Kogure Yuuya

Kogure Yuuya (木暮夕弥) is one of the supporting characters in the Inazuma Eleven game and anime. He was a defender for Manyuuji. He also played on Raimon in Season 2, then became a defender for Inazuma Japan. In the Inazuma Eleven GO series, Kogure is a defender and the captain of the Akizoura Challengers.

Appearance
He has blue hair with two spikes on each side and golden eyes. His hair can bend downwards like cat ears on some of the occasions he also has pointy ears. He is one of the shortest members on the team. His original clothing is Manyuuji's uniform which are beige colour Yukata-like uniforms with a pair of short beige pants.

In GO, he is taller, wearing a pair of dark-blue trousers and a dark-blue coat. His hairstyle is still the same, though his hair color has become a slighty darker blue and his chin has gotten sharper.

Personality


Kogure is a character with a very prankster attitude, it is shown how mischievous he can be through his signature laugh(ushi shi shi shi) which he does after he makes a statement made to make someone get shocked or after he plays a prank. He likes to trick other people. After some interaction with Haruna and rethinking his attitude, Kogure wishes to join the Raimon team and helps them defeat Aliea Academy, after watching Aliea Academy demolish his team, he stows away on the caravan and becomes a longtime member of the team, using his impressive agility and capoeira skills during the game. The only one who has even the slightest control over his prankster tendencies is Otonashi Haruna.

In GO, it seems that he has a matured a little, though some of his characteristics remain. He does not prank Haruna anymore and honestly shaked hands with her without tricking her.

Season 2
He is from Manyuuji Junior High in Kyoto, and Otonashi Haruna was the one that urged him to be in the Raimon Eleven. Kogure debuted in episode 33. His prankster attitude and mistrust of everyone stems from an event in his youth, when his mother abandoned him at a train station. He was often off the team most of the time due to his lack of trust towards others and his pranks. The Inazuma Caravan visited his school during their travels and the Aliea Academy team "Epsilon" threatened to destroy Manyuuji if they couldn't defeat them. After the match, he joins Raimon Eleven. Kogure joined in the nick of time when Epsilon attacked his school.

Thanks to Haruna's help, Kogure has find out his true abilities, and thus created his first hissatsu, Senpuujin. And then, in the match againts The Genesis, he along with Touko and Tsunami formed a new defense hissatsu called Perfect Tower.

Season 3
In the FFI arc, Kogure is called by coach Hibiki to the Japan representative selection match. During the game, he uses Senpuujin to steal the ball from Sakuma. Later, he, along with Kazemaru and Kurimatsu sucessfully deflected Tsunami's Tsunami Boost. He is then chosen as one of the sixteen members of Inazuma Japan. During the match against Fire Dragon Kogure becames scared with their Hissatsu Tactics, Perfect Zone Press. After the game between Inazuma Japan and Knights of Queen, he smirked that Tachimukai didn't have his own hissatsu, and laughed that he was a Captain-copycat, urging Tachimukai to learn his own hissatsu. Though they fought against The Empire and Kogure stated that they (he, Kabeyama, Tobitaka and Kurimatsu) will handle the passing of the ball even with the hissatsu tactics of the The Empire in effect. They also helped Tachimukai in completing Maou The Hand.





In episode 100, after he made a prank with Someoka, Kogure lost himself in the forest, but after some time he encounters Hiroto training. Later, the two enter in a match with two Kappas, but were unable to pass by them until Hiroto improved himself. In episode 126, he played in team B with the other Raimon members that joined later on. During the match he is shown to have evolved Senpuujin to the "Shin" level. He also used the techinique Perfect Tower. It's also known that Kogure became Manyuuji's new captain.

Plot (GO)
He appeared in episode 21 with his team, Akizoura. They planned to play against another team, and it was said that the team was very excited because they haven't had a match in long time. But after it was canceled, Kogure didn't want to say it to the team, and arranged that they would play against Raimon instead. It is seen that he uses Senpuujin and can stop Side Winder, but can't stop Buttobi Jump. He lives in Kogarashi Manor with the other members of his team. Ten years later, he appears to be less mischievous and more smarter as Kidou has said that he works at a good company.

He reappear in Episode 41 with the rest of the team, watching the finals.

Hissatsu

 *  [DF] Senpuujin
 *  [DF] Perfect Tower (With Touko and Tsunami, partner)
 *  [DF] Ushiro no Shoumen (Game)
 *  [DF] Harvest (Game)
 *  [DF] Gorimuchuu (Game)
 *  [DF] The Mist (3DS Game)
 *  [OF] Reppuu Dash (Game)
 *  [OF] Tatsumaki Senpuu (Game)
 *  [OF] Shippuu Dash (3DS Game)
 *  [OF] Trick Ball (3DS Game)
 *  [SH] Dragon Cannon (Game)
 *  [SH] Kung Fu Head (Game)
 *  [SK] Jinx  (Game IE2, Evil Form)

Trivia

 * In episode 126, it is said that he became the new captain of Manyuuji.
 * He has two forms in the game: normal form and evil form.
 * His pranks dont work out that well all the time. For an example, when Raimon was having dinner with Yokato, Kogure put some chilli sauce into Tachimukai's dish. But in the end, it just made the food even tastier to Tachimukai. To make it worse, this prank even backfired on Kogure.
 * In Episode 86, Hijikata comments him as like a people who ready for the "Shici-Go-San" festival. (a festival for 3, 5, and 7 years old.)
 * He reappears in the Inazuma Eleven GO anime in episode 021 (GO).
 * In episode 021 (GO), Haruna was still traumatized with his pranks. However, Kogure said that he wouldn't pull any pranks at her.
 * In the GO game, he is recruitable in both his GO form and his young form.
 * Until now, we still cannot know what exactly had happened to Kogure's mother, and also the reason why she would abandon her son like that.
 * Kogure's laugh is very similar (if not the same) to Belphegor's laugh from Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Both having the same 'Ushishishi' sound to it.
 * It looks like he's the only character in IEGO that can be recruited in young and old form