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|---|---|
| Akuto Mitsuya | |
| Kanji |
三津谷あくと |
| Rōmaji |
Mitsuya Akuto |
| Nicknames |
Akuto-nisan |
| Gender |
Male |
| Age |
17 |
| Height |
184 cm |
| Weight |
72 kg |
| Birthday |
December 1st |
| Horoscope |
Sagittarius |
| Eyesight (Unaided) |
0.2 (both eyes) |
| Blood Type |
A |
| Family |
Father |
| High School |
2nd Year [1] |
| Club Position |
Treasurer |
| Japan U-17 Camp |
No.17 of All Japn Representative (Former) |
| Dominant Arm |
Right |
| Play Style |
Counter Puncher |
| Racquet(s) |
Srixon Revo V 5.0 |
| Shoes |
Yonex Power Cushion Wide 74 |
| Manga Debut |
Golden Age 52 |
| Anime Debut | |
| Voice Actor | |
Mitsuya Akuto (三津谷あくと) is the Former No. 17 in Japanese U-17 camp. His special technique is Data Tennis. With his outstanding intelligence and insight, he is able to analyze his opponents effectively and accurately during the games and determine the optimal way to defeat them.
Background[]
Mitsuya Akuto is introduced as one of the best high school players in Japan and amongst the First Returning 1st Stringers. He is an childhood friend of Yanagi Renji and was the one teaching him Data Tennis. He is currently a second year high schooler.
Appearance[]
Mitsuya is a tall, lean and good-looking guy with glasses and light blonde hair. In the manga, his features appear to be slightly feminine which are similar to Yukimura Seiichi and Shusuke Fuji's.
Personality[]
As a counter puncher, Mitsuya appears to be extraordinarily insightful, composed, analytical, and tactical on the court. As the best data tennis player so far in the manga, he is perfectly capable of anticipating his opponent's upcoming move and the tendency of the game.
Additionally, he possesses an excellent ability to manipulate and destroy other data tennis players by emitting thousands of information in an instant to drastically disturb the opponents' judgements, gradually deprive the opponents' autonomy as a data tennis player, and eventually depress them, which distinguishes Mitsuya from Inui and Yanagi, because he has been so far the only one who is capable of doing this.
Although Mitsuya completely defeats Yanagi on the court, several years ago he was the one who patiently taught Yanagi about data tennis and profoundly changed Yanagi's future tennis career. They have a somewhat intimate friendship, and Yanagi addresses him as 'Akuto nii-san'.
Unlike Inui and Renji, Akuto's eyes can actually be seen a majority of the time. He provides intel support to the Japan team during the U-17 world cup, and even creates disgusting rice balls, known as Akuto Meshi, akin to Inui's special juices, for the team as motivation to not fail. Eating one not only knocks a person out (including Fuji), but also potentially dislocates all of their joints.
History[]
U-17 Camp Revolution[]
Mitsuya Akuto
Mitsuya is first seen arriving with the rest of the 1st Stringers back at the U-17 Camp from their Foreign Expedition. He is met by a 2nd Stringer High Schooler who he effortlessly defeats as part of the Foreign Expedition Group Challenge. Afterwards, Renji Yanagi arrives and it is revealed he was the one who taught Yanagi Data Tennis after an encounter after school.
Mitsuya is shown in a court, and the only person he could have crushed would have been Takei Toshio, as they are the only Singles players during the Foreign Expedition Group Challenge shown without their opponents. After defeating Takei, Yanagi and Inui Sadaharu enter his court. The two begin by predicting each others sentences accurately, Showing the efficiency with Data Tennis. Yanagi challenges him and Mitsuya willfully accepts.
Inui battles Mitsuya
He and Yanagi have a match, in which Mitsuya easily wins. During the match Yanagi even throws away his Data Tennis but still loses. Nonetheless even with Inui Sadaharu's encouragement from the sidelines. Immediately after Yanagi's defeat, Mitsuya permitted Inui plays him in the same match despite he just played already, since Yanagi hoped Inui could continue his match. Although it is not shown the result of the game, Inui could possibly defeat Akuto, or Akuto just gave the title to Yanagi.
Because Inui defeated Akuto by collecting data from Yanagi's previous match, Inui gave the No.17 title to Yanagi since without him, Inui might not be able to defeat Akuto. Eventually, Akuto became a 2nd stringer.
U-17 World Cup[]
Akuto became a member of the Japan U-17 Intel Team during the U-17 World Cup, together with Inui and Yanagi. In the manga, he was present during the pick-up chicks battle of the High Schoolers and Middle Schoolers by being a punisher. Those who failed to pick up a chick were to eat his Akuto Meshi, a rice ball that has bad taste, similar to how Inui's juices exist.
Later on during the tournament, Akuto had been a big help in collecting and analyzing data from the other countries, such as data regarding the German, France, and Switzerland U-17 players.
