Horokeu Usui

"I'm Horohoro! A proud Ainu shaman. I will win the championship!"

**Horokeu Usui** (碓氷(うすい) ホロケウ, *Usui Horokeu*?), nicknamed **Horohoro** (ホロホロ, *Horohoro*?) is a main character in the fan-made series **Universal Warriors**, and the main character in the manga and anime series of **Shaman King**.

Horohoro is part of the **Ainu Tribe**, the son of **Lycan Usui**, and the older brother of **Pirica Usui**. During the second round of the Shaman Fights, he forms **Team "The Ren"** together with **Tao Ren** and **Chocolove McDonell**.

He has forms **Team Rebecca** together with **Rebecca** and **Silva**.

## Personality

Horohoro is good natured and quite cheerful, but he gets serious in dangerous situations. He constantly argues with his teammate Tao Ren and they don't seem to get along at all. However, it is shown that he really does care for Ren, when he tells Yoh that if he can't save Ren, he would never forgive him. Horohoro is also very secretive about his past and is not willing to talk about it. He became visibly enraged when Kalim called him by his birth name. In addition, Horohoro can also get very competitive, even going so far as to turn Ryu's arms to ice and shatter them during the fight between Team "The Ren" and Team "Funbari Onsen". Opacho, while reading his mind, has called him a wolf.

Horohoro was taught from a young age to respect and admire nature. He is very proud of his Ainu heritage and is willing to help any living being. He once saved a national park due to his obsession with nature.

Horohoro can be a very responsible person too as he can take care of himself and his sister on his own. He seems to have a crush on Iron Maiden Jeanne showing almoust every time she appears, with Horohoro yellig out "**Maiden-chan**" and blushing at the same time. He is also a very sensitive prson that can easily be provoked and his moods change quickly. During the final part of the shaman king tournament he changed radically to a very serious fighter with little joy during a fight but when he was not in combat he was joking and very jovial.

## Character Design

Horohoro is a tall boy. He is most commonly seen wearing a white and blue skiing outfit, black shorts and skiing shoes that can be attached to his snowboard. He has long light turquoise blue hair that when tied together with his headband, that has Ainu styled patterns on them, sticks up in spikes.

His street clothes are a plain white shirt, shorts, and tennis shoes. He also wears a towel as a headband. He usually carries his snowboard and all of his personal belongings in a bag on his back.

When he was using his new medium he wore his new battle outfit, sewn and given to him by Usui Pirica, consisting of a black headband, black vest, black shorts, black gloves, and black boots, with a blue lining, all with red Ainu markings. He also wears an open sleeveless jacket with blue lining and Ainu style patterns. He has black shorts tied with a white band. The markings on his headband and boots are called: "Morew-siriki" and "Ay-us-siriki". The outfit is used by Ainu for hunts.

## Abilities and Equipment

He is quite crafty, being able to carve and made himself a snowboard out of wood with Ainu Symbols on it. He is also able to make small trinkets that he sells in order to survive. Despite his practical skills, Horohoro himself admits that he is terrible at academics, having once scored 25 percent on a math test.

In battle, Horohoro mainly uses ice to either attack his opponent with projectiles or creating large chunks of barriers to protect himself. After watching both Mikihisa and Ren, Horohoro manages to learn the Fumon Tonkō on his own, allowing to dodge his opponent's attacks, by reading the flow of their Furyoku. During the second round of the Shaman Fights, he attunes his Furyoku to the element of ice.

While fighting his way through the Plants, Anna Kyōyama looked through the Furyoku level values of Horohoro and the others. There it is revealed that his Furyoku level is about 120,000.

### Powers and Abilities

* **Blue Sword Soul**: He possesses a blue Color of the Soul.

#### Technique

* **Kau Kau Priwenpe** (カウカウ プリウェンペ (あらくれ者の雹), "Kaukau Puriwenpe") "Renegade Hail": This is an attack using the basis of his Cryokinesis powers. He creates big hailstones and launches them at an opponent impaling them or doing blunt force damage.

* **Emus Nokipekonr** (エムシ ノキペコンル (剣のつらら), "Emushi Nokipekonru") "Icicle Sword": Another attack using his cryokinesis powers. this creates a massive icicle on his board and he uses it like a sword and inflicting damage.

* **Mososo Kruppe** (モソソ クルッペ (眠っている者を目覚めさせる霜), "Mososo Kuruppe") "Frost That Rouses The Sleeping": he freezes the ground and creates ice spikes hoping to impale his opponent. since it is a ground-based attack it is easily dodged.

