Teshima Junta

Teshima Junta is a second-year student at Sohoku High School and a member of the Sohoku High Bicycle Club. While he is unable to make the Inter High team during his second year, he was announced by Kinjou Shingo to be captain of the cycling club during his third year and beats his teammate and old friend Koga to secure his spot on the Inter High team.Teshima has fairly long, wavy hair, which he sometimes wears back in a ponytail. In pictures colored by the mangaka, he is depicted with shades of blue and purple in his hair and eyes, and he is initially depicted with much curlier hair. In the anime, Teshima's hair is solid black. For the movie, Teshima is given more violet-toned hair and blue eyes. He is often shown wearing shirts with star designs on them. In year three, his design also feature English teaspoon, small milk jug and tea cup.Teshima is very smart and uses strategies to win races along with his close friend Aoyagi. Seemingly nonchalant, condescending, and teasing at first, he acts subtly hostile towards the first-years to prevent them from joining the Inter High team. It's shown that Teshima has a complex as an "ordinary" cyclist that cannot reach the top world of "elite" cyclists, which is why he works with Aoyagi as a "team of two". He is a thoroughly hard worker, but doesn't have much confidence in his own cycling abilities and easily resigns himself to his status (and nearly quits cycling because of it) before entering high school and witnessing an Inter High race. Teshima tends to damper his emotions when things go wrong, accepting failure as the fate of someone "ordinary", but he has a fierce, competitive desire to win and can become quite emotionally charged when he refuses to accept that he's unable to achieve anything. As it turns out, Teshima is very humble and supportive of Sohoku's cycling team after his loss, even to those who've personally defeated him. It's as if his hostile nature beforehand was circumstantial, simply born from his desire to win and ride with his mentor Tadokoro before the third-year graduated. During downtime with the first-years, it's shown that they've reconciled their differences and have bonded with him and Aoyagi[2][3], and he takes his role on the support team during the 41st Summer Inter High very seriously. He's willing to physically push team members who've fallen behind and ease their mental state from the reality of their situation. Teshima believes in his teammates, and encourages others (particularly Sugimoto, Naruko and Onoda) to believe in them as well. After Inter High, when he became the captain, he has become very adept at encouraging Imaizumi and Naruko, namely to convince the former to spend more time to discover and compliment Sadatoki's effort and talents, and allow the latter to take indefinite leave so Naruko can consider his future as a sprinter in Osaka. He also uses his own psychological warfare to psych out opponent and cast doubt over his own teammates (even when the person in question or is 'uncertain to make the team' is actually himself), as shown by the 1000km training camp when he explained that he is the unconfirmed member rather than Kaburagi Issa when he races against Koga Kimitaka as they settle old scores. He also likes to state the obvious, but is also good at putting the obvious into practice, which are mostly the fundamentals.