Takehisa Hinawa

Takehisa Hinawa is a major supporting character in the 2015 Japanese dark fantasy manga series Fire Force and its 2020 anime television series adaptation of the same name. He is the former Sergeant of the Company 8 of the Special Fire Force. 
He is voiced by in Japanese and by Chris Wehkamp in English
== Appearance ==
Hinawa is a middle man of average height and muscular build in his late 30s with short brown hair arriving at his brown eyes and wears a black framed glasses. Like other members, during missions he wears a firefighter uniform coated with blue and white neon lines around his arms and waist as well as on the bottom of his grey overalls along with a pair of dark boots. The middle of his bunker gear is adorned with the cross shaped fire force buttons. His uniform finishes with a neck protective in front of his neck, a pair of protective gloves and a firefighter helmet of the Company 8. During his free time he is often seen in his bunker gear pants along with a black shirt. He was also seen wearing a purple shirt along with grey pants and a red cap written with japanese texts that says “Don’t Cry Bypass”. And later on in the series, a full-body orange uniform coated with a horizontal lieutenant badge along with the text “TOKYOFFS” and number 8 printed to go along with a dark blue cap printed with yellow japanese text on his head. 
== Personality ==
Hinawa is usually seen holding a serious expression, especially in his eyes. He appears to be a strict man who doesn’t like fooling around and gets easily angered whenever he sees the other members fooling around a bit, for example like he broke his pen while writting due to Iris and Tamaki or when he pierced a screen by throwing his notebook from the other side of the room in the middle of Shinra and Akitaru’s conversation. He appears to be strict with rules, as he scolded Maki with the one of the rules being Fire Soldiers should not play with fire. During battles, he is a calm and displays a high level of intelligences against his enemies with being to come up with quick plans. 
== Background ==
Hinawa used to be a lieutenant of the Armed Forces before joining the Fire Force. During his time there, he had a great relationhship with Tojo, which Hinawa tells him that he is a too kind-hearted and gentle individual to become a better fire soldier and the only reason he got in is thanks to his father. Tojo admits that he has a preference in religions, rituals and the Church of Sol, which Hinawa says that he does not have any faith in God and sees rituals and cultures as useless. At night while sleeping, his friend would ignite and be transformed into an Infernal while he was peacefully reading in their room. Before losing control of his mankind, he begs Hinawa to end his life by shooting him. Hinawa aims the gun at him, but struggles to fire while thinking about what his friend mentioned about baptized guns before a group of soldiers suddenly enters and shoots the Infernal, ending Tojo’s life. To remember his friend, he takes his gun as a souvenir. 
Later on, while exploring the city, he notices the apparition of two Infernals and Akitaru talking with the Fire Force about the point system of the Infernals without caring about its relatives. He then makes a decision to help Akitaru ending the woman's husband's suffering who ignited into an Infernal. As both of them, goes to take down the infernal, Hinawa is asked by Akitaru to fire the gun while thinking about how he struggled to pull the trigger to put his friend to rest that night. However he was able to put the wife's husband to rest by finally pulling the trigger. After completing the task, Akitaru asks Hinawa to joi and become the first member of his company that he just wanted to start, however Hinawa tells him to ask Maki to join.
==Abilities==
Hinawa is not only a skilled fighter, commander and researcher; he also maintained the Matchbox until Vulcan joined the team. He's so good that Vulcan thought there wasn't anything else he could do, until he started radically modifying everything and developing new technology. Also, he can bounce bullets off of surfaces with ease, and he can create several ricochets by manipulating sparks from bullets' impact with objects.
Hinawa is a pyrokinetic, but unlike the rest of his squad's more flashy displays of power, he uses his powers to augment his marksmanship skills with regular guns and more mundane martial arts rather than throw fire directly.
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