Ichiro Hiruma

Ichiro Hiruma is a major supporting protagonist of the manga/anime series Terra Formars, as well as 2016 live-action film of the same name.
The oldest of eleven Hiruma siblings, Ichiro was a former highschool student trying to get into Tokyo University to become a politician to feed his family, however he was falsely accused of impregnating his classmate through rape and subsequently expelled. Desperate for money, he joined BUGS2 mission consisting out of society's most redundant filth send to Mars to exterminate man-sized mutant cockroaches known as Terraformars. However, after failed attempt to betray his team with Victoria Wood, most of his teammates perished and he, alongside Shokichi Komachi, was the only one to return to Earth.
Twenty years after the incident, in 2619 A.D., Ichiro became 502nd Japanese Prime Minister and the head behind international negations about Annex I crisis. While he himself mostly stayed out of action, Ichiro tries his best to uncover secrets behind Terraformars' creation, as well as betrayal of humanity by Newton Clan and China, as well as stop Terraformars' colonization of Earth.
In BUGS2 OVA and Annex I's anime adaptation, he is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita, who has also voiced Joseph Joestar in : , Escanor in , Gyomei Himejima in , Gundham Tanaka in , Yusuke Kitagawa in , Gintoki Sakata in , Kiyomasa Katō in , Taro Sakamoto in , Kensei Muguruma in , among many others. In the live-action adaptation, he is portrayed by Takayuki Yamada.
==Appearance==
Ichiro Hiruma is an ugly, corpulent man standing at 5'7 or 1.70 m, with short black hair, thick eyebrows, freckled face, large mouth with full lips, and sunken brown eyes. In spite of his appearance, he is stated to be big-boned and posses a muscle mass similar to that of a sumo fighter. In BUGS2 Arc, he is wearing a standard futuristic white jumpsuit with reflective dark-blue clothing underneath. In Annex I and Earth Arcs, Ichiro wears a stereotypical elegant black suit with black tie and white buttoned shirt in the manga, and grey suit with red tie in the anime. When transformed, his muscle mass nearly doubles to the point of ripping apart his clothing and he gains slight insect features such as antennae.
==Personality==
When he was a teenager, Ichiro Hiruma was a pessimistic, quiet and antisocial student who worked hard to get into Tokyo University. While his appearance earned him a bullying from his peers, Ichiro would never fight back, careful not to ruin his grades. He was hated by everyone to such a degree that one of his bullies, a girl, had an affair with their teacher and got herself pregnant, only to accuse Ichiro of rape by faking her crying, which subsequently got him expelled from school. When he got to BUGS2 mission, Ichiro mostly ignored his teammates and never spoke to them. Under their backs, he was actively planning to sabotage the mission with Victoria Wood to deliver Terraformar eggs to Earth and abandon the rest of the crew to their inevitable deaths.
However, when Victoria Wood was brutally killed by the cockroaches, Ichiro did not give up and instead bravely fought for his life against Evolved Terraformar, showing no fear before the insect despite it decapitating his female teammate within seconds. He cared not for tomorrow and was determined to return to Earth alive at all costs, so he injected himself with hazardous amount of BUGS Serum that mutated him further. His impressive courage and ferocity inspired Thien to do the same, although it costed him life in the aftermath. For many years to come, Ichiro would regret his attempted betrayal and form a friendship with Shokichi Komachi, BUGS2's only other survivor.
Even two decades after the incident, Ichiro knew that war between man and insect was far from over. With Alien Engine Virus spreading around the globe at supernatural speeds and killing just as many as it infected, as well as U-NASA organising another Mars expedition with one hundred bio-engineered humans, Ichiro supported Annex I's crew on Earth as much as he could. When it became clear that someone gave cockroaches plans about Annex I beforehand, Ichiro's main objective was to uncover as to exactly who and why. His secondary objective was to prevent Newton Clan from capturing Akari Hizamaru and Michelle K. Davis to use them for their obsession of selective human breeding.
==Powers and Abilities==
Sleeping chironomid larva physiology: Thanks to undergoing Bugs Surgery, Ichiro Hiruma possesses ability to transform himself into a human with characteristics of Polypedilum vanderplanki, specifically the larval stage of the species. Similar to Nanao Akita, Ichiro retains most of his abilities in human form but has to inject himself with Bugs Serum in order to gain the full physical strength and prowess of the animal.
*Immortal sleep: A notorious ability of sleeping chironomid's larva; Ichiro Hiruma can enter a state known as "cryptobiosis", becoming virtually indestructible in dormant state, possessing extreme durability and resistance to extreme conditions. He can resist temperatures up to 200 degrees above zero or 270 degrees below zero for 168 hours, as well as withstand radiation of 7000 Gray and survive in space. Using water or other liquids such as blood, Ichiro can exit this state.
*Immense strength: Ichiro is strong enough to punch a hole in BUGS2 ship's floor and headbutt an Evolved Terraformar in his human form, a creature capable of ripping apart most of other encounter human beings to shreds with its bare hands. After transforming and injecting multiple dosages of serum, Ichiro became strong enough to make an Evolved Terraformar puke blood with a barrage of blows to the stomach, and outright overpower Evolved Terraformar by showing its face to the floor and decapitating it.
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