Arihiko Inui

is a side character from Tsukihime and Kagetsu Tohya. He is Shiki Tohno's classmate and best friend.
==Profile==
===Background===
When Arihiko was young, the apartment complex he lived in collapsed with him and his family in it. He was the only one on the third floor to survive. Before he got rescued, he was stuck in the rubble for three days. When the apartment complex collapsed, he saw his grandmother die before his eyes, which caused him to have a different look on death. He was more-or-less raised by his older sister Ichiko Inui and currently lives with his sister.
When Shiki was living with the Arimas, he often used to hang out with Arihiko. He has a competitive attitude against Shiki. The second Arihiko laid eyes on Shiki, he intuitively knew that he was broken. "I've decided, you're going to be my rival." So he declared, while eating the pudding he had just stolen from Shiki's lunch.
===Appearance===
He's a model outlaw and he wore the same style of clothing since elementary school.
Tsukihime_Anime_Arihiko_Inui.png|'s character sheet of Arihiko in Tsukihime, Lunar Legend.
Arihiko Carnival Phantasm character sheet.png| character sheet of Arihiko in Carnival Phantasm.
===Personality===
He has a tendency to wander. He has the same antisocial attitude since elementary school. He enjoys living a delinquent lifestyle that doesn't bother normal, upright people. Though he's rumored to be something of a womanizer, his exes have nothing but good things to say about him. It seems he's the kind of that wants girls to be happy even after he's parted ways with them".
He normally hates stuff like ghosts and monsters but Nanako is an exception.
As far as Arihiko knows, Ichiko is a mysterious person who changes jobs about once a year.
==Role==
===Tsukihime===
Arihiko plays an important role in Shiki's school life; that means he primarily appears in the beginning of Tsukihime (providing a lot of exposition) and the school parts of Kagetsu Tohya.
As the player moves through the story, the player will discover that sometimes, Shiki cannot grasp how he became friends with Arihiko in the first place, since Shiki believes Arihiko has a "weird personality." Yet at one point in the game, when Shiki collapses in class due to his condition, Arihiko is the one who loudly informs the teacher that Shiki is sick and needs to be excused. Arihiko then proceeds to help a physically weakened Shiki to the medical office, demonstrating a personality trait that might, depending on the player's subjective perception, serve to explain why Shiki continues to be friends with Arihiko despite Arihiko's sometimes callous behavior. Furthermore, because his grandmother died in front of him saving his life as a child, he does not see react to death the way normal humans do, allowing him to coexist more easily alongside Shiki.
He does not, however, appear in any of the endings of Tsukihime, and Hisui's and Kohaku's route barely feature him at all.
===Kagetsu Tohya===
Background information on him is introduced in the Kagetsu Tohya side story "S.O.S. Nanako-chan". In that story, he stumbles upon and eventually befriends the Seventh Holy Scripture's spirit, and gives her the name "Nanako".
===Other Appearances===
Arihiko makes a brief cameo appearance in Carnival Phantasm. 
==Development==
===Reception===
*In the First character popularity poll of Tsukihime, Arihiko was ranked 10th.
*In the Second character popularity poll of Tsukihime, Arihiko was ranked 13th.
*In the Third character popularity poll of Tsukihime, Arihiko was ranked 20th.
*In the Fourth character popularity poll in 2003, Arihiko was ranked 28th.
*In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Arihiko was ranked 171st.
== References ==
vi:Inui Arihiko
Category:Characters in Tsukihime
Category:Normal humans
Category:Misaki Municipal High School students
Category:Introduced in 2000
Category:Residents of Misaki Town
Category:Japanese
Category:Voice - Takahiro Sakurai