
While the manga's third bonus chapter had him and Morita lamenting the fact that neither of them could get a girlfriend.

Cool Loser: The first episode had Saya calling him pathetic for always feeling sorry for himself, over Rei breaking up with him.However, this scene does not happen in the manga. Cooldown Hug: In the anime, Takashi gave one to Saeko off-screen to calm her down after she confesses to her sadistic tendencies.Cluster F-Bomb: Likes to drop 'em all over in the English dub.Childhood Friends: He and Saya have been friends since kindergarten.Their romance resparked after Hisashi's death. But they drifted apart, after Rei had to repeat her junior year and began dating Hisashi. They even promised to get married when they were younger, complete with a Pinky Swear. Childhood Friend Romance: He and Rei were an item, sometime before entering middle-school.
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Chick Magnet: Saya used to have a crush on him, he's in an ongoing Love Triangle between Rei and Saeko, and while Shizuka isn't really interested (since he's a student, plus she's 10 years older than he is), she implied she'd still be willing to give it up to him, when she thought he wanted to have sex with her note see the Covert Pervert and Say It with Hearts entries in her section.Betty and Veronica: The Archie to Rei's Betty and Saeko's Veronica.Later chapters shift his weapon of choice to a riot-suppression shotgun. Batter Up!: A baseball bat is the first weapon he gets his hands on.Later he upgrades to a riot shotgun that Chris Redfield would be proud of.More obvious given the fact that most of his other True Companions have at least some sort of combat/martial arts training. Badass Normal: With nothing but his skill in baseball, he manages to survive & rack up an impressive kill count.And, in the "Drifters of the Dead" OVA, he hallucinated about Saeko throwing herself at him, then having sex with her.In chapter 23, he had an Imagine Spot of Rei and Saeko in nothing but bath towels, when Saya mentioned sex as one of the reasons humans are willing to fight.Saeko also caught him staring at her boobs through her Sexy Soaked Shirt, in chapter 16.He also admitted to enjoying feeling her butt, while he was carrying her, and said it was soft.

But it was obvious from his expression that he was enjoying it especially since her breasts were pressed against his back while her hand was on his crotch. When he and Shizuka went riding, in chapter 5, he said she needn't hold onto him so tightly.