* **Epittarki Upas-Horkkek** (エピッタルキ ウパシホルッケ (全てをのみ込む雪崩(なだれ)), "Epittaruki Upashihorukke")"All-Swallowing Avalanche": One of Horohoro's best attacks. He can freeze every bit of water vapor in the air makes it become snowflakes and amasses into a big avalanche that crushes everything in its path. Horohoro can also surf the avalanche with his snowboard adding more damage.

* **Nipopo Punch** (ニポポパンチ, "Nipopo Panchi"): This is one of Horohoro's basic attacks. Using the large ice statue on his arm he can freeze solid almost anything he hits and it would shatter on impact.

#### Skills

* **Piloting Skills**:
* **Longevity**:
* **Enhanced Strength**:
* **Halberd Proficiency**:
* **Immortality**: Horohoro got a curiously, immortal body. This was the price of becoming a Newtype.

### Equipment

* **Snowboard**: Snowboarding was Horo's favorite hobby after moving to Norway. He found both a love and a talent for it and decided to incorporate it into his fighting style given the abilities of his Shikigaki.

* **GAT-X105 Strike Gundam**:

* **GAT-X105+AQM/E-X01 Aile Strike Gundam**

* **GAT-X105+P202QX Strike Gundam IWSP**
* **GAT-X105+AQM/E-X03 Launcher Strike Gundam**

* **TOLRO-800 "Torohachi"**:

* **Ikupasuy** (イクパスイ, "Ikupasui"): Prayer stick and good luck charm used by the members of the Ainu Tribe.

#### Spirits

*See More*: Kororo • Spirit of Rain
His guardian ghost is **Kororo**, a small nature spirit. Kororo is later revealed to be Horohoro's childhood friend, a girl nicknamed Kurobe Tamiko.

Horohoro uses his Over Soul to freeze water vapors in the air and for his first, Over Soul he channels Kororo into his snowboard, either riding it for swift attacks or attaching it to his arm for melee attacks. He would later form a new Over Soul by channeling Kororo into an Ikupasuy given to him by his sister Pirica. This Over Soul creates a large round owl face around his hand, enhancing the speed at which he is able to freeze things. He later develops an armor Over Soul called the Nipopo Gauntlets after being taught by Pascal Avaf. This Over Soul can manipulate moisture in the air so intensely that it flash freeze opponents and can cause limbs or an entire body to shatter in the blink of an eye.

During the second round of the Shaman Fights, Gandhara determines that Horohoro is one of the Five Elemental Warriors and he gains the Spirit of Rain, that according to Pascal Avaf can produce an infinite amount of holy water.

## Story

### Original

Born Usui Horokeu on November 27, 1985. Horohoro is an Ainu from Hokkaidō, a prefecture in Japan. He was raised by his tribe to be the one that participated in the Shaman Fights to save their village. As part of this goal, he intends to plant a vast field of Butterbur. He was raised with the belief that the strongest prey on the weakest.

When Horohoro was a child, a new girl named Kurobe Tamiko moved to the small village he lived in. Her family had moved there because her father was constructing a dam that would eventually destroy everything in the area, making her shunned by all. Being lonely like Horohoro, she wanted to become friends with him and even gave him his nickname Horohoro. However, the Ainu tribe Elder forbade Horohoro to be with her. Horohoro stopped talking to her and Damuko did not know why. One year later, after following Horohoro into the mountains Damuko died by exposure to the elements through the rest of the village people believed that she died in an accident in the woods. Horohoro blamed himself for killing her and never forgave himself. Sometime later he met Kororo and made her his spirit ally.

## Relationships

### Original

#### Family

* Pirica Usui (Sister)
* Lycan Usui (Father)

#### Friends

* Yoh Asakura
* Tao Ren
* Manta Oyamada
* Chocolove McDonell
* Lyserg Diethel
* Pirica Usui
* Kalim

### Universal Warriors

#### The Universes

* Jennifer Amantea
* Natsu Dragneel
* Lucy Heartfilia
* Gray Fullbuster
* Erza Scarlet
* Wendy Marvell
* Aladdin
* Alibaba Saluja
* Morgiana
* Hakuryuu Ren
* Kouha Ren
* Sinbad
* Kougyoku Ren
* Gingka Hagane
* Kenta Yumiya
* Madoka Amano
* Yu Tendo
* Masamune Kadoya
* Benkei Hanawa
* Kyoya Tategami

