Tomohito Sugino

Tomohito Sugino (杉野 友人, Sugino Tomohito) is a student in Korosensei's class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School and one of Nagisa's best friends.

Appearance
Sugino has the generic short, spiked black hair for male shōnen characters and dark blue eyes.

Personality
Sugino is an energetic boy with a love for baseball. He's a very happy person and gets along with his classmates well.

History
Before he was transferred to Class-E, Sugino was a member of the school's baseball club. However, due to his relatively slow pitches frequently getting batted, he was removed from the regular line up of his club. Because he was moved down, he had no motivation to study and thus got moved to Class-E.

Plot
Sugino is one of the first characters to get an official introduction. He was formally introduced in the second chapter when he tried to assassinate Korosensei with a baseball embedded with Anti-Sensei BB Pellets, but failed. He told Korosensei about his slow pitches and how because of it he'd gotten removed from the regular lineup. Korosensei then proceeds to compare his muscle configuration to pro-pitcher Arita, who of which he checked for the same thing the previous causing a ruckus during the game. He told Sugino that compared to Arita, the muscle configuration in his shoulders were terrible, but the malleability in his elbow and wrist were much more outstanding than the pro's. This gave Sugino more confidence in himself and decided to develop pitches that changes the ball's speed.

Abilities
Knifework: Sugino is the third best for knifework on the boys' side.

Sugino admitted that he has a slow pitch and compared to professional baseball pitcher Arita, his muscle configuration isn't so good. However, he has a very malleable wrist and elbow which allows him to change a ball's speed with various pitches.

Nagisa Shiota
Nagisa is one of Sugino's closest friends are often seen hanging out together.

Yukiko Kanzaki
Tomohito has a crush on Yukiko and was paired with her during Korosensei's "Nuru-nuru Assassination Test of Courage."

Karma Akabane
Karma and Sugino get along well and are often seen hanging out with Nagisa. Sugino has expressed weariness over Karma from time to time in terms of the redhead's antics.

Quotes
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 * (To Kazutaka Shindō) "Nagisa always helped me practice my breaking ball pitch, and Karma and Isogai's reflexes, as the way everyone's bunting improved, were all amazing. But if we didn't get results, i wouldn't be able to convey all of that. Well in short, i kinda wanted to brag to my old comrades a little about my current ones in class E" ''

Trivia

 * He was called "Baseball freak" during class 3-E training using code names.