Yasunari Tsuru

Yasunari Tsuru (都留 靖也 Tsuru Yasunari) is a character in number24. He is a first year and number 11. He plays in the left wing bucks position in the Doshisha University Team.

Appearance
Yasunari is a young man with short red hair and blue eyes. He wears a long sleeves jersey with 2 blue and magenta lines consecutively stopping above his wrist on both hands. He has on a denim blue jeans with a long yellow belt hanging down from the right side of his waist. He has on 2 white sneakers with red sides and a small yellow line near both of his ankles.

Personality
Yasunari is a energetically cute and shy guy who sometimes keeps things to himself. He is an amazing player, but he doesn’t believe in himself or his capabilities. He appears to be mean at first but in reality he is really kind and caring.

Background
Yasunari came to school and saw Natsusa Yuzuki being back, but completely ignored him and went to sit. Natsusa greeted him, asking him how he was, but Yasunari just told him "yes" and kept looking at his phone. Natsusa then started talking about their games when he was gone, as Seiichirou Shingyouji had shown him some videos, but Yasunari told him that if he was going to give him advice, he didn't need any, especially from him and then stood up and moved away from Natsusa. As the story goes on they both get to be roommates. Yasunari didn’t like that Idea since it was too awkward. They played a game with another team. Coincidentally he found someone who is a super fan of Natsusa, he is the exact copy of him, he couldn’t stop thinking of Natsusa while playing. The captain talked to him while threatening him with not being able to play for the next game. Later Natsusa talked to Yasunari about what he’s doing wrong and helped him become a better player. After doing all those embarrassing things, Yasunari finally knew what was wrong and tried his best to stop doing it with the help of Natsusa.

Etymology

 * The name Yasunari means "peaceful" (靖) (yasu) and "to be, also" (也) (nari).
 * Yasunari's surname Tsuru means "capital" (都) (tsu) and "detain, fasten, halt, stop" (留) (ru).