| Arata Hirota | |
|---|---|
| 広田 新 hirota arata | |
| Description | |
| Season | #OnlineStar |
| Age | 28-29 |
| Birthday Date | January 24th |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair Color | Brown |
| Eye Color | Chestnut |
| Home Place | Tokyo, Japan |
| Relatives | Mentioned Father Mentioned Mother Mentioned Sister |
| Anime Debut | Episode 07 |
| Seiyuu | Kishio Daisuke |
Arata Hirota is a character in #OnlineStar who works at VirtNet company as a member of the VirtReality development team.
Bio[]
Arata is the head of the VirtReality development team and is also involved into the VirtNet mascot selection. He seems to be a casual and creative man who doesn't care much about guidelines.
Generally thought, he seems to enjoy teasing others and being sarcastic, especilly Mai. He often taunts her, espacilly when talking about Kira and her background. He seems to be informed quite well about the #OnlineStar System, unlike Mai. Similar to April and Luca, he also enjoys playing video games a lot.
It was mentioned that he gained his position, as well as general passion for computers, through his father who acted as a mentor to him eventually. However, he did not grew up with him and only met him after starting university. He has a younger sister as well, but has not met her in person - none the less, she seems to be important to him.
Arata's influence on VirtNet is not completly known, but he has access to large resources of the company and has become a person of public interest by now. He lead a press conference about VirtReality almost on his own, and enjoys respect from many other employees of the company.
Relationships[]
- VirtNet - Arata works for VirtNet as chief programmer and head of the VirtReality development team, VirtNet's main project.
- Sakaki Mai/Kira Star - Arata knows that Mai is Kira Star, and 'convinces' to be VirtNet's new 'mascot' despite her unsureness. He also seems to know what's behind Kira. He enjoys to tease Mai a lot, but doesn't seem to dislike her. In exchange for his constant teasing, Mai usually calls him 'old' and later on "jerk".
- Mysterious Person - His relationship to Arata is unknown, but he seems to work for him.
- Ahane Akane - A co-worker and good friend with whom he tends to have playful banters. Akane is his assistant and commonly busy trying to convince him to attend meetings, he isn't interessted in.
Trivia[]
- Blood Type: A
- Arata's voice actor also voiced Sanada Arata, a character in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. Both characters share the same, romanized name, but while Arata's name is written in kanji, the Digimon Story character's name is written in katakana.
- His favourite movie is Fallen.