Aoi Hinata (日向 葵 Hinata Aoi), also known by her nickname Himawari (向日葵), is a main character in Oresuki. She is a second year high school student and is also the ace of the school's Tennis Club. In the beginning of the series she had a crush on Sun. However as the series progress her feelings for Sun faded and started having feelings for Joro.
Appearance
Himawari is a fair-skinned petite girl with shoulder-length brown hair that is in side-ponytail fastened with a sunflower-shaped hair piece with bangs hanging over her forehead and brown eyes.
Kabuten Dress
For the Hundred Flower Festival's Kabuten dance, Himawari wore a frilly yellow dress with orange trims on the bottoms of the frills..
Aqualand Swimsuit
At the pool, Himawari wore a yellow one-piece swimsuit with a short orange skirt around her waist.
Tennis Sportswear
Himawari's tennis outfit is a white T-shirt with a yellow collar and lines with a yellow skirt as well as a yellow cap with white polka dots. Her old tennis racquet was orange, her new one is yellow.
Personality
Himawari is a bubbly and energetic social butterfly. Despite her outgoing nature, she gets nervous easily, especially around her crush at the beginning of the series, Sun. However after a fight broke out between the group and the reconciled as friends she doesn't have feeling for him anymore and does not appear nervous around him anymore. Himawari is fairly hyperkinetic and is shown to be a physically affectionate person mostly to Joro as she greets him by slapping his back or even tackling him, much to his annoyance. When asking for a favor she can be rather clingy, something that has aroused Joro in many occasions. After Sun's plot was revealed, Himawari was extremely apologetic toward Joro and wanted to stay out of his way to avoid causing more trouble. She was overjoyed when Joro reconciled with her. She does try to help joro in many situations but often unintentionally annoys or hurts him. However it seems that she isn't good at reading his emotions which causes confusion between the two. According to Joro, Himawari’s eyes would dart to the right once and the left twice whenever she is lying.
Abilities
Athletic - Himawari is the ace of the school Tennis Club. She is a strong long-distance runner and is surprisingly strong.[1]
Synopsis
Anime
As Joro (Himawari's childhood friend) is walking to school where she runs up behind him and greets him with a smack on the back. She stares at him briefly before exclaiming that he is Joro. She holds his arm and they walk to school together. When they get to their classroom, Himawari opens the door and greets everyone inside at once. Sun sees them come in and walks over to greet them. He remarks that they are very close, which Himawari agrees with. Sun says he likes the way things are and hopes things won't change, and Joro agrees. Himawari closes her fists and turns to Joro, calling him stupid before going to her seat.
After class, Sun stands to leave to go to his club. Suddenly, Cosmos enters the classroom, saying that she is here to escort Joro to the Student Council room. Sun jokingly cheers for Joro and says he's jealous, and Himawari tightens her grip on her tennis racquet. She interrupts them by bumping her racquet against the wall, asking why Cosmos is here. Cosmos says that she came to see the person she wanted to see. As Himawari turns around to leave, joro asks whats wrong. She says that it's nothing before running out the door towards the Tennis Club.
That night Himawari messages Joro, asking to meet with him the next day, on Saturday. He says he can't do Saturday, so she changes to Sunday, which Joro agrees with.
On Sunday, Himawari and Joro go to the movie theater and watch Meat World: Chicken Kingdom, a movie which Himawari enjoys. Joro gives a blank response, so Himawari asks him what's wrong. He says it's nothing, but Himawari doesn't believe him, and she hugs him tightly from behind. Joro panics a bit before settling down. Himawari snuggles her face into Joro's back, and Joro thanks her for cheering him up. Then they eat at a family restaurant, visit a bakery and a sports store.
In the evening, Joro and Himawari are playing on the swing set at a playground. Himawari does a jump off the swings and lands on her feet. As they start walking, Himawari stops Joro, saying she has something to tell him. She sits on a bench and tells him to sit next to her. She starts playing with her hair as she tells him that there is someone that she likes. She talks about how she gets happy when she sees that person. Himawari turns and leans toward Joro, and shouts that she likes his friend, Sun. Himawari continues, telling him that it all started at last year's regional baseball tournament. She recalls how Sun's team lost, but he was encouraging his teammates with a smile on his face. She said that after the game she went to the players' waiting room from the west hallway to find Sun crying by himself and hitting his head against the wall, and that was the moment she fell in love with him. The next morning, Himawari runs up behind Joro and greets him with a smack on the back.
As the series goes on Himawari and joro still continue to do their daily routiene with her smacking his back. However after they reconciled after Sun's plot was revealed joro doesn't use his fake persona anymore and will act rude or mean towards her if she annoys him. In the situation where joro got himself a job so he could buy a new book for pansy since he messed up the book he gave her himawari bought him the book thinking that it would help him. However this only made him more angry since she spent her life savings on the book rather than a new tennis racket like joro suggested. Joro new that her heart was in the right place but he doesn't want her to give up on her dreams because of him. When he and the rest of the group go to support her at the tournament she asks joro if there was someone that he liked to which he said no. With her saying that him and her are different as there is someone she likes after proceeding to give him a kiss on the cheek.
In episode 12 of the anime during the time that her and the rest of the group are trying to save the library she tries to aid joro as best as she can in dealing with the situation between hose and pansy. However when they decide on who gets keep pansy via a vote hima and the rest of the girls give their vote to hose after Hima and the rest of the girls confess about their feelings to joro. With himawari stating that she wants to be his girlfriend.
Manga
Himawari is getting ready for school, and is taking longer than usual because she is putting on makeup. When she is finally ready, she leaves her house to meet Joro to walk to school together. Joro correctly guesses that Himawari is wearing makeup, making her embarrassed. The two run to school, which is no problem for Himawari, but completely exhausts Joro.
Etymology
- The name Aoi means "hollyhock, althea" (葵).
- Aoi's surname Hinata means "sunny place" (日向).
- Aoi's nickname Himawari means "sunflower" (向日葵) and it is formed by swapping the characters of her surname.
Trivia
- Aoi is the first character who know about Joro's habit of fidgeting his fingers whenever he tries to lie all of sudden.
References
| Amatsuyu Kisaragi (Joro) • Taiyo Oga (Sun) • Yasuo Hazuki (Hose) | |
| Sumireko Sanshokuin (Pansy) • Sakura Akino (Cosmos) • Aoi Hinata (Himawari) • Hina Hanetachi (Asunaro) • Asaka Mayama (Sasanqua) • Chiharu Yoki (Tsubaki) • Kimie Kamata (Tanpopo) • Momo Sakurabara (Cherry) • Runa Kusami (Tsukimi) • Ichika Botan (Anemone) • Marika Kisaragi (Jasmine) • Keiki Kisaragi (Laurier) | |
| The Bench • Minor Characters | |