Haruo Niijima

Height: 172cm Affiliation: Katsujinken Team Shinpaku Alliance Martial Arts: Personal Niijimastyle Escape Art A member of the Newspaper Club at Kenichis school and has a broad range of expertise including stealth lock picking tinkering programming and blackmailing. He retreats from most physical danger but is also a skilled tactician. If forced to battle Niijima relies on hitandrun and psychological tactics to unnerve his opponents. In the beginning of the series Niijima is constantly bullying Kenichi and setting him against other bullies but as Kenichi becomes stronger Niijima constantly relies on Kenichi to protect himself and persuades the Shinpaku Alliance that Kenichi is their leader and defender.