togawa kiyoharu

Forced to spend all of his free time after school practicing the piano, Togawa became somewhat of an outcast to his junior high classmates. During the last PE class of the first semester, Togawa agrees to race the 100M dash against the fastest boy in his class and nearly beats him, earning an invitation to join the school's track team. Togawa soon dedicates his life to becoming the fastest sprinter in the nation. However, just as his goal seems within reach, he is diagnosed with osteosarcoma and loses his right leg below the knee. Following the amputation, Togawa spends much of his time in isolation, feeling his life is over until he meets Tora, an older man with an identical disability. Tora, a cool jet-setting tattoo artist, serves as a mentor to Togawa and introduces him to the world of wheelchair basketball through his team, the Tigers. Togawa proves to be a fiercely competitive player. He once left the team because he felt the other players weren't as serious as he was. Missing the game, Togawa returns to the Tigers but provokes a team mutiny early in the series due to his often "unrealistic expectations." Further conflicts arise when Togawa is offered a spot on the Japanese national team and is invited to join the Dream, the Tigers' arch-rivals. Togawa is rated a "4.5" on the wheelchair basketball point scale.