Satoru Furuya
Satoru Furuya is a main character in Ace of Diamond, Seido High's power pitcher and Sawamura's great rival for the ace title. Nobunaga Shimazaki voices him in Japanese.
About Satoru Furuya
Satoru Furuya is Seido's power pitcher, a quiet Hokkaido right-hander whose fastball arrives like weather. He has held the ace's promise since his first year, and his rivalry with Sawamura, for the same mound and the same number, is the spine of the team.
Appearance
Furuya is tall and composed, with dark hair and a sleepy, unreadable expression that hides a competitive streak as fierce as Sawamura's, expressed almost entirely in fastballs. When he pitches, the whole stadium can hear the mitt pop.
Personality
Furuya is quiet, stubborn and proud, a boy of few words whose ambition speaks through his pitching. He wants the ace title as much as Sawamura does and says so with unusual honesty when it counts. His distance from teammates has softened across the series, but his standard for himself has not: he measures his worth in innings and strikeouts.
Background & Story
Furuya came from Hokkaido, where his overwhelming velocity left him isolated, no catcher could hold his pitches and batters stopped wanting to face him. At Seido he found Miyuki's mitt and real competition in Sawamura. Injuries and the burden of expectation have interrupted his rise more than once, and Act II finds him sharing the summer campaign with his rival, both of them chasing the same ace number into the Inashiro rematch.
Powers & Abilities
- The power fastball: Furuya's fastball is one of the most feared pitches in Tokyo high school baseball, an overwhelming, rising-seeming heater that overmatches batters even when they know it is coming.
- Two-way threat: Furuya is also a power hitter, a pitcher who bats like a cleanup man, which makes dropping him from the lineup almost impossible even on his rough days.
Key Relationships
- Eijun Sawamura: His rival and, in the way of long rivals, one of the people who understands him best. They push each other toward the ace title neither will surrender.
- Kazuya Miyuki: The catcher who can receive his full power. Miyuki's trust is the stage Furuya's talent needs.
Quick Answers
Who voices Satoru Furuya?
Nobunaga Shimazaki voices Furuya in Japanese throughout the Ace of Diamond anime.
Who is Seido's ace, Furuya or Sawamura?
That rivalry is the centre of the series. Furuya's raw power made him the early ace candidate, while Sawamura's growth keeps closing the gap. Act II -Second Season- continues the contest into the summer tournament.