Kogure Yuuya (木暮夕弥, Kogure Yūya) is one of the supporting characters in the Inazuma Eleven series. He was a reserve defender for Manyuuji, and, later, a defender for Raimon.
JP:A tricky contrarian who loves to pull pranks. What is the power hidden within his small body? EN:A snickering trickster. But does his slight frame conceal unexpected powers?
Inazuma Eleven 3
GO
JP:A tricky contrarian who loves to pull pranks. What is the power hidden within his small body? EN:A snickering trickster. But does his slight frame conceal unknown powers?
Chrono Stone
JP:A tricky contrarian who loves to pull pranks. What is the power hidden within his small body? EN:A sniggering trickster. But does his slight frame conceal unknown powers?
Galaxy
A defender of the Manyuuji Junior High Soccer Club. A contrarian, he loves pulling pranks.
Victory Road
JP:A tricky contrarian who loves to pull pranks. What is the power hidden within his small body? EN:A naughty little prankster. Could his small frame be host to some hidden power?
Spin-offs
Strikers
JP:A tricky contrarian who loves to pull pranks. What is the power hidden within his small body? EN:A snickering trickster. But could he be more powerful than he looks?
Strikers 2012 Xtreme
GO Strikers 2013
SD
Adult form
GO
JP:A former Inazuma Japan DF. He continues playing soccer while working at a first class trading company. EN:A former Inazuma National defender. Now works for a top business.
Chrono Stone
Galaxy
A former Inazuma Japan defender who continues playing soccer while working at a first class trading company.
Spin-offs
GO Strikers 2013
A former Inazuma Japan defender. He continues playing soccer while working at a first class trading company.
All profiles are transcribed and translated accurately to the source material.
Appearance[]
He has a short build and fair skin. He has dark blue hair with two spikes on each side, a round bang over his forehead, and a smooth top of his head, which he uses to spin on. His hair can bend downwards, like cat ears on some occasions. He also has pointy ears and round eyes with golden irises and black pupils, with very thin, black eyebrows. His original clothing is Manyuuji's uniform, which is a beige colored yukata-like uniform with a pair of short beige pants.
As an adult, he is much taller and wears a navy blue suit, with a white shirt, and purple tie. His hairstyle is still the same, though the spikes are a bit shorter and his hair color has become a slightly darker blue and his chin has gotten sharper.
Personality[]
Kogure is a very mischievous character who frequently laughs (usshisshi) when others fall for his pranks. His tendency to set up pranks is led by his general distrust of others, a symptom of his childhood trauma when his mother abandoned him while on vacation. Initially, he sets up traps for revenge on his former teammates in Manyuuji because he falsely believes that everyone is targeting him in some way.
After some interactions with Otonashi, Kogure rethinks his attitude, stows away on the Inazuma Caravan, and becomes a long-term member of Raimon, using his impressive agility and capoeira skills during games. While he is initially insecure and not confident about his soccer skills, he becomes deeply rooted in the team and works hard to help them win. Although he likes to prank his teammates (scribbling in Megane's favorite comic, doing something to Kurimatsu's items, putting hot sauce in their dinners), by the end of season 2, he admits to the team that playing with them has helped him gain a renewed sense of trust that he has lost ever since his abandonment.
By season 3, Kogure shows that he can be very sincere at times. While he has trouble apologizing to Tachimukai Yuuki after upsetting him, he gives honest feedback to his soccer. When he goes into the forest with Hiroto in episode 100, he shows a side of him that is innocent and childlike, amazed by the idea of camping with his friends. He still pranks others around him, but he has grown to become more mature and serious with his soccer teammates.
In Inazuma Eleven GO, he has matured even more. He does not prank Otonashi anymore and can honestly shake hands with her without any tricks, but he still has his signature laugh.
He is from Manyuuji in Kyoto, and Otonashi 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 Gakuen team "Epsilon" threatened to destroy Manyuuji if they couldn't defeat them. During the match, he became scared with Raimon's and Epsilon power, saying that they are crazy. After the match, he joins Raimon Eleven by stowing away on the caravan.
At one point, he sincerely admits to his teammates that joining Raimon has helped him trust people again, something he has not done since his abandonment as a child. Otonashi offers to shake hands with him afterwards, hiding a frog in her hands and unexpectedly pranking him in return, to which he jokingly takes back his trust.
After the game between Inazuma Japan and Knights of Queen, he smirked that Tachimukai didn't have his own hissatsu technique, and laughed that he was a captain-copycat, urging Tachimukai to learn his own hissatsu. His words affected Tachimukai, and when Otonashi later talked to him, Tachimukai hesitantly tattles on Kogure. As "punishment", Otonashi drags Kogure out to help Tachmukai make a new hissatsu, with Kabeyama and Kurimatsu helping out too. Eventually, with Tsunami's help, they assist Tachimukai in completing Maou The Hand.
When they fight with The Empire, Kogure states that he, Kabeyama, Tobitaka and Kurimatsu will handle the passing of the ball even with the hissatsu tactics of the The Empire in effect. In episode 100, after he pranks Someoka, Kogure gets lost in the forest. After some time, he encounters Hiroto, who was training for the upcoming match, after the former is tangled in leaves and vines. The two boys stay out in the forest for one night, and Kogure shows a side of him that is fun-loving and childlike, marveling at Hiroto's camping stories with his Ohisama En friends. The next morning, the two enter a match with two Kappas; they struggle to get past the kappas and score, but Hiroto improves quickly and scores a goal. The kappas show them the way out of the forest. After returning to the lodge believing that they spent an entire night out, Kogure apologizes to the team for staying out overnight, much to the team's confusion. As it turns out, the overnight stay was only an illusion, and they were returned to the morning before, as if they had not spent any time away.
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 "真" level. He also used the technique 真 Perfect Tower. It's also known that Kogure became Manyuuji's new captain.
He appeared in episode 21 with his team, Akizora 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 Sidewinder, but couldn'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.
Photo: Large Map (おおきな地図の写真, taken at Raimon's main building 3F)
After this, he can be scouted for an amount of 1300 Yuujou points.
Adult form
In order to recruit Kogure, The Lagoon has to be defeated first in the story mode and 3 players have to be scouted from the same community master to make him a scoutable option. Also, the following requirements are needed:
His surname, Kogure, is derived from コグ (read as "Kogu"), which, in turn, is the Japanese pronunciation of cog, a reference to his hissatsu technique, Senpuujin.
In the English localization, he is often called of Scotty.
Kogure's character seems to be derived from an imp.
Both are characterized by their small builds and pointy ears. Kogure's hair spikes also resemble an imp's horns.
Both's key personality traits are their mischievous natures, causing trouble for others.
Legendary Training Note (伝説の特訓ノート, obtained in a treasure chest after defeating Dragonlink in Furukabu's lower taisen route)
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