Yuta Hibiki

* **Overview**
* Synopsis
* Relationships
* Gallery

## Portrayal

**Yuta Hibiki** (響裕太, *Hibiki Yūta*) is the main protagonist of SSSS.GRIDMAN. He is an amnesiac high school student and the chosen human host of Gridman.

## Appearance

Yuta's hair is cinnabar red, with two horn-like parts sticking out from the sides. He has blue eyes. After awakening from the coma and using the Accepter to transform into Gridman the next time, his eyes become yellow like Gridman's. They remain yellow throughout the final episode.

He has a short-sleeved white shirt, a red tie underneath a dark gray sleeveless sweater with a red stripe on the neckline, and black pants. His shoes are rather unique, with black soles and jagged red and white shapes on the sides, with blue ovals that are positioned similar to eyes. They are not uniform shoes, but sneakers.

He also wears a red armband with two black stripes on either end. This armband conceals the Primal Acceptor, which is used to call Gridman forth.

During the School Festival he temporarily wore a female "sailor fuku" .

## Personality

Though not fully expored due to possessed by one of Gridman's splintered fragments, Yuta is a good person who cares for his friends and the safety of his home city above all else, willing to take his calling as the Hyper Agent's host and partner seriously and prioritized it over his own safety just like his predecessor Naoto Sho regardless. This is true to Sho's description of him being normal but "not a bad guy". Even while rendered dormant by the Gridman fragment that possessed him, many of his personality traits, including his feelings for Rikka, flowed into said fragment to the point of it believed itself to be the true Yuta Hibiki until Akane revealed otherwise by stabbing him.

As confirmed in the flashback and the second time he join forces with Gridman, Yuta's real self is confirmed to be basically same as when inadvertently possessed by one of the Hyper Agent's splintered consciousness. While not necessarily loner since he enjoys others' company, it appears that he doesn't socialize with his peers as much as Sho or Rikka hence his surprise by how much his possessed self made friends with the others. His insecure side is more evident, however; in addition of disheartened by shortcomings he had while fighting alongside Gridman for the first time since the conflict against Alexis • Kerib because of lack of his possessed self's experience, Yuta worries about his chances to be with Rikka too much at times. Nevertheless, he is proved to be an understanding person, as he forgives Gridman for uneventful circumstances surrounding their first fight together since they managed to help Akane in the end.

## Powers and Abilities

**Repli-Compoid Physiology**: Unlike his predecessor Naoto Sho, Yuta is a Repli-Compoid, human-like beings Akane created with use of her Venoras.

* **Mediumship**: Thanks to Gridman who chose him as his newest host and partner as well as unknowingly carrying one of the Hyper Agent's fragment inside him which led to said fragment possessed him and assumed his identity in the process, he's freed from his programming thus gained the ability to perceive the presence of Akane's concealed Venoras despite of her designed them so they cannot be seen by ordinary Repli-Compoids as well as seeing Gridman in his Junk. After his first battle, Yuta would passively shared this ability to his friends Sho and Rikka, though it took Samurai Calibur optimizing the Junk so the two can properly talk to his Hyper Agent partner.
* **Telepathic Link with Gridman** (formerly): As the Hyper Agent's chosen host and partner, Yuta and Gridman shares a telepathic link which allows the former to mentally communicate with the latter, be it sending messages into the boy's mind or causing his left hand to generate electric shock. This trait was arguably attributed by him housing one of Gridman's splintered fragments.
* **Access Flash**: Using Accepter and reciting the phrase while near the Junk, Yuta can merge with Gridman thus giving the Hyper Agent a corporeal form to fight Mega-Viruses with him in control and gained access to the latter's powers and abilities. The two can merge for at least 10 minutes in normal circumstances. Due to Junk's limited processing power, however, he and Gridman must reduced their combined form's height to give more space for all of Neon Genesis Junior High School's data so they can join him all at once without the risk of overheating its systems.

## Trivia

* Prior before his union with Gridman, he already had a crush on Rikka.
* Yuta pours his cereal first, and the milk second.
* Yuta's design references Classics Cliffjumper, who jumps through dimensions. His shoes look similar to Cliffjumper's car mode, and his backpack looks like the "Wave Crusher" accessory. His hair is also a reference, with its red color and the two parts sticking out.
* Yuta's English voice actor, Brandon McInnis, is engaged to fellow voice actor J. Michael Tatum, who voices the Homeroom Teacher and additional voice roles in the dub.
* Yuta is the first Gridman host and partner who ended up possessed outright by the Hyper Agent due to circumstances beyond their control during/prior to their fateful merger (one of Gridman's splintered fragments ended up entered Yuta's very being and took over the young man because the former got crippled from the fight against Alexis・Kerib beforehand). To Gridman's relief, he holds ho hard feelings towards the Hyper Agent for circumstances beyond their control and even willing to team up with him as his host once more to face another great threat, this time with the young man's proper consent.
	+ Yuta's aforementioned predicament alludes similar ones between certain Ultramen and their respective host(s) in Ultra Series, most notably one between Ultraman Zero and his first host Run.