Ito Hikiotani

Ito Hikiotani is one of the main characters from the anime series Punch Line! and it's video game adaptation. Ito is a NEET otaku shut-in who suffered from social anxiety and agoraphobia due to a history of being bullied. 
She is voiced by Minako Kotobuki in the Japanese version.
==History==
Ito was the victim of relentless bullying at school. Due to this, she became too frightened to attend school, and gained extreme social anxiety and developed agoraphobia, never leaving her house. Her parents became embarrassed by her, and she eventually moved into Korai House, an apartment building where he cousin Rabura Chichibu lived, who began to take care of her. She would spend all of her time shut in her darkened apartment, spending every day doing nothing but playing video games, using the internet, and looking after her pet bear cub, Muhi. 
Ito eventually uploaded an online video which listed the names of multiple high school students as "this year's victims", with those listed in the video being the bullies she wanted to get revenge on. 
 
She had only uploaded the video as a "harmless prank" to scare them, however the video went viral. Unfortunately, someone else took her video, added her name onto the list, and reuploaded it, then began to actually kill the students listed.
In the first timeline, Ito is killed by the killer after she agrees meets him, due to her guilt. Her body is discovered by Yūta Iritatsu's discarded spirit. His emotions over Ito's murder causes him to travel back in time, and stop Ito from meeting with the killer. 
In this timeline, Yūta manages to anonymously alert Mikatan about what Ito is planning to do. Mikatan tries to stop Ito from going, and bursts into tears when Ito asks why she cares, telling her that she's her "precious friend", which surprises Ito. Ito tells Mikatan about her past with her bullying problem and about her uploading the video to the internet. She breaks down while telling her about how she feels, and Mikatan embraces her, and tells her that she's on her side, and that she promises to protect her.
The identity of the killer is ultimately revealed to be Tomoda Chihaya, one of Ito's teachers. He claimed he did it for Ito's sake to help her by getting rid of her bullies, and he was also partly under posession by an evil spirit at the time, however Ito is absolutely disgusted and angrily knocks him out by kicking him in the face.
All of Tomoda Chihaya's murders are erased however after Yūta travels back in time and forms another new alternative timeline. Ito eventually becomes part of "Justice Punch", the team made up of Korai House's residents who prevented humanity's destruction by the V-1 Asteroid on New Years via "Operation Peacemaker". 
Following the success of Operation Peacemaker, and the subsequent permanent departure of Yuta, Ito's life drastically changed for the better, with her no longer having her social anxiety.
==Personality ==
Ito is a stereotypical otaku, with a love for video games, anime, and "boys' love" (yaoi). Due to the bullying she faces at school, Ito secluded herself from others and became a shut-in. She stopped going to school, and began to spend all of her time locked inside her apartment. She lacked confidence in herself, and believed that people didn't like her, and so kept away from others, despite how lonely she felt. She was startled when she found out that idol/heroine Mikatan Narugino, someone she admired considered her one of her closest friends. She also purposefully grew distant from others, due to not wanting them to see her as a weak person. She wanted people to think of her as a cheerful and confident girl who was just lazy and who had developed an unhealthy addiction to the internet. In reality this was to cover up how she felt pathetic that she was being bullied.
The events of Punch Line! have a drastic effect on Ito's personality. She has begun to attend school again, and is confident enough to walk to school hand-in-hand with Mikatan, and had overcome her social anxiety enough to be able to join her friends on various social outings. She had also seemingly gained enough of a boost to her self-confidence to feel comfortable enough to attend a public swimming bath in a bikini, and to stand up to one of her bullies while there as well.
==Gallery==
Ito Cover.png
Punchline-ito.png|Ito with "brother" Muhi
B893c948de6de7d63b8de7a616f4ab07.jpg|On the internet alone in her room
Punchline2.jpg|Going crazy during Mikatan's visit
Itomikatan.jpg|With Mikatan
F889ee0b-5de5-4046-8146-d0f2ff4730ec.png|With the other residents of Korai House
Ff59901ae6032b775cc31a6a44cab3c8 (1).gif|Ito and Rabura think that Mikatan & Meika are having sex
Punch.Line.full.1899480.jpg|The residents of Korai House, post-series
Mikaitoupset.png|Ito tells Mikatan about her being bullied
Itocd.png|Feeling guilty over her bullies' deaths
==Trivia==
*Her Japanese Voice Actress, Minako Kotobuki, also voiced Astrid Hofferson in How to Train Your Dragon, Serah Farron in Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, Lana in The Legend of Zelda, Rikka Hishikawa in DokiDoki! Pretty Cure, Cia in Hyrule Warriors, Rickert in Berserk (2016 TV Series), Chifusa Manyuu in Manyū Hiken-chō, Mizuki Kanzaki in Aikatsu! series, Eva Maria Pallares in Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman, Mitsuko Kongou in A Certain Scientific Railgun, and Sen Tokugawa in Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls.
*Her full name, with the surname first, is a play on how the portmanteau of hikikomori, otaku, and NEET, HikiOtaNEET, is pronounced in Japanese (hiki Otanito).
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