Tashiro Gonzaburou

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**Tashiro Gonzaburou** (田代 権三郎) is one of the main supporting characters of Sasaki and Miyano.

## Appearance

Tashiro has black hair with bleached tips and green eyes. He is usually seen with his bangs short or tied on top of his head.

He can wear a white sport shirt, button-up or casual, navy pants, but instead of the school uniform jacket, he is often seen wearing a green zip-up hoodie.

At official ceremonies he lets his hair down and wears his uniform jacket.
He usually wears his white school uniform shirt.

## Personality

Tashiro is cheerful, outgoing, and active, loving sweets and his friends. His mouth works faster than his brain, so he often bluntly says what is on his mind, though his words are rarely meant to hurt.

He is easy to get along with and loves spending time with his friends, but is also a little desperate because he has not gotten a girlfriend yet.

## Relationships

### Miyano Yoshikazu

Tashiro's classmate and friend. When they first met, he mistook him for a girl. The two of them have a good relationship and often exchange banter, such as Tashiro pointing out Miyano's feminine looks. Tashiro also observes Sasaki and Miyano's relationship, asking straight out if they were dating due to their behavior. Despite Miyano's denial, Tashiro is shown to be supportive of the two.

### Kuresawa Tasuku

Tashiro's classmate and friend. The two of them have a good, gently teasing friendship. Tashiro often invites Kuresawa to activities outside of school, but Kuresawa usually turns him down citing his girlfriend as an excuse, which makes Tashiro upset. Though he often asks Kuresawa about what it is like to have a girlfriend, Tashiro usually ends up annoyed by Kuresawa's bragging.

   **Shirahama Kyouji**

Tashiro and Shirahama attended the same middle school and have been friends ever since. They both seem to get along and have the same concern about getting a girlfriend (though not as much as Shirahama).

Tashiro has shown enough trust towards Shirahama, to the point of telling him about Miyano and Sasaki's courtship.

### Sasaki Shuumei

Tashiro's senior at school. Though Tashiro and Sasaki do not often interact directly with each other, Tashiro observes that Sasaki treats Miyano differently, and suspects he is very nice to Kuresawa and him because they are Miyano's friends. Though he does not tell him in person, Tashiro is very supportive of Sasaki.

### Hanzawa Masato

Tashiro's senior in the ping pong club. Though they do not often appear together, Hanzawa was the captain for the ping pong club before Tashiro begrudgingly took over the role. Tashiro is one of the few to have seen Hanzawa angry, due to Tashiro skipping practice because he felt like it. He also claims that Hanzawa often nags him, implying that Hanzawa cares for his junior.

## Etymology

* **Tashiro** means "field, rice paddy" (田) (**ta**) and "generation" (代) (**shiro**).
* **Gonzaburou** means "right, authority" (権) (**gon**), "three" (三) (**sabu**/**zabu**) and "son" (郎) (**ro**).

## Trivia

* Tashiro bleached his hair for high school, but the captain of the ping pong club forbid him to bleach it again, so he tries not to cut his hair to keep the blonde parts.
* He claims he has crazy leg hair and thus is not suited for crossdressing
* When Kuresawa was crossdressing for the Cultural Festival, Tashiro, not recognizing who it was, hit on him.
* He seems to like games, as he is shown playing on his phone or with a Nintendo 3DS.
* He loves food and is often seen snacking, especially on sweets. He is also happy to share them. He usually buys his lunches from the school store.
* He becomes the captain of the ping pong club in his second year.
* Tashiro went on a Christmas group date with members of his second class, but was so nervous, he claims he forgot what happened.
* He works part-time at a bathhouse close to his home, which has a ping pong table. Though he doesn't get paid, he often receives sweets and snacks from the elderly patrons.
* Tashiro's image animal is the hedgehog.