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The Protagonists[]

Teruharu "Hideo" Kousukegawa[]

Motoko Gettou[]

Tropes related to Motoko Gettou in general:

The Multiple Personalities are as follows:

  • Motoko — the core personality. Hairstyle: short Girlish Pigtails (also experimented with a loose high ponytail for a while).
    • Cute Clumsy Girl / Dojikko: Always keep her away from stairs while she's in a panic or distracted.
    • Death by Despair: Motoko finally unlocks the memory of her mother's death, and it and its circumstances are so horrific, her personality just... vanishes. What makes this even more tragic is that the reveal is what she's been working toward for several chapters worth of story, and that it could have been avoided, since Kannami warned Motoko about the dangers of such a traumatic experience and told her that she should collect as many happy memories as possible to counterbalance. However, she 1) haven't had enough time to collect that many happy memories and 2) when Motoko finally remembers what happened that fatal morning, she concludes that she doesn't deserve to be happy, so she practically withdraws into an Angst Coma.
    • I Wished You Were Dead: Poor Motoko. It wasn't even delayed. Her mother died instantly after she wished it, by means of a random accident.
    • Meganekko
    • Mommy Didn't Show: Indirectly responsible for Motoko's mother's death and her split personalities.
    • My God, What Have I Done?: With the interesting twist that she didn't do it — it was purely magical thinking, but she was too young to realize it, and that part of her never got a chance to realize it.
    • Shrinking Violet: With reason. She is incapable of feeling anger.
    • Tomato in the Mirror: in chapter 42, Kannami theorizes that "Motoko" may actually be just another "alternate" of the real Motoko — Zero.
  • Hibiki — Always ready for a fight. Specializes in Karate. Hairstyle: loose and relatively messy.
    • Blood Knight: After dealing violently with a molester in the subway, she was so heated up that she intentionally provoked a fight just to blow off her steam.
    • Bokukko
    • Does Not Know Her Own Strength: She easily squashes a rubber ball to shreds (and considering Kousukegawa could barely even squeeze it), then when someone tries to trip her, said person ends up being thrown over as if by Megaton Punch by her mere running stride.
      • Also results in a The Door Slams You situation when, after being trapped in a sauna with Kousukegawa, she kicks the door open, which slams right into the perpetrator who locked the door, sending the latter flying into a jacuzzi.
      • Perhaps the most ridiculous instance of this is her First Kiss with Kousukegawa, which literally hurt.
    • Hot-Blooded
    • Mighty Glacier: Though of average proportions, she has the greatest offensive power among HiFuMi, but lags behind Fujiko and Mikiri in speed and defense, respectively.
    • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Appears more than Fujiko or Mikiri.
    • The Tease: Only to Kosukegawa, and almost always serious about her offers. There's also her promised gift for Kosukegawa's next birthday, which she asserts that it will be "better" than the kiss she gave him for the birthday she already missed. Evidently, she got Motoko's sex drive, but Motoko kept the inhibitions.
  • Fujiko — Cool-headed (almost cold, at times) and calculating. Soldier/swordswoman. Hairstyle: tidy hair, asymmetrically swept to one side, bordering (but not actually reaching) Peek-a-Bangs style.
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Fujiko: It's fine, no one can see my underwear, because I'm not wearing any.

Kosukegawa (thinking): It's a much bigger problem if people see what you cover with your panties!

