Keiichiro Heiwajima

**Keiichiro Heiwajima** (Japanese: **平和島 鯨ー郎**, **Heiwajima Keiichiro**) is the official setter 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

Keiichiro is a handsome boy with shirt and messy hair that was dyed in a bluish color to match his eyes, as well as a fair complexion from playing some outdoor volleyball with his friends. He is tall and has an incredibly slim build for a volleyball player, and is actually quite average as a volleyball player. He is almost always seen with an excited look on his face when it comes to things related to anime and manga, or virtual youtubers. He is often seen wearing his modified school uniform as well or the team jersey.

## Personality

Keiichiro is seen as an energetic boy with a bad case of NPD, or chunibyo, which was why he dyes his hair and modifies his uniform. Despite this, he is actually at the top in his class in academics and has been scouted by many research teams from multiple top-tier universities. It is also through this chunibyo type personality that he holds a black belt in a number of martial arts due to wanting to become a sort of anime protaganist. Not to mention he is a quick learner so he was capable of achieving all that relatively quickly comapred to other masters.

He is also seen to be a very eccentric character and get excited over the things he enjoys, and is also a very accomplished fanfiction writer and manga artist and video game creator. He often talks like a movie narrator or with grandiose overtones. He sometimes refers to himself and those around him in the 3rd person and involves them in his fantasy/roleplaying scenarios.

He is also seen going to Yaoi and Yuri cafe's just so that he can get some material for his novels, drawings and whatever he has that in his mind. Despite all the things mentioned above, he also has a serious devotion to volleyball. Described as something that he will never part ways with, due to his mom being a professional volleyball player and the only thing that he has left of her. Not to mention that he really enjoys playing volleyball with his friends, and has even at one point expressed leaving his otaku ways behind to continue playing volleyball with his friends.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

For the most part, Keiichiro is an excellent and efficient setter who is capable of bringing out the best in his teammates. However, that isn't his main contribution to the team. Dubbed as the **Strategic Otaku Advisor** (Japanese: **戦略 オタク 顧問**, **Senryaku Otaku Komon**), he is one of the two brains of Kiyose Higashi and the Golden Generation. His area of strategy are both offensive and defensive, as aside from being the control tower to the highly intricate coordinate attacks of the team, he is also constantly looking for the strengths and weaknesses in the opposing teams from which he could use to his advantage and develop an extensive plan to counter any opponent by adjusting the defenses of the team accordingly and secure victory. Most of his plans are unnoticeable in the beginning but become more effective as time progresses. As such, his opponents often fail to realize they have fallen into his trap before it's too late.

Aside from his strategic mind, he is also an extremely hardcore anime otaku. Now normally such a mindset wouldn't be of help in his volleyball plays, however, to Keiichiro, he has shown to utilize this mindset in more ways than to just fawn over anime girls. Rather, he has shown that he can pick up on the behavioral patterns of his opponents and teammates alike and categorize them into specific anime tropes, this has also been applied off-court as he was able to utilize several anime tropes himself to achieve a desired outcome, and never once did it somehow fail him. This was often applied in matches to discern the patterns of his opponents, and making it easier for him to understand and come up with a plan to counter. This is why he has been called the **Strategic Otaku Advisor** (Japanese: **戦略 オタク 顧問**, **Senryaku Otaku Komon**), as most of his strategies are inspired or straight borrowed from the sports anime that he had watched in the past. Although, he can still come up with original and solid plans not based on anime, but it would take a lot longer for him to do so.

**Jumping Reach:** 335cm

### **Skills**

 Setting
 Spike
 Technique
 Block

* **High-Quality Setting:** Keiichiro's tosses are described to be really easy to spike, enough to actually bring individual players into a rhythm and bring out 100% of their maximum potential. Following his anime-loving mindset, he likes to think of himself as an S-rank Control Tower, as such he does his very best to provide the best toss for his spikers, seeing as how he would try to always use an overhand toss even in difficult positions. His high-quality sets have also been mentioned to compliment Yoshiaki's style of spiking, seeing as how his tosses tries to maximize the potential of his spikers, whilst Yoshiaki tries to maximize the strength of his spikes without loosing precision. In addition to that, his ability to set the ball perfectly from nearly anywhere on the court has made him well-known in the Japan's Volleyball magazines.
* **Proficient Spike Serves:** Being his favorite method of attack due to it being considered an ultimate attack by him, he has extensively practiced the jump spike serve to the state that he has essentially become the **Service Ace** (Japanese: **サービスエース**, *Sābisuēsu*) of the team. His serves are accurate and powerful, and while he isn't as powerful as someone like Yukitaka or Yoshiaki, he has displayed to be a lot more accurate than both of them, and combined with his incredible ability to figure out the weakness of his opponents, he is someone who can easily score off serves consecutively. However, by the time he reached his third year, his serves have seemingly evolved into involving more power without loosing much of the precision that he previously had. Now, extremely powerful serving combined with his masterful accuracy, makes his serves a lot more difficult for his opponents to receive.
* **Impressive Situational Analysis:** Throughout entire games, his ability to observe and analyze his opponents and teammates strengths and weaknesses as well as the current situation has been his greatest asset, something that is even better than his knowledge of anime tactics. He can make split-second decisions after judging a scenario and is able to come up with brilliant plans afterwards to either keep a lead or takeover the opponent as the leading team. Due to his extensive anime knowledge, he has somehow learnt how to tell if someone is fatigued, frustrated, or loosing the will to fight, and while he does not know how to properly deal with them like how Yukitaka does, he can however change his tactics and attack patterns to accommodate the weakness the team has at the moment. Such as the time when Yoshiaki was in a slump and he had to create many distractions to cheer and hype him up.

## Relationships

### **Kaori Shirofuku**

Keiichiro is someone who wants to marry a virtual youtuber, particularly one called, Yamaka Ame, the Rain Witch. For two years, he was unaware that Kaori was the person behind the 3000 year old witch and only found out when he was able to deduce that her laugh was very similar to Ame's. Since then, the two has had a very weird relationship, with Keiichiro pretty much having a one-sided crush on Kaori until it was later revealed that she too likes him and intends to actually reciprocate his feelings when he graduates from high school.

## Trivia

* **Favorite Food:** Instant Ramen
* **Current Concern:** Having no money to spend on anime and manga, or support Ame.
* **Star Sign:** Sagittarius
* **Hobby:** Everything Anime, Manga & Games