| Hiroyasu Ueda | |
植田 弘康 (Ueda Hiroyasu) | |
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| Age: | 38 |
| Birthday: | July 20th |
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| Characteristics | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 190cm (6'2"ft Approx.) |
| Hair Color: | Charcoal-Black |
| Eye Color: | Dark-Grey/Blue |
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| Seiyuu: | Yuuji Ueda |
| English: | David Lucas |
Hiroyasu Ueda (植田 弘康, Ueda Hiroyasu) is the owner of Chiroru, a local bakery where Yumi Omura (and in the manga, Hideki Motosuwa) once worked in.
Appearance[]
Hiroyasu is a tall man with charcoal-black hair and blue-gray eyes. Although he is in his late thirties, he has a "baby face" which makes him look much younger.
Background[]
When Hiroyasu first opened his bakery, he bought a persocom to help with math and accounting, which he admits he is terrible at. He eventually fell in love with this persocom, Yumi, and then married her. The persocom later developed a hard disk error which resulted in the gradual degradation of her memory until she was unable to remember almost anything at all.
Rarely, she would suddenly recall small fragments of memories from her life with Hiroyasu. He could not bring himself to have her repaired because her memories might be lost completely in the process of transferring them to a new hard drive. Hiroyasu felt she would not be the same if this happened. Soon, her memory degraded to the point that she could not remember anything for more than a few seconds at a time, and Hiroyasu had to keep a constant watch on her to prevent her from wandering away.
One night while walking with his persocom, Hiroyasu, lost in thought, walked into the middle of the street, unaware of an oncoming truck. In a final moment of clarity, his persocom pushed him out of the way and was hit by the truck. Her last words to Hiroyasu were "Nice to meet you," the default greeting for a newly-activated persocom with no memories.
Hiroyasu and Yumi Omura were in love in the past but broke up when Yumi quit her job at the bakery after discovering that the persocom he was previously married to was also named "Yumi," fearing that she could never live up to the other Yumi. However, with the help of Chi and Hideki, Hiroyasu and Yumi resume their relationship.
Etymology[]
- His given name Hiroyasu means "vast" (弘) (hiro) and "peaceful" (康) (yasu).
- Hiroyasu's surname Ueda means "to plant" (植) (ue) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (da).
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Trivia[]
- Along with Yumi, he makes a cameo appearance in Kobato as the titular character's one-time employer.