Eikichi Hyodo

Eikichi Hyodo (兵動 栄吉 Hyōdō Eikichi) is one of the main protagonists of the Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie manga. He is the brother of Yuko Hyodo who is forcibly recruited by the Saga Sagako Busters to fight in place of his sister.

Appearance
He wears a red shirt with a black leather jacket over it, black pants and black shoes too.As for his physique he is still a teenager much younger than his sister and does not have great strength, his eyes are dull green and his hair is black.

After chapter 3 of the manga his physique becomes better with the help of Hanako's machine called "Del Height" that helps him grow 20 centimeters and become much more flexible than he is, something that helps him a lot in his constant battles. and being an essential part of the group now.

Personality
Eikichi is a teenager in search of new emotions but unfortunately due to Saga's curse that caused a shoulder accident to prevent him from becoming a baseball player, he now works without spirits in the family onion farm. Eikichi was somewhat clumsy and always tries to follow the fashion or what others do in his school as well as being somewhat rebellious when smoking from time to time, in his first confrontation with a Sagako he makes the quick decision to save the elderly who were under his influence to later be able to attack using onions but unfortunately he is incapable and the demon runs away.

He was quite weak physically and did not possess much cognitive level, and as the group mentions he is technically the opposite of her sister in terms of personality and does not yet possess her full powers. As the manga progresses, both Eikichi's physique and intellect advance in great strides thanks to the help of the Sagako Busters Saga, his personality becomes more and more confident as he discovers that he can be like his sister and be someone of use for one Once in his life what motivates him to continue fighting against the mysterious curse.

With Anna's help and her training in the club where she worked, he becomes more dedicated and acquires communication skills of high social standards.

Skillset

 * Baseball-playing - Since he practiced baseball and aspired to be a professional, he has very good batting skills which allows him to hit hard or throw objects at high speed to hit his targets.
 * High education - Tae gave him lessons through dream learning to fulfill the triple A imposed by a Sagako. Host - Anna taught Eikichi to be a good host by training him at the club where she works part time, this helped him to have more confidence in himself.

Natural Abilities

 * TBA

Unique Abilities

 * Exorcism - Himself like his sister, he possesses the ability to seal demons using onions, but unlike his sister he is more creative with this process and can do it with different types of onions that he uses to weaken the Sagako first, according to Xu's Misogi power increases with each training.
 * Misogi - Power gained by purifying Sagakos that appear in Saga.

Etymology

 * The name Eikichi means "flourish, prosperity, honor, glory, splendor" (栄) (ei) and "lucky, good" (吉) (kichi), which can can be translated as "extremely happy".
 * Eikichi's surname Hyodo means "soldier, warrioir" (兵) (hyo) and "dynamic, motion, change, confusion" (動) (do).

Trivia

 * Eikichi was also a victim of Saga's curse which caused his shoulder accident so that he was not a successful baseball player. Eikichi is revealed to be familiar with Death Metal fans since before they became metalheads.
 * Although Eikichi is somewhat careless, he cares for Yuko Hyodo when she sees the amount of bandages that she always wore at school. According to Xu Fu, the power of Eikichi's Misogi increases with each battle against the Sagakos and with this acquired power he can revive Yuko the moment she reaches her limit.  Thanks to Hanako he is now 1.80 and much more flexible thanks to his "Del Height".