Shougo Misaki

An old classmate of Ryo. He is a left-handed, skillful player who started playing badminton at the age of six and has lived up to his reputation as a prodigy, but Yusa, a real prodigy one year older than him whom he met after moving to Kanagawa, prevented him from winning individual championships in junior high until Yusa graduated. In high school, he wants to get away from Yusa and enters a strong badminton school in Shiga Prefecture.