Wind Breaker Characters

A first-year in class 1-1 at Furin High School who comes to Makochi from outside the town to fight his way to the top. Shunned all his life for his looks, with hair that is half black and half white and eyes of two different colours, he trusts nothing but his own fists and goes red whenever anyone thanks him. Bofurin's habit of protecting the town baffles him at first, but after the fights with Shishitoren his class makes him its Grade Captain, and he starts fighting for other people.

Sakura's cheerful classmate in 1-1, who enrolled at Furin because a Furin student once saved him from bullies. He is no good in a fight but wants to protect the town more than anyone, and the notebook in his chest pocket is full of data on everyone he thinks is cool. He becomes one of Sakura's two vice-captains, and in season 2 he starts learning self-defence from Suo.

A first-year in 1-1 who wears an eyepatch and is always smiling, polite to everyone and almost impossible to read. He loves teasing Sakura with outrageous jokes, but shows an icy side to anyone who lacks manners, as Shishitoren's Minoru Kanuma finds out in the second bout. He nominates Sakura for Grade Captain and becomes one of his vice-captains alongside Nirei.

A towering, silent first-year in 1-1 whose loyalty to Umemiya borders on worship; he was the only person allowed to call himself Bofurin while still in middle school. He picks a fight with Sakura on the first day for talking about taking Umemiya's place, and the two stay rivals even as they start fighting side by side. He wins the first bout against Shishitoren, against Yukinari Arima.

A third-year in class 3-1 and the leader of Bofurin, the one who stands at Furin's top. Cheerful and friendly, he grows vegetables, dotes on Kotoha and is loved by students and townspeople alike, yet one shout from him silences the whole school. He believes a fight is a conversation, and after beating Shishitoren's Tomiyama he offers him friendship instead of taking over his gang.

A third-year, one of the Four Kings and head of the Tamon Team, the team that Sakura's class belongs to. Highly strung and responsible, he is forever being dragged along by Umemiya, his closest friend, and carries stomach medicine everywhere. He comes to Sakura's aid in episode 1, and in the Shishitoren bouts he beats Kota Sako, an old friend who joined the rival gang.

A 16-year-old who runs Café Pothos, Bofurin's regular haunt, where Sakura soon eats most of his breakfasts. She is the first person Sakura really talks to in Makochi, and she tells him straight that he will never reach the top on his own. She grew up in the same group home as Umemiya, who insists on calling her his little sister.

A second-year and Grade Captain of class 2-1, rarely seen without headphones and a lollipop. He seems blunt and hard to read, but he is fiercely loyal to his vice-captains, Yuto Kusumi and Takeshi Enomoto. He loses patience and makes Sakura Grade Captain himself, then shows him what the job means, and in the fight with KEEL he leads the second-years in and takes on KEEL's leader, Shingo Natori.

A third-year in class 3-2, one of the Four Kings and head of the Jikoku Team. Stylish and sunny, he wears a choker, a skirt and heels, loves cute and sparkly things, asks to be called Tsubaki-chan and calls Umemiya 'Ume'. He takes Sakura, Nirei and Suo to Keisei Street, where he dances at the Burlesque Bar Ougi alongside the singer Shizuka, and when GRAVEL come for her, he takes on their leader, Shuhei Suzuri, himself.

The leader of Shishitoren, a small, restless fighter who believes that the stronger you are, the freer you are. Bored at the top of his own gang and envious of how much fun Umemiya seems to have, he marches into Furin to take the school, and Umemiya, for himself, and the two sides agree to settle it with one-on-one fights. Losing to Umemiya makes him see what Shishitoren has become, and the two leaders end the day as friends.

Shishitoren's second-in-command, who wears sunglasses, work clothes and wooden geta and talks very slowly. He enforces Tomiyama's rule that weaklings have no place in the gang, throws out the members who lose, and calls Sakura 'Othello-kun'. Fighting Sakura in the fourth bout makes him face how far the gang has drifted from what he and Tomiyama once loved about it.

The leader of KEEL, a gang in white hooded jackets that keeps its members in line through fear. He drew Nagato, the childhood friend of Sakura's classmate Masaki Anzai, into the gang. When class 1-1 storms KEEL's base to bring Nagato home, the second-years arrive to help, and Natori ends up facing Ren Kaji.