Kensuke Mochida

Kensuke Mochida is a minor antagonist along as the first antagonist of the manga series Reborn!. He is the captain of the Namimori Kendo Club, who has shown to an arrogant student unlike the fellow delinquent and Disciplinary Committee President of Namimori Middle, Kyoya Hibari. Kensuke has an chauvinistic attitude towards female students along with being presumably Kyoko Sasogawa's boyfriend. Mochida was also Tsuna Sawada's first opponent during his first day and encounter with the baby hitman, Reborn.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) The main problem with him is that he is a self-centered brat after a rampaging Tsuna pushed him up to the sky to the ground, and tries to punish him for his behavior in a kendo challenge, making him a strict teenager with high standards.
 * 2) Just like Kyler from Cobra Kai, he constantly disciplines and punishes people as the center of attention no matter it takes, making his actions very unsympathetic.
 * 3) He is very uncaring for students like Tsuna who are sore losers and weaklings for his own gain and satisfaction.
 * 4) His antics gets old very quickly in his only appearance, and we don't learn about his motivations whatsoever and is forgotten.
 * 5) He is much more like an aggressive generic delinquent and a real jerk that the Disciplinary Committee President of Namimori Middle, Kyoya Hibari should have become.
 * 6) He is also a generic "dicipliner", who shows no respect to those who attack him.
 * 7) He threatens Tsuna, who attacked him outside of school, by challenging him in a kendo match just for thinking that he was harming Kyoko into running away, so this will make him proud of it.
 * 8) He barely even apologizes for his behavior to Tsuna or Kyoko.
 * 9) He treats Tsuna disrespectfully and never cares about his low-esteemed behavior.
 * 10) He has no reason to treat Tsuna, poorly due to his poor esteem skills.
 * 11) He is said to have a chauvinistic attitude towards female students at school.
 * 12) He is very mean-spirited, whose behavior thinks he's better than anyone.
 * 13) He is rubbish who only exists to be the first antagonist of the series, and served no purpose to the greater narrative of the story.
 * 14) He never learns about his disciplining behavior after the kendo match with Tsuna.
 * 15) He barely gets any screen-time in his only appearance and is forgotten.
 * 16) His design is mediocre, as he looks more like a college student than an actual 14-years old.
 * 17) Since being a "antagonist", we barely know anything about Mochida, but is somewhat just a selfish boy who shows no respect to Tsuna and the students for no reason.
 * 18) Similar to other antagonists of the Daily Life arc, he is quite forgettable and unlikeable.
 * 19) In the pilot chapter, he threatened to have Tsuna tied up in order to prevent him from cheating on his exams, which is unrealistic and juvinile in the real world.
 * 20) HYPOCRISY: He thinks those who attack him deserved to be forced into a kendo challenge as punishment and to teach them a lesson for their troubles.
 * 21) In the pilot chapter, he thinks students who cheat their exams deserved to be tied up with ropes.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) He only appears in 2 episodes.
 * 2) Tsuna was able to beat him in a kendo match along with succeeding in the class test from the pilot chapter, thus Mochida will never harm him again.
 * 3) Despite acting much like a delinquent, Mochida is better off a coward unlike Tsuna.
 * 4) He is an epitome of how NOT to discipline people who attack him by accident.

Trivia:



 * In the anime version, Tsuna discovers Kensuke breathing in a hospital bedroom.
 * In the Kokuyo arc, Mochida is likely a poor fighter who only does kendo with a wooden training stick, when he was beaten by the Kokuyo gang led by Mukuro Rokudo and led him to be hospitalized.
 * He and Yamamoto carry around their weapons in similar cylindrical bags.
 * Mochida's voice actor is Toshinobu Ida, who also voices Mukuro Rokudo, the mist guardian of the Vongola Famiglia.
 * Mochida is the first one who battled the Dying Will Mode Tsuna.
 * Mochida has the same birthday as Superbia Squalo.
 * He is the first antagonist to appear in the series.
 * He is said that in the future that Kensuke will become an associate or a member of the Vongola Famiglia.