Touma Igarashi

**"Show me your true colors!"**

## Character Information

### Epithet

The Kidney (Nekoma)
 Maa-chan (Oikawa)
 Annoying guy, Pretty guy, Redhead Bastard (Nishinoya)
 The Tolerable One (Kenma)

### Also Known As

The Kidney (Nekoma)
 Maa-chan (Oikawa)
 Annoying guy, Pretty guy, Redhead Bastard (Nishinoya)
 The Tolerable One (Kenma)

### Age

16 - 17 (High School 2nd Year)23 (November 2018)

### Height

180 cm (5' 9") - Apr 2012185.5 cm (6' 0.7") - January 2013

## Background Information

### Goal

To play a match against worthy and formidable opponents

## Professional Status

### Occupation

High School Student (2nd Year, Class 4) - 2012Model, musician

## Seiyu Information

### Voice Actor

Takuya Eguchi

**Touma Igarashi** (Japanese: **五十嵐刀満** *Igarashi Touma*) was previously a 2nd-year student from Nekoma High. He was a middle blocker for the boys' volleyball team and was frequently referred to as the "kidney" of the team by his teammates, highlighting Kenma's position as the "brain".

As of 2018, he is a university student and is hinted to be somewhat wealthy and famous through his job as a model and a musician.

## Appearance

Touma is tall and of lean body build, who is portrayed as a handsome man as he is noted to be very popular among girls. He has straight, slightly messy, neck-length red hair, which he sometimes wears in a ponytail during matches with blue slightly lazy eyes and is often depicted in his school uniform or his red volleyball uniform.

## Personality

Touma is quite narcissistic and confident, which Kuroo and Tsukishima pointed out as one of the reasons why he particularly gets along with Oikawa. It has been noted multiple times by his team that he generally has an aura that would effortlessly make girls attracted to him. In contrast to Kenma's very reserved demeanor, he is very approachable and extroverted, finding no troubles to converse with people.

Most people would find his personality as berating and cocky as he tends to jab extremely blunt statements without thinking over it, which just meant he'd rather tell the truth than sugarcoat his words. Because of this, Kenma has often mentioned he's the tolerable one if compared to Lev.

Touma has a very caring side of him, despite all these, and is mostly towards his friends, teammates, and family. He is especially overprotective of his twin sister, as Yamamoto mentioned how his mood dropped when he heard someone badmouth his twin once. He is quite ostentatious, but his patience and understanding of situations makes up for his somewhat bothersome extroverted nature.

After the time skip, he is still flashy and blunt, albeit he now knows when to speak and not, and is shown to be extremely humble and grew embarrassed when his high school peers pointed out how frequently they see his face in commercials and magazines.

## Background

Touma was born in Japan but spent a hefty of his time in England due to his father's job as an engineer. Because of this, he is fluent and has an accent when speaking in English. He has mentioned a younger twin sister who also goes to Nekoma, but his teammates have stated they have not seen her before. Touma claims he looks just like him but smaller and is female, hinting that they are identical twins. He didn't make an appearance during Nekoma and Karasuno's practice match, stating he had to accompany his mother to visit their province that day. He attends Nekoma High and is a Middle Blocker who acts as the "kidney" or the pumper of the team.

## Plot

### **Karasuno Practice Match**

He is briefly shown talking to Kuroo about his temporary absence from the club, explaining his reasons, to which Kuroo wholeheartedly acknowledges. He then proceeds to cite out lectures about spending time with family, to which Touma counters by calling him an old guy.

### **Tokyo Expedition Arc**

Touma arrives shortly after Hinata and Kageyama's late appearances with bandages around his head, immediately alerting Kuroo and Yaku, whom he nonchalantly brushes off, explaining that he jumped off of the window from the second floor in the buildings because a couple of girls refused to let him go, Yamamoto then groaning in the background and explained his odd ability to effortlessly attract girls to Tanaka and Nishinoya, much to their dismay.