Tennis Record[]
U-17 Camp Results[]
| Type of Match | Partner | Opponent(s) | Score |
| Foreign Expedition Group Challenge | None | Toshio Takei | Won (Unknown) |
| Foreign Expedition Group Challenge | None | Renji Yanagi | Won (Unknown) |
| Foreign Expedition Group Challenge | None | Sadaharu Inui | Lost (Unknown) |
Playing Style and Techniques[]
Mitsuya Akuto is a right-handed counterpuncher who specializes in Data Tennis and was the person who taught Yanagi Renji the basic ways of Data Tennis. Similar to Yanagi, it seems that he specializes control-oriented play in his Data Tennis, as he can aim for a shot to bounce in an irregular way, despite the probability of it being only 2.1% on the court he was playing on. Like Yanagi, he uses Data Tennis to destroy the fundamentals of the opponent's tennis style, as his methods forced Yanagi to reach to a conclusion that his probability of beating Akuto was 0%. According to the databooks, he has a habit of prioritizing data analysis over the outcome of the match, which seems to hinder his growth.
A style of tennis based on data gathered on the opponents, Mitsuya is the person who originally taught Yanagi Renji the basics of this style. The effectiveness of Yanagi's data tennis was shown in the original series to put him as the 3rd strongest player on the former championship team in all of Japan's Middle School Tennis, and yet Akuto's mastery of this style far surpassed his pupil during their match in the U-17 camp.
In the OVA, it's shown that he takes data collection beyond just the condition and movement of his opponent, as he calculated the possibility of a ball bouncing in an irregular manner based on the location of the court he was currently playing on, combined with the current time and weather condition, and factored in the possibility that Yanagi would not be prepared to deal with what is normally a low-probability result within the 2% range. And yet, his control over the prediction of his Data created what is normally a 2.1% chance of occurance into reality to throw off Yanagi's predictions.
Forced Data Tennis Output (OVA Only)
Akuto's Data Tennis is unique in its interactions with other opponents who use Data Tennis. While most people (such as Inui and Yanagi) utilizes many factors (such as speed, ball path, degree of ball's deformation, ball's rotation axis angle and rotation speed, friction heat generated by the air, opponent's potential and court condition, for starters) to calculate and narrow down the most probable outcome of the opponent's return based on said factors, Akuto is able to use his Data Tennis against his opponents (at least, opposing Data Tennis players or possibly people who are skilled at reading ahead) to confront them with every single possible outcome from the balls that he hits.
As most people cannot process so much different outcomes and information at once, it can force a person to overload from the amount of information processed and paralyze their body via shutting down one's mind. It can also, according to Akuto, force an intelligent opponent to be unable to fight the conclusion drawn from one's predictions, even if said predictions are against one's odds. This is noted to be an Anti-Data Tennis Technique by Inui.
However, the weakness of this technique is that Mitsuya ends up revealing a large portion of his methods, probabilities, and play style to his opponent, which could be analyzed and used against him in future matches or consecutive matches from different Data Tennis players who were observing him throughout the match.
U-17 Stats[1][]
Speed - 4: His Speed is average. With his keen observing eye. He can in multiple rallies deduce instantly his opponent's special characteristics.
Power - 3: His lack of power in a match is quite blatant. He has been tasked with building up his muscle strength. However, he is at least aware of his insufficient strength and helps to supplement it with his intelligence.
Stamina - 3: Because he doesn't waste any movements, he is able to preserve his stamina while in a match. Due to his over reliance on his brain, his glucose levels get absorbed in large quantities.
Mental - 6: Because he is always predicting his opponents movements, he has the potential for a vastly superior mental state. Because of that, it's difficult to disturb his mind.
Technique - 5: He has the technique to accurately aim for the shots he needs to based on his calculated data.
Kurobe Memo: His ability to observe his opponent as the match unfolds makes him part of the intellect based players. It's likely that his habit of putting more importance on the analysis rather than winning is hindering his growth. It would be worth it to put him together with Yanagi and Inui into a special intensive training on data analysis.
Trivia[]
Character Trivia[]
- Mitsuya taught Yanagi Data Tennis when he bumped into Yanagi as Yanagi was coming home from elementary school.
- He is Yanagi's hometown neighbour. [1]
- His silky hair is his secret pride.[1]
- He knew Yanagi before he entered Middle School.[1]
Other Trivia[]
- He has some similarities to Yanagi, like his position in club, committee, and favorite color.
Personal Information[1][]
- Hobby: Browsing for new glasses, Gathering Data
- Committee: Student Council Secretary
- Favorite Color: White
- Favorite Food: Yuzu (citrus), Chinese food
- Most Wanted Thing Right Now: Yanagi's Data
- Doesn't like: Wasted effort
- Special Skill Aside from Tennis: Stock Forecasting
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