| Hilary Tatibana | |
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| Beyblade character | |
Hilary as she appears in the third season. |
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| Voiced by | Shiho Kikuchi (Japanese) Caitriona Murphy (English) |
| Japanese name | Hiromi Tachibana |
Hilary Tatibana is a fictional character in the popular Beyblade anime series. Her original Japanese name is Hiromi Tachibana (立花 ヒロミ Tachibana Hiromi). She only appears in the anime and not in the manga. She does not appear in the first season.
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Hilary can be very loud, bossy, overreactive, quick to jump to conclusions and stubborn as a mule, however, she's smart, independent, kind, and a leader. Daichi likes to call her "oba-san" (which translates to grandma or old lady) in the Japanese version.
Hilary is quick to make friends with all the Bladebreakers, and is one of the only people who can keep Tyson in line. She is also very outspoken. She's not afraid to argue with Tyson, and seems to a lot in the second season. She appears to have a crush on both Tyson and Kai, but neither crush is resolved and is left open to interpretation. She is the only female character Kai has any significant interaction with, although this mainly occurs in the 2nd season.
She calms down a lot in the third season, acting more responsible and mature. She takes care of Daichi and Tyson by cooking, a running gag in the season since she is not good at cooking. She got angry when Tyson had a bad dream about her and spoke of her horrible cooking in his sleep.
Hilary makes her first appearance in Beyblade V-Force as the "Wicked Witch of the Eighth Grade" (Tyson's exact words describing her). The first impression we get from her is that she is a bossy class president but in later episodes we watch her become a loyal, caring friend who will stop at nothing to help the Bladebreakers.
The Bladebreakers first expressed their opinion of her as an annoying pain in the neck when she tried to fit in with the team. Kai accepted the idea of her being on the team when she proved her worth with an effective training schedule. Hilary became a new addition to their team as the new training "coach." For a period of time, she was unable to see bit-beasts, but as the series progressed she was finally able to see them.
As the new addition to the team, she uses her head to figure out problems to help out the Bladebreakers. She is usually the comic relief throughout the series. Even though she is sometimes disliked in the Beyblade fandom, there are some good sides to her. In the later episodes, her commitment to the Bladebreakers becomes stronger as she gets closer to the team. Though she still has arguments with Tyson, she quickly became good friends with the whole team, as well as receiving a better understanding in the world of Beyblading.
Hilary comes back, as still an official member of the Bladebreakers. Funnier than ever, Hilary is though proved to be a bit more violent than the last season and at the same time, reveals more of her feminine side to the team. She is now part of the beyblading team called the BBA Revolution, together with Kenny and Daichi, the new team member. They all are Tyson's friends. She is the assistant coach/manager while Hiro is the team's coach/manager and she stands by her team whenever they need support.
After a few weeks the BEGA appeared and demolished the whole BBA company and the building, putting the sport of beyblading in a different playing field. The whole team is forced out from buying beyblade parts from shops since each shop required a BEGA identification card, another one of Boris's schemes to force Tyson out of beyblading unless Tyson joins the BEGA League, like Kai already has, and throws in the towel on the Justice 5 Match. Hilary tried, but failed to buy any parts. She lends out a hand to help the team build their own beyblading parts as the BEGA team gets ready for them.
Later, after the BBA was saved, Hilary looks for Kai and Tyson, as always, and finds them both about to start a Beybattle, the denouement of the final chapter of Beyblade G-Revolution.
Hilary and Tyson were very argumentative within the second series, but gradually became friends over time, though neither one of them would ever admit it- they both showed signs of care towards one another. Hilary is more of a mature adult in comparison to Tyson, she keeps Tyson in line whenever he is rude and never takes anything personally when he is rude towards her.
Hilary was first "introduced" to Kai when Kenny and Tyson were looking at an old picture of their team, and Hilary asked who he was. They told her that his name was Kai, and Hilary said, "He's cute." When Kai came to join the Blade Breakers again, Hilary scolded Tyson for not introducing her, and said that she's been waiting for him to introduce her to him all day. Tyson laughed and introduced her to Kai. Hilary smiled and bowed, introducing herself, but Kai remained silent. She then hung out with him at the airport when Max and Ray came to meet up with Tyson, Kenny, and Kai to recreate the Blade Breakers. When Max arrived, he looked over and saw Hilary and Kai sitting together, and asked who she was. Hilary and Kai, since then, have shared (probably) one of the closest relationships on the team. Over the season, Kai becomes very protective of Hilary, and has saved her countless times. For instance, when they were in a lab and a cyber bitbeast went on the frits, Kai put his arm around Hilary to protect her from the flying sparks going everywhere. Another time is when the Blade Breakers were trapped on an island by evil scientists, and to keep them from getting to the lighthouse, the scientists caused a rockfall. Hilary looked up and saw the falling rocks and screamed. The rocks fell, but managed to miss them. When the dust cleared, Hilary slowly opened her eyes and looked up to see Kai leaning over her, hands planted above her head, and staring down at her. He had used himself to cover her in order to protect her from the falling rocks. A faint blush appeared on Hilary's cheeks as Kai asked if she was okay. Hilary meekly replied "Y-Yeah...I-I think so..." Kai then told Hilary and Kenny that they would have to climb up the mountain to get to the lighthouse. Hilary smiled and said, "Yeah!" as she went to go climb with him. Kai smiled at her and was later seen taking her hand and helping her across the rocks. In another episode, the Blade Breakers are seen running towards a battle that Ray was having, but the evil scientists needed to stall them, so they shot out a bright light to blind them. Hilary accidentally stepped back and fell off the cliff. She screamed as she fell quickly, but was quickly caught when Kai, who was leaning over the edge of cliff, grasped her hand and kept her from falling. He stared down at her and tried to bring her back up. Once the light died down, the rest of the boys ran over to Kai and pulled her back onto the cliff. Over the season, Kai has also become more close to Hilary than to any other member of the team. Hilary is the only known member of the team who has actually grasped or held Kai without him pushing her away. Unlike the rest of the Blade Breakers, who Kai just pushes off, Kai allows Hilary to hold on to him, and actually stares at her while she does it. Such as when Hilary grasped Kai's shoulders and asked if he was hiding the bit beasts. Tyson goes on to say that he'll show her the bit beasts, and only after this do Hilary and Kai look away from staring at each other and look at Tyson. In episode 8 of V-Force, Hilary leaves the team because Tyson didn't like her idea of "Basic Training," and ripped her schedule in half. Hilary then starts to cry and runs off, to which the team tells Tyson that he was too rough and that he needed to apologize. Tyson continues to be stubborn and does not apologize to Hilary, who has not showed up to practice in a week. However, one night, Kai is seen thinking outside the dojo, wondering how to control the new beyblades. He then sees the schedule that Hilary made and knew that he could control his new beyblade with it. He then spent all night using her methods to practice with, and ended up controlling his blade perfectly. He then smiled at the team and showed them that he used Hilary's methods on her schedule to practice. Tyson and the team then find Hilary walking home from school and apologize to her, asking if she would come back to the team. Hilary agrees and joins the team as their coach. Later on in the season, when Kai lost his Dranzer, Hilary was the only one to go look for him. When she finally found him, she told him that everything would be okay, but he didn't listen and started to walk away. He told her that he decided to quit beyblading, Hilary then yelled at him to wait and he stopped. Hilary then scolded him for giving up just because he was feeling a little sad. Kai thinks about her words, then slowly walks away. Hilary yells at him and walks away as well. However, Kai rejoins the team later, due to Hilary's words. When the Blade Breakers won the World Championships in V-Force, they took a team photo. Tyson, Max, Ray, and Kenny can be seen upfront in the picture, but in the corner of the picture, in the background, you can see Hilary and Kai standing together, with Hilary's arm joined with his. In G Revolution, when Daichi was started to say Kai wasn't that great Hilary got really mad and told him to take it back. Also when Hilary was watching Kai's match and saw that he wasn't even trying, she was close to tears as she feared that he had given up his will to win. However, when he ended up winning, Hilary went to the stage and smiled at him, telling him that she didn't have any doubts that he would win.
Kenny, along with Tyson, is Hilary's classmate. They were both kidnapped by evil scientists in the beginning of V Force, but were rescued by Tyson. Kenny and Hilary often spend time together on the bench since neither of them beyblade, and Kenny usually shares his data with her. However, when Kenny started beyblading, he learned that he can not leave his computer with Hilary because she is clueless on how to use his computer and accidentally erased all of his data. Kenny has also revealed that he thinks Hilary is cute.
Daichi and Hilary have a rivalry from the moment they meet each other. Daichi often calls Hilary "Grandma," and Hilary often gets on to Daichi for being gross, immature, and annoying. Hilary and Tyson tease him a lot throughout G Revolution for his big (and almost impossible) dream of becoming a champion beyblader and beating Tyson. Hilary normally takes care of Daichi's immaturity by hitting him with a chair, punching him in the face, or simply yelling at him.
Ray has an "older brother" type role with Hilary. Like the other members of the beybladers, Ray is protective of Hilary and treats her like a younger sister.
Max first met Hilary when he arrived at the airport and saw her and Kai sitting together. He asked who she was, and Tyson told him that she was nobody. Hilary introduces herself before Max says that he had no idea that there would be a cute girl waiting for him at the airport. Throughout the series, Max and Hilary become good friends. Max is probably the one on the team who takes the most pity on Hilary when she is excluded because she cannot beyblade, or when she is being too annoying to the rest of the group and must be twenty feet away. Max has told Tyson when he is out of line with bullying Hilary, and he will apologize to Hilary if she feels excluded from the group.
"I can't believe we got kicked out. How embarrassing is that?"
"Now what?"
"It's not polite to beyblade in a public pool."
"Tyson, stop being such a bully!"
"They're hopeless, so why doesn't Tyson give the little runt what he wants?"
"Wow, good answer."
"You're new here, right? Let me explain, it's not very polite to beyblade in a public pool."
"Hey, take that back! NOW!"
"How are you going to do that?"
"One day, Tyson's head is just going to explode."
(Screams) "It's the curse of the Egyptian prince Tuku!"
(To Tyson)"Wow! That's so deep! For a minute there, you sounded... smart."
"I have plenty of heart!
"Is that Kai right there? He's cute."
"Not that. I mean Kai. You haven't introduced him to me, I've been waiting all afternoon."
"It's a pleasure to meet you Kai. (He passes right by her) That was rude!"
"So talking isn't one of his strong suits huh!"
"I'm worried Kenny, I was up all night thinking about Kai, how long have you known him, not long enough I'm sure, because there is something not right about him he can't be trusted."
"Maybe Kai rendezvoused to a spy submarine"
"I'm a very good judge of character."
"They went and destroyed the bridge, Cmon we're going to find a way across!"
"Now what, you better not be playing a video game, mister!"
"Would you please hurry up with that stupid code, Kai's running of time!"
"The system's down Kai, it's safe to call out your little bitbeasty thingy."
"Who's da man who's the man Kai's the man, Kai that's who!"
"You did it, Tyson!"
"Are you hiding them, you've gotta be hiding them!"
"No matter what, this time I will see a bitbeast"
"Kai, come take a break."
"This may sound freaky, but I think he looks possessed."
"It's not over yet, Gideon!"
"None of us expected that attack, Tyson, even Kai can be caught off guard!"
"Okay, Okay don't put so much pressure on him, we all know he's gonna win."
"He's too competitive to be a teacher, especially to kids!"
"Besides I've gotta admit, I've always been kind of a sucker for the underdog."
"She can't say that to us, can she Kenny?"
"You look like you need some cooling of!"
"Unbelievable, how did these kids hear about this."
"Okay boys, remember the first step in blading safety, make sure no one is wearing the same bathing suit as I am!"
"Can't take Tyson anywhere without making a scene!"
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