Subaru Hasegawa

Subaru Hasegawa (長谷川 昴 Hasegawa Subaru) is the main protagonist of Ro-Kyu-Bu! Series.

He is a freshman from Nashiba High School, and an amateur basketball player, but has no team to play since the school's basketball club is deactivated. Later he is tasked by his aunt Mihoshi to coach an all female sixth grade school basketball team.

Devastated by his school's basketball club is suspended since the team got itself involved in a scandal: The captain elopes with adviser teacher's daughter who turns out to be an elementary schoolgirl, Subaru plans to quit playing basketball once and for all. Later he reluctantly accepts Mihoshi's offer for him to train the Keishin girls basketball team, initially Subaru only agrees to coach for three days, until learning the club is at the brink of being disbanded, and realizing how important this ragtag team to Tomoka.

After achieving their first victory, Subaru decides to stay with the girls, even turns down invitations from several high school's basketball clubs.

He has been given several nicknames by his girls, including Subarun and Onii-chan.

Subaru has brown hair, brown irises, and is relatively white-skinned, all inherited from his mother, Nayu. He doesn't look very alike to his father Ginga.

His physique is moderately muscular, well-toned, but not tall by standard of a basketball player.

Like most male protagonists in "harem" stories, Subaru is a gentle and caring person, however being passive and reluctant during initial stage of his involvement with the girls, but once his mind is made up, Subaru can be very determined and active. He also doesn't know how to be with his girls as lovers, for he prefers to be brother-like and friend-like in most of times.

Being devastated since his basketball club/team is deactivated for one year, Subaru once thinks about quitting his basketball career, if not regains courage and confidence by coaching Keishin Girls Basketball Team.

Still Subaru can be indecisive and weak-minded sometimes, as seen in Episode 8 of first season, he doesn't stand up to defend his coaching with steadfastness when Aoi threatens him (eventually girls bail Subaru out and avert this crisis via confronting Aoi in a basketball match).

Despite all girls in the team have feelings to Subaru to different extents, in light novel, anime and comic, he seemly only views Tomoka in a romantic way (which is dubbed as "Tomoka's Route" by some fans, comparing with a visual novel).

He once made 10 free throws in a row in the arcade, and he is capable to make much more than that.

He is able to do at least 46 one-arm push-ups, if not disrupted by a certain Andrias Japonicus girl.

As a player, he led his historically winless middle school team all the way to the prefectural tournament final, where they lost the championship match. This fact alone speaks volumes of his basketball skills and abilities, making him suitable for the coaching job at Keishin.

As a coach, he trained a ragtag group of elementary school girls into a team capable of defeating their school's boys' team which was stated to have won the prefectural championship prior to the start of the series and taking to overtime Suzuridani Academy, the strongest elementary school girls' team in their prefecture and eventually all of Japan when they dominated the rest of their opponents on their way to the national championship after defeating Keishin.