Hidenori Tabata

"There's no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all." - 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 has a magnetic personality of the group, his character is the one that does most of the talking and provides the most humor.

Hidenori is a self-righteous maniac but he has shown he doesn't just care for himself. He mostly cares about others situations and perspectives than trying to be impressive.

Yassan/The Literary Girl
Hidenori reads her book 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." She appears to have feelings for him as when she was with a classmate, she saw Hidenori looking at them and chased him to explain this so he wouldn't misinterpret their relationship.

In episode 12, after graduating from their respective schools, the two meet each other again at the riverbank. Unlike their previous meetings, they are calm and composed even quoting lines to do with the wind, with Hidenori ending it by saying "Let us make haste, lest the wind ceases". It appears they end up together as Hidenori reaches his hand out for her as a smiling and blushing Yassan takes Hidenori's hand.

Miss Mole Hair
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 deliberation, Hidenori decides to tell the girl that she has a hair in her neