 * Dribbling: 131
 * Block: 97
 * Catch: 75
 * Technique: 120
 * Speed: 126
 * Stamina: 85
 * Lucky: 55
 * Freedom: 52

Young form
 * GP: 136
 * TP: 142
 * Kick: 149
 * Dribbling: 116
 * Block: 100
 * Catch: 68
 * Technique: 109
 * Speed: 116
 * Stamina: 71
 * Lucky: 90
 * Freedom: 68

Young form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy=
 * GP: 136
 * TP: 142
 * Kick: 149
 * Dribbling: 116
 * Block: 100
 * Catch: 68
 * Technique: 109
 * Speed: 116
 * Stamina: 71
 * Lucky: 90
 * Freedom: 240

Adult form
 * GP: 147
 * TP: 139
 * Kick: 162
 * Dribbling: 131
 * Block: 97
 * Catch: 75
 * Technique: 120
 * Speed: 126
 * Stamina: 85
 * Lucky: 55
 * Freedom: 200

All stats are fully upgraded.

Inazuma Eleven Strikers= Teikoku form
 * TP: 160
 * Kick: B
 * Guard: C
 * Body: B
 * Speed: B
 * Control: B
 * Catch: B

Shin Teikoku form
 * TP: 160
 * Kick: A
 * Guard: C
 * Body: B
 * Speed: B
 * Control: B
 * Catch: B

Inazuma Japan form
 * TP: 150
 * Kick: A
 * Guard: B
 * Body: A
 * Speed: B
 * Control: B
 * Catch: C

Teikoku form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme=
 * TP: 160
 * Kick: B
 * Guard: C
 * Body: B
 * Speed: B
 * Control: B
 * Catch: B

Shin Teikoku form
 * TP: 160
 * Kick: A
 * Guard: C
 * Body: B
 * Speed: B
 * Control: B
 * Catch: B

Inazuma Japan form
 * TP: 150
 * Kick: A
 * Guard: B
 * Body: A
 * Speed: B
 * Control: B
 * Catch: C

Teikoku form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO Strikers 2013=
 * TP: 180
 * Kick: A
 * Guard: B
 * Body: A
 * Speed: A
 * Control: A
 * Catch: A

Shin Teikoku form
 * TP: 180
 * Kick: S
 * Guard: B
 * Body: A
 * Speed: A
 * Control: A
 * Catch: A

Inazuma Japan form
 * TP: 170
 * Kick: S
 * Guard: A
 * Body: S
 * Speed: A
 * Control: A
 * Catch: B

Adult form
 * TP: 170
 * Kick: S
 * Guard: A
 * Body: S
 * Speed: S
 * Control: S
 * Catch: A

Hissatsu
Inazuma Eleven=
 * Divine Arrow
 * Koutei Penguin 2gou
 * Bunshin Feint
 * Killer Slide


 * -|Inazuma Eleven 2=
 * Offense Force
 * Judge Through
 * Koutei Penguin 2gou
 * Koutei Penguin 1gou


 * -|Inazuma Eleven 3=
 * Offense Force
 * Reppuu Dash
 * Koutei Penguin 2gou
 * Space Penguin

Shin Teikoku Gakuen form
 * Koutei Penguin 1gou
 * Koutei Penguin 2gou
 * Naraku Otoshi
 * Offense Force

White Team form Inazuma Eleven GO=
 * Killer Fields
 * Offense Force
 * Koutei Penguin 3gou
 * Zokuseikyouka
 * Koutei Penguin 7
 * Koutei Penguin 2gou
 * Sprint Warp
 * Assist!

Young form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone=
 * Koutei Penguin 7
 * Koutei Penguin 2gou
 * Kuroshio Ride
 * Assist!

Adult form
 * Koutei Penguin 7
 * Koutei Penguin 3gou
 * Deep Jungle
 * Assist!

Young form
 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy=
 * Koutei Penguin 2gou
 * Assist!
 * Koutei Penguin 7
 * Kuroshio Ride

Adult form Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin= Inazuma Eleven Strikers=
 * Assist!
 * Koutei Penguin 7
 * Deep Jungle
 * Koutei Penguin 3gou
 * Koutei Penguin 1gou
 * Twin Boost
 * Death Zone
 * Koutei Penguin 1gou
 * Koutei Penguin 3gou
 * Naraku Otoshi


 * -|Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme=
 * Twin Boost
 * Death Zone
 * Koutei Penguin 1gou
 * Koutei Penguin 3gou
 * Naraku Otoshi


 * -|Inazuma Eleven GO Strikers 2013=
 * Koutei Penguin 7
 * Last Death Zone
 * Koutei Penguin 3gou
 * Koutei Penguin 1gou
 * Death Zone
 * Twin Boost
 * Naraku Otoshi
 * Deep Jungle

Inazuma Eleven GO

 * Doukeshi Phantom

Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone

 * Kaitei Neptune (Young form)

Best match Mixi Max

 * Kidou Yuuto
 * Okehazama Wall
 * Genda Koujirou
 * Ikemen UP!

Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone

 * Power of Penguin Carnival is increased by 10.
 * Total TTP is increased by 10.

Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy

 * Power of Penguin Carnival is increased by 10.
 * Total TTP is increased by 10.

Inazuma Eleven 2: Kyoui no Shinryakusha

 * Neo Teikoku
 * NEW Shin Teikoku
 * Omote to Ura no Ouja B

Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!!

 * Another Colors
 * PENGUIN
 * Real Inazuma
 * The Forwards

Inazuma Eleven GO

 * -KAGE-
 * Kaminari Japan
 * Raimon Aliea Rengou

Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone

 * -KAGE-
 * Hayashi no Eiyuu Tachi
 * Strikers R
 * Team Endou

Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy

 * -KAGE-
 * Team Endou

Trivia

 * Sakuma's birthday is on May 8.
 * His eyepatch was probably given to him by Kageyama, same as Kidou with his goggles.
 * He seems to be a bit 'colder' and serious in the GO series.
 * According to the Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin trailer, he is known as Teikoku's Musketeer (帝國の銃士).

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