Toshio Yazawa

Yazawa is observant, humorous and comparatively reluctant to fight. He assesses the people around him carefully and appears pleased when circumstances place him with hunters he considers competent.

His humor is evident when he jokes about Daizaemon Kaze's appearance, despite Yazawa himself looking considerably older than many of the other hunters.

Unlike fighters who actively seek dangerous opponents, Yazawa does not appear enthusiastic about unnecessary combat. Survival and choosing capable allies matter more to him than demonstrating individual superiority.

Yazawa is an experienced Gantz hunter with familiarity with the suit and weaponry used by regional teams.

His survival through previous hunts suggests practical combat experience, but the manga does not establish a signature technique or exceptional specialty comparable with Kaze's martial arts or the elite Osaka hunters' advanced equipment.

His strongest demonstrated quality is judgment: he quickly identifies particularly capable fighters and understands the value of staying with them during the chaotic invasion.

Yazawa appears during the Katastrophe when surviving Gantz hunters from different regions begin gathering to resist the giant aliens.

He joins a group containing several of the series' strongest remaining combatants and participates in the human counteroffensive rather than remaining isolated with the Hokkaido team.

Yazawa continues fighting through the late stages of the invasion as the regional Gantz teams effectively become a single resistance force.

Daizaemon Kaze becomes the target of Yazawa's humor when Yazawa jokes about how old the muscular fighter looks.

Kei Kurono, Masaru Katou, Kaiji Yoshikawa and Mary McClane are among the fighters Yazawa recognizes as particularly capable and is pleased to have as allies.