Back at the Nekoma Camp, Kenma, Hinata, and Inuoka talks about Lev and Touma, Inuoka expressing his excitement about Touma and praises his abilities as a blocker, Kenma following suit with his explanation, then goes on to tell the reason behind his absence during the practice match. He is benched for the next morning's practice as well due to his injury, but he expresses his excitement over the unplanned quick performed by Lev and Kenma. He manages to get well acquainted with Hnata, Yachi, and other second years over the course of the training camp.

### **Final Arc**

He is shown to have met up with a few high school friends sometime before attending MSBY's match, greeting them politely as he lowers down his mask, much to the shock of the people near him, recognizing him as a model for various brands. His colleagues comments about the reaction of the people, complimenting him and his success as a rising star, claiming he must've bought an apartment in Roppongi Hills as he was now famous and quite wealthy, to which he brushes off in embarrassment and comments he lives in an average suburb like before. He is then shown to have sent a text to Akaashi before entering the cafe with his friends.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Touma has been dubbed as the kidney to Kenma epithet as the brain because of his ability to energize and pump his teammates' enthusiasm to a decree. His aura and glowing atmosphere flow through the rest of the team with his exuberant enthusiasm clearing through fogs of frustration and doubts whenever they fail to block or score a point. Because of this, multiple players tend to get irritated by his presence inside the court as he is shown to rarely ever get fazed and would always flash a smirk whenever he manages to block or lure his opponents to his likings. He balances out the team ethic that circuits through the whole team and is adept to spontaneously think of ways to counter a technique used by their opponents that their team may have overlooked.

In addition to his role as the pumper of the team, he is also shown to be exceptionally good at predicting his opponents' actions, a trait he had grown on to overtime with Kuroo's teachings. He is good at blocking and is able to quickly react to sudden trajectory changes of the ball, much to most of his opponents' dislikes.

**Jumping Reach:** 340 cm

### **Skills**

* **Personal Time Difference Attack:**After getting coached by Nekomata and Kuroo for a while, Touma has managed to pick up the personal time difference attack, syncing together with Kenma most of the time.
* **Masterful Blocking:** Being personally taught by Kuroo (who's remotely known as one of the best blockers by a lot of coaches and players), Touma has managed to make a name for himself as a formidable blocker, as he has managed to block Asahi's powerful spikes and Hinata and Kageyama's quick attacks despite being relatively injured during the training camp. Adding to his ability to firmly grasp and focus force and power over his arms, he is adept at reading and perceiving prior actions done by his opponents and is able to pick up hints as to what kind of attack they will do.

## Relationships

### **Nekoma High**

* **Unnamed twin sister**: They seem to be very close than typical sibling relationships portrayed by most people. He is very protective of her, going as far as to refuse to let her meet his entire team, fearing she may grow to like someone from them, noting how it would feel weird to have a former teammate as his future brother in law.
* **Morisuke Yaku**:
* **Tetsurō Kuroo**:
* **Kenma Kozume**:

### **Other Schools**

* **Chikara Ennoshita**:
* **Keiji Akaashi**:
* **Tōru Oikawa**:
* **Yū Nishinoya**:
* **Hitoka Yachi**:
* **Yūji Terushima**:
* **Eiji Kenzō**:

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: "Anything spicy"
* Current Concern: None so far
* He is very popular with girls both in and out of school
* He stated that he gets along well with Oikawa
* He can sing and play the guitar. Yamamoto noted that it may be one of the reasons why he's popular with girls
* Though he is extroverted and narcissistic, he is shown to be embarrassed when he gets complimented sometimes
* He has his personal Instagram page.
	+ Shibayama stated he had over 10k followers

* He can play basketball and baseball, albeit his skills are mediocre.
	+ He settled with volleyball as he felt him excelling in it more than the mentioned sports.

* He's very good at cooking and baking.
* His favorite season is winter, whereas his favorite holiday is Halloween
* He mentioned his ideal type were cute small girls when he was once asked by a senpai. Though it is still unknown whether if its true or just a statement to lure the senpai away.
* He is older by 3 seconds from his twin sister.
* **Nomenclature:**
	+ Touma (刀満) - *Sword of satisfaction*
	+ Igarashi (五十嵐) - *Fifty storms*