Itaru Hashida

* Steins;Gate
* Steins;Gate 0
* Robotics;Notes DaSH

* Visual Novel
* Anime

* Visual Novel
* Anime
* 2036 (VN)
* 2036 (Anime)

## Name

* Daru (by Okabe)
* Lab Mem 003
* Daru the Super Hacker (DaSH)
* Super Hacka (by Okabe)
* B\_TITOR (online handle, 2020)

## Characteristics

* 20 (most *Steins;Gate 0* endings)
* 29 (in *Robotics;Notes DaSH*)

## Appearances

**Visual novels*** *Steins;Gate*
* *Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace*
* *Steins;Gate: Variant Space Octet*
* *Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram*
* *Steins;Gate 0*
* *Steins;Gate Elite*
* *8-bit ADV Steins;Gate*
* *Robotics;Notes* (Online and mentioned)
* *Robotics;Notes Elite* (Online and mentioned)
* *Robotics;Notes DaSH*
* *ChäoS;Child* (Indirectly mentioned)
* *Anonymous;Code* (Online and mentioned)

**Animes**

* *Steins;Gate*
* *Steins;Gate 0*
* *Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu*
* *Steins;Gate: The Sagacious Wisdom of Cognitive Computing*

**Mangas**

* *Steins;Gate*
* *Steins;Gate: Rebellion of the Missing Ring*
* *Steins;Gate: Braunian Motion of Love and Hate*
* *Steins;Gate: Babel of the Grieved Maze*
* *Steins;Gate: Variant Space Octet*
* *Mugen Enten no Arc Light*
* *Epigraph of the Closed Curve*
* *Pandora of Eternal Return*
* *Steins;Gate 0*
* *ChäoS;Child: Children's Collapse* (Mentioned many times)

**Light novels**

* *Steins;Gate: The Distant Valhalla*
* *Steins;Gate: Holy Day of the Calamitous Birth*
* *Tomorrow in the Box*
* *Epigraph of the Closed Curve*
* *Pandora of Eternal Return*

## Voice Actors

**Itaru Hashida** (橋田 至, *Hashida Itaru*?), also known by his nickname **Daru**, his online handle **DaSH** ("**Da**ru the **S**uper **H**acker") and **Barrel Titor** is an experienced hacker and a hardcore otaku, a member of the Future Gadget Lab and a close friend of Rintaro Okabe. He is also a main character in Robotics;Notes DaSH.

## Background

*Steins;Gate*

Sometime he started hacking and under his net alias, DaSH, he became known as one of the best hackers on the Internet, calling himself a "super hacker".

While Rintaro Okabe and Itaru had known one another since high school, their friendship only really began from the moment they entered university. Itaru joined the Future Gadget Lab some time after Mayuri Shiina, his reasoning for doing so being that MayQueen+Nyan² was fairly close to the lab.

### *Robotics;Notes*

At some point during the years gap between *Steins;Gate Movie* and *Robotics;Notes,* Daru is married with Yuki and has a daughter, and is known online as **B\_TITOR** and/or **DaSH** (Daru the Super Hacker).

## Personality

Daru is obsessed and extremely talented with programs and computers, capable of hacking into the mainframes of top-secret organizations and processing complex computer codes.

Like Rintaro Okabe, Daru enjoys making Future Gadgets, but he is not nearly as enthusiastic about it as Okabe is. Daru also has a very particular naming sense for his creations, usually adding serial and version number even if unnecessary.

One of Itaru's most prominent characteristics is his obsession over moe culture, as well as his perverted tendencies, often to the annoyance of those around him. He describes himself as a "Perverted Gentleman". He is also a big fan of Faris NyanNyan. While he might not act like it, Daru is fully aware of how he comes off to other people. During his date with Yuki Amane, he was incredibly self-conscious of being seen as little more then a fat pervert.

## Plot

### *Steins;Gate*

While Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina are off to attend Dr. Nakabachi's seminar on time travel, Itaru stays in the lab to try to find out what the problem with the PhoneWave (name subject to change) was, the lab's latest Future Gadget. As he experiments with it, a message from Okabe, informing him of the murder of Kurisu Makise arrived and is sent to the past through the PhoneWave, shifting the world line towards the Alpha Attractor Field.

