Hajime Shibata

Hajime Shibata (柴田一 Shibata Hajime) is a major character in the anime Jigoku Shoujo/Hell Girl. He is a freelance journalist, the husband of Ayumi Shibata and the father of Tsugumi Shibata.
He is voiced by Yuji Ueda in the Japanese dub and John Burgmeier, who voiced Seishin Muroi in Shiki, in English dub.
==Appearance==
Hajime is a handsome man with light black hair, dark gray eyes and a light unshaven stubble. Usually he wears a brown jacket and jeans. 
==Personality==
Hajime is a caring and kind man, who has a good sense of humor and deeply cares about his daughter, Tsugumi Shibata, despite his shady dealings with celebrities. He holds a huge guilt for the loss of his wife, Ayumi Shibata, and was responsible for it. 
One of his most prominent traits is his firm belief that vengeance is wrong and shouldn't be acted on. This belief is what motivates him to try to stop people from acting through the Hell Correspondence. However, this would later change throughout the series. Tsugumi states that Hajime began to tire from his continuous and mostly unsuccessful efforts to stop the cycle of hatred, except one. In the end, Hajime stopped on preventing the Hell Correspondence.
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