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  • Mikiri — The most childlike of the alter-egos. A master at Jujitsu. Hairstyle: short topknot ponytail (something like an Idiot Hair surrogate).
    • Big Eater
    • Breast Expansion: Her boobs grow to indicate that she's 'come out', often snapping Motoko's bra. Explained as being because of a change in "muscle tension" - her pectoral muscles are more "tightened" than normal, thus pushing her breasts further out than usual.
    • Cheerful Child
    • Cute Bruiser
    • Goofy Print Underwear: When she first meets Kosukegawa she's wearing bunny panties (and nothing else).
    • Innocent Fanservice Girl: Practically zero nudity taboo.
    • Stone Wall: Any punch or kick you can throw, she can turn its force against you to either unbalance you or quickly put you in a submission hold.
  • ZeroThe embodiment of Motoko's rage. Represented by the color Black. Hairstyle: loose, but not as wild as Hibiki's.
    • All Your Powers Combined: She can use all of the skills of the other three alters.
    • Alternative Character Interpretation: Kannami himself, in one of the final chapters of Volume 9, reveals to Kousukegawa that "Motoko" may be nothing more than a host personality, constructed from scratch to believe herself as the original one in order to deal with the world that Zero - the real, original Motoko according to this scenario - had retreated from. The implications of this hypothesis being true are earth-shaking, to say the least.
    • Curb Stomp Battle: The usual outcome to Zero's opponents whenever she enters a fight. Especially notable is Sora's first confrontation against "Zero" (as "Hibiki+Zero") at the end of Chapter 47. It takes less than five seconds for the latter to disarm the former and do a compound, complete and oblique fracture to the Jerkass Smug Snake's right arm in One. Freakin'. Blow.
    • Deadly Upgrade: Her extreme lethality is a result of pushing past her physical limits; the fact that, at first, she only comes out when the other three personalities have been thoroughly beaten, usually meaning that their shared body is considerably damaged by that point, does not help. In her first in-story chronological appearance, back when she was still a child, she remained in control for only three minutes; the time limit has since increased considerably. Later on, Hino reveals to Ginga that Zero could push her body so far past its limits that severe muscle and joint damage, or even fatal heart stress, could occur.
    • Emotionless Girl: Bears a lifeless expression and Dull Eyes of Unhappiness.
    • Enfante Terrible: A flashback shows she was deadly even as a tiny child, forcing the two fathers to fight for their life when she came out.
    • Foe-Tossing Charge: Don't ever try to interfere when she wants to kill/destroy someone. You can end up seriously hurt.
    • Lightning Bruiser: A borderline Game Breaker variant.
    • Limp and Livid
    • My Villain Zero: Whether or not she'll eventually make a Heel Face Turn and become a straight My Hero Zero is unknown, for now.
    • The Quiet One: borderline Voiceless; she only says one word in her first manga appearance before she starts ruthlessly beating the shit out of everyone in sight - her name.
    • Super-Powered Evil Side: Very, very willing to kill, and a much more well-rounded and lethal combatant than any of the HiFuMi.
    • Tranquil Fury: She's quite calm for an "anger incarnate". Then again, cold, slow-burning fury is a lot more lasting, and thus theoretically worse, than short-lived explosions of fast-burning fiery rage.

Other tropes mainly related to the HiFuMi:


Other characters[]

Kannami[]

Botan Tsukishima[]

Ginga[]

  • Cute Bruiser: Lest we forget, she was introduced carrying her kill — a full-sized leopard — over her shoulders.
  • Innocent Fanservice Girl: She doesn't have a lot of modesty, although she didn't start wearing concealing clothes until she came to Japan... and sprouted.
  • Long-Lost Relative: She is revealed to be a cousin of Kosukegawa through his great-grandfather.
  • Samus Is a Girl: A topless "Samus", no less, as at her first appearance, she was still living on the island, not yet introduced to civilization and clothes.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Ginga and Hino spent many years of their childhoods together, and are close friends, but Ginga was, at first, furious with Hino for the latter's perceived betrayal of Ginga's people's customs (she left the island rather than remain to serve as the Gadam).

