Noboru Kodo

Noboru Kodo (虎堂ノボル Kodou Noboru) is a classmate of Gao Mikado at Aibo Academy. Among the academy's elementary division 6th-year students, he is ranked 2nd in Buddyfight. He dismisses Gao's wins as luck. Hanako Mikado teases him by calling the tiger on his shirt a kitten (in the Japanese version her nickname for Noboru is 猫シャツ "neko shattsu", "Cat-shirt"). He uses a Dragon Knight deck. During his fight against Tetsuya, his buddy was Dragon Knight, Red Baron but then becomes Dragon Knight, El Quixote after meeting and confronting him at Aibo Academy. His Core Gadget is a lance.

He is voiced by Izumi Kitta (Japanese) and Zoe Slusar (English).

History
Noboru tends to underestimate his abilities and feels he's not special. He often blames his defeats as luck, trying to quit Buddyfighting once, but after listening to El Quixote's advice and defeating a criminal he becomes more confident about himself. By the time he faced Magoroku Shido in the ABC Cup, El Quixote says he finally has the courage to be himself.

At the end of Episode 15, he moved to a new country, however he hid the fact he was moving from his friends and after they learned they all gave him a farewell to remember. In episode 21, he is seen telling his other friends that his shirt is a tiger.

In episode 47, Noboru returns to compete at the Gaen Cup Tournament, and it is revealed that he could possibly be playing in Jin Magatsu's team rather than his own.