Shingo Watase

Watase Shingo (渡瀬 伸吾) is a classmate and friend of Taichi. He is a member of Yamaboshi High's soccer team and has a crush on Fujishima Maiko.

Personality
Watase is shown to be fairly self-confident and has a mischievous sense of humor. Watase enjoys teasing Taichi about his love life and occassionally expresses slight jealousy over how popular his friend is with girls, but otherwise has proven to be a loyal and caring friend.

Despite supposedly being a fairly bright student, all traces of such are hard to notice when he's in proximity of Fujishima. When around her, Watase immediately acts eager to please and is perfectly obedient. Because of this personality, Taichi always asks him if he's a masochist.

Appearance
Watase has short, dark blue hair and teal eyes. Unlike most male students, he typically forgoes his uniform's sweater and tie. In the novel, he is described to have wolf hair. His appearance and athleticism are something other girls like and made him popular with girls but his only target is Fujishima.

Friends

 * Yaegashi Taichi: A male classmate. The two share a good friendship and Watase even trusts Taichi enough to be his wingman when trying to attract the attention of Fujishima, which Taichi considers a lost cause. Watase is shown to be somewhat jealous of Taichi's apparent popularity with girls and how close he is with Fujishima.
 * Fujishima Maiko: His class representative and the object of Watase's affection. Greatly admiring her beauty and maturity, Watase is all but at her beck and call. Watase openly acknowledges that Fujishima is out of his league, which is what makes her all the more appealing to him.
 * Ishikawa Daiki: Friend and fellow classmate. They both get along because they're both on sports team. They get into a slight argument when a phenomenon caused Nakayama to hug and kiss Watase but they resolved this by talking it out with each and saying it only happened because of the phenomenon. As a result, they trust each other quite a bit.