Langa Hasegawa

Langa Hasegawa is the deteuragonist of SK8 the Infinity. He is an exchange student that went from Canada to Japan and after returning he gets involved in underground skateboarding and befriends Reki Kian.
He was voiced by Chiaki Kobayashi in the Japanese dub, and by Howard Wang in English. 
==Appearance==
Langa has fair skin, light blue hair and aqua-colored eyes.
==Personality==
Langa is a shy individual who wears a neutral or sometimes even stoic expression and when speaking, he tends to use as few words as necessary.
He is calm and laid back about most things, but when it comes to snowboarding and/or learning to skateboard, he's greatly determined and frequently puts his life at risk. Ignoring self-preservation for the act of fun with Reki. He can be an air-headed and easily distracted. He is very self-assured when he is in his element and is a very quick learner. This can be seen when he easily masters riding a skateboard, using his skills from the fifteen years he spent snowboarding. He was able to make quick adjustments, such as quickly learning how to turn on a skateboard, which is different than turning on a snowboard due to the trucks and wheels on the skateboard.
Following his example in all things from habits, skating, and handshakes. He cares deeply for his friends and wants them to succeed as does he wish for himself to succeed. He is close friends with Reki and they spend lots of time together practicing skating.
Langa has a gluttonous appetite, demonstrated when he ate an entire platter of hamburgers when Reki, Miya, Hiromi, and himself went out prior to Reki's beef.
==History==
Langa grew up in Canada, and had been learning to snowboard there under his father's tutelage since a young age. However, his father later died, which rendered Langa unmotivated to continue snowboarding. Around this time, Langa's mother Nanako Hasegawa suggested the two moved to Okinawa so that Nanako would have the comfort of her hometown in the absence of her husband, and the two soon moved there. It had been years since Langa has touched a snowboard when they arrived.
Soon after arriving, Langa happens to stumble across Reki, his new classmate, after school, and after a (second) introduction he agrees to accompany him to "S". There, the two get into an dispute with Shadow, a revered skateboarder, and Langa gets caught up in a race against him. Despite having no knowledge of skateboarding, he adapts what he learned in his fifteen years of snowboarding and flawlessly makes it to the finish line, impressing everyone in the audience.
He then begins to take informal skateboarding lessons with Reki. Those resulted in sundry injuries that worried his mother, but she's glad he was able to make a friend so soon after setting foot in Okinawa.
After passing by Reki's house and finally getting a personalized skateboard for himself, his practice takes a turn and he masters the ollie quicker than expected.
He experiences greed, excitement, thrill and loss within a short timeframe; which shaped him as a person and helped him learn to reach out to others. He learned to make friends and have fun; the love he once had for snowboarding has returned in the form of skateboarding. He even visits his dad's grave in Canada bringing the skateboard Reki made him to tell him about how much fun he's having.
==Gallery==
==External Links==
* Langa Hasegawa on the SK8 Wiki.
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