#### The Another World

* Juvia Lockser
* Cana Alberona
* Mirajane Strauss
* Levy McGarden
* Zeref Dragneel
* Mard Geer Tartaros
* Seilah
* Sonya
* Animus
* Suzaku
* Koumei Ren
* Towa Higurashi
* Elie
* Lucia Raregroove
* Rebecca Bluegarden
* Weisz Steiner
* Sister Ivry
* Amira
* Holy
* Eraser
* Feather
* Mashima Heroes
* Yoh Asakura
* Tao Ren
* Silva
* Hao Asakura
* Yuna Akashi
* Kazumi Asakura
* Yue Ayase
* Ako Izumi
* Akira Okouchi
* Misora Kasuga
* Makie Sasaki
* Chizuru Naba
* Tokaku Azuma
* Haruna Mutsuishi
* Honoka Tsukii
* Chisa Akagawa
* Airi Eniwa
* Miharu Yomine
* Aya Kamuro
* Riko Hinakura
* Rinne Myojin
* Keisuke Baji
* Chifuyu Matsuno
* Kazutora Hanemiya
* Seishu Inui
* Hajime Kokonoi
* Meguru Bachira
* Hyoma Chigiri
* Haruka Sakura
* Hajime Umemiya
* Kyotaro Sugishita
* Hayato Suou
* Eren Yeager
* Mikasa Ackerman
* Annie Leonhart
* Reiner Braun
* Sasha Blouse
* Hange Zoë
* Zeke Yeager
* Pieck Finger
* Porco Galliard
* Colt Grice
* Yelena
* Cecily Fairchild
* Anavel Gato
* Aina Sahalin
* Gym Ghingham
* Cagalli Yula Athha
* Full Frontal
* Akihiro Altland
* Gaelio Bauduin
* Zoltan Akkanen
* Lane Aim
* Yukimura Sanada
* Nobunaga Oda
* Ieyasu Tokugawa
* Shiemi Moriyama
* Cheng-Long Liu
* Duke Hyou
* Kan Ki
* Mou Ten
* Ri Boku
* Slaine Troyard
* Elizabeth Liones
* Derieri
* Ikoma
* Mumei
* Biba Amatori
* Hikayu Hoshikawa
* Vladilena Milizé
* Anju Emma
* Sakura Li
* Kurogane
* Kaolan Wongsawat
* Brunhilde
* Lü Bu
* Kojiro Sasaki
* Poseidon
* Raiden Tameemon
* Qin Shi Huang
* Kei Mizusawa
* Naotora Takeda
* Tatsuomi Uesugi
* Tsubasa Tokugawa
* Soma Date
* Seiroku Inukawa
* Aijiro Inue
* Imari Inuyama
* Ryoma Nagare
* Anya Alstreim
* Lenalee Lee
* Akira Renbokoji
* A-drei
* H-neun
* Suou Pavlichenko
* Susumu Kodai
* Adeltrud Alter
* Shion Shishibe
* Germán Luís
* Raikou
* Tughril Mahmut
* Lelederik of Ellvaldez
* Al-Kaplan Balaban
* Nancy Schaal Bancroft
* Mischa
* Genjo Sanzo
* Tenma Tsukamoto
* Snow
* Nanashi
* Alisha Diphda
* Noelle Silva
* Adele von Ascham
* Fena Houtman
* Atlee Ariel
* Zetsu Daidan
* Ren Sin
* Kyo Meiketsu
* Fine Forte
* Prax Conrad
* Virgo Fudō
* Torque
* Mora Chester

## Trivia

* According to his Character Profile:

* Horohoro's favorite subject is classics, while his least favorite subject is english language.
* His favorite food is Genghis Khan, a grilled mutton dish popular in Hokkaido and named after Genghis Khan. and disliked food is eggplant and avocado.
* Horohoro prefers cheerful and funny woman and he doesn't like oppressive people.
* His hobby is snowboarding and weaknesses is studying.
* Horohoro is worried about not being able to find a girlfriend.
* Horohoro respects Emma Sano and afraid of Benimaru Shinmon.
* Horohoro's dream is Creating a vast japanese butterbur field as far as the eye can see.

* His birth name, "Horokeu", means wolf in Ainu language. Specifically, it is the Ainu name for the now-extinct Hokkaido wolf.
* Horokeu's nickname Horohoro sounds and is spelled (in Katakana) like **boroboro** which means "crap". Characters mispronouncing and or misspelling his name is a running gag in the **Shaman King** series.
* In the original **Funbari no Uta** miniseries Horohoro's hair is loose and let down. However, in the Visionz pages, his hair is now naturally spiked, without a headband to hold it up.

## Gallery

*Main article: Horokeu Usui/Image Gallery*
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 288
2. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 34
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 35
4. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 36
5. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 71
6. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Chapter 258; Page 13
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Shaman King Manga* - Official Fan Book: Mankin Book, Page 26
8. ↑ *Shaman King Manga* - Kang Zeng Bang Volume 22; Visionz No-1