Kensuke Mochida

Kensuke Mochida No wonder this incompetent middle school kendo captain would do something wrong to "No-Good" Tsuna. Gender: Male Type: Mean-Spirited Jerk Unlikable Disciplinarian Age: 14 Species: Human Portrayed by: Toshinobu Iida Status: Alive Media of origin: Reborn

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

Why He's An Anime Disciplining Brat In A Bad Way

1. Despite being the “first antagonist”, he is not very interesting or memorable about him other than being one of the jerks that Tsuna encountered whenever he makes the simplest mistakes (that includes throwing Mochida up and down to the ground, which he would punish him in a kendo match).
2. He tries way too hard to make him like John Kreese and Chozen Toguchi from the Karate Kid film series, with the aggressive disciplining persona and the disrespectful unsympathetic nature.
3. He barely cares about Tsuna’s actions and has no remorse while never wanting Kyoko to be with this loser (which in the anime, Kyoko tried to cheer Tsuna which Mochida turned to realize she is turning on him).
4. The series doesn't bother to give any of 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 and he is fact quickly forgotten after his first appearance.
6. He is also a generically self-entitled and egotistical disciplinarian, showing absolutely no respect to those who accidentally attack him. As he acts they did it with malicious intent when they really didn't.
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 is very mean-spirited and narcissistic, he behaves and thinks he's better than anyone else.
10. 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.
11. He never learns about his disciplining behavior after the kendo match with Tsuna.
12. He barely gets any screen time in his only appearance and is forgotten.
13. He has no personality or character development he is only here in one larger role appearance and is never seen again.
14. His design is mediocre, as he looks more like a college student than an actual 14-years old while looking like a rip off of Toma Kamijo from A Certainly Magical Index which came out one month before the manga was officially serialized.
15. For being an "antagonist", we barely know anything about Mochida himself, but is somewhat just a selfish boy who shows no respect to Tsuna and the students for absolutely no reason.
16. Similar to other antagonists from the Daily Life arc, he is quite forgettable, unrelatable, uninteresting, and unlikeable.
17. In the pilot chapter, he threatened to have Tsuna tied up in order to prevent him from cheating on his exams (but he seems to never do that), which is unrealistic, obnoxious, and juvenile in the real world.
18. 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. But Kensuke himself doesn't follow what he preaches.
    1. In the pilot chapter, he thinks students who cheat in their exams deserved to be tied up with ropes.

Redeeming Qualities

1. He only appears in 2 episodes.
2. Mochida does get his comeuppance when Tsuna was able to beat him with the powers of the dying will bullet in a kendo match along with being shocked that he succeeded 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 as a coward for what he did to Tsuna.
4. He is the epitome of how NOT to discipline people who attack him by accident.

Trivia

• In the anime version of the Kukuyo arc, Tsuna discovers Kensuke (somehow got his hair grown back or just got a wig ,possibly), at the hospital bedroom, who is now breathing with a ventilator due to the beatings from the Kukuyo Gang. While the manga, a student just mentioned him about that incident.
• Mochida will only show up in recaps and flashbacks only as of the Daily Life arc.
• He and Takeshi Yamamoto (the Vongola Guardian of rain) carry around their weapons in similar cylindrical bags.
• Mochida's voice actor is Toshinobu Ida, who also voices Mukuro Rokudo, leader of the Kukuyo gang and 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.

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