Shinji serves as Shion's foster father and is a professional shogi player. He holds the rank of 8 dan.
yasuoka shinji
Characters
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Nikaidou Saori
Main
Saori is a female shogi player and apprentice to Makoto. She is eighteen years old, and a fan of Shion. As befitting the daughter of a high-class family, her type of shougi is usually dignified. She deeply seeks recognition from Makoto, who she looks up t...
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Saitou Ayumi
Main
Ayumi is a sixteen-year-old androgynous male shogi player. Due to his sickly mother, he had to leave high school to take care of her. When playing shogi, he pretends to be a girl in order to earn money for competing due to the male league taking two years...
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Yasuoka Shion
Main
Shion is the main protagonist of the story. When she was five years old, Shion's parents were slaughtered in their own home, though the murderer was never found. Shion, being a young girl at the time, was traumatized by bearing witness to the aftermath an...
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Hani Makoto
Supporting
Makoto is a professional shogi player and is referred to by many as Meijin (名人), the highest and most prestigious professional shogi rank in Japan (similar to a chess Grandmaster)....
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Hani Satoru
Supporting
Satoru is Makoto's younger brother and works as a businessman. Satorou is also a professional shogi player himself, but he abandoned playing shogi after his mother died. He took up shogi again after seeing Shion play. His dream is to one day able to defea...
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Yasuoka Shinji
Supporting
Shinji is Shion's foster father and is a professional shogi player. His rank is 8 dan....