Hiroto Maehara

**Hiroto Maehara** (前原 陽斗, *Maehara Hiroto*) is a student in Korosensei's Class 3-E in Kunugigaoka Junior High School.

## Description

### Appearance

Hiroto is fairly tall for a middle school student. He has wavy mid-short, light brown hair and orange-brown eyes. He has been noted to be very good-looking from the girl's point of view. He is one of the few that is popular in the whole school despite being in the E Class.

### Personality

Maehara is a nice guy and in every sense of the word, a playboy. He has a "live the moment" attitude about life in general, as shown when he wasn't too bothered about being dumped by Kaho Tsuchiya. Despite that attitude, he is a caring person and isn't the type to pick on someone weaker than him. He also falls into the type of being honest, and often reacts strongly to things.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Knifework:** Maehara excels in knifework and is second only to Yuma Isogai out of all the boys in Class 3-E (and the class as a whole). Maehara is also shown to be proficient with knifework when it comes to teamwork as demonstrated when he and Isogai use teamwork to take on Tadaomi Karasuma during their training.
* **Mobility:** Maehara is one of the most agile members of Class 3-E and he is considered one of the four most agile members of Class 3-E (along with Meg Kataoka, Hinata Okano and Masayoshi Kimura).
* **Kissing Techniques:** According to Irina Jelavić, Maehara is the 4th best kisser from Class 3-E.

## Etymology

* The name **Hiroto** means "light, sun, male" (陽) (**hiro**) and "​Dipper​" (斗) (**to**).
* Hiroto's surname **Maehara** means "previous/previously, before, earlier, front/in front, former, above, one-time, fore part, privy parts/privates, miss, presence, portion, for, since, forward" (前) (**mae**) and "field, plain" (原) (**hara**).

## Trivia

* Maehara was called "Womanizing Bastard" during Class 3-E's training while using codenames (Tadaomi Karasuma is evidently disgusted with using this name).
	+ The one who wrote his codename was Hinata Okano.
* Maehara's best subject is Mathematics while his worst subject is Social Studies.
* The extras and character book suggest that Maehara is a polygamist, but it's not certain how serious he was about it.

Maehara has been caught cheating 5 times.

* According to Maehara's profile, he has flirted with all the females (except one) in Class E, and has been rejected by every single one of them. The only one he has not flirted and/or being rejected by is Meg Kataoka, the reason being "out of respect for a friend".
* Maehara's hobbies/talents are football and flirting.
* Maehara's previous club before dropping to Class E was the Soccer Club.
* Maehara's dream job would be anything, as long as it's popular.
* Maehara is noted to be good-looking by the girls in the class, but his playboy tendencies and lack of commitment make him undesirable. This is similar to the girls' view of Karma Akabane, who is also good-looking but too mischievous.
* Maehara finds guns to be troublesome to use, and prefers to knife his targets. In the Civil War, he abandons guns and carries two knives instead, which he used to eliminate Itona Horibe after the latter parries his first blow.
* During the Civil War, Maehara was eliminated right before the 1v1 showdown when Karma sensed him from behind and struck Maehara with his knife first.
* Maehara's school rankings are:
	+ First Term Midterms: 137th, 279 points
	+ First Term Finals: 76th, 364 points
	+ Second Term Midterms: 101st, 340 points
	+ Second Term Finals: 41st, 323 points