
3-gatsu no Lion
- Genre: comedy drama romance seinen slice of life sports award winning
- Author: umino chica
- Artist(s): umino chica
- Year: 2007
- Original Publisher: hakusensha
- Status: Ongoing
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Kawamoto Momo
Main
The youngest of the three sisters. A preschool student, she attends a daycare center. Pure and innocent, she has a bit of a selfish streak at times. Her favorite anime character is Bodoro (modelled on My Neighbour Totoros Totoro). She calls Rei, "Rei-chan...
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Kawamoto Hinata
Main
Age: 13The second of the three sisters. A middle school student. She sleeps in late in the mornings till the very last minute and often makes bentos by herself. She calls Rei "Rei-chan". Like her elder sister Akari, she likes taking care of Rei. She has a...
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Kawamoto Akari
Main
Age: 23A resident of Sangatsu-chou (March city), she is the eldest of three sisters. Her mother passed away and subsequently she took care of two younger sisters. In the mornings, she helps her elderly grandfather run a traditional wagashi (Japanese confe...
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Kiriyama Rei
Main
Age: 17Hobbies: ShogiThe protagonist of the series. A five dan, Rei became a professional shogi player while in middle school. His parents and sister died in a traffic accident, and after that he was taken care of by his fathers friend Kouda and became hi...
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Anna
Supporting
Mrs. Anna was Petrovs maid who took care of the apartment that Petrov and the group of children stayed in. Her "knedlky" (Czech dumplings) was their favorite dish. She is later found murdered when Grimmer returns to the apartment, killed by Johan ...
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Hanaoka
Supporting
The butler of the Nikaidō family, who has been in continuous service for them for over 45 years. A gentle and kind elderly man, he has taken care of Harunobu ever since he was a baby.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Hayashida Takashi
Supporting
A teacher of the high school where Rei decided to join. He is a big fan of shogi and regularly reads shogi magazines. He is the only one in the high school who had heard of Rei being a professional shogi player though when he first knew of him joining, he...
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Kawamoto Someji
Supporting
The grandfather of the three Kawamoto sisters. He runs a traditional wagashi shop, Mikazuki-dou. Even though he may appear to be unexpressive, he actually dotes on his grandchildren a lot, in particular Momo. Along with Akari, he likes to watch over Rei.(...
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Kawashima
Supporting
Kawashima is one of Akagi and Osamus seniors in the toy factory. Along with two others, they cheated Osamu in a game of mahjong. They later lost all their savings in a bet with Akagi. Seeking retribution, they resorted to violence with him. (Source: Aka...
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Kimura
Supporting
The only male teacher seen regularly in the series, Kimuras open-mouthed expression (as well as his ability to simply appear out of nowhere) tends to creep out most of the female students. While he has shown tendencies to be responsible and kind-hearted (...
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Kokubu
Supporting
Kokubo-sensei is the head teacher at Hinata Kawamotos middle school. He also serves as the interim homeroom teacher of Hinatas third year class, 3A, whose female bullies are notorious for having driven their original homeroom teacher to a breakdown, follo...
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Kouda Ayumu
Supporting
Koudas son and Kyoukos younger brother. He is of the same age as Rei. After losing to Rei in shougi, he stopped playing at all, and afterwards started confining himself to his room and only playing video games.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Kouda Masachika
Supporting
Reis shougi teacher. He was both Reis fathers friend and rival in shougi. He cared for Rei like he did for his children and taught him shougi.(Source: Wikipedia, edited)...
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Kouda Kyouko
Supporting
Koudas daughter. She is four years older than Rei. Beautiful and hot tempered, Kyouko seems to hold a grudge on Rei for being the best in shogi and that resentment is carried with her attempts to lead him into failure, even when shes being fairly cordial ...
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Matsumoto Issa
Supporting
26 years old. Five dan. He is 181 centimeters tall. A quite expressive and enthusiastic person, he can be aggressive at times as well. He comes from the countryside. He is a fan of Akari.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Matsunaga Shouichi
Supporting
65 years old. A seven dan. He is a veteran who has been a professional shougi player for over 40 years. He comes from Fukushima.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Misaki
Supporting
Gender: Male Age: 27 Birthday: September 3 Blood Type: A Alice: Plant Manipulation Alice Stone Color: Blueish Green Misaki is a teacher of biology at the academy. Seems to be stoic in his expressions, yet cares for the students. During his first meeting w...
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Misumi Tatsuyuki
Supporting
26 years old. Six dan. He is often called "Sumisu" (for "Smith"). He is 180 centimeters tall. A bit aloof, he gets along well with Matsumoto.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Namerikawa Izaya
Supporting
Izaya Namerikawa is a professional shogi player of rank 7-dan. He loves people in general, but is considered creepy because of his tendency to torture his opponents with long matches. He does this because of his love for shogi and because he wants to play...
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Nikaidou Harunobu
Supporting
Reis self-proclaimed "best friend" and "lifelong rival". A fourth dan ranked Shogi player, he has played with Rei since they were children. Even though he might appear to be healthy, he is in fact in poor health. He is from a good family. He is modeled af...
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Noguchi Eisaku
Supporting
President of the Burners club (as in Bunsen burner), a chemistry club in the school Kiriyama Rei goes to....
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Shimada Kai
Supporting
Kai Shimada is a professional shogi player of rank 8-dan. When Kiriyama first encountered him, he noticed that Shimada had no notable strengths or weaknesses in shogi.Shimadas appearance consists of a frail and thin-looking figure alongside his drowsy loo...
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Souya Touji
Supporting
The current meijin. He has longed for a rival like Rei. Similar to Rei, he became a professional shougi player in middle school....
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Takahashi Yuusuke
Supporting
A middle school student. A childhood friend and classmate of Hinatas, they are quite close to each other. He is the son of a milkman. He is the ace of his schools baseball team and aims to be a pro. Since Rei became a shōgi pro in middle school, Yūsuke gr...
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Takashi
Supporting
Takashi, designated #26, is a member of the Espers. Takashi was inadvertently instrumental in Tetsuos psychic emergence and his eventual fall into insanity when he was trying to find a way in the outside world and happened to be standing right in Tetsuos ...
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Tsujii Takeshi
Supporting
A 9 dan professional shogi player, ranked A for the past 8 years, Tsujii Takeshi is a lover wordplay and craves public attention.Other people within the shogi world call him a waste of good looks due to his propensity for dad jokes and terrible puns. He i...
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Yamashita
Supporting
He is in the C Class. He is in love with Konatsu. He has given her a nice birthday present. He has also seen Haruki's female form....
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Yasui Manabu
Supporting
A six dan. Upon losing a match, he lost his temper, thus resulting in him divorcing his wife.(Source: Wikipedia)...
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Yoshino
Supporting
A teacher at Yuasa High School. He is advisor of athletic club. At morning meeting he claimed that Kasai Chiaki is a liar. Later he started hearing knocking sounds during night which disturbed his sleep and made him very nervous....

































































