Waku Takashi

Waku was an energetic and confident young boy who acted like a stereotypical shnen main character. He was previously a talented soccer player and is considered popular. He wanted to become a professional player and his friends thought he had the talent for it. However he found out that his salaryman father was a soccer player just like him in his youth and even played at the national level. The fact that someone just like him didnt make it shook Wakus resolve and he stopped playing soccer. If he had not quit the team he wouldnt have been at the summer class and become a pilot. He was chosen to become the first pilot of the children. After the battle with Bayonet they celebrated on Zearths shoulder. When Ushiro patted Waku on the back he fell off the side into the ocean. They thought that Ushiro accidentally pushed him but he actually died a moment before when his time as a pilot ended. His chair was a simple plastic folding chair. In the manga the number of casualties is unspecified but in the anime there are 2343 casualties. Source: Wikipedia