Toichirou Izumida

## Introduction

Touichirou Izumida is a character from Yowamushi Pedal, he was a former student at Hakone Academy and was a member of the Hakone Academy Bicycle Racing Club, serving as its captain and ace sprinter during the storyline's second year.

## Personality

Passionate and proud of his status as a member of Hakone Academy's famous cycling team, Touichirou tends to underestimate an opponent. However, his confidence and pride seem to be largely disconnected from himself, attributed to outside factors such as his muscles, which he thinks of as sentient; he's named his right pectoral muscle Andy and his left pectoral muscle Frank, and Touichirou noticed that he had 'raised' them separately to the point that they have different uses (and personalities). He has a habit of naming muscles, and chants "Abs! Abs! Abs!" while sprinting, or uses "Abs!" in everyday conversation. His bizarre nature sometimes baffles his fellow teammates, but some have joined in on his abs chant.
Originally, Touichirou felt sincere doubt in his abilities, but he's worked hard to overcome his insecurities and continues to strive for improvement. Touichirou is very serious and methodical in his lifestyle, rigorous in his training, and speaks politely to his upperclassmen and other cyclists, even if he considers himself better than them. While usually thinking with a calm and clear head, Touichirou is prone to being overcome and swayed by his emotions, be them anger or despair, and his sense of justice. He greatly admires and respects his veteran cyclists, most notably Hayato Shinkai, and becomes easily angered if someone insults them. Unlike other characters, Touichirou is very quick to snap with rage at Akira Midousuzi when the latter is insulting not only Hakone Academy, but his rivals at Sohoku as well.
According to Yukinari Kuroda, however, didn't not like Touichirou at one point because he acts like a righteous class president, and is too serious, tactless, humourless and likes to point out every mistake Yukinari makes.

## Appearance

Touichirou is known for his long eyelashes as well as his extremely toned body, which is the result of vigorous weight training in preparation for the Inter-High. He sacrificed his performance in other road races to create the "perfect body" specifically for this competition.
He wears his jersey unzipped, exposing his abs along with his pectoral muscles, who he calls Andy and Frank. He zips his jersey fully up only when he is seriously competing against a strong opponent.
He initially has a shaved head, but later grows his hair out. By his third-year, his hair has spiked up with shaved sides. After finishing his duty as Hakone's captain, he shaves his hair and returns to his first design.

## Muscle Gallery

Izumida exercising and sweating.Izumida leaving the sauna naked.Machimiya touch Izumida Pecs (Andy and Frank).Izumida pecs sticking out of his jacket.Izumida using his Pecs (Andy and Frank) to attract a cat.Cat hugs Izumida pecs (Andy and Frank).
### Muscles

He mentions that before joining the bike team he was quite fat, so he trained until he lost weight and as a result he gained quite a bit of muscle, however once he lost weight, he only focused on his legs so the first time I tried to join the team but I couldn't impress the members. However after Shinkai told him to train his entire body, Izumida trained his body until he obtained what he calls the complete body. And in the same way in the following years he continued to train his body to become more muscular and be prepared for the following competitions.
Also during his training for the perfect body, he began to give names to several of his muscles, the ones that stand out the most being his pectorals, which he named Andy and Frank, which he apparently believes have a life of their own and that help him during his competitions to detect danger or sometimes talks to them in their free time as if they were real friends.

#### Pecs

They are his main muscles, two large and bigs pectorals, that usually move to warn Izumida of danger or sometimes just to talk to him, Izumida also loves to move them in his free time when he talks to them, talking like when he was talking to them in a sauna like sometimes to have fun like when he used them so that a cat would choose him over Kuroda.

His pectoralis major muscles, Andy and Frank, can sense when there is competition. If both react, his opponent is an extremely strong cyclist. He only zips up his jersey when such an event occurs and he's sprinting seriously. They also react to dangerous situations as a warning/reflex as demonstrated when Frank tensed up in reaction to the falling street cones and Andy seemingly allowed Touichirou to brake a bit and dodge to narrowly avoid them.

His right pectoral muscle, Andy, is exclusively offensive. It supports his core and compresses his lungs, pushing him forward. His left pectoral muscle, Frank, is prudent and bold. It detects all threats and presses on his heart, sending blood flowing throughout his body so he can accelerate.