Masako Araki

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Masako Araki
Name	Masako Araki
Kanji	荒木 雅子
Vital Statistics
Gender	Female
Age	33
Height	170 cm (5' 7")
Weight	Secret
Birthday	January 3rd, Capricorn
Blood type	B
Professional Statistics
Team	Yōsen
Job	Coach
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 143
Anime	Episode 45
Seiyū
Anime	Yū Shimamura (Japanese) Lauren Landa (English)
Image Gallery

Masako Araki (荒木 雅子 Araki Masako) is the coach of Yōsen High.

Appearance

Araki is a mature woman with long black hair and shaggy bangs that cover her forehead. She has dark-blue eyes that are slightly downturned and thin black eyebrows.

She is most often seen dressed in black suit with a white, long-sleeved collared shirt underneath. In her time on the Japanese basketball team, she wore a pink and white jersey with the number 8 and kept her hair in a ponytail with the same style of bangs.

In Touou Gakuen’s Sleepless Night Special: Aegis Shield of Setsubun, she wears an Oni cosplay costume, consisting of stripped underwear and boots, and a headband with Oni horns.

Personality

As a coach, Araki is very intelligent and coaches her team's matches strategically. She is serious and strict with Yōsen High to the point of scolding her players with a shinai when slacking off or misbehaving. She has great faith in them nonetheless, particularly in the team's dual aces of Atsushi Murasakibara and Tatsuya Himuro, and cares for them on a personal level as seen in her smiling at Murasakibara after he grew emotional.

This sort of "tough love" personality may have been influenced by her time in a biker gang, where she commanded great respect from those around her and was similarly violent towards those who annoyed her.

Araki also has good hearing and is sensitive of her age, managing to hear Riko Aida call her a granny from across the court and glaring at her because of it.

History

Araki on the national basketball team

Some time before the current timeline, Araki was a successful youth basketball player that she even made it as far as a regular on the national Japanese female basketball team. She was acquainted with the male team, which consisted of Kagetora Aida, Genta Takeuchi, Masaaki Nakatani, Katsunori Harasawa and Eiji Shirogane.

Story

Winter Cup

Quarter-finals

Araki appears for the first time when the Yōsen High team finished their match against an unknown team in the second round. Kenichi Okamura is fooling around and Araki calms them down. She tells them she has video material of Seirin High and orders them to return to the hotel to study it.

Stats

Training Capability		7/10
Analytical Skill		8/10
Leadership		8/10
Charisma		7/10
Ability when actively playing		7/10

Etymology

• The name Masako means "elegant, graceful" (雅) (masa) and "child" (子) (ko).
• Masako's surname Araki means "laid waste, rough, rude, wild" (荒) (ara) and "tree, wood" (木) (ki).

Trivia

• Araki teaches P.E in Yōsen High.
• In Replace IV, it was revealed that Araki used to be part of a biker gang, and that Genta Takeuchi, planned to confess to her multiple times with an intention of marriage. In the end he was struck down by her sword and was chased down by the biker gang.
• According to KUROFES:
  • Her motto is "Those who put off what they can do today till tomorrow are stupid".
  • Her favourite food is strawberry parfait.
  • Her hobby is motorcycles.
  • She is single.
  • She dislikes Harasawa.
  • Her best basketball move (when she played) was a three-point shot.
  • The type of men she likes is strong men.
  • She spends her free days doing motorcycle maintenance.
  • She started playing basketball because it was recommended to her by a former teacher.
  • The player she has her eyes on is Nebuya.

Navigation

v - e - t	Yōsen High
Players	Atsushi Murasakibara • Tatsuya Himuro • Wei Liu
Former players	Kenichi Okamura • Kensuke Fukui
Coach	Masako Araki