Hiroshi

Hiroshi (ひろし Hiroshi^?) is the main protagonist of Ao Oni. He is the character that the player controls during the entirety of the game (except for Version 1.1, where the player also gets to control Kazuya twice throughout the game). Though in the first novel and movie, he is not the main protagonist. He is a secondary character in the first novel and the tritagonist in the movie. He returns to the position of main protagonist throughout the rest of the novel series.

Appearance[]

Hiroshi is usually portrayed with silver hair, glasses, wearing a white scarf, and in a school uniform throughout the game and novel. Though in Version 1.1, he has dark hair, a different uniform on, different eye color, glasses and scarf. In the movie, his looks greatly differ from his original depictions. In the novel he wears a blue framed square type glasses, it switches whether the frame is top or bottom.

in the Fragments Novel, Shun describes that “he has a hard chest and chiseled abs.” Both Mari and Shun, describe him as having "long lashes." Other times he was described to look like a European model and looking like a china doll with soap white skin. He also was described with glossy lips. He also has a watch on his left hand.

Personality[]

Ao Oni (Game)[]

Hiroshi-doubts-oni — Hiroshi doubting the monster in the opening cutscene.

At the start of the game, Hiroshi dismisses the existence of monsters in the mansion by saying it is "scientifically impossible". However, he runs into Ao Oni shortly after. Hiroshi appears to be the "brainiac" of the group and shows this by completing the daunting puzzles present within the mansion, while still avoiding the monster. After finding out that he and his friends are trapped in the mansion, Hiroshi begins to try and find a way out so everyone can escape alive.

In Version 3.0 and Version 6.23, Hiroshi is the only survivor of the mansion, and there's nothing the player can do about it.

In Version 5.2, it is possible to rescue everyone, however, the player can also choose to leave alone, in which case, Hiroshi will be the only survivor.

In Version 1.1, multiple characters survive, but not everyone - those characters are Hiroshi, Kazuya, and Mika. Takeshi may have also survived, but it's unknown, due to him being never seen again after being found in the closet.

in Ao Oni X, he seems to have a moral compass, at the end of a route, he says, “We should go save your sister.” Even though they left Chitose’s sister at the town, Hiroshi wants to go back and save her.

Ao Oni (Novel)[]

The first-year classroom's prodigy, Hiroshi, wears his school uniform at all times. Extremely serious, he almost always speaks with a formal tone. He does not believe in anything that cannot be scientifically proven (Includes the supernatural, God, Demons, heaven, or hell). He is mostly seen with Shun in most of the images. Later on in the series, he takes his protagonist title back and is teaming up with Shun and Anna to save his "friends" from the monster's curse. It seems that in Fragments that he starts developing a crush on Mari because he "cares" about her.

It seems he also has a low self esteem, in Fragments, his dad says that he is "better" than everyone else and that Hiroshi always knew he was "weird,” and when Anna told him Shun was being bullied he thought if anything he should’ve been the one getting bullied. In Ao Oni Persuasion, he says he doesn’t have muscle like Takuro or is as soft as Mika, which is untrue because he has muscle and abs. He is embarrassed to be in the same house as his mom he doesn't understand why she pretends to be happy. He admires Shun greatly and that he is creative unlike he was, who thought scientifically. He has a love for bug catching and the European flair.

Ao Oni Movie[]

As the movie progresses, the other kids have approached the jailhouse. We are then introduced to Hiroshi, who is collecting plant life not far from the jailhouse in a field; he encounters the group of kids. He explains his fascination with larvae until he is interrupted by Takuro. Upon entering the mansion, Hiroshi goes to check out a sound which is revealed to be a broken plate with a slimy substance covering it, Hiroshi exits the kitchen and checks other parts of the jailhouse. A while later, Hiroshi meets up with the others briefly and welcomes Anna to join the group. Still, suddenly Hiroshi goes off on his own after Mika's death. Hiroshi meets up with Anna and Shun; we then see Hiroshi swiftly solve the piano puzzle before entering the Annex. Hiroshi turns on the light before being struck by Takuro twice using a wooden plank, and he falls unconscious until Takuro is killed. Anna wakes up Hiroshi, and they both escape. Upon running from the Oni, Hiroshi falls due to his head injury and tells Anna to run and leave him. Hiroshi rises to his feet and screams at Anna for her to run, as she does so. Hiroshi is run over by the Oni, making his fate unknown as the creature didn't kill him.

Trivia[]

Even though Hiroshi's portrait has glasses (and a scarf in his portraits from 3.0-5.2 and onward), his sprites do not show them.
- However, his novel sprite fixes this and adds the scarf.
  - The mobile re-release of the first game, the sequel, and the third entry correct the lack of glasses.
In the trailer for the Ao Oni Revenge novel, he is voiced by Akira Ishida. The video for this can only be seen on NicoNico.
The fan portrayal of Hiroshi has made "scientifically impossible" his catchphrase.
Despite the design Hiroshi usually is portrayed in both the game series and novel series, his movie appearance is shown to be very different, as he lacks the school uniform; he instead wears a beanie and surgical mask around his mouth.
Seiya portrays Hiroshi in the 2014 film, and by Taishi Nakagawa in the 2015 film.
Hiroshi is the only character to leave the mansion alive.
When naming Hiroshi, you can apply Cheat Codes that modify gameplay (Only in 6.23) A few well known cheat codes are SOUTHPARK, and GODMODE.
In the fragments novel, his mother has been his best friend for 10 years.
Also in fragments, he has a hamster and tropical fish.
His mom’s grandfather was Italian. That’s why he has a love for the European flair.
At the end of Forever, he gains clairvoyant powers.
He’s not good with sports or swimming, but it is untrue in the junior novels as he stayed he was a good swimmer, but it seems that the junior novel may or may not be connected to the novel (source: Kenji Kiroda’s Peing: https://peing.net/ja/q/2260a72b-071a-4adf-8ea8-996d2cb37d85).
His birthday is on October 23rd, 10/23.
At the time of Silence Cinema, he is 10 years old officially set by NoProps themself (Kenji’s Peing: https://peing.net/ja/q/23b17fc6-a3c0-469b-bc99-d46016b7bbb9)
It is said in Silence theater that he is about to turn 12 in the next month so that contradicts the post ( Kenji’s Peing: https://peing.net/ja/q/65556861-0068-4f44-aeeb-ea02b96da8c3)
He was futured in the rare story of Ao Oni Persuasion.
In Ao Oni mutation, “Hiroshi had always assumed that he lacked the key emotions others took for granted. He was born dispassionate. He believed that he would never share in someone else's joy or sadness…”
In Forever and Fragments, he is an author of a butterfly book in Anna wants his autograph as he will be famous in the future. He wants to be a game developer or at least a coder so he can make other people happy.
He was Nao's classmate in elementary school.
His dad is a newspaper delievery guy and his mom is rich enough where she could give away expensive clothes.
He is somewhat of an artist, perfectly drawing “Goo” or caterpillar Oni.
Hiroshi won first place for the Jr Novel popularity poll with 253 votes with Takeru the dog being 2nd with 167 votes.
Hiroshi has a habit of memorizing things like lists but not the names of people.
Hiroshi's cooking is brand.
One of Hiroshi's fears is going blind and losing his cool.
Hiroshi has been smart since Elementary school solving puzzles that most other adults couldn’t.
On April fools in 2018, in Ao oni Online, there was an event where he turned into the oni's size and the oni turned to player size.
On Setsuben, February 3, Hiroshi once again turns into the “oni”, doing the throwing beans ritual, usually done at once’s house and in a temple, to kill the oni.
He and Takeshi were childhood friends since they were 4-10 years old.