Taketora Toudou

Taketora Toudou (藤堂 竹虎, Toudou Taketora) is a coach at the Ooumi Skating Club and a former skater.

Appearance
Toudou's appearance changed greatly between the thirty years he vanished from the public eye since being disgraced at the 1986 Olympics. He is a tall middle-aged man with unkempt dark hair tied back, a beard, and dresses in traditional Japanese clothing. He carries around a katana and chain-smokes.

In the past, he was much neater looking with short, straight dark hair parted in the middle, and had freckles on his nose.

History
In the 80s, Toudou was an up-and-coming skater who was widely anticipated to be the first Japanese man to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating, as well as the first person in the world to perform a quadruple jump on the world stage. Unfortunately, the expectations were too heavy and he ended up not even winning a place at the Olympics. When he went home he was met by criticism and anger, with people calling him a liar and a national shame. He disappeared from the figure skating world and the public eye shortly after until one year before the story's start, when he became the coach at Ooumi Skating Club.

Trivia

 * He was first introduced as Hajime Toudou (藤堂一, Toudou Hajime) before having his first name changed to Taketora in subsequent chapters. undefined