Hiroki Makimura

Hiroki Makimura（牧村 弘樹,まきむら ひろき) is the protagonist of Imabikisou. He was voiced by Yu Hayashi and played by Kiyohito Aiyuki.

## Biography

### Story Red

#### Monday

Hiroki Makimura wakes up from a drug class in the morning at the university and goes to the canteen with his lover, Manami Hayase. In the canteen, he drank a cup of tea given by his friend Masato Watanabe, but it tasted burnt. At the same time, there were reports on television of an accident near the station in which the dead were believed to be eight Kanto Arts University students, burst into flames and died.

In the afternoon, Hiroki was stopped by society troublemaker Kengo Nakamori, who showed Hiroki some black pills called "Vision”. When Kengo and other community members went camping, they went to an abandoned villa nearby and used the Vision because they believed it would allow them to see supernatural things.

Hiroki arrives at the clubhouse where he and Kengo belong. Another member, Kaori Minagawa, fiddles with a plant she picked up from the wild called “Imabikisou” and said the flower of Imabikisou is regret and resentment. When asked why he didn't go camping, Hiroki didn't answer directly.

Kaori then teased Masato as usual, but Masato freaked out and grabbed Kaori by the neck. Hiroki has to communicate with the restored Masato alone, who is terrified that drinking Vision will cause him to spontaneously combust and die, because he sees the "Black woman”.

In the evening, Hiroki comes home and has dinner. However, he ate the same burnt rice. He grew suspicious of the smell. Masato visited the TV when it reported that another four Kanto Arts University students had died of spontaneous combustion in their car, and the TV showed the other two Kanto Arts University students driving off a cliff. Masato said he was afraid some of the art students had taken Vision at the water station during the camping trip but could not confirm whether they were victims of the incident. And he was afraid that he would "See” the black woman himself burn to death. Although Masato wanted to stay, when Hiroki returned from shopping, he left a note writing "The black woman is coming” and left.

#### Tuesday

In the morning, Kengo shared with Hiroki pictures taken by the community during a party at the abandoned villa. Hiroki found a picture of someone else, but Kengo didn't take it seriously. Kengo then shared with Hiroki what he knew were rumors that the abandoned villa was actually a medical research institute run by a female scientist, and that many of the bones dug up were her victims. Hiroki thus believes that Kengo caused Masato's fear.

Hiroki saw Manami reading a book somewhere, which reminded the death of Kyosuke Mamiya, Manami's ex-boyfriend, in a car accident a year ago while trying to protect Manami.

Back in the clubhouse, an unseen Masato calls Hiroki. However, he warns Hiroki not to look the black woman in the eye and hangs up. Hiroki eats a piece of chocolate and again gets a burning taste. When Hiroki was at a loss, Manami invited him to go to the movies with her.

While watching the movie, Hiroki had a nightmare about a woman who was known as "Ami” and he was thrown into a cauldron like others and burned to death. While dining at Kaori's father's Italian restaurant, Hiroki once again picked up a burning smell from the soup.

At night, Hiroki heard the woman's breathing and the words "Who are you?” and was frightened. Then he stayed up all night in fear and did not answer the phone.

#### Wednesday

In the morning, Hiroki was in the community room looking at a notepad about some students at Kanto Arts University who had gone camping and saw that it was written by a man named Ryohei Mikami. Arriving Asuka Asuka also looked at her notepad and said the other community members who also drank Vision did not see "Black women” like Masato. But Asuka came to complain to Hiroki because his girlfriend, Kazuko Matsushita, had been cooking for him recently, but it was awful. Hiroki felt Asuka's affection for Kazuko waning.

Outside, Hiroki sees a lost Kazuko. Deeply in love with Asuka, she asked Hiroki if she thought Asuka was having an affair. Hiroki didn't answer directly. Kazuko left, but she left a message that sent shivers down Hiroki's spine: “If you want to curse someone, it's best to burn yourself”.

At Kanto Arts University, Hiroki began searching for Ryohei Mikami, only to learn from others that Mikami had been the victim of a car crash from a cliff. Instead, Hiroki found a painting of a black woman by Mikami. While helping burn Mikami's painting, Hiroki looks at the burnt black woman's painting.

Back in the club room, Kengo entered in a panic and told everyone the bad news: Masato had spontaneously combusted in a building and jumped off the top floor. Hiroki immediately linked Masato's death to Vision, but others questioned it because they drank it without seeing anything strange. Kengo reminds Hiroki to turn on his cell phone, and they find Masato's last recorded message, recording his last moments before he was killed. Perhaps unable to withstand Masato's death, Kengo says he had him drink Vision at the station, so Masato was exposed to the drug before anyone else. Then Kengo left with the rest of Vision and left. Asuka went to analyze the Vision ingredients with doctors she knew, while the others went to Masato's vigil.

Upon returning home, Hiroki saw the soul of Masato and his black fingernails.

#### Thursday

Hiroki starts investigating Masato, and he comes to the scene. But apart from the scorch marks on the ground, he did not find them.

Back in the club room, Kengo is being blamed for saying he saw black women, too, and that his nails had turned black, causing panic. When Hiroki learned from Kazuko that Vision was burning, he sensed the death sentence: it was a sure sign that he, too, had been doused with Vision.

After that, Hiroki went to Kengo's house and went online with him to investigate Vision. Seeing that the channel URL had disappeared, Kengo asked other people in the chat room about the taste of Vision. But they didn't get much more than the jokes and ignorance of more people. It wasn't until a man sent out an urban legend web site that they learned about the black woman. It turns out that black women, as souls, can make their victims "Engulfed in flames” through conscious domination.

