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 in 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.

Inazuma Eleven 2

 * "A snickering trickster. But does his slight frame conceal unexpected power?"

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 slightly darker blue and his chin has gotten sharper. He also seen used the Akizoura Challengers uniform with purple captain band.

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. Though he still does his signature laugh.

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 35. 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. During the match, he becames scared with Raimon's and Epsilon power, saying that they are crazy. After the match, he joins Raimon Eleven.

Thanks to Haruna's help, Kogure has find out his true abilities, and thus created his first hissatsu; Senpuujin. And then, in the match against 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 successfully 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 technique Perfect Tower. It's also known that Kogure became Manyuuji's new captain.

Plot (GO)
He appeared in episode 21 with his team, Akizoura Challengers. 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 stopped 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.

Hissatsu

 *  [DF] Senpuujin
 *  [DF] Perfect Tower (with Touko and Tsunami, partner)
 *  [DF] Ushiro no Shoumen
 *  [DF] Sigma Zone (Game, Red Team form)
 *  [DF] Harvest
 *  [DF] The Mist (GO Game, Adult form)
 *  [OF] Reppuu Dash
 *  [OF] Southern Crosscut (Game, Red Team form)
 *  [OF] Tatsumaki Senpuu
 *  [OF] Gorimuchuu
 *  [OF] Shippuu Dash (GO Game, Young form)
 *  [OF] Trick Ball (GO Game, Both forms)
 *  [SH] Dragon Cannon
 *  [SH] Kung Fu Head
 *  [SK] Yakubyougami (Game Inazuma Eleven 2, Evil Form)
 *  [SK] Speed Plus 10 (GO Game, Young form)
 *  [SK] Block Plus 10 (GO Game, Adult form)

Trivia

 * He has two forms in the IE2 game: normal form and evil form.
 * It looks like he's the only character in Inazuma Eleven GO that can be recruited both in young and old form.
 * He is one of the few characters in Inazuma Eleven 2 that have Alter Egos.
 * He is the only one that is still playing in a team in Inazuma Eleven GO.