Hidenori Tabata

"That's it, Tadakuni! Run! Run, Tadakuni! Leave behind your Tsundere childhood friend! Throw out your little sister who's unrelated by blood! Run past thatbeautiful, mysterious transfer student until she fades into the distance! Hold on to that hand, and just, just...  keep running! " - Hidenori.

 Hidenori Tabata (田畑 ヒデノリ,Tabata Hidenori) is the glasses-wearing character of the trio. "The trio" referring to Tadakuni and Yoshitake Tanaka. He is also a student of Sanada North Boys High School. He is the one that usually gets the group involved in his hare-brained schemes and crazy simulations. He used to be bullied in the past until he was saved by Rubber Shooter. Hidenori's older brother, Yūsuke Tabata, used to be the ringleader of the group until he went off to college.

Appearance
Hidenori is a lean adolescent boy, with short, messy, brown hair and grey eyes. He wears large frameless glasses.

As a Sanada North Boys High student, he is most commonly seen wearing his school's standard uniform; a collared white button-up (often depicted untucked when he is not at school) with a striped red and blue tie and dark blue pants and blazer.

Personality
Hidenori often dwells far too much on unimportant things. He makes a habit of overthinking simple situations. He tends to schedule his actions and dialogue before actually acting out. Hidenori is quite fond of making grand declarations and generally making a scene. He is also quite perverted as he has shown in high interest in girls' panties, skirts, etc. He gets bored and irritated easily, those character traits often influence Tadakuni and Yoshitake to do stupid things according to his whims. But within his behavior and unusual daily activities, he obviously cares deeply about his friends and the eccentric manner he adopts when he is around them is his way of expressing affection. During his childhood, he admired a masked superhero; the aforementioned Rubber Shooter. Rubber Shooter is later revealed as Yoshitake, although Yoshitake is quick to deny it.

Usually he just looks like a relatively normal, fun-loving teen, but sometimes he can be very weird. Two examples from episode 8:
 * High School Boys and Balconies : After getting jealous over a conversation he saw over opposing balconies, he attempted to reenact it that night, by climbing to his neighbour's balcony...
 * High School Boys and Cakes : On his birthday Yoshitake asks him what does he wanted to do for the day. He not only forgot it was his birthday, but his answer also squicked Tadakuni : Piss in his pants.

Relationship
Hidenori first met Yassan the Literary Girl, introduced in Episode 1: High School Boys and Literature Girl, on a riverbank. When Yassan approached him, he quickly caught up with the girl's intentions to begin a fantastical love story. However, Hidenori does not discover Yassan's true motivations until he picks up the novel that she wrote that fell out of her bag while she is beating up Tadakuni for not picking up on the ambient atmosphere. The novel depicts a boy and girl meeting on a riverbank, the boy has wind-controlling powers so naturally Yassan is delighted when Hidenori begins the conversation with the remark "The wind is troubled today.".

It is also revealed in Episode 3: High School Boys and the Train to School that Hidenori has been regularly riding the same train to school as an unnamed girl with a hair in a mole on her neck. On a voice-over, he says that he has naturally become interested in her. After much delibration, Hidenori decides to tell the girl that she has a hair in her neck mole. Initially, the girl reacts with humiliation, then humour and finally gratitude.  