He is a 15 years old Japanese boy who  decides to make a choice that is to enroll itself to Lair Of Tigris for taking care of his sick mother. But during the training his mother dies and Mr. X picks him to assassinate tiger mask. Thus hatred of Ken for Naoto always grows more till wanting to face it in a crash to the last blood.  At the end, Naoto succeeds make Ken understand that who is the true bad one( Mr. X ). Thus Yellow Devil becomes an other inseparable friend of the Man Tiger. Injured person in the crash with a sicario of lair of Tigris will end (than in reality it is Great Tiger), that he will put end to its career of wrestling .

In "The Tiger's Hole," the behind-the-scenes organization of the revived wresting world, two young wrestlers take a stand. One of those fighters has inherited the training facility and mask of a tiger that Naoto Itou left at the foot of Mount Fuji. The other fighter has been victorious at fierce competitions since entering The Tiger's Hole, and has obtained the black Tiger Mask. A Tiger Mask that walks down the path of light, and a Tiger Mask that walks down the path of shadow. Neither of them have ever seen each other's face... In the ring, the two are fated rivals, but their goals are the same: "Crush The Tiger's Hole!"

**Height:** 160cm

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Older brother of voice actor [Kazumi Tanaka](https://anilist.co/staff/104181/).

Tiger Mask (whose real name was Naoto Date) was a feared heel wrestler in America who was extremely vicious in the ring. However, he became a face after returning to Japan when a young boy said that he wanted to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grew up. The boy resided in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he did not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger was inspired to be a heroic wrestler.<br><br>
The main antagonist in the manga and anime was Tiger's Cave, a mysterious organization that trained young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they gave half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of Tiger's Cave under the name "Yellow Devil", but no longer wanted anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriated the leader of the organization and he sent numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, to punish him.<br><br>
(Source: Wikipedia)

Kentarou Takaoka