Makiba Haruhiko

**Makiba Haruhiko** (牧場 春彦) is a character from the Kyojin no Hoshi series. He is Hyūma Hoshi's friend.

## Makiba Haruhiko

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## Profile

### Background

Haruhiko is an aspiring manga artist and always carries around his sketchbook. He is a student at Seiun high school and in the anime series, he is Hyūma Hoshi's classmate. He is a very kind and supportive friend to Hyūma, but he often brings Hyūma into difficult situations due to his good nature. Since he wanted to illustrate a baseball-themed manga series, he frequently drew Hyūma while he was training and even during his matches.

When the Seuin high school baseball club was forcefully disbanded due to Daizō Ban tyranny, he was driven by his own righteous indignation and secretly attacked Daizō. After graduating from high school, he continued interacting with Hyūma Hoshi, and later on made his debut as a manga artist with a manga modeled after Hyūma.

In the original story, he is a third-year student like Ban and his friends. In the anime version, he was a first-year student in the same class as Hyūma Hoshi when he first appeared (they took gym class together, and he pointed out the discrepancy in Hyūma's pitching form in his specialty manga), but he was a third-year student in his later appearances.

He was called "うんち / Unchi" by Ban because he was physically weak and athletically inept. He was born and raised in a wealthy family, but after his father was killed in a car accident, he has been living in poverty and is under pressure to move out. Out of pure resentment, he causes an incident in which he takes revenge on Daizō Ban in the dark, but is saved by his mother, who wishes her son to graduate from high school amid the family's financial difficulties, and by Hyūma's "vicarious withdrawal" from the school, who was aware of the Makiba's circumstances. He is genuinely rooting for Hyūma, but in many cases, his thoughtless words and actions that backfire due to his good-naturedness unintentionally causing Hyūma pain. For example, he disturbs Hyūma with personal stories about Hōsaku Samon. When he meets Samon during a visit to the Giants' camp, he slipped up to Samon that Ittetsu suddenly turned pale when he saw the score of the Eastern League game against Toei at the end of the previous year.

After graduating from high school, he continued to communicate with Hyūma and his friends, and at the end of the story, he made his debut as a manga artist with "球魂一路 / Kyū tamashī ichiro," featuring a pitcher with the number 61, who was modeled after Hyūma. After the development of the Dai League Ball No. 3, Makiba became concerned about the subtle changes in Hyūma and asked his reporter to follow him. The reporter eavesdropped on (and recorded) the conversation between the doctor and Hyūma in the hospital examination room. As a result, Makiba learns that during the fateful game against Chunichi, Hyūma was told by the doctor that his pitching career is in peril.

In the anime, this was changed to Hanagata having company officials follow Hyūma and eavesdrop on a conversation between the doctor and Hyūma. Near the end of the anime, the three rivals Hanagata, Samon, and Ittetsu learn the secret of Hyūma's arm and watch his downfall as a left-handed pitcher at the ballpark, and Makiba also appears for a brief moment when he is watching the game at the stadium and achieves a perfect game.

In the final episode of the original story, Makiba Haruhiko attends the wedding of Samon and Kyōko along with Ittetsu Hoshi, Akiko Hoshi, Mitsuru Hanagata, Chūta Ban, and Samon's younger siblings, but in the recollection scene by Samon in the anime "Shin Kyojin no Hoshi," Makiba was depicted as excluded from the above attendees. In "Shin Kyojin no Hoshi" and its sequel, "Shin Kyojin no Hoshi Ⅱ," Makiba does not appear.

In addition to the above, Mishima is the chief referee of the red and white match, and his appearance in the anime is reduced from that in the original.

## Trivia

* Haruhiko never appears in the anime sequel(s) but he does appear in the original manga, first anime, and manga sequel.

#### Appears in:

* Kyojin no Hoshi (Manga)
* Kyojin no Hoshi
* Shin Kyojin no Hoshi (Manga)

## External Links

* http://www.whv.jp/title/kyojin/chara/011.html
* https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/巨人の星の登場人物一覧#青雲高校関係者