Shin is the leader of class 3-D. He is cool, level-headed, smart, and somewhat introverted. Everyone in the class looks up to him. Shin is feared because of an incident back in middle school, where he punched out a teacher who constantly persecuted a student he believed to have committed a crime, where later he was proven innocent the teacher refused to apologize.  

Shin knows right away that something is not normal about their new teacher and keeps an eye on her. He's the first one to find out Yankumi's true identity. In the manga, he is given the alias of "Young Master Red Lion" from Kyou. Shin's father is a high ranking police official.

Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi enters Shirokin High School to become a math teacher. She's assigned as the homeroom teacher for class 2-4, populated by a gang of delinquents. At first, the class tries everything to rattle her cage, but to no avail. In a short period of time, Yankumi gains the respect of the class. But what the school doesn't know is that she's the heir to the Oedo Group, a powerful yakuzan clan. So while Yankumi struggles to excel in her career as a teacher, she must also keep her yakuza background a secret. 
 
(Source: Media Blasters)

__Height:__ 174 cm (5'8'') 

[Profile](https://intention-k.com/profile/kenichi_suzumura) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/suzu__kensan)

His favorite animals are dogs, and he has two dogs named Ivy and Momo. His favorite foods are curry and Pino ice cream. He enjoys cooking and playing video games. He can speak in the Kansai-ben dialect. He has a younger brother, Masaki, and an older sister, Shizuka. He has practiced aikido.  

He left Artvision in 2012 and has found his own talent agency INTENTION. He is part of the voice actor unit STA☆MEN, alongside Junichi Suwabe, Daisuke Kishio, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Makoto Yasumura, and Kousuke Toriumi. They performed the ending theme for the Tokusatsu drama "Go Busters" of the Super Sentai Series and released it as their third single. He's also part of CONNECT, first unit of Kiramune, with Mitsuo Iwata. They released three mini-albums and a single. As a solo artist, he has released 13 singles, 3 albums and 2 mini-albums.  

Married frequent costar [Maaya Sakamoto](https://anilist.co/staff/95090/Maaya-Sakamoto) on August 8, 2011.

He's Korean.  He played dubbing voices for   Shiro from "Fate/Stay Night",  Sasuke Uchiha from "Naruto",  and etcetera.    He played the voices of characters in video games.  One of the famous roles he played was the protagonist called Calintz in the video game called Magna Carta  

Fresh out of college, Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi becomes a math teacher at an all-boys high school. Unfortunately for her, she's assigned by the school board as the homeroom teacher for class 3-D, which happens to be the class of delinquent students. When the class attempts to make a living hell out of Yankumi's career, they fail as her persistence and aggression gain her respect. However, little does anyone in the school know that Yankumi is actually heir to the Kuroda Ikka—one of Tokyo's most powerful yakuza clans.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Note: Chapter count includes 9 extra chapters in Volumes 9-15

Gokusen Kanketsuhen is a collection special Gokusen chapters. 
1. Gokusen (ごくせん2008); You 2008 #2 
Kumiko has trouble with her new class of first years. 
2-4. Gokusen Kanketsu-hen (ごくせん完結編); You 2009 #4-16 
Kumiko and Shin's relationship hasn't gone very far. Shin gets kidnapped by a daughter of another yakuza group with intrusions of making him her bride-groom. Shin's father informs Kumiko that although he respects her as a teacher, he does not want her to see Shin again. Then it only gets worse when the other former Shirokin try to rescue him before Kumiko gets there. 
5. Gokusen Bangai-hen: Ucchi & Shiori Kyoufu no Ippaku Ryokou!! (ごくせん番外編 うっちー＆詩織 恐怖の一泊旅行!!); You 2007 #15 
Chapter focusing on Ucchi and his girlfriend. 
6. Gokusen Bangai-hen: Hontou ni Attara Kowai Hanashi Gekijou (ごくせん番外編 本当にあったら怖い話劇場); Bessatsu You 2007-11-20 
Assortment of short stories with a horror theme.

The Gokusen Extra Chapter is a side story included within the Gokusen Official Guidebook. It shows the first meeting between Kumiko and Shin years before the main story.

Shin Sawada