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| “ | Bang! | „ |
| ~ Hiro Shishigami's signature and most famous quote. |
| “ | DA! DA! DA! DA! DA! | „ |
| ~ Hiro's quote as he performs a rifle position and attack. |
| “ | Are you worried that we went overboard? Afraid of the cops? No one... can possibly stop me now. The entire U.S. Army could come after you... and I'd still have your back... | „ |
| ~ Hiro to Ando after killing his bullies. |
Hiro Shishigami is the deuteragonist of Inuyashiki. He is a teenage sociopath that became an android along with Ichirō Inuyashiki after being killed by a UFO out of nowhere.
Unlike Inuyashiki, he used his new powers to become a murderer looking for thrill and has targeted innocent families by picking random houses for his own amusement. His cruel acts of violence caused the attention of the police as he was made into a dangerous criminal to society at this point. He also served as Inuyashiki's (former) archenemy.
He was voiced by Nijirō Murakami in the anime and portrayed by Takeru Satoh in the live-action movie.
Appearance[]
Hiro seems to be a handsome young man with a medium height through the minimum. He has a set of darkish brown eye pupils and navy blue hair, alongside his attire being his school uniform (which he was seen wearing most of the time), regarding a red necktie, white work shirt, a pale sleeve, gray pants, black shoes, followed by a dark gray jacket he wears.
As for the cyberkinetic parts of his body, he has some sort of gun-like shooters around his arms, alongside some rocket pointers behind his back, the same could be said of the jet thrusters.
Personality[]
Hiro is mostly a calm and carefree teenager that came across his school and is popularly known well, same goes for his appearance by his female classmates, however behind his face after becoming a cyborg, he is cruel, ruthless, merciless, sadistic, and homicidal deep down.
For a serial killer that hungers for amusement, he would randomly go around killing innocent people in their houses or behind the scenes with killing his own classmates at his school at that time with his friend Ando, he is also willing to kill babies and children alike without any qualms. A reason behind it was that it made him "feel human again" under some circumstances.
Despite his remorseless desire for bloody massacres and having "fun", he still has a bit of humanity in him and genuine care for his loved ones, such as Ando, Shion, and his own mother, to who he was very close. But when it feels like his life of crime gets to him, it scares him to feel how it will affect his mother until she committed suicide. He cries over her under genuine remorse of his own guard being down and unaware of who got him exposed for his crimes, which ended up leading to his vengeance and highly regarded misanthropic views of humanity becoming much worse than before.
Before his murderous intentions got out of hand, he had a good relationship with Shion and her grandmother, thinking of them as the only family he's got left, just like how Ando was his only friend left. But despite knowing how his life will affect them, there are times he felt hostility once when he attempted to murder both of them in their sleep but instead decided to stay and protect them with all of his life. He even tried to become better by healing people thanks to Shion, that was until it sheds away when his anger to all of those in Japan grew more resentful when the SWAT Force attacked Shion and her grandmother.
He is not one to spare other lives as he continues his killing spree, like the time a father of a family he killed tries to plead him into sparing his son, but declines since he doesn't care but to have "fun". However, there are rare cases he does seem to spare lives other than the time with Shion, while massacring a crowd of news reporters at his father's house with his stepfamily, instead of shooting him, he flew away without a word to him, showing he does have some mercy for him in the slightest.
Becoming a modified human with the powers given to kill others also made him insecure about his identity, which is why he only feels alive when killing people or that time why he was chosen to play the part of a villain when Inuyashiki was given the chance to be a hero to save others, even provoked and insulted him as he stated "they are the same" and only care about themselves.
He also seems to be a dark reflection and counterpart to Ichiro Inuyashiki, the protagonist of the series. While Inuyashiki uses his mechanically modified powers to help and save lives, Hiro does the opposite by taking them away, both he and Ichiro serve a purposely moral lesson within the anime's story about balance between doing what is right or wrong.
Biography[]
When Hiro was young, his parents divorced and his father remarried with a family of his own a while back. Hiro, on the other hand, was living with his single mother in a small apartment with whom they shared a room together with both futons to sleep in. Hiro was also bullied by his seniors at high school because of his background. His troubled life left him with a lack of his own personality, and also frustrations over his father living with another family. There were only two people that he'd always cared for, his best friend Naoyuki Ando and his mother.
After seeing a man jumping himself on the train and seeing the train kill the man, Hiro realized that he enjoyed seeing people die for his satisfaction. One evening, Hiro along with Inuyashiki Ichirou, whose self-absorbed family ignored him, was hit by a mysterious explosion of extraterrestrial origin, that killed them both, so, the aliens use their advanced technology to create androids that looks identical to them on the outside and transferred their consciousness into the androids.
However, when Hiro archives his new powers, he started to feel that he is not human before he demonstrates his powers. Hiro decided to kill people to feel more human and to have "fun" over it. Hiro first targeted the bullies who are responsible for his childhood friend, Naoyuki, under his isolation from school and made a visit to convince him to return to school as he teaches the bullies a lesson. Initially, Naoyuki thought that his friend was lying when he said he has powers, however, he was then demonstrated by Hiro when used his powers to cause a massive car crashing in the streets which Naoyuki realized that Hiro is telling the truth.
However, the friendship between them become stained when Naoyuki was horrified to see Hiro beginning killing people, including those who were bullies. As he first witnessed this when Hiro shot the same ones from before when they were asking the female students out, that was when Naoyuki was pushed into ending their relationship as he does not want to be involve with a serial killer and thief, as Hiro somewhat accepts it as long as Naoyuki continues going to school with him.
Trivia[]
- Hiro's personality and appearance is often compared and has similarities to the infamous Light Yagami from Death Note and the android siblings, 17 and 18 from Dragon Ball Z.
- In the Live-action adaptation of Hiro, there were some differences.
- The manga and anime version of Hiro was first seen killing a mother while she was cooking, a father and a son playing in the bath, and a daughter who just came home experiencing her family's death before her own under Hiro. in the adaptation film, he killed a family of three as a whole.
- While the original Hiro just wanted to use his powers for "fun", the film version viewed himself as the "hero" and god alike.
- Hiro manages to save Shion and her grandmother from the SWAT team and manages to heal them. But in the film, they did not survive after Hiro took them to safety and it was too late, he would then massacre people in Shinjuku as vengeance for them.
- His fate in both the manga and anime shows that he sacrifices himself to help Inuyashiki destroy the meteor before the latter does the same, even though Hiro never acknowledged his actions till then. In the film, Inuyashiki crushes most of his body parts while trying to save Mari after Hiro drops her cruelly, it was stated at the news that Hiro died, until in the mid-credits scene he was shown to be alive when he came to Ando's house to check on him.
- Despite Inuyashiki being the protagonist of the series, Hiro seems to have more screen time than him. While the series mainly focuses on Inuyashiki using his powers to help and save others, Hiro's case of murdering others for fun wasn't the only intention, as there was more to Hiro's character that involved his life with his mother and background he had.
- In addition to his amount of screen time and himself being more known than Inuyashiki himself in the series. People often consider (or mistakenly thought) that Hiro was the real protagonist of the anime, despite he was supposedly the main antagonist.
- Both Hiro and Inuyashiki never made much interaction since they first met in person, excluding where they were first seen in the park where they got turned into cyborgs that very night. The only time they first met was when Hiro killed an innocent family, in which he was too late to save, and the only time they had communicated was when they encountered one another during Hiro's second attempt to massacre a thousand people.