Hiromu Shinbo

Hiromu Shinbo is a supporting character in the anime/manga series Chobits. He is Hideki Motosuwa's neighbour in Chitose Hibiya's apartment building, and quickly becomes his best friend. Like Hideki, he is a student Seki Prep School, in which the two are classmates. He is also the owner of Sumomo, though he loans her to Hideki from time to time.

He is voiced by Tomokazu Seki in the Japanese version of the anime and Tony Oliver in the English version.

Appearance
Hiromu is a tall young man about the same height as Hideki, with light-black hair and green eyes. His usual outfit consists of a dark blue shirt with a zip, light black trousers and dark brown shoes.

Personality
Shinbo is a very kind and friendly young man, enough for it to be pointed out by Chitose. This is evident by the fact that he willingly carried up all of Hideki's belongings to his apartment when he first arrived, despite him being a complete stranger at the time, and told Hideki to think nothing of it when he thanked him. The two men quickly become close friends, in no small part due to the fact that they have a lot in common. However, Shinbo is more laid-back than Hideki and never shows any signs of awkwardness.

Along with Minoru, Shinbo is one of Hideki's main guides when it comes to Persocoms, who is hopeless with tech due to being a poor prep school student. In his case, however, he tends to take care of the more basic things, being a prep school student himself. He seems to be fond of genki girls, as he has programmed Sumomo to be such.