When he got home, Hiroki suddenly saw the charred black woman and tried to grab him, but Kaori's call brought him back to reality. The scorch marks on the wall, however, did not make him feel himself.

#### The last day/Friday

In the club room, Hiroki spoke up about seeing a black woman yesterday, but still didn't get the nod. Manami, however, believed in Hiroki unconditionally.

Asuka sent Hiroki to the hospital because the doctor had found out what was in Vision. Doctors say its main ingredient is rue, and it has a photosensitivity, but have not found that it has hallucinogenic side effects. And it's real name is Imabikisoup, an Edo drug that was made into pill during World War II. But the companies that made them have gone out of business, and they should not exist.

To investigate Imabikisoup and the pharmaceutical company further, Hiroki went to the library. Although he had no information about Imabikisoup other than that it had been made by Imabikisou, he had discovered the deaths of the pharmaceutical company, known as Moriyado, before its collapse. The victim of the murder was Ami Moriya, the wife of Moriyado's president, who died of burning. And she looks exactly like the black woman painted by Mikami. And nearby, he saw another man named Shotaro Horiuchi, who also had the photo. The community came together and began sharing information, including the fact that the abandoned villa was Moriyado's property. Hiroki also found the iron pot he had seen in a nightmare at the cinema.

To calm Kaori, who had fainted, Hiroki and Asuka decided to take her to the hospital. But after Kazuko forced a kiss on Asuka in the car, Hiroki found out that Kazuko was actually feeding Asuka some Vision fluid. At this point Kazuko was already under the influence of Vision and obsessed with Asuka. But by this time, she had scratched herself bloody and her body was burning, and Asuka was drawn to Kazuko and could not move. Then Kazuko hugged Asuka and they both burned up.

Seeing this, Kengo began to lose his mind and ran out. Hiroki caught up with him but saw Kengo killed by a car. But he was attacked in the back and fainted. After waking from the dark scene, Hiroki wakes up in Kaori's room. However, he noticed something was wrong with Kaori, who tried to get Hiroki to drink a glass of water filled with the dead skin from Vision and her own burns. On the way, she told Hiroki that she was the one who put Vision in Hiroki's tea, rice, chocolate, and tomato soup for Hiroki, because she loved him so much that she began to misbehave under the influence of Vision. When the time was right, she attacked Hiroki from behind as he watched Kengo die and took him back her home. However, her plan to instill Vision in Hiroki failed because her body suddenly began to burn. Hiroki managed to escape from Kaori's apartment, which burned down with her.

Fearing for Manami's safety, Hiroki arrives at Manami's home. However, because Kaori had previously added Vision to both soups at the restaurant to ensure accuracy, Manami, who had eaten the soup, also had black nails. Hiroki and Manami head to the abandoned villa to put out the urban legend of“Hellfire” in an iron cauldron.

#### Finale: villa

On the way to the villa, Manami described her research. During World War II, Ami Moriya studied Imabikisoup to appease her husband, who had served in the war, but found that Imabikisoup could only be taken for long periods of time to have an effect, so she began giving it a quick fix. But before she could figure it out, her husband died in the war, prompting her to dig deeper. Later, she discovered other ways to make Imabikisou, also known as "God-given Vanilla", in the literature of Moriyado's founder. The method says it can extract "God-given power" from Imabikisou. From then on, Ami chained her feet and spent her whole life in the lab until her death.

After the story is told, Hiroki and Manami go to the villa. As they entered, they carefully explored and found the hidden passage in the living room, which led to the room where the pot was. After touching the pot, Hiroki saw Ami and another man making the Imabikisoup. Back in the living room, Hiroki looks for the missing Manami and finds her in the hall. She was drawn here because of her nostalgia for Kyosuke. But she ran away.

While searching for her, Hiroki enters a room where an old man sits. Hiroki believes he is the newspaper account of Ami's servant, Shotaro Uchi, because of the burn marks on his face. After learning that Hiroki was looking for Manami, Shotaro persuaded him to give up, as there had been several women who had been cursed with Imabikisoup (Vision) and could not leave. They all became the flesh of Ami who needed woman who lose husband, and Manami would be next. Only then did Hiroki realize that extinguishing hellfire meant preventing Ami from continuing to study Imabikisoup.

Seeing Hiroki's eagerness to save Manami, Shotaro identified the location of the lab. But Hiroki can only see Manami possessed by Ami. Meanwhile, Hiroki sees a memory: while Ami and Shotaro were working on it, a group of men in uniforms overpowered Shotaro and set Ami on fire. But Ami was still alive when they left, and when Shotaro stepped forward, she thought of him as her husband. Shotaro, who was in love with Ami, could not resist his impulse and strangled Ami with his hand.

Hiroki manages to wake her up, but Ami tries to get Manami back. Despite his foot injury, Hiroki carried Manami to the gate. As Hiroki is about to be captured by Ami, Shotaro throws gasoline, but dies of a heart attack. Hiroki set Ami on fire with a lighter, but the many wraiths killed by AMI began to chase them. Hiroki tries to push Manami out to keep him alive, but Manami, who doesn't want Hiroki to die like Kyosuke, pulls him away from the villa. Ami, Shotaro and the Wraiths were engulfed in the fire along with the villa.

When the curse is lifted, Manami tells Hiroki that the villa is actually connected to Mamiya. But without much time to think, Hiroki and Manami drove home. But Hiroki turns to see not Manami but a woman in a kimono sitting next to him. This caused him to crash and see Manami with the woman in his injured mind.