__Height:__ 168 cm
__Class:__ Year 1 Class 9
__Position:__ Center fielder and third baseman
__Throws/Bats:__ Right/Switch hitter
__Uniform number:__  8

Izumi is one of the more experienced players on the team, good at batting and catching and most notably a very fast base runner. He is in the same class as Mihashi and Tajima and shares their lunchtime activities of talking, eating and then falling asleep. He attended the same elementary and junior high school as Hamada, although up until high school Hamada was a year above him. He appears to enjoy antagonizing Hamada and does not treat him with the respect due to a former senpai.

After a falling out with his middle school team, Mihashi enters Nishiura high school with no social skill, a warped opinion of himself, and every intention to quit baseball. The newly formed Nishiura baseball team, however, needs a pitcher, and they welcome him. Most enthusiastic is Abe, a domineering catcher with his own game issues. 
And so a battery every bit as complementary as it is dysfunctional is formed. If they can figure out how to work together, they might be the answers to each other's problems-and the team might be able to win.

__Height:__ 173 cm
__Skills & Abilities:__ Kendo

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Fukuyama released his debut music album "Romantic World 31" on his birthday (November 26) in 2009, his second album "Love Letters 2: Paris Romantic" on July 21, 2010, his third album "Fukuyama Jun, Ai wo Utau!" on May 25, 2011, and his fourth album "Love Letter 3 ~Matsuri no Kuni de~" on May 22, 2013. He also appeared in a 2009 romantic comedy movie Fujoshi Kanojo in a cameo role.

**Non-anime roles:**
- [Joker](https://anilist.co/character/121590/Ren-Amamiya) - Persona 5
- Renya Goutou - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
- [Camu](https://anilist.co/character/278324/Camu) - Punishing: Gray Raven
- [Kamui](https://anilist.co/character/259960) - Punishing: Gray Raven
- Vyn Richter - Tears of Themis
- Martin - Rune Factory 5
- Hugo - Zenless Zone Zero
- Logos - Arknights

Picking up where the original series left off, Ren Mihashi, the ace pitcher of the newly-formed Nishiura High School baseball team, and his teammates face the Sakitama High School team in the next round of the High School Baseball Invitational Tournament as they aim to play in the finals at legendary Hanshin Koushien Stadium.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Mihashi moves on to high school convinced he is a lousy baseball pitcher. There he meets the catcher Abe and the team manager Momoe who together work to make Mihashi and the team shine. 
(Source: Anime News Network)
 
Notes: 
- Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award for best creative work in 2006. 
- Winner of Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2007.

Chiisaku Furikabutte, lit. “Small Windup”, was published in Afternoon between the tankobon publications of volumes 15 and 16 and during the 2011 hiatus, and it is a series of specials about the lives of Oofuri characters.

Kousuke Izumi