Hiruma, my favorite character (YA_HA)

Yoichi Hiruma
Eyeshield 21 character
Created by
Riichiro Inagaki, Yusuke Murata
Aliases
Control Tower of Hell
Age
17
Male
High School Student, Football player
Height
176 cm
Weight
67 kg
Position
Quarterback / Strong Safety/ Punter
Current team
Deimon Devil Bats
Previous team
Mao Devil Bats
40 yard dash
5.1 seconds
Bench press
75 kg
Yoichi Hiruma (蛭魔 妖一, Hiruma Yōichi?) is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Eyeshield 21. His Japanese voice actor is Atsushi Tamura (listed in the anime credits as Atsushi Tamura of London Boots #1 and #2).
When a Weekly Shonen Jump popularity poll of the Eyeshield 21 characters was conducted, Hiruma ranked number 1, unusual in a Jump manga, where the main character usually ranks first.[citation needed] In a following poll for the Dream Eleven, in which a team of eleven was created via a popularity poll of characters and their positions, Hiruma was the only character to receive not only over twice as many votes as the second-place finisher, Kid, but more votes than all the other candidates combined -- Hiruma with 9196 votes, and all the other quarterbacks with a total of 6971 votes.[1]
The latest ES21 poll, to form All-Freshmen and All-Seniors (and in Deimon's case, All-Sophomores) teams, saw Hiruma come out on top here as well, with a total of 3968 votes.[2] However, the same episode saw a crushing blow to the character - speaking both figuratively and literally.

Hiruma threating Sena Kobayakawa with his machine gun
Hiruma is the mastermind, quarterback and de facto captain of Deimon's American Football club. He has pointy ears, sharp teeth, and looks and acts like a demon. His signature phrase is a loud "YA-HA", sometimes ended with a "TOUCHDOWN!". Hiruma is usually carrying some kind of firearm (usually concealed), including but not limited to flamethrowers, submachine guns, assault rifles (usually an M4A1 Carbine) or bazookas, which he fires mostly for intimidation. However, he has also used them for training purposes, such as shooting behind players to get them to run pass routes. Hiruma was the first person to recognize Sena Kobayakawa's talent for running and dodging. He also owns a very vicious dog named Cerberus (ケルベロス, Keruberosu?) - named for the triple-headed hell hound Cerberus that guards the gates of Hades. He often uses the dog to scare team members into running faster (although in one of the books it is explained that Cerberus is actually a stray who stays with Hiruma in exchange for food - he was not always the snarling mass of teeth he is today, he actually started out kind of cute before Hiruma adopted him).
Hiruma discovered football by chance; wandering around his hometown, he discovered a hole in a gate of an American military base where the soldiers were playing football for leisure. Befriending the soldiers on the base, he also instantly learned the strategies of playing poker, allowing him to become rich quick. Eventually Hiruma would meet his two most notable partners in crime by chance: Kurita after accidentally dropping a football strategy page from the roof of his middle school where he was relaxing, and Musashi when he was called in to fix the gate to the American base after Hiruma sneaked in again for another game with the soldiers. Eventually the trio would work together to become a football force: first by attempting to join the Shinryuji Naga (of which Hiruma and Musashi got in but abandoned due to both Kurita's failure on the entrance exam and the arrogance of fellow incoming freshman Agon Kongo) and eventually at Deimon High.
The Devil Bats' quarterback's main drive is to win the championship & make it to Japan's Christmas Bowl; but there is an underlying reason for all his schemes. Unlike other schools, Deimon has a rule that all its students must cease their extracurricular activities after the fall of their 2nd year, including the sports clubs. For both Hiruma and Kurita, this is their last chance with the football team.