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
Eikichi has black hair and dull-green eyes. As for his physique, he is still a teenager much younger than his sister and does not have great strength.

Eikichi wears a red shirt with a black leather jacket over it, black pants and black shoes too.

Personality
Eikichi is a teenager in search of new emotions, but he unfortunately injured his shoulder in one of his favorite sports which is baseball and now he works without heart on the family onion farm. Eikichi is 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 demon he makes the quick decision to save the old men who were under his influence to later be able to attack using onions but unfortunately he is incapable and the demon runs away.

He is quite weak physically and does not have much cognitive level, and as the group mentions he is technically the opposite of his sister in terms of personality and does not yet possess her full powers.

Skillset

 * Baseball-playing - Since Eikichi practiced baseball, he was very good at throwing things with a bat but still needed a lot of practice to hit his targets.

Natural Abilities

 * TBA

Unique Abilities

 * Exorcism - To himself like his sister, Eikichi possesses the ability to seal demons using onions but because he has no training he does not know how to do it correctly.

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

 * It is revealed that Eikichi is acquainted with the Death Metal fans from when before they became metalheads.
 * Although Eikichi is somewhat careless, he worries about Yuko Hyodo when he sees the number of bandages she always wore at school.