Kaoru Hitachiin
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Kaoru Hitachiin (常陸院 馨 Hitachiin Kaoru?) 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 Yoshinori Fujita. In the early drama CDs, he is voiced by Kenichi Suzumura.
Kaoru and his twin, Hikaru Hitachiin, both bear a resemblance to the character Keigo Kuramatani from Bisco Hatori's previous work, Millennium Snow. They all look alike and are very protective about the people they love, getting jealous whenever those people seem to be getting too close to anyone else.
[edit] Biography
- Birthday: June 9th
- Age: 16
- Hair: Orange, and once dyed blue and pink
- Eyes: Amber
- Alias: Kao-chan
- Zodiac Sign: Gemini
- Status: Younger twin
- Height: 178 cm (5'9")
- Blood Type: B
- Strong Subjects: English, Modern Japanese, Art
- 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: 1st year, 4th place
- Ranking in Dai Hin Min: joint 2nd, together with his brother
- Rose color: Orange
[edit] Character history
Kaoru is the younger twin brother of Hikaru Hitachiin, by three minutes. He and Hikaru are both in their first year at Ouran and are classmates of Haruhi Fujioka. They tend to imply an incestuous relationship for their "forbidden love" fans. The twins are the youngest members in the club. Both twins address Tamaki as "my/our lord" instead of king, due to the fact they first thought of Tamaki as "the lord of idiots."
Initially, Kaoru and Hikaru felt Haruhi's presence in the Host Club was questionable. A main contributing factor to this was that she could tell both twins apart with ease. To them, it was one of the first times that anyone had ever stepped into their world. Before Haruhi and the Host Club, the twins thought of themselves as "our world" or outsiders as "everything outside our world" because they never had any personal relationships with anyone else.
In the anime, it seems Kaoru wears orange apparel when outside school grounds. Examples of this can be seen in episodes 7, 8, and 19. Kaoru and Haruhi are currently close friends.
As Haruhi points out, Kaoru is not as ridiculously hot headed (even though they look the same) as Hikaru. Kaoru is more thoughtful and considerate of the feelings of others. Otherwise, Kaoru is similar in many ways, and likes the same things as Hikaru, such as maple syrup, Italian and spicy foods.
Kaoru is also the twin that understands that it's not healthy for the twins to be so co-dependent and that they will eventually be apart - if they were to say fall in love and become part of a new family.
If both the twins desire something, and there is only one of that item, Kaoru usually steps back and allows his brother to go forward, refusing to compete with his brother either directly, or going behind his brother's back.
Currently, Kaoru is undergoing a transformation in order to separate himself from his brother, though he really doesn't want to. With the sports tournament arc he is choosing to legitimately compete against his brother as part of a different team. Kaoru, however, is very dependent on his brother even if he hides it more.
In the manga, both twins like Haruhi. Although Kaoru realized his feelings first, he also realized that his brother Hikaru also liked Haruhi and chose to step back and allow his brother to realize his feelings and move forward. As of volume 8 both Hunny and Mori know of Hikaru's crush on Haruhi, as well as suspecting Kaoru of holding similar feelings. Kaoru, in Chapter 52, gives Haruhi a kiss on the cheek and finally tells her his true feelings. He then stated he was not prepared to follow through because he cared more about his brother, Hikaru, than her (Haruhi still didn't realize that Kaoru loved her). It is also mentioned in the manga that he doesn't like Haruhi as much as his brother Hikaru does. As his brother states, when Hikaru saw Haruhi with Tamaki, Hikaru was jealous, and when he saw Kaoru with Haruhi he was very angry with him. In which Kaoru replies, "If I were in your position, I don't think I would have been hurt" (the position being seeing Kaoru kiss Haruhi on the cheek). His hair parts to the left (his right).
