Yoshiaki Sakishima

Tokyo Brilliant Railway Division 1

**Yoshiaki Sakashima** (Japanese: **先島 良明**, **Sakashima Yoshiaki**) is the official opposite hitter and the ace of the **Golden Generation** (Japanese: **黄金世代**, *Kogane Sedai*) group of the **Kiyose Higashi Academy Boy's Volleyball Team** (Japanese: **清瀬東 学院 男のバレーボール分隊**, **Kiyose Higashi Gakuen Danshi no Bareboru Chimu**) as well as for the Tokyo Brilliant Railway Division 1 Team.

## Appearance

Yoshiaki has wavy medium length black hair that is mostly swept to one side. He has lighter skin tone and has golden colored eyes. He usually has a stoic expression on his face and often looks rather intimidating. He has a large, muscular yet lean build and is fairly tall. For the most part, he is often seen wearing his team tracksuit even when not practicing.

## Personality

Yoshiaki appears, for the most part, calm and collected but also very competitive. He is quite proud of his title as the **Golden Cannon** (Japanese: **黄金の大砲**, **Kogane no Taihō**) and is immensely confident in his teams and his own skills and does not ever doubt that they will win and go to the nationals. He is blunt and always says whatever is on his mind, sometimes causing him to come off as tactless or rude. He does not seem to be able to read people, and often takes the jokes and figurative language from others literally. This also means that his praises and support are sincere and he ever sugarcoats or minces his words.

He is a person that prioritizes natural talent and strength over anything else, which sometimes leads him to clash with the more technical Yukitaka, albeit never seriously and more or less just small dialogues and disagreements and they are still on very friendly terms. Such as when the group played an MMORPG Game together, Yoshiaki wanted the team to just storm the dungeon while Yukitaka wanted to collect themselves and listen to the team's strategists.

His most notable trait however, is his intensity when playing volleyball. His on and off court personality are quite different and intense that it actually scares people, and it also makes people think that he is bipolar or something similar. Whilst outside of the court he is blunt, calm and stoic, inside the court he has been described as possessing this intense aura and his expressions become a lot more wilder than usual, it's almost as if he was a completely different person.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Yoshiaki is a player of excellent physical condition and possesses serious physical talent. His height, immense strength, stamina, and jumping power makes him one of the most formidable forces on the court. Every attack from him is essentially a "super spike", and they are mostly characterized by brute strength and is capable of blowing away the opposing blocks and receives through power alone. Even though he is given a sub-par toss, Yoshiaki is capable of maximizing the strength of his spikes without losing any precision. His ability to not be deterred no matter how bad the toss has earned him the nickname of **Golden Cannon** (Japanese: **黄金の大砲**, **Kogane no Taihō**), and he kept that title since he was in middle school due to possessing extraordinary spikes and an immense strength even then. Since entering his third year in high school, his ability and strength has a spiker has been stated multiple times to revolve around the top 2 in the country.

In addition to his impressive spiking prowess, he also has an impressive jumping ability and formidable leg strength due to focusing purely on physical training over skills and techniques. He has the second highest reach among the team, just behind Tomokazu and equal to Yukitaka. Through his incredible jumping power, he has displayed the ability to hit powerful spikes from at a high-contact point, making it even harder for his opponents to defend against. In addition, aside from the usual three-step run-up and two-step run-up that is done by other players, he is one of the very few in the whole country and one of two in the team who has enough leg strength and jumping prowess to achieve a one-step run-up, the other being Yukitaka. His long and strong legs also allow for greater strides, allowing him to reach the ball quicker than the average players on the court.

**Jumping Reach:** 353cm

### **Skills**

 Setting
 Spike
 Technique
 Block

* **Exceptional Ball Spin:** Similar to Yukitaka, Yoshiaki is capable of adding a particularly nasty spin to his spikes and serves and making it extremely difficult for the opposing team to block or receive. However unlike Yukitaka, whose attacks are made reinforced through his full-body snap and flexible whip-like arm swings; Yoshiaki's exceptional ball spin is further reinforced through his left-handedness. Although, just merely being a left-handed player by itself is nothing special, his immense strength combined with his exceptionally flexible wrists, added with the left-handed spin that he naturally has, makes his spikes and serves even harder to oppose against. Overall, the extra added topspin from his flexible wrists as well as his left-handed ball spin makes him the strongest attacker on the team.
* **Intense Jump Serves:** Unlike Keiichiro who is more focused on proficiency and accuracy, Yoshiaki's serves are nothing but pure power, enhanced by his left-handed wrist flexibility. For the most part, his jump serves are essentially spikes and he is capable of scoring consecutively. The only real weakness he has with his serves are that because he always emphasizes strength over control, at times he hits the ball way out of bounds or hits it directly at the perfect point of the player for them to receive, otherwise, his serves are pretty much unstoppable. Despite that, he alone was capable of scoring ten points max with just serves alone during one of his games in middle school and maximum of eight service aces during his first year of high school. However, as of his third year, he has learned to control his serves a little more. Enough that he is able to be consistent in serving and is able to aim slightly well, albeit not as good as Yukitaka or Keiichiro.

## Relationships

### **Sakishima Manami**

Not everyone knows this except his teammates, but Yoshiaki has a serious sister complex for his adopted sister Sakashima Manami, likewise, Manami has a serious brother complex for Yoshiaki. Although this relationship isn't fully fleshed out, what is known is that the two of them have always shared the same room and the same bed, much to their parents worry. Manami has been cheering on for Yoshiaki in almost every match since she was in grade school, and is shown to truly love her brother. Likewise, Yoshiaki finds his strength within Manami.

## Trivia

* **Favorite Food:** Yakitori
* **Current Concern:** Not being able to stay with his adopted sister.
* **Star Sign:** Capricorn
* **Hobby:** Take pictures of his step-sister