| Remco Yahrob | |
 レムコ・ヤーロブ, Remuko Yārobu | |
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Nickname | n/a |
| Origin | Hawaii, USA |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Unknown |
| Voice | n/a |
| Fighting Style | Sumo Wrestling |
| Family | Unnamed Mother |
| Debut Information | |
| Manga Series | Koukou Tekkenden Tough |
| Manga Chapter | Chapter 77: Love Skipping |
| Anime | n/a |
Remco Yahrob (レムコ・ヤーロブ, Remuko Yārobu) is a fictional character from the manga series of Koukou Tekkenden Tough.
Personality[]
He is a serious and dutiful man who always gets to the point, as when he shows himself to Kiibou after stalking him, he immediately explains who he is and why he's fighting Kiibou.
Despite being stoic for the most part, he isn't above expressing his emotions, as he was enraged when Kiibou made fun of him, but immediately calmed down after attacking him in a blind fury.
He has a noble side to him, as he rescued Kiibou due to respecting his strength, skill, and tenacity, and it is revealed that his motivation for becoming a Sumo wrestler was to support his depressed, alcoholic mother. Like many American characters in the anime and manga, he has a tendency to pepper his speech with English words and sentences.
Appearance[]
He is a large, dark-skinned male with curly hair, and some missing teeth, who is fat, yet muscular. He is specified to be 2 meters tall (approximately 6 feet and 7 inches in the imperial system) and weighs 260 kilograms (approximately 573 pounds)
After a grueling training regimen in the Devil Factory, he lost his weight and gained a more muscular and toned build, although he still has some fat on him, such as on his belly.
History[]
Koukou Tekkenden Tough[]
Remco as a child and his mother.
Remco Yahrob is a sumotori and the second fighter to challenge Kiichi Miyazawa for the chance to fight Iron Kiba. Remco’s greatest dream is to reach the status of Yokozuna.
Remco was born in the slums of Hawaii. His mother was the type of person who couldn’t live without alcohol. Knowing that his mother only knew misfortune in her life Remco vowed to make her happy. And when a man came offering him the chance to become a Sumo wrestler Remco saw the chance to reach that goal. Before he left he promised her that he would do everything he could to become yokozuna as soon as possible.
Sadly in a drunken rage his mother kicked him out of the house accusing him of running away from her. The last time he saw his mother was her running after his bus begging him not to leave.
Though he has won all of his matches he is still considered a "jonokuchi". After his first fight with Kiichi to which the later was only able to save himself in their first fight by biting him right in the vein. Shawn J. Akutsu convinced him that even though all of his opponents were junokuchi as well he should consider the grunt work he had to do beneath him as it took away from his training time. Remco decided to quit Sumo to become a street fighter after defeating all of the higher ups at his dojo when they tried to teach him a lesson for his insolence. Afterwards he went to Akutsu’s Devil Factory.
He and Kiichi fought again once he finished his training. Before he left he was given a combination of HCG and steroids. After his defeat he decided to go back to the Dohyo.
Abilities[]
Thanks to his physique and training regular attacks along with joint locks and strangulations don’t work against Remco’s gigantesque body. Also because of his training his hands have become huge and as hard as stone allowing him to turn anyone to dust.
As a result of his trip to the Devil Factory, Remco became the perfect combatant. His excess weight was trained away, without taking away any of his muscle mass, increasing his speed. The cardiac and respitory functions were stimulated for increased endurance and the relaxation of the articulation gives him much greater freedom of movement.
Techniques[]
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Trivia[]
- He is based on the famous sumo wrestler Emmanuel Yarbrough.
- Even though Remco Yahrob is 2 meters tall, he is consistently drawn as being much taller than that, and if the height discrepancy between him and Kiibou were to be portrayed realistically, Kiibou would be only a head shorter than Remco is.