Shouta Yazaki

Shouta Yazaki (Yazaki Shouta) is a minor character in the light novel, High☆Speed！ 2, written by Kouji Ohji. He is a second-year student at Iwatobi Junior High School and a member of the Iwatobi Junior High School Swim Club. He is the second-year boys' leader and the older brother of Aki Yazaki.

Appearance
There is no description of Shouta's appearance in the novel.

Personality
Shouta is a highly competitive boy who appears to be rather insecure about his place in the swim club. His younger sister, Aki, explains that this is because he is afraid of losing varsity status after seeing how experienced the first-years are at swimming. Shouta is a competent swimmer, but a mechanical one. Because of this, he loses to swimmers of skill who swim with greater passion (such as Ikuya Kirishima in the "pecking" race and Haruka Nanase in the "one-to-one" match race).

Story
After Ikuya Kirishima wins the "pecking" race with Shouta, Aki attempts to provide Ikuya, Haruka Nanase, Makoto Tachibana and Asahi Shiina with the reasons why Shouta is the way he is saying, “You see, Onii-chan was at Iwatobi SC from third to fourth grade of elementary school. But he quit right before Nanase-kun and Tachibana-kun joined. He played soccer until 6th grade, but [...] he quit that, too. But then it was too late to go back to the SC, so he joined the swim club. [...] He was really motivated and practiced a lot."

As atonement for his bad behavior at the swim club, Shouta volunteers to lead the Iwatobi cheer squad at the competition. He is among those congratulating the swim team for their fine performance, but tells Haruka that he will surpass him, one day.

Trivia

 * A "pecking" is a race between different grade level swimmers meant to subdue the egos of lower grade level members.
 * A "one-to-one" is a tradition in the Iwatobi Junior High School Swim Club usually held between graduating third-years and all comers. It was unusual for Nao Serizawa to approve of a one-to-one between a second-year and a first-year, his reasons being unstated.