Gorou Honda

Gorou Honda, also known as Gorou Shigeno, is the main protagonist of the Major anime and manga.

Gorou is a young talented baseball player. His love of the game stems from his father who played for the Yokohama Marine Stars. Wanting nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps, he strives to become a professional ball player. Thriving on the challenge of the mound, he puts everything into the competition. He makes friends easily, as people are drawn to his personality and his excitement of the game.

Appearance
Gorou has a messy black hair and dark eyes.

Personality
Goro is depicted as the hot-blooded stereotype who is always determined to fulfill goals to the very end. He appears all brawn with no brains, being unable to concentrate on his studies or remembering any of his opponent's names in the past. Yet he is able to learn English through an adaptive pace during his year-long stay in America since his arrival.

Goro is also quite dense when it comes to romance and other relationships with women. He shows one sign after meeting Ryoko Kawase the first time but remains unaware of Kaoru's slowly growing affections for him where he later realizes 10 years after their first meeting.

Abilities
In junior high school and high school, he pitches left, but continues to bat right.

He used to only pitch gyroballs ("rising fastball"), though beginning with the Baseball World Cup, he has successfully added gyrofork ("forkball") to his repertoire.

Trivia

 * At the end of season 1, Goro continues to play with a seriously injured arm that will later in the series unable him to no longer pitch with that arm. This leads him to training himself how to become left-handed, initially doing everything with his left-arm.