Izuru Hino[]

  • Barrier Warrior: Specializes in defense fighting techniques.
  • Clothing Damage: Hino (and her clothes) get cut up pretty badly when she accidentally leaps into a thornbush. Later, during a sports carnival contest she has her shirt and bra accidentally ripped off.
  • Innocent Fanservice Girl: See Clothing Damage, but really like Ginga she doesn't care that much about nudity or showing her body, although she doesn't go out of her way to do it.
  • Romantic False Lead: Started as potentially one early on to get Motoko jealous of how well she Kosukegawa fit together.
  • Ojou: Wealthy family, incredibly polite to everyone, School Idol and a very much the resident Yamato Nadeshiko.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: ...with Ginga (see above). Hino isn't angry with Ginga at all, but she doesn't hold back when defending herself from Ginga.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: Because of this, and because she is a Kamen Raider fan like Kosukegawa, at first it seems that she is bound to become a Relationship Sue for him, which saddens Hibiki (and later Motoko), but eventually it turns out that Kosukegawa's love for Motoko/HiFuMi is far too steady.
    • She's also an incredibly gifted Aikido prodigy. Her present fighting skill developed as a result of having to survive in the wilderness of a tropical island for much of her youth.

Other characters[]

  • Artificial Limbs: American Kamen Rider Raider Otaku Ralph Austin (which also serves as a Shout-Out to The Six Million Dollar Man)
  • Ax Crazy: Most of the one-off antagonists in the story.
  • Badass: Tatsuya. He is the only person to not only go toe-to-toe with Zero but also WIN as well. Just a reminder, the other Fathers, Takezou and Jin, had difficulty subduing her at AGE FIVE.
  • Beta Couple: Ozuma and Osada. Aizawa and Ginga are on the way to become this as well, in their own somewhat Belligerent Sexual Tension way.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sora Uzuki, all in the name of witnessing "Black".
  • Blood Knight: As well as Hibiki, Tatsuya, the karateka "father" who trained her and Matoko's biological father, will fight anyone who looks strong for the fun of it. Even Ginga. Not to mention the fact that Motoko's other two fathers kept Zero secret from him so he wouldn't fight her to the death. Ch. 52 takes this Up to Eleven, when he helps a convicted psycho murderer break out of prison just so he can fight him to the death...which takes three minutes.
  • Color Coded for Your Convenience: Starting with Hifumi, all fighters are revealed to be categorised into colour-coded combat styles, or a combination of two or more. Tsukishima especially seems to be obsessed with achieving her colour title, and is baffled when fights don't quite follow these rules.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Kousukegawa's mom.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Ginga, right down to using bites. Also, during the "bring out Zero" ploy", one of the fighters (also a member of Ginga's tribe) holds Mikiri's head underwater just long enough to knock her unconscious. The Improbable Weapon User below tries to take out Fujiko by bleeding her out through strategic cuts...and he nearly succeeds.
  • Five-Man Band:
  • Gory Discretion Shot: Normally averted. The one time it's used is when we finally see what happened to Motoko's mother.
  • Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!: Motoko's grandmother.
  • Hello, Nurse!: Literally, in the case of the new school nurse.
  • Improbable Weapon User: One enemy uses his fingernails, a technique used by some Shaolin monks. Sora Uzuki, a member of what appears to be a ninja clan, uses a kusarigama-like weapon consisting of sharpened keys on a wire.
  • Long-Lost Relative: The leader of the apparent-ninja clan that includes Sora and Tsukishima appears to be Motoko's grandmother, although this hasn't been revealed to the girl in question yet. Scratch that; she's been informed a month or two after Hibiki+Zero beat the shit out of Sora.
  • Meaningful Theme Naming: Aside from HiFuMi, there is also evidence of other suspicious occurrences discovered by Kannami in chapter 49, but clues can be found earlier on, if the reader pays attention to the meanings of certain kanji characters.
  • National Stereotypes: Played straight with respect to United Statizens in the Okinawa arc.
  • Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters: Aizawa, who is younger than he looks, a former thug who got into high school around the same time as Ginga. While looking to establish his rep, he got tagged with the title of School Guardian by accident, and then finds out that not only do all the strongest fighters in their school outclass him, but they are also girls.
  • Parent with New Paramour: The young Russian woman Anna, besides being a talented disciple of Takezou (Motoko's jujitsu father, who "created" the Mikiri personality), is also apparently his girlfriend. When she jokingly tells Motoko about the possibility of becoming her stepmother, Motoko freaks out.
  • Punch Clock Villain
  1. That's the plural of "psychosis", for you Grammar Nazis.
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