Akamori Fujikata

**Akamori Fujikata** is a third-year at Kunshutori Academy and the opposite hitter and ace for the school's Boy Volleyball Team. He is also the number one ace in the Hokkaido Prefecture and one of the country's top three aces.

## Appearance

Due to his half-Swedish heritage, Fujikata is blessed with incredible height and a large, muscular yet lean build with lightly-tanned skin. His hair is white and of uneven length, the longest strands reaching his shoulders, and is styled with three more notable, shorter clumps arching up to fall as bangs between his eyes and on either side of his face. He has quite thin, maroon eyes that appear to slant inwards, each with one long eyelash flowing to the far side of his face.

During matches, Fujikata wears his volleyball uniform—a withe jersey and black shorts with red stripes on the sides. On the back of his jersey is his position number 3 and his school's name written in kanji. On the court, he wears a black support sleeve on his right arm, he wears kneepads and black volleyball shoes with red stripes.

## Personality

He has a playful, friendly, energetic, and child-like personality. However, he is also shown to be quite mature sometimes and is able to observe and analyze his opponents. He is capable of reading social cues and be incredibly empathetic toward others' struggles. As such, he often says just what others need to hear to push themselves in the right direction, and such he is both admired by his own team and the opponents for his impressive skills and morale-boosting demeanor

## Background

Akamori is a half-Japanese, half-Swedish third-year student at Kunshutori Academy. As he is both born and raised within his home country of Japan, he is barely able to speak Swedish.
At the young age of 7 he and and his childhood friend, Chimon Nakamura, went to watch a volleyball match with his father and ever since that they have been in love with the sport of Volleyball and couldn't stop playing, or watching it on the television for that matter.

Not only is Fujikata close friends with Hokkaido's top setter, Chimon Nakamura, but also the team captain and libero of one of Hokkaido's other powerhouse schools, Yagi Denshiki from Shirakumo High School.
Fujikata has been a regular on the Kunshutori boy volleyball team ever since his first year at the school and is currently one of japans top three aces.

## Statistics

* 3rd Year
* 1st Year

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Fujikata's is the most powerful attacker in Kunshutori. He is known for having a strong spike that can blast past most defenders. His spikes are based mostly on pure strength. He can also spike from a very high point due to his height, combined with his powerful jumping ability. As such, he is often trusted with the responsibility to score when faced with multiple blockers. His best spike is when he's given a high toss that is slightly away from the net.

Thanks to his height and fantastic jumping ability Fujikata is able to reach the ball much higher up than the average player, thus he really likes to spike above the opponent's blockers.

**Jumping Reach:** 356cm

### Skills

* **Jumping:** Fujikata has incredible jumping power, this combined with his already tall stature gives him the ability to spike from really high places.

* **Receiving:** Fujikata's receiving is very good, his passes are consistent and for the most part, do not mess up his passing. Fujikata has his own style of receiving, he tends to not move much while passing and usually adjusts his leg position to pass instead of making full steps.

* **Monstrous** **Spiking:** Fujikata is known for his extremely powerful spikes. He is the top hitter in his prefecture. His spikes tend to be strong and consistent. Fujikata has an immense amount of stamina with hitting and wears out his opponents quickly. His spikes are so strong most liberos have a hard time receiving them, even the team's libero, Keiro Tamotsu, has stated on multiple occasions the difficulty of receiving them.
* **Great Blocks:** Akamori is a dangerous blocker thanks to his height. He is easier to fool with decoys than Saito Shirogane, but his height gives him enough leeway to jump twice before a spike is launched, allowing him to remain a threat even after biting on a decoy.

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Yakiniku (Barbecued meat, usually beef)
* Current Concern: "Where is Mitsugi'?"
* He and Mitsugi have been dating since their second year in high school.
* One time he jumped out a window because he accidentally called Mitsugi "mom".
	+ They were on the first floor.
* His star sign is Aquarius.
* He runs an Instagram meme page
	+ He has over 4k followers
* In his third year of Kunshutori Academy, he and the boys` volleyball club beat Itachiyama in the finals at national and in the process won the entire tournament.