Madoka Hongou

Madoka Hongou (本郷 円 Hongō Madoka) is a character in number24. He is a fourth year who plays in the bucks, full back position in the Koufuuin University Team and the older brother of Kazutaka Hongou.

Appearance
Madoka is a lean young man with medium long light-green hair and orange eyes.

He is seen only in his yellow Koufuuin uniform when playing rugby or fashionable clothing outside of the field.

Personality
Madoka possesses a charming appearance and even greater personality where others tend to follow his lead and they are persuaded to improve and such in respect to his teachings and encouragement.

He is also known to be extremely cunning as he is able to coach players to be incredible backs.

In the anime, Madoka tends to exhibit both a friendly aura mixed with a provocative tone to others. Such instances can be seen when he calls Ikuto Yufu out for his reasoning behind not going pro.

More of this attitude can be observed with his multiple interactions with Seiichirou Shingyouji, where he seems to, whether knowingly or not, attempt to aggravate him.

Kazutaka Hongou foils his personality.

Background
Coming from Maisagi High School, Madoka and Kazutaka Hongou were famous siblings who now they play for the Koufuuin where they are 4th/3rd years and Madoka is known as "The God of Backs" while Kazutaka as "The Forward God of Destruction", in which this nickname was given to them by Ueoka Ibuki, who they played with on their high school team.

Etymology

 * The name Madoka means "circle, yen, round" (円).
 * Madoka's surname Hongou means "base, root, origin" (本) (hon) and "township, home town, village, native place, district" (郷) (gou).

Trivia

 * Madoka has coached Yasunari Tsuru, Ueoka Ibuki, Seiichirou Shingyouji (indirectly) and Natsusa Yuzuki.
 * Voiced by Barrett Leddy in the English dub.