Soshiro Hoshina/Relationships

## Family

### Soshiro's Father

Despite most of their relationship being unknown, it seems to be rather negative since Soshiro remembers his father's words as those of someone who would repeatedly tell him to give up on his dream of joining the Defense Force. Despite this, Soshiro's father commended Soshiro's swordsman skills and felt sorry for him.

### Soichiro Hoshina

Soshiro has also a complicated relationship with his older brother. He greatly respects Soichiro's talent with the sword, however, this only caused him to envy his brother. Since they were kids, Soshiro's always wanted to defeat Soichiro and they often sparred between them, with Soshiro losing all of their fights.

## Defense Force

### Third Division

As the Vice-Captain of the Third Division, Soshiro is a highly esteemed member of the Defense Force, respected by everyone, from newbie trainees to the Captain of the Division herself. Soshiro's relationship to his division is so deep that he protects his base and comrades with his life at risk and does whatever his fighting prowess allows him to kill the kaiju who threaten them.

#### Mina Ashiro

Mina was the first person to ever see something in Soshiro's sword skills that could make him a valuable Force member. During their meeting years ago, Mina asked Soshiro to "be the one to clear the path when she shoots down a threat", and this culminated in Soshiro becoming her Vice in the Third Division. Their relationship, albeit strictly professional, seems to be rather close, with them making fun of each others in some occasions but still holding a great sense of gratitude and trust towards each other. Soshiro, in return, holds his position as her Vice with pride.

#### Kafka Hibino

When Kafka first met Soshiro, the Vice-Captain could do nothing but laugh at the fact that he released 0% of his suit force. After the events of the incident during the Aptitude Test, Soshiro noticed Kafka's vital signs suddenly went off, thus growing a great interest in the new examinee. By having Kafka enter the Defense Force as his personal cadet, Soshiro could see Kafka's true value with his own eyes and eventually grew high expectations on him, even preaching his support in the battlefield. The good impression left on Soshiro, however, made the Vice-Captain turn a blind eye on the possibility that Kafka could be a kaiju, a choice that Soshiro later regretted when Kafka revealed his identity in a critical moment.  Despite this, Soshiro still showed gratitude to Kafka for saving Tachikawa Base and has shown concern towards his condition. His respect for Kafka goes as far as offering to train him and to encourage him to steal his place as Mina's Vice-Captain, a role that apaprently Soshiro would only entrust to Kafka.

#### Leno Ichikawa

Despite not interacting much with each other, Soshiro values Leno highly, considering him one of the new officers, along with Kikoru, to have surpassed a wall that could even make him as powerful as a Captain.

#### Konomi Okonogi

As the one that follows him the most, Konomi has shown respect and concern for Soshiro's sake, being seriously afraid for him when he faced Kaiju No. 10. In return, Soshiro trusts her and is often accompanied by her.

### First Division

#### Gen Narumi

Soshiro has a complex and strained relationship with Captain Gen Narumi. Gen seems to hold a grudge towards him because of overpassing him in the exam of small-size kaiju and posseses a one-sided rivalry with the Vice Captain. Soshiro in the other hand, often tease him just for fun in front of the other members of the Third Division.

#### Eiji Hasegawa

Despite the rivarly between their divisions and Gen's one-sided rivarly towards him, Soshiro seems to go along with fellow Vice-Captain Hasegawa, being cordial towards him and even happy to see him.

## Others

### Kaiju No. 10

During the Raid at Tachikawa Base, while looking for a strong prey to kill, No. 10 found Soshiro on his path and promptly challenged him. During the fight, both Soshiro and Kaiju No. 10 commended each other's fighting prowess, with Soshiro recognizing No. 10 to be at least as strong as No. 8 and No. 10 looking down on Soshiro despite admitting he gave him a good fight. Despite being defeated, Kaiju No. 10 revealed to have appreciated the fight against Soshiro and became so obssessed with him from that fight that he is even willing to betray his fellow kaiju Kaiju No. 9 just to fight with Soshiro once again, even going as far as asking to be weaponized and become Soshiro's weapon. After becoming his weapon, Soshiro and Kaiju No. 10 clash most of the time about how they should fight against the enemy and which one should be take the control and command their attacks. Soshiro and Kaiju No. 10 are polar oposites, while Soshiro prefers strategy and act level-headed, Kaiju No. 10 is impulsive and prefers to go straight and directly face other kaijus recklessly.<ref name="Ch73">Chapter 73

## Reference

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 29
2. ↑ Chapter 92
3. ↑ Chapter 91
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 5
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 21
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 11
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 10
8. ↑ Chapter 13
9. ↑ Chapter 32
10. ↑ Chapter 65
11. ↑ Chapter 66
12. ↑ Chapter 15
13. ↑ Chapter 28
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Chapter 56
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Chapter 57
16. ↑ Chapter 24
17. ↑ Chapter 25
18. ↑ Chapter 26