Hiro

Hiro is one of the original four main characters from the beginning of the series and a former occupant of Hidamari Apartments Room 101. She is a year older than Yuno and Miyako and is the same year as Sae. Her hometown is in Yamagata Prefecture. She is left-handed, and she has curly, salmon-colored hair that she wears in a double bun, odango-style. Her hair moves on its own in the anime and is known to be frizzy in humid conditions. She is often on diets that backfire due to her sweet tooth, occasional arguments with Sae and a general love of good food. Hiro is implied to have weight on her, but due to the style of the artwork, both in the anime and manga, it is not noticeable. Hiro is a great cook, a skill she learned cooking for Sae their freshman year. The girls frequently get together at her apartment, where Hiro will cook for all of them. Hiro chooses planes/2-D art as her second year elective because she wanted to improve what she already had skill in. In her senior year, with the help of Yoshinoya's guidance (and after a heart-to-heart with Sae), she decides that becoming an art teacher is her preferred career path. After weeks of intensive studying for her college exams, she secures admission to her number one choice, Ama Art University. She later discovers this is also where Natsume plans to attend.