Kaga, Tetsuo

加賀鉄男

President of the Shogi club at Haze Middle School. Kaga dislikes Go and favors Shogi because his father banned Shogi and compelled him to play Go from a very young age. He could never satisfy the old man, regardless of his performance, because he always lost to Akira. He also claims to hate Go because Akira is superior to him, while maintaining a completely detached attitude toward the game. He still plays Go occasionally to keep his skills sharp. He and Kimihiro have graduated from Haze Middle School. Tetsuo smokes cigarettes, which appeared in earlier U.S. Shonen Jump versions of Hikaru no Go but were removed from the U.S. graphic novels and later Shonen Jump versions (as of 2005). His birthday is January 8th.