Eiji Kikumaru is a third year student at Seishun Academy Middle School (Seigaku). He is in the same class as Shusuke Fuji and happens to be his best friend also.
He is part of the "Golden Pair" along with Shuichiro Oishi. Using his acrobatic play, he can return almost any ball that would usually seem out of human reach. Eiji is also known to have the sharpest vision on the team, with an exceptional talent for seeing moving objects. This proves to be both a strength and a weakness, especially when matched against St. Rudolph's Akazawa, the captain of that tennis team. Other than his well known style of acrobatic play, he has his own signature smash move called " Kikumaru Beam ", which is essentially a very high, behind the back smash that is launched either at the corner of the opponents court, or directly at the opponent.
Though the Golden Pair seldom play without each other, Eiji has been paired with his friend Shusuke Fuji, Seigaku's genius, to form the Dream Pair, as well as forming a makeshift pair with Takeshi Momoshiro when Oishi suffers an injury to his right wrist when he was trying to save a pregnant woman from rolling off the stairs before a match. In the Nationals story arc of the manga, Eiji plays singles after Oishi gave his spot to the fully recuperated Ryoma Echizen. He says that if Oishi will not be his partner, that he refuses to play doubles anymore. After his first match against Higa Middle School, however, he proclaims that playing singles tennis is too lonely, and the Golden Pair becomes a team again.
Eiji's main weakness is a lack of stamina. However, Eiji seems to have overcome this weakness later on in the anime. His main rival is Hyotei Gakuen's Gakuto Mukahi, another acrobatic player who is extremely light and surpasses Eiji in acrobatic play.
Although Oishi and Eiji get along very well and the two together form the famous "Golden Pair," they do have their disagreements. When Momoshiro was dropped from the Regulars and stopped attending practice, Eiji was making jokes that Oishi found insensitive. Eiji then made fun of the fact that Oishi's shirt was inside out causing the vice-captain to snap and slap Eiji across the courts. The Golden Pair stopped talking to each other until Momoshiro returned to team practices.
He is part of the "Golden Pair" along with Shuichiro Oishi. Using his acrobatic play, he can return almost any ball that would usually seem out of human reach. Eiji is also known to have the sharpest vision on the team, with an exceptional talent for seeing moving objects. This proves to be both a strength and a weakness, especially when matched against St. Rudolph's Akazawa, the captain of that tennis team. Other than his well known style of acrobatic play, he has his own signature smash move called " Kikumaru Beam ", which is essentially a very high, behind the back smash that is launched either at the corner of the opponents court, or directly at the opponent.
Though the Golden Pair seldom play without each other, Eiji has been paired with his friend Shusuke Fuji, Seigaku's genius, to form the Dream Pair, as well as forming a makeshift pair with Takeshi Momoshiro when Oishi suffers an injury to his right wrist when he was trying to save a pregnant woman from rolling off the stairs before a match. In the Nationals story arc of the manga, Eiji plays singles after Oishi gave his spot to the fully recuperated Ryoma Echizen. He says that if Oishi will not be his partner, that he refuses to play doubles anymore. After his first match against Higa Middle School, however, he proclaims that playing singles tennis is too lonely, and the Golden Pair becomes a team again.
Eiji's main weakness is a lack of stamina. However, Eiji seems to have overcome this weakness later on in the anime. His main rival is Hyotei Gakuen's Gakuto Mukahi, another acrobatic player who is extremely light and surpasses Eiji in acrobatic play.
Although Oishi and Eiji get along very well and the two together form the famous "Golden Pair," they do have their disagreements. When Momoshiro was dropped from the Regulars and stopped attending practice, Eiji was making jokes that Oishi found insensitive. Eiji then made fun of the fact that Oishi's shirt was inside out causing the vice-captain to snap and slap Eiji across the courts. The Golden Pair stopped talking to each other until Momoshiro returned to team practices.
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