Dohachiro Nezu is a science teacher in Namimori Middle School. In his appearance in chapter 4 of the Katekyo Hitman Reborn manga, he threatens students with expulsion.
Appearance[]
He has short dark hair, and identically colored, arched eyebrows. For clothing, Nezu wears formal attire such as a maroon colored suit jacket. This is worn over a white collared shirt and beige tie. Nezu has violet half-rimmed, square shaped glasses.
Personality[]
He believes that tests are the most important thing and always reminds his students that tests will always appear and that they have to be ready for them. He also dislikes students who get low scores, like Tsuna, and hates students who, despite not putting much effort, score high, like Gokudera.
Synopsis[]
Daily Life Arc[]
After a science test, Nezu hands out test results to students and calls for Kawada, then Kurihara, and Kondo. He mad at Tsuna, who had gotten the lowest score. After announcing Tsuna's low grade to the class, Nezu continued distributing the test results with Suzuki's next.
When Gokudera entered the classroom, Nezu's warnings about being late again were ignored. He didn't speak further after Gokudera glared at him, neither commented on the students mentioning that he had beaten down some senpais. Nezu ended up arguing with Gokudera. Then, Yamamoto went there to calm them down. Nezu slipped, fell down, and pretended that he had broken his arm.
The next day, Nezu went to the principal, asking him to expel the three of them. While they had decided to retake the test, Tsuna and the rest overslept due to a chemical reaction from Bianchi's cooking and Haru's coffee and missed the test.
The principal agreed to forgive them if they found the time capsule buried 15 years ago, which wasn't at the place it should be. Nezu was also overheard speaking with a colleague how there was no time capsule. After a lot of hard work, Tsuna found a different time capsule from 40 years ago which contained Nezu's tests; all of them had failed, and it turned out that Nezu Dohachiro wasn't good at tests at all. Nezu was terminated from Namimori Middle School for fraudulent educational background. And it turned out he was a graduate of an F-ranked college.
Etymology[]
- The name Dohachiro means "copper" (銅) (do), "eight" (八) (hachi) and "son" (郎) (ro).
- Dohachiro's surname Nezu means "root" (根) (ne) and "haven, port, harbor, ferry" (津) (tsu/zu).
Trivia[]
- He studied at a fourth-class high school and a fifth-class university, a fact that he was lying about.
- He studied for eight years at the university until he graduated.
- In the manga, only Tsuna and Gokudera were about to get expelled and there was no such re-test. The fifteen year old capsule didn't exist. In the process of finding the capsule, a forty year old capsule came up. It contained Nezu's old exams, all of which had extremely low scores. Nezu was then fired for falsifying his academic transcripts.