Tatsuya Shiba

Tatsuya Shiba is the main protagonist of the anime/manga fantasy series, The Irregular at Magic High School. He isa First Year Student in Course 2 of the First High School. He is the eldest son of Four Leaves Technology (FLT) company's president, part of the Yotsuba clan. His only sibling is Miyuki Shiba. Since he was born in April and Miyuki born in March, they are studying in the same year according to Japanese school system. Miyuki scores at the top of the class of freshmen, while Tatsuya scores near the bottom in the technical skills portion.
He was voiced by Yuichi Nakamura in the Japanese version, and by Alejandro Saab in the English dubbed version, the latter of whom also voiced Leon in the Pokémon anime.
==Appearance==
Tatsuya has well-built body statue and is described as mundane-looking compared to other characters in the series. He's also described through other characters' impressions as serious and competent.
He is often seen in his First High Uniform without the school's emblem being categorized as Course 2 Student (WEED).
==Personality==
Tatsuya is intelligent and analytical. His emotions are swayed in several occasions, with one particular half becoming especially sensitive. Thanks to this, he can easily and quickly categorize people into two distinctive groups: hostile and non-hostile (while normal people would see 3 types: hostile, neutral and friendly. They would have a hard time to know who is a friend and who is an enemy since they aren't sensitive). This certainly comes in handy for his military and political life and anything related to conflicts (which is almost everything in life).
==Abilities & Skills==
Since the age of six, Tatsuya has trained under the renowned ninja/martial artist Kokonoe Yakumo. Because of this, even without the use of magic Tatsuya can easily incapacitate his enemies in close-range fights. Thanks to his extensive tenure under Yamuko, the student has become the master and Yamuko has admitted that even he couldn't match Tatsuya without using magic to fortify himself during their sparring matches. 
Tatsuya also has the power to harness his chi in order to sense presences that normal people would not easily notice.
When applying to get into First Magic Highschool, the school decides your class based on your innate MCA speed (Magic Calculation Area). Because Tatsuya's innate MCA is rather low, he was placed into the Weed's class (the secondary class). Even though he has recieved this placement, he actually has the Highest Psion count out of all discovered characters in this series. 
Tatsuya is extremely intelligent and is able to read the activation sequence of a magic spell and recreate its raw code in reverse in order to cancel the spell. By visualizing the spell's activation codes, Tatsuya is able to bypass them completely and "Flash Cast" spells without having to wait at all. 
He has been able to cast many spells such as Gram Demolition, a spell that compresses his psion particles to destroy activation sequences, Resonate, a spell that shoots two Psion waves that collide with each other just as they pass through someone, incapacitating said person, and Decomposition, an ability dissolves all matter and energy, even light.
Tatsuya's most impressive ability is his Restoration Ability. Because of Tatsuya's genius, he can make "Backups" of himself in his mind. Whenever his body is in critical condition, he just needs to think a certain thought and his physical body is restored to the state it was at during that back-up. Because of this, even when Tatsuya should be on the verge of death, he can instantly restore himself to a saved point in the past.
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