Tarou Raimon

Position: Wide Receiver Split end / Cornerback Jersey: 80 40 yard dash: 5.0 as of the start of the Kantou tournament Monta is the wide receiver of the Deimon Devil Bats American football team. He resembles an ape particularly a chimpanzee in many ways indeed his simian similarity is the characters running joke throughout the manga. Although he is as short as Sena his large hands arms that are noticeably longer than his legs acrobatic moves and leaping ability make him a very effective receiver he can even catch Hirumas bullet passes with one hand. He has a habit of posing every time he makes a spectacular catch for a touchdown rolling after the jump and breaking out of the roll by kneeling and pointing upwards with his index finger. He also has the habit of attaching Max to nearly everything he does suffixing his phrases with MAX in the Japanese and prefixing them with MAXI in the English since he believes that one should give 100 effort in all endeavors. He was named Monta after Sena mistook his name as Rai Montarou. He begins to like being called Monta after Hiruma tells him the nickname Monta was supposedly derived from Joe Montana. Monta does not know that Joe Montana is a quarterback not a wide receiver. Monta has a crush on Mamori. Hes always trying to win her heart often failing miserably because she always gives more attention to Sena. Montas throwing is incredibly horrible: he moves his arm in the right direction but somehow the ball goes in a completely different direction Not only that but his kicking is similar. His throws/kicks usually hit someone on the head or break a window. Monta is also known for his bad grammar as he once said that he will restore his disgrace but was corrected by Hiruma and Hiruma even requested that someone teach that monkey how to communicate with humans which embarrassed him even further. At the same time although he is considered an idiot he gives wonderful motivational speeches especially to Sena. Every time Sena felt like all was lost Monta would give him a pep talk leading Sena to start moving again.