Hitomi (Dead or Alive)

Hitomi, also known as The Fist of Innocence and A Karate Expert and Then Some!, is a character from the Dead or Alive series.
== Charactah Account ==
A high school student with a black belt in karate. Half-German and half-Japanese, Hitomi has been practicing the art of karate under her father's tutelage since she was a child. She finds the amnesiac Hayate in the German Black Forest and takes him home to help him. There, both practice karate together, which create a dear friendship between the two. She enters the 3rd Dead or Alive Tournament to prove her skills to her father, but later he becomes severely ill, so she enters again to win the prize and save her family's dojo.
Hitomi enters the 5th tournament, trying to 'meet' with Ein once again, but eventually accepts that he's always Hayate. At the very least, she becomes the runner up of the tournament, the last opponent defeated by Jann Lee.
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate
* Dead or Alive 3
* Dead or Alive 4
* Dead or Alive 5
* Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
* Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate
* Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Arcade
* Dead or Alive 6
* Dead or Alive Dimensions
* Dead or Alive Paradise
* Dead or Alive Xtreme 2
* Dead or Alive Xtreme 3
* Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Scarlet
* Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
* Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation
=== Web-Animation ===
* Dead Fantasy
== Trivia ==
* It is most likely that Hitomi was born and raised in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, due to the Black Forest being found there. It was at the forest where she found a passed-out Hayate.
* Hitomi is the first biracial character of the franchise, as she has a mix of Japanese and German ancestry.
** On a related note, in the Japanese versions of the games, her name is transcribed in Katakana instead of Hiragana despite her name being of Japanese origin, most likely due to her foreign status.
* Hitomi was the first cover girl to replace Kasumi — with the release of Dead or Alive 3, the advertisements were noticeably more focused on Hitomi rather than Kasumi. After this for years she could be considered one of the main girls for the series alongside Kasumi and Ayane, being present in a lot of the marketing, appearing in the cover of the "Best Shots" books, getting her own figure and being arguably the main face of the first Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball and Paradise, appearing alone in the box art of the games and appearing more than the other girls in the marketing. After the introduction of Marie Rose and Honoka, Hitomi's relevance decreased however and she no longer has this importance for the games, and she hasn't appeared in any of the recent collaborations of the series.
* According to the book DEAD OR ALIVE HISTORY ― Team NINJA FREAKS, during the early stages of Dead or Alive 3's production the idea was to completely change the cast of characters and Hitomi was designed as the new main heroine to replace Kasumi. This idea was scrapped but Hitomi still made it to the final game as a secondary character for the story mostly unrelated to DOATEC.
* Evidenced by her college soccer attire in Dead or Alive 5, Hitomi's last name is possibly Buchfink. Buchfink is a common German surname.
* Hitomi was ranked #4 in TeamXbox's "Top Ten Xbox Babes" in 2004; one place behind Kasumi. She was also featured in IGN's "Videogame Babe of the Day" series in 2006.
* Hitomi owns a red bicycle featured in the Dead or Alive 3 opening and her Dead or Alive 4 ending.
* Due to negative fan reaction, Hitomi's Dead or Alive 5 design was changed. Most notably, her ears were made smaller and her face was made rounder. She is one of only two characters to have to be changed from her first "final design", the only other being Mai Shiranui.
* In Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive 4, Hitomi's occupation was listed as a high school student. However, in the Official Dead or Alive 5 Strategy Guide, she is still listed as a high school student despite the fact that she is twenty years old and wears college attire. This is a misprint.
** A tweet from Tecmo has stated that Hitomi plays in her college soccer team.
* According to the data source from Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation, Hitomi's name tag is "HTM".
* According to the fifth event episode for the "Even Gloomy Girls can run into Venuses" arc, "Mustering Up Courage", Hitomi reads manga, and has a personal preference to the romance genre, although she was also fond of the shonen genre.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Hitomi at Dead or Alive Wiki
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