Hiro Akiba

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**Hiro Akiba** (秋葉 裕, *Akiba Hiro*) is one of the love interests in the game Camp Buddy that Keitaro Nagame can pursue. He is Keitaro's best and closest friend since kindergarten.

## Background

Hiro's childhood was focused greatly around his best friend, Keitaro, and mother, Hina Akiba, who is known to be prone to illness and known to have an unspecified condition. When the two were younger, Keitaro would come over to Hiro's place often, and the two were noted to have done gardening with one another while Hiro’s mother was around. Hiro's mother takes a great liking to Keitaro; being that Hiro always seemed happy whenever he was around. Keitaro being a charismatic & friendly person, she most likely found him to be a nice young boy as well.

Hiro since childhood has always loved cooking. Much of this comes from the teachings he got from his mother when he was younger. Hiro from a young age had to start taking care of his mother due to her condition, so he looked to help her more. He found that he loved cooking and already knew a bit about it from his mother’s teaching, so he continued to let this fuel his passion.

Although we know very little about her, Hiro has an aunt named Himiko Akiba, who seems to also help take care of his mother. This being shown through the letter she sent to Hiro about his mother's condition and the statements that are spliced in-between about his aunt helping one way or another.

Being that Hiro has known Keitaro before the summer camp, his feelings did not only begin to develop during this time. Hiro is shown to have been hiding feelings for Keitaro since they were younger, but was never able to express them to him. His mother seems to have known all about Hiro's feelings, later in the story telling him that he can't keep hiding things from Keitaro like this; stating that he will eventually run out of time.

This also was greatly shifted due to the slow separation of the two over time. As the two got older, Keitaro got more busy with school and was unable to visit Hiro or his mother as often. Because of Hiro's loneliness, he decided to sign both of them up to Camp Buddy without Keitaro knowing.

## Appearance

Compared to other campers, Hiro's body is average in height and weight, however, compared to the general public his body is short and is fairly slim.

His penis size is average, specifically 5.25 inches in length and 4.71 inches in girth when erect.

Hiro's signature color is bright orange with ember orange eyes, orange dyed hair and donning orange colored clothing & accessories. His animal motif is that of a raccoon, therefore, explaining the tail key chain he always has on the back of his pants buckle.

One notable accessory Hiro has is the two hair clips he wears constantly throughout the game. The hair clips were a gift from Keitaro on one of Hiro's birthdays. That said day, Hiro and Keitaro decided to spend with one another at the arcade. There, Hiro found himself in love with a stuffed raccoon doll in one of the crane machines; so they used up all their money to try and get it, to no avail. Instead, however, Keitaro used up the last of his money he had to get a little prize from one of the coin machines, it being the hair clip of which Hiro happily accepted. It is said to be Hiro's favorite gift he ever received. To him, it showed how much Keitaro really cared about him, going all the way to get him the raccoon but still getting him something after to make him happy.

Side Note: The hair clips have a miniature acorn adorned to them, probably symbolic of Hiro's animal motif, the Raccoon.

## Personality & Traits

Hiro is an upbeat and eccentric young character. He loves to eat but is normally always ready for a competition or meeting new people. His bright and sunny personality however at times fades as he struggles with his feelings for Keitaro, as well as his mother's condition.

He is known to get along well with Aiden Flynn who is the main chef at the camp. They often greet each other by calling each other bro. Hiro is shown to trust Aiden a great deal, telling him things he tells no one else and asking for advice on how to tell Keitaro how he really feels about him.

Hiro seems to most often get into small quarrels with Yoichi Yukimura due to their matching competitive spirits. Hiro often says that he is a pain and that he doesn't like it when Keitaro is so easy on, him most likely due to his jealousy. Yoichi often teases Hiro for his jealousy of Keitaro. But, Yoichi also seems to care for Hiro's well being at the same time as shown when Yoichi remarks at Hiro's attitude, calling him a "wuss" for not confessing already and telling him the truth during the Hiro route.

During the Yoichi Route, however, Hiro gets extremely protective over Keitaro, blaming Yoichi for getting Keitaro sick. He continues this until finally Yoichi and them work together to get the picture back, leading the two to apologize to one another and make up.

While Hiro tries to be pretty open about his feelings towards Keitaro, Keitaro is never able to acknowledge most of his feelings throughout the story due to the fact that Keitaro mistakenly judges his own feelings as those of sentimental feelings of friendship. Because of this, he is often called "dense" and is sometimes judged by his other friends for not realizing sooner. This gets to Hiro sometimes but he still continues with the same tactic that never worked before. Out of both fear and his own denial, he often hides things from Keitaro in fear that they will cause him to later hate him for it.

While he does these things quite often, one of his most notable traits is the jealousy he shows throughout the story. He often gives remarks on how he feels like Keitaro likes Natsumi more and that he wants to replace him as his best friend. He often fears this because they started distancing before the camp because of Keitaro and school, and thus, he's afraid that after camp, they'll be even more distant and that he won't come to visit him like the old times. His motivation is also greatly caused by the revelation at the end of his route, and that is Hiro would move away to the capital and he would be separated from Keitaro forever.

You can read more on Hiro's route on Keitaro's page.

Hiro also is very passionate and dominant in bed. He is often the bottom, however, he likes to take control in many of these situations, afraid of hurting Keitaro rather than worrying about himself. Once in the mood, he can get cocky as well as passionate, not normally shy during these segments. He would most likely be characterized as a *power bottom*.

## Etymology

* Depending on the kanji, the name **Hiro** can mean "abundant" (裕), "generous" (寛) or prosperous (浩).
	+ Regardless, his name is obviously a reference to the English word "hero".

* Hiro's surname **Akiba** means "autumn" (秋) (**aki**) and "leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece" (葉) (**ha**/**ba**).

## Trivia

* Hiro is voiced by Dave Soltura.
* Hina Akiba's (Hiro's mother) hospital room number is 69.
* Hiro likes video games and cosplay.
* Hiro occasionally breaks the fourth wall in-game during the Hunter route.
* Hiro's favorite foreplay mode option is the neck and kisses.
* Hiro's animal motif is a Raccoon.
* Hiro's scout number is 922.

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1. ↑ By Aiden.
2. ↑ By Yoichi.