#### Alpha Attractor Field

On the Alpha Attractor Field, Itaru's phone had received an odd message from Okabe a week prior, containing only part of the message Okabe had sent to him on the Beta world line the same day.
He helps Rintaro Okabe grasp the mechanism of the PhoneWave (name subject to change) better by hacking into SERN for days, which results in him, Okabe and Kurisu Makise finding out that SERN has been conducting time travel experiments by using hundres of human subjects for nine years (since 2001). Later, he attempts to attend an offline meeting about time travelling, the same one Suzuha Amane was going to attend, but is stopped by Okabe to help out with the party for Suzuha. On another world line, to cheer up Suzuha in case they could not find her father, he planned on forging her father's metal pin and lie to her that he had received it from her father. Okabe time leaps back to prevent this. On this world line, Itaru attempts to fix Suzuha's broken time machine instead, but Suzuha becomes amnesiac after using the faulty time machine to travel to 1975 which made her commit suicide in 2001. When he finds out that he is her dad right before sending Suzuha off with the others, he promptly reacts with perverted comments but soon becomes awkward and emotional at seeing his future daughter. When Okabe sends a D-Mail to himself in the past so that Suzuha can use the time machine before the rainstorm, Itaru forgets that he is her father.

#### Irreversible Reboot (Suzuha ending)

On Okabe's countless time leaps to stall for time, Itaru follows along with Suzuha, Okabe, Kurisu and Mayuri on their cycling session, but struggles to keep up and complains the whole way. He stops once to rest on a guardrail and is almost hit by a truck every time (depending on the time leap, Okabe pulls him away from the guardrail). They then arrive at Big Sight (where ComiMa is held) and Itaru is excited at finally being at their destination point. He then proceeds to look for a family restaurant with Kurisu and Mayuri. On the very last world line in the time loop, Itaru finishes the time machine and is called to a Future Gadget Lab meeting by Okabe. On these world lines, Itaru does not know that Suzuha is his daughter.

### *Steins;Gate 0*

During the events of *Steins;Gate 0* on the Beta Attractor Field, Itaru helped Maho Hiyajo with building a new Time Leap Machine and often helped retrieve Amadeus' data by hacking. He also recommended Moeka Kiryu to Okabe when they needed someone who could find Kagari Shiina. He was contracted by someone anonymous, later revealed to be Maho, to hack into Kurisu Makise's laptop.

### *Pandora's Box*

Maho takes Okabe to the anonymous hacker she had contracted, and hence took him to Itaru's secret hideout. Itaru is surprised that his contractor was Maho all along and also at seeing Okabe. Okabe tells him that he should stop trying to hack into the laptop. They then get a call from Amadeus [Kurisu] . Depending on if Okabe picks it up or not, the story leads into a different route.

### *Gehenna's Stigma*

Okabe picks up the call. Amadeus tells them that someone had raided the office in Wako City and Maho's room. As they realise that this someone was after the laptop, they see several men beginning to surround the building through security cameras. Itaru leads them through his secret exit and they manage to get out from the back of the building. Shocked, they escape just in time.

### *Presage or Recognize*

Okabe, Itaru and Maho seeing the building get surrounded and infiltrated through the security cameras]]
Okabe does not pick up the call. Itaru shows them the laptop and the hard drive. Okabe, Itaru and Maho bicker and Itaru advises Okabe to tell Maho about the time machine and time travelling. Okabe suggests destroying the laptop to which Itaru protests that he was nearly done with it and that he would not get his pay, which he had used some of already. They get interrupted by a beep from the security monitor that alerts them that multiple men have surrounded and infiltrated the building. They leave through Itaru's secret exit but become cornered in an alley with Maho getting captured. At Okabe's demand the one holding Maho takes off their helmet and reveales themself to be Moeka Kiryu to their shock. Okabe instructs Itaru to give him the backpack containing Kurisu's laptop, which he would then give Moeka in exchange for Maho. Okabe tries stalling for time which makes the Rounders impatient and Moeka threaten to kill one of them. Suddenly, a black van pulls up at the end of the alley from which multiple armed people jump out and start shooting at the assailants. Okabe, Itaru and Maho manage to duck out of the way just in time. In the gunfire the laptop is destroyed. The Rounders flee, the armed men take what remains of the laptop with them and Okabe, Itaru and Maho get back to the lab, all being shaken.

### *ChäoS;Child*

Daru is indirectly mentioned in *ChäoS;Child*, he consents to Mio Kunosato’s request for refuge at the Future Gadget Lab.

Daru is directly mentioned more time instead in *ChäoS;Child ~Children's Collapse~*. Daru is the one who noticed the School infiltration of Kunosato.

### *Robotics;Notes Elite*

1/2
DaSH communicates via the in-universe Twitter (Twipo) in *Robotics;Notes*, he often discuss fiercely with "Lightning-Fast Neidhardt" and "Kurigohan and Kamehameha",

During the final Chapter in *Robotics;Notes Elite*, Okabe convenes all Labmems and declares the Operation Lævateinn:

* Nae goes to Tanegashima and rescue Frau Koujiro, she is in charge of TNSC Capture B Squad Rush Troops.

* Daru provides IRUO DG297 3rd EDITION ver.4.11 and helps Sawada to create an Antivirus for Kou Kimijima.

### *Robotics;Notes DaSH*

#### Festival Phase

Daru accepts an invitation from his friend Nae Tennouji to visit Tanegashima and he meets all of the members of the Robot Research Club such as Akiho Senomiya, Kaito Yashio, Subaru Hidaka, Kona Furugoori, Junna Daitoku, and Airi Yukifune. All of them attend the Tanegashima Gun Festival together.

#### Heliopause Processor (Final Phase)

Okabe sends a message to Hashida before calling him, when Daru opens the mail box, he reads "The Worldline is wavering..." and istantly after that he receives a call, Daru knows okabe is really worried and doesn't hesitate to answer.

Okabe reveals that recently, the Divergence Meter created by him will display 1.048596 as it should, but occasionally twitches, changes numbers, or glitches.

Upon further investigation, Daru realizes that the Kimijima he captured is merely a flawed copy, and the original version of Kimijima is carrying out a series of hacking attacks on supercomputers and infrastructure grids all over the globe, plunging the world into chaos. Daru returns to Tanegashima to consult with the Robotics Club, Sawada, Nae, and Misaki, and they come to conclusion that Kimijima is hijacking the world's supercomputers in an attempt to achieve technological singularity. Daru uncovers evidence that Kimijima has placed himself inside a satellite.

The Robotics Research Club fights an army of rogue robots to clear a path to JAXA's space communication center, where Daru proceeds to hack the satellite. He introduces a special program called "ANTARES", which permanently neutralizes Kimijima and prevents him from making any more copies of himself.
With the crisis averted, the Robotics Club celebrates, and Daru decides to bring his fellow Lab Members to Tanegashima in the future to meet them.

#### Anonymous;Code

In *Anonymous;Code*, DaSH name is displayed on a ranking list of Hackers who try to solve the Cicada 3301 quests, and he's mentioned by Wind.

## Etymology

* The name **Itaru** means "of, this, climax, arrive, proceed, reach, attain, result in" (至, **itaru**).
* Itaru's surname **Hashida** means "bridge" (橋, **hashi**) and "field, rice paddy" (田, **da**).
* Barrel Titor. Titor from saying **(Hashi)da Itaru** quickly repeatedly and Barrel from **taru** (たる) in **Itaru** meaning "barrel".

## Trivia

* His nickname "DaSH" meaning "Daru Super Hacker".
* Itaru's favorite drink is Coca Cola Zero.
* Itaru is one of few characters in the *Science Adventure Series* to have impacted the plot of every main entry in the series since his introduction.
* Itaru's main personal computer appears to be a Sharp X68000. Given the computer's outdated processor architecture, it is likely a sleeper PC build.
* Itaru considers himself a "Super Hacker", though Okabe often mispronounces this as "Super Hack", much to Itaru's annoyance.
* Final Phase in Robotics;Notes DaSH starts by showing two divergence numbers simultaneously visible: 1.048596 and 1.123581

## Gallery

* *Main gallery* in *Steins;Gate* Wiki
* *Main gallery* in *Robotics;Notes* Wiki

## See Also

* Itaru Hashida in **Steins;Gate Wiki**.

* Itaru Hashida in **Robotics;Notes Wiki**.

## References

1. ↑  Chapter 02
2. ↑  Chapter 02
3. ↑  Chapter 10