Sosuke Yamazaki

Sosuke Yamazaki (山崎 宗介 Yamazaki Sōsuke) is one of the main supporting characters in the second season of anime Free!, ''Free! Eternal Summer''. He is a close elementary school friend of Rin Matsuoka, and the person who understands him the most.

Appearance
Sosuke is a tall, well-built young man with short dark brown hair, droopy teal eyes and a serious face expression.

While swimming, he wears black jammers which have white, grey and brown markings trailing along the length of his outer legs and thighs.

Personality
Sosuke is said to be a good person who understands Rin a lot. He has a strong personality and never gets irritated by anything. He takes a dry and harsh position on swimming toward himself and those around him. He's very overprotective of Rin, as he threatens Haruka not to get in Rin's way ever again, after what he did at the regionals.

History
Sosuke is a former friend of Rin's from Sano Elementary School. After he finished elementary school, he went to Sano Junior High School. He was a part of Sano Swimming Club with Rin.

Trivia

 * Yamazaki's voice actor, Yoshimasa Hosoya, is also active in other sports animes, voicing Junpei Hyūga in Kuroko no Basuke, Kuranosuke Shiraishi in Prince of Tennis, Arata Wataya in Chihayafuru, and Asahi Azumane in Haikyuu!! .
 * It's possible that Sosuke and Gou went to the same elementary school, Sano Elementary School, since she stated that she hadn't heard of him ever since they had ended up in different high schools.

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