Gou Matsurida (祭田ゴウ) is a middle-school boy who loves watermelon splitting.
Biography[]
On the Watermelon splitting competition day last year, he was sick from a summer cold and stayed in bed, which was so frustrating for him that he told himself it’s a stupid game. The following year, his and 3 other kids’ strong desire to split a watermelon animated a watermelon spirit which attacked committee members of the Sankai Shopping district during preparations for the Watermelon splitting competition, which caused the competition to be suspended. After learning the spirit’s nature, he decided to participate to this year’s competition and bring his sister Hanabi too.
He and his friends returned during the end of a year and accidentally caused the spirit of a Fukuwarai from a children board to go on rampage, and although its case is solved, it hardly got any happier, as they expressed the game to be boring, prompting the committee member to give up on using it.