Daizō Ban

**Daizō Ban** (伴大造) is a character from the Kyojin no Hoshi series. Daizō Ban is the father of Chūta Ban. He is the president of the Ban Automobile Industry, one of the leading automobile manufacturers in Japan.

## Daizō Ban

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## Biographical information

### Occupation

President of Ban Automobile Industry (伴自動車工業)

## Misc.

### Voice actor

Ryūsuke Shiomi (塩見竜介)

**SPOILERS***WARNING! This article contains spoilers!*(*Yuke! Yuke! Hyūma!*)

## Profile

### Personality

He has a very quick temperament. Daizō often demands utmost authority over his son, and when things don't go his way, he is prone to becoming enraged over trivial matters.

### Background

He is the president of the Ban Automobile Industry and is also the president of Seiun High School's PTA. He brings the industry's obsession with the rival company Hanagata Motors to high school baseball and swings forth the Seiun's baseball club.

He is quite influential at Seiun High School, and although he is not a teacher, he also serves as an examiner for the interview examinations. He is a determined to beat Mitsuru Hanagata, the sergeant of Hanagata Motors, a rival company, and he talks to the baseball team in detail, most of which is thankless. In particular, he overeats at a pep rally after the semifinals of the Tokyo tournament, and in the finals the next day, almost all the members except Hyūma Hoshi and Chūta Ban suffered from stamina loss due to diarrhea. However, there is a positive side to him as well. For example, he encourages the entire baseball team, which was dejected when it was decided that their opponent in the first round of the regional qualifying tournament would be Teito Gakuin, a strong school that represented Tokyo last year, by saying that they could effectively play the final game in the first round. He praises Hyūma Hoshi until the semi-finals. After Seiun High School's defeat against Kōyō High School, led by Mitsuru Hanagata in the Koshien finals, Daizō becomes furious and orders the baseball team to disband. That night, he was attacked by thugs.

At first, Chūta Ban suspects the thug to be Hyūma, and as a result, Hyūma is expelled from school. Ban hears the truth from the real culprit, Makiba Haruhiko, but the school has not disposed of Makiba and has not rescinded Hyūma's expulsion. During the production, newspapers reported on Hyūma's expulsion, but did not publicize the incident until the blackout.

He is a typical one-man president and is rich enough, but it seems that his financial strength is not as good as that of the Hanagata conglomerate that has many group companies under its umbrella.

At first, he was opposed to his son Chūta Ban joining the Giants, but when he learned that Hanagata Motors was launching a new car bearing Mitsuru Hanagata's name, he allowed Chūta to join the team out of a sense of rivalry. He later launched the "Chūta Strong 119," saying, "If I become a first-class player, I will launch a dump truck named after Chūta. He is delighted when Chūta moves to Chūnichi, and invites Chūta's customers to visit him.

In "Shin Kyojin no Hoshi", the company name was changed to Ban Heavy Industries, and Daizō became the chairman. He is furious with Chūta, who is still passionate about baseball even though he has been appointed managing director, and the parent-child quarrel continues.

## Trivia

* Daizō is one of the main sponsor's of Seiun High School.

#### Appears in:

* Kyojin no Hoshi (Manga)
* Shin Kyojin no Hoshi (Manga)
* Kyojin no Hoshi
* Kyojin no Hoshi: Chizome no Kesshousen
* Shin Kyojin no Hoshi
* Shin Kyojin no Hoshi Ⅱ

## External Links

* http://www.whv.jp/title/kyojin/chara/011.html
* https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/巨人の星の登場人物一覧#青雲高校関係者