Hinako Tozakura

Hinako on the cover of Murciélago Volume 2

**Hinako Tozakura** is a female main character and the deuteragonist of the *Murciélago* series.

## General

Hinako is a middle school-aged girl who was taken under Kuroko Koumori's supervision prior to the events of Murciélago. Hinako currently attends Marimo Private Academy as a student and has developed close friendships with two of her peers: Yatsuha Midori and Ukina Mizusawa. She has a mysterious background involving the *Tozakura Project* which relates to her having a second personality that activates when she is hurt.

## Personality

Hinako acts quite childish for her age. Her vocabulary isn't as wide as a typical middle schooler's should be and she tends to be very naive to the events going on around her, no matter how much of a cause for alarm they can be for others (e.g., murder).

Her artistic and creative thinking skills are seen to be more reminiscent of a preschooler's, and this is further exemplified when her thoughts are showcased in the form of pictures along with her internal monologues. Her mental images are drawn in a less refined art style compared to the thoughts of other characters, which are for the most part drawn normally.

Hinako is a very outgoing girl who seemingly attempts to befriend nearly everyone she meets. However, it has been implied that she is somewhat of an outcast at school, since she claimed Yatsuha to be her only friend before meeting Ukina. Despite this, Hinako is happy to have just those two girls as her close friends and doesn't complain about not having enough friends, showing that in the end she prefers quality over quantity when it comes to people she develops relationships with.

Hinako has quite a bit of trouble with short-term memorizational skills. She doesn't hold any particular grudges against someone who has hurt her even to the point of triggering her alternate personality and can even be as amicable to them as usual, as long as she believes the person's injuries have become "even" to hers after a fight. She quickly forgets about everything that person did to her soon after. She also has problems with remembering and repeating the names of people correctly, resulting in her giving most of her acquaintances strange nicknames (e.g., "Ringo-chan" for Rinko, "Kuu-chan" for Kuroko). Her tendency to mess up others' names is not unnoticed by the people around her, but none of the characters she nicknames make the effort to repeatedly correct her despite considering it odd.

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## Abilities

**Mental GPS:** When trying to find Kuroko, and being unsure of where to go next, she uses her last resort to find her. With this peculiar ability, she's able to scout out where she is, even if she's miles away. This seems to be a by product of extremely good memory. She has completely memories the layout of her school, and simply by surveying an area from a high place, she is able to plot a map and path to her destination.

First used in Vol. 1, Chapter 1

**Enhanced Healing:** After getting slashed by Rinko, Hinako heals in an unnaturally short period of time.

**Superhuman Durability:** While piloting a robot, Hinako was launched high into the air. It was noted that there was no way she could walk away from that fall unscathed, but that was exactly what happened.