Name: Masaru Susumu
Age: Sixteen (SecondYear)
Sex: Male
Height: 177.6cm (approx. 5'10)
Weight: 155lb (70kg or so)
Specialty: 'Mimic'. In basketball games he can often observe and replicate players' styles as a defensive technique, focusing on the opponent's best offensive player. With his natural physical strength he can often return moves done by the opponent's ace player with more strength and speed. This is done with a very interesting attention to detail and natural maneuvering ability. However this ability is quite useless against players stronger and faster than himself,
Personality: Masaru is very passionate about basketball, and always plays basketball games with a smile. Despite this, he is quite a sore loser and suddenly turn serious and irritable after any loss, but especially in basketball. Masaru is quite joking and doesn't care much about academics, as he is very overconfident and believes he can make the major leagues when his actual chances aren't in his favour. He easily makes friends and loves to train, doing it for recreational purposes as well as strength building.
Bio: Masaru never had anything particuarly special early in his life, born to a family with a bit more money than most. Masaru began to play soccer at an early age, but never really got into it. After only a few weeks, he started watching NBA games and at age 6, asked his parents if he could try basketball. Masaru grew in skill, and with natural perceptive skill earned his specialty. He became aware of his specialty and trained it, always showing his specialty with a bit of theatric addition. After middle school he went to a highschool known to have one of the best highschool teams in Japan, but the team were 'no fun' as Masaru called it and spent the next year at a new high school with a basketball record not exactly as impressive as his last school's.