Fubuki Shirou

Fubuki Shirou (吹雪 士郎) is one of the main characters in the Inazuma Eleven game and anime. He's a defender, forward and the captain of Hakuren. He also joined Raimon in season 2, and was a forward and defender of Inazuma Japan. In GO, he was the former coach of Hakuren.

Background


Fubuki used to play alongside his younger twin brother,Fubuki Atsuya, in the Junior Team. The older twin would steal the ball, while the younger twin would score the goal. They were the perfect defender-forward combination. One day, while their family was driving them home from a soccer match they won, there was an avalanche. Fubuki's life was saved because he was pushed out of the car just in time, but Atsuya and his parents died. Due to this accident Fubuki is morbidly afraid of any sound that is similar to those of an avalanche (like snow falling off trees or the roof and any loud banging sounds). Ever since then, Atsuya's personality was reinstated inside Fubuki.

Appearance
Fubuki is seen usually with a gray scarf and the longer remaining part of the scarf is parted on his right side which contains Atsuya's personality, and used to belong to Atsuya. His eyes' color is bluish-gray and a little droopy while his hair is short, gray and the spikes are facing downwards.

When Atsuya takes over his body, his eyes turned golden orange in color and a little more slanted. This time, the spikes in his hair face upwards and looks stiffer than before. On top of that, his voice also becomes rougher. This appearance of his shows a far more devilish side and mostly shown smirking.

During the match with Genesis, Fubuki learned the true meaning of becoming perfect and merges his soul with Atsuya's. The upper spikes in his hair faces upwards while the lower part faces downwards. His eyes' color follows the original color and is in between droopy and slanting.

Fubuki is a great gentleman, he has a princely type character and he is also undeniably handsome. This is proved in episode 35 when some of the girls from near Hokkaido being close to him and in episode 40 when some of the female visitors in the theme park invited him to walk with them. Despite this, he seems rather neutral about girls and gets advantages for gaining informations.

In GO, his hair gets spiked up a little bit more, giving him a slightly gangster-ish appearence. He now wears a blue jacket with a white hoodie and two yellow lines on the left shoulder that looks like the captains mark, and a white shirt with a green mark that resembes Hakuren's symbol on his shirt, green pants and brown shoes.

Personality


Fubuki is a very timid person and is very sweet and nice to others. He used to be a defender. He can be either a defender or a striker, and is good at both. He's very shy at the start of season 2 and doesn't want to be alone, so he keeps a scarf with Atsuya's personality inside it. When Atsuya is in control, his hair lifts a bit, his eyes glow bright orange and he grins, looking quite sinister. Atsuya plays fairly aggressively. By the time FFI starts, he is braver and is willing to speak up

for himself. When both of them combine his hair style changes, and lifts a bit, but not as much as when Atsuya takes over.

As Atsuya, he's a little sadistic and menacing, but becomes a powerful striker. Later, the two personalities merge together to become stronger, and become one and they learn a new shoot. Fubuki is also shown to be good with girls as he often charms them into giving information for the benefit of the team. However, he is also shown to be uncomfortable with certain types of girls, as seen in episode 50.

Season 2
Fubuki was introduced in Episode 032. When Raimon first meets him, he was a complete stranger in the middle of a blizzard in Hokkaido, a few miles from the Northern Ridge. He was shivering in the cold and by seeing that, Endou let him inside the bus. In return, he saved everyone from a rampaging black bear that shook the entire bus by killing it and moving the bus with a single kick. Later, he introduces himself to be Fubuki Shirou, the striker whom the Raimon team was looking for, shocking everyone by the fact that the striker was with them during the ride until he got off. He joins the Raimon Eleven in Episode 33 to defeat Aliea Academy's Gemini Storm. He then shows his fear of loud noises resembling avalanches, due to his family being killed in an avalanche. Initially, he has a split personality, and switches to his brother's when he's on the offensive on the soccer field. He also had a hard time when he was badly injured due to his brother Atsuya who wanted to play all time on the field. He wanted to become a perfect Soccer player and believed that he could only do so if he "became" his brother (his father's comments right before the avalanche accident led him to believe this). In Episode 061, with Gouenji and the others' help, he realized that what his father meant was that he could be perfect only if he played alongside his teammates. Soon, he broke free from both his trauma and his twin brother's personality, merging himself and his brother's spirit as one thus growing stronger as well. His brother taught him a lesson that he should also work with his team mates besides Atsuya. The season 2 is almost entirely focused on Fubuki and his own story.

Season 3
Three months after the Aliea Academy arc Fubuki is invited by Coach Hibiki to a match to join Inazuma Japan. He is placed in Team-A, who's Endou team. Fubuki scored the last goal of the match (and the winning goal) using Wolf Legend. He later is chosen as one of the sixteen members of Inazuma Japan. In the first match, with Big Waves, he was not capable to score against them. During the match against the Desert Lion, Fubuki tried to score a goal using Wolf Legend, but it was blocked by Bjorn Kyle and Nasser's Storm Rider. After this, he fall unconcious on the ground, being replaced by Toramaru.

During the match against Fire Dragon, he revealed an new defense hissatsu, Snow Angel, to stop Suzuno and Nagumo and proceeded through the field with Hijikata and scored with another new hissatsu, Thunder Beast. Cho Chansu eyed Fubuki carefully and told his teammates to keep their eyes on him since not only he can defend, but offend too. Unfortunately, his leg gets badly injured in the match and is taken off the team with Midorikawa. He eventually returns to substitute an injured Kurimatsu. After that, he continues to get stronger, and scoring many goals to the team, he developed a hissatsu with Kazemaru, The Hurricane. After the match against Unicorn, he saw a letter with Hiroto from Midorikawa, telling them that he will not give up, and that he will come back soon.

He also remastered Crossfire with Gouenji and created The Birth with Hiroto. After many difficult matches, Inazuma Japan finally make it to the finals of the FFI. When the finals is just a few days away, after seeing the Raimon soccer club and others back in Japan supporting them, he asks Kidou and Hiroto to perform a new hissatsu with him, for the match against Little Gigant, wich later scores a goal to Inazuma Japan.

After Inazuma Japan won the FFI, everyone went back to their own school. Fubuki went back to Hakuren to graduate to high school. His graduation took a week before Raimon's, so then Endou invited Fubuki and everyone else who joined Raimon in the season 2 and season 1 to have a match. Raimon was divided into to two parts, New Raimon and Old Raimon. Fubuki played in the New Raimon team where he, Kidou and Ichinose uses Emperor Penguin No. 2. All of the two teams listened to Endou's last speech, and promised that they'll keep on playing soccer from Endou's word that he said "Let's play soccer!" to which everyone happily agreed on.

Plot (GO)
Fubuki returns as the coach of the current Hakuren (GO) team. After the victory against Gassan Kunimitsu, the Raimon team is training in the ground and suddenly Kurama shoots the ball away, behind the goal, but there is a person and the ball almost hits him, but surprisingly, this person was Fubuki, who defended the ball smoothly. He then spoke and greeted Raimon. He then started talking about his team when Fifth Sector started controlling Hakuren's soccer. He pleaded at Raimon (GO) to stop Fifth Sector on controlling his team and helped them by telling how to win against his team. It is shown that Fubuki also knew about the Resistance. At the end of the episode he is seen talking to Yukimura Hyouga, and it seems that he was worried about Yukimura, joining Fifth Sector. He also talked to Endou Mamoru about joining Raimon and the Resistance. After the match against Hakuren, Fubuki Shirou has talked to Endou Mamoru, and Endou seemed to be shocked and he left the team afterwards. That was why Endou left for a while. When he came back he changed his shirt with an orange circle on the shoulder. Fubuki comes back to stop Team Zero's plans.

Inazuma Eleven the Movie: Attack of the Strongest Army, Ogre
In the movie he joins Raimon to help fight against Ogre along with Toramaru, Tobitaka, Fideo, Hiroto and Kanon.

Inazuma Eleven GO the Movie: The Ultimate Bonds Gryphon
He will appear in the upcoming Inazuma Eleven GO movie. It is seen that he will turn into his young form.

Relationships

 * Fubuki Atsuya (Younger twin brother, Deceased)

Quotes

 * "No matter how many points you get, you can't win if you don't have a good defense." (To Fubuki Atsuya)
 * "We'll get stronger! We'll get stronger and be perfect!" (To Fubuki Atsuya)
 * "It's this version of me that everyone wants! Atsuya's power as a forward! That's why I... will make the shoot! That's what gives my existence here meaning!" (To Himself)
 * "I have to be perfect... or there's no point in me being here!" (To Himself)
 * "I'm not needed as Shirou, I'm not needed as Atsuya... Then what.... what.... what am I?!" (To Himself)
 * "Someoka-kun! I haven't forgotten... How frustrated you felt when you had to leave the team... What you felt when you gave me the ace's seat!" (To Someoka Ryuugo)
 * "Someoka-kun, you promised me that we'd be like the wind! Have you forgotten?!" (To Someoka Ryuugo)
 * "Even though we were holding the feelings from all those who had to leave the team.... (To Himself)
 * "I've taken the 7. The word 'perfect' ruled me, and I couldn't forgive myself for not being able to achieve perfection. Simply thinking that I'm my own person never occured to me. But, thanks to all of you, I realized beyond any scope of a doubt that both my weakness and strengths make me who I am. That notebook is meant to urge us to take another look at ourselves. Once we know who we are, we can bring out the power sleeping deep inside our hearts. To me, that power was the 7, forgiving strength. " (To all members of Inazuma Japan)

Hissatsu

 *  [SH] Eternal Blizzard
 *  [SH] Wolf Legend
 *  [SH] Wyvern Blizzard (with Someoka Ryuugo)
 *  [SH] Crossfire (with Gouenji Shuuya)
 *  [SH] The Earth (with Gouenji and Endou)
 *  [SH] Thunder Beast (with Hijikata)
 *  [SH] The Hurricane (with Kazemaru Ichirouta)
 *  [SH] Big Bang (with Hiroto and Kidou)
 *  [SH] Freeze Shot (Game, Atsuya form)
 *  [SH] Northern Impact (Game, Atsuya form)
 *  [SH] The Birth (with Kiyama Hiroto)
 *  [SH] Emperor Penguin No. 2 (with Kidou and Ichinose)
 *  [SH] Icicle Road (3DS Game)
 *  [OF] Aurora Dribble (Game)
 *  [OF] Dog Run (Game, Atsuya form)
 *  [OF] Shippuu Dash (Game, Atsuya form)
 *  [DF] Ice Ground
 *  [DF] Snow Angel
 *  [DF] Coil Turn (Game, Shirou form)
 *  [DF] Cyclone (Game, Shirou form)
 *  [DF] Double Cyclone (Game, Shirou form)
 *  [DF] Frozen Steal (Game, Shirou form)
 *  [DF] Spinning Cut (Game, Shirou form)

Hissatsu Tactics

 *  [HT] Dual Typhoon

Keshin

 *  [KH] Gousetsu no Saia (3DS Game)

Trivia

 * FubukiRaimonGO.jpgi (吹雪) means storm, snowstorm, or blizzard, while Shirou (士郎) when spoken, means white (白), which we can see translates to his hissastsu "Eternal Blizzard".
 * Fubuki has three forms in the game: Shirou (DF), Atsuya (FW), and Fubuki (merged) (FW). The merged Fubuki is also good as a defender (as seen in the anime).
 * He used to be frightened by any sound resembling an avalanche, thunder, explosion, bang etc (basically anything loud).
 * Like Kidou, Tsunami and Endou, he became the coach of his old school. (GO)
 * Fubuki shares the same seiyuu with Light Yagami from Death Note, Dento from Pokémon Best Wishes, Kida Masaomi from Durarara!!, Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host club and Zero Kiryuu from Vampire Knight. Coincidentally his seiyuu has voiced characters who are also 'a lady's man' or characters who attempt to be one.
 * He reappears in Inazuma Eleven GO in Episode 025.
 * According to one official Japanese website, Fubuki's birthday is on February 24. He was born on February 24, 1997.
 * He trained Yukimura Hyouga to learn Eternal Blizzard.
 * When he is young, his seiyuu is the same as Aki's.
 * His dub name Shawn Frost has the same initals as Shirou Fubuki.
 * He has made close friends with Gouenji, Kidou, Araya, Endou, Hiroto, Kazemaru, Someoka and Matoro as seen in the anime.
 * His character song is Ice Road.
 * In season 2 he seemed to be the favourite person and player of Kira Hitomiko.
 * Without Fubuki it would be harder to defeat the Aliea Academy because he played a big part in the fight against them.
 * Like Gouenji, Fubuki was followed by some Aliea Academy's men because they surely wanted to recruit him, since he is shown as a skilled player.
 * Nobody seems to know where Fubuki lives and who is the person who takes care of him.
 * He is one of the characters who are seen having 4 hairstyles throughout the entire anime including GO (like Kiyama Hiroto and Fudou Akio ).
 * Fubuki is also known as being the "Prince of Snowfield" and "Fubuki the Blizzard" also "Legendary Striker".
 * He is the character who has the highest number of hissatsu (23 hissatsu).
 * He was one of the best players Raimon has ever had.