Hikaru Hitachiin
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Hikaru Hitachiin (常陸院 光 Hitachiin Hikaru?) is a fictional character in the manga/anime series Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori. In the anime and later drama CDs, he is voiced by Kenichi Suzumura. In the early drama CDs, he is voiced by Soichiro Hoshi.
Hikaru and his twin, Kaoru Hitachiin, both bear a resemblance to the character Keigo Kuramatani from Bisco Hatori's previous work, Millennium Snow. They look very similar and are very protective about the people they love, getting jealous whenever those people seem to be getting too close to anyone else. In OHSHC (Ouran High School Host Club), the twins are closely bonded into a relationship that is indestructible. Kaoru and Hikaru seem to become jealous every time someone gets closer and closer to Fujioka Haruhi.
Even though the twins are, physically, identical, their personalities differ a bit. Hikaru is more impulsive and childish, as mentioned by Kaoru. Kaoru is sensible at times and manages to keep his emotions under control.
[edit] Biography
- Birthday: June 9th
- Age: 16
- Hair: Orange (Later, Dark Ash [Chapter 53, only in manga] and once dyed pink and blue
- Eyes: Amber
- Alias: Hika-chan
- Zodiac Sign: Gemini
- Status: Older twin of the Hitachiin brothers
- Height: 178cm (5'9")
- Blood Type: B
- Strong Subjects: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Arts
- Favorite Food: Anything super spicy (He's not really partial to spicy foods so much as being contrary by eating whatever's "So fiery that nobody else dares try it"), Italian, maple syrup
- Type: Little Devil
- Mid-term Exam Ranking: 1st Year, 5th Place
- Ranking in Dai Hin Min: joint 2nd, together with his brother
- Rose color: Light Blue
[edit] Character
Hikaru and his younger identical twin, Kaoru, are first-year students in the same class as Haruhi. The twins tend to imply an incestuous relationship for fun, making a show of it for the benefit of the "brotherly love" fans among the Host Club's customers. Unlike Tamaki, their interaction with the club's customers is entirely an excuse to satisfy themselves; the "little devil" types of the club, they enjoy making a game of manipulating others for their own amusement, and are easily bored by most things. Both have a habit of calling Tamaki "my lord" (tono in Japanese). This was originally because when Tamaki first asked them to join the Host Club, they referred to Tamaki's speech as that of "an idiot lord." However they are the only ones to refer to him as such and, together with their staunch support of him, it could be seen as genunine.
The two of them are extremely close and dependent upon one another, seeing the world primarily in terms of "us" and "those apart from us," thus having little concern for anyone else. Prior to joining the Host Club, they had very little interaction with other people. After Haruhi joins the Host Club, Hikaru and Kaoru's world really begins to expand. Haruhi proves to be able to naturally distinguish between the two of them and sees them as two individuals rather than interchangeable; she can easily tell them apart with her natural intuition. This is something new for Hikaru and Kaoru, as previously nobody was able to tell them apart, and they develop a fondness for Haruhi since she recognizes them as individuals. Since they also enjoy teasing Tamaki, they flaunt their relationship with Haruhi and flirt with her just to make him jealous.
Their mother Yuzuha (柚葉) specializes in clothing design, and they occasionally provide clothing of her design for the Host Club's events or in an effort to get Haruhi to dress more femininely. When their mother appears at the school festival, she proves to have a very strong personality, and it is clear that the twins take after her. They, too, have a mutual knack for fashion, and in the manga, they are sometimes shown styling Haruhi's hair or doing her make-up. Also, it's noted that their surname is their mother's, and that their father had married into the Hitachiin family. In the manga, it was mentioned by one of the twins that the Hitachiins are primarily of a matriarchal lineage and that female Hitachiins are more outstanding than the males. The twins are afraid that they might end up being weaklings like their father since they resemble him, but Haruhi notes that they resemble their mother more.
In both the manga and anime, both brothers have feelings for Haruhi but Kaoru puts aside his feelings and helps Hikaru to realize his own. Whilst Kaoru's relationship with Haruhi is toned down, Hikaru's is more developed. Hikaru is the leading twin, despite this, he also seems to be more insecure and displays a somewhat lesser measure of emotional maturity than Kaoru. Hikaru recently admitted to Tamaki that he was in love with Haruhi in manga chapter 59. Despite suspecting that she loves Tamaki, at the end of chapter 61 he confesses to Haruhi and asks her to go out with him.
