Genya Sanbonmatsu

Genya Sanbonmatsu (, Sanbonmatsu Gen'ya) is a character featured in Lost Judgment. He is a second-year student at Seiryo High School and president of its eSports Club.
==Background==
Sanbonmatsu started the eSports Club in his first year. They were not successful and the amount of time they spent playing video games negatively affected their grades, resulting in animosity against the club from from PTA chairwoman Michiko Sasamoto. Sanbonmatsu was part of the cultural festival committee when Kotoko Itokura became chairwoman. Her tyrannical leadership and blunt nature caused friction within the club, culminating in everyone abandoning her before the 2021 Seiryosai.
By December 2021, the eSports Club's future became uncertain, and Sanbonmatsu felt that winning a tournament would convince administration to not disband the club. He secretly asked for help on the Professor's website. Sanbonmatsu was given a modified controller with a cheat program that installs when connected to a machine via USB that nullifies enemy inputs for a few frames when the user inputs a specific command. He used the cheat program during a practice match against a world champion, and was able to achieve a perfect victory within seconds. The dirty victory came with the Seiryo eSports Club being accused of cheating.
==Involvement==
===Lost Judgment: 2021===
Sanbonmatsu is told Takayuki Yagami is becoming as outside counselor for the eSports Club. He asks him how much he knows about Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, to which Yagami proves he has little knowledge of the game. He tasks Machio Toki with teaching Yagami the basics, who then wants to challenge Sanbonmatsu. Sanbonmatsu tasks him with defeating Makito Fujiwara, Shinya Yoshiba, and Makito Fujiwara first. 
When the members are concerned about their grades due to needed to spend more time practicing for the upcoming tournament, Sanbonmatsu forbids them from studying, but Yagami tells him he cannot do that. Yagami is able to succeed in defeating the three, and challenge Sanbonmatsu on Toki's machine. He takes him controller to the machine and loses to Yagami, then demands a rematch where he uses the cheat to win. Yagami tells him to stand still under the pretense of taking a victory photo, but investigates the equipment instead and suspects his controller is modified.
Yagami asks to see Sanbonmatsu's controller, and he realizes he is in trouble. He takes his controller and runs away, but Yagami catches him. Cornered, he attempts to intimidate him by assuming a martial arts stance, but fails. He confesses to his foul play and collaboration with the Professor, and intends to resign from the club to spare the others from punishment, but the other members insist on taking responsibility as a team, as they felt their weakness pushed him to such tactics, which moves Sanbonmatsu. The club is allowed to continue provided they have better results in the upcoming six months.
== Trivia ==
Sanbonmatsu's catchphrase of "You're ten years too early!", which Yagami repeats against him in their final confronation, is a direct quote from Virtua Fighter's Akira Yuki.
==See also==
*eSports Club
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Lost Judgment Characters
Category:Seiryo High School