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“ | Youth is a lie, it is nothing but evil. | „ |
~ Hachiman at the first season—Episode 1. |
Hachiman Hikigaya (比企谷 八幡, Hikigaya Hachiman?) is the main protagonist of the light novel Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. He is also a student in Class 2F of Sobu High School and the second member of the Service Club.
He is voiced by Takuya Eguchi in the Japanese version, and by Adam Gibbs in the English version.
Appearance[]
Hachiman is a teenage boy of average height and build. He has medium-short black hair and an ahoge. His most prominent feature is a set of dead fish-eyes. He does not wear his uniform up to school standards; he omits the tie and wears a black shirt underneath the dress shirt.
In the light novel, Yukino Yukinoshita states that she criticized Hachiman's facial expression, not his facial features. This implies that, if not for his dead fish-eyes and gloomy expression, he would be somewhat attractive.
Personality[]
Hachiman is an isolated, cynical young man who is pragmatic to a fault. He firmly believes that "youth" is simply an illusion created by hypocrites, for hypocrites, born from the ashes of past failures. In this state of apparent corruption, he is coerced into joining the Service Club by his futures advisor in the hopes that exposing him to the world will change his personality, and ultimately make him a "better person". Despite his misanthropic traits, Hachiman is a well-intentioned, helpful and good person underneath it all, and very selfless.
Trivia[]
- Hachiman's overall arc tends to fall in the territory of an anti-role model. He's portrayed as overly cynical, with harsh methods that are eventually shown to not work in contrast to Yukino, who is portrayed as having the correct methods but little time to execute them.
- Almost every time Hachiman gets involved with a female character, they eventually develop an interest in him. Yui's been interested since they first met, Yukino later becomes as obvious as Yui, Iroha is heavily implied later on, then there's the ship tease he has with Totsuka, Saki (especially in the light novels), Shizuka, and even Ebina has joked that she wouldn't have minded going out with Hachiman. Even Kaori now shows hints.
- Yui refers to him exclusively as "Hikki".
- His name clearly refers to his date of birth: "hachi" means "eight", and he was born on August 8th.
External Links[]
- Hachiman Hikigaya on the OreGairu Wiki
- Hachiman Hikigaya on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Hachiman Hikigaya on the All Worlds Alliance Wiki
- Hikigaya Hachiman on the Yukipedia Wiki
- Hachiman Hikigaya on the Yahari ore no seishun love Come wa Machigatteiru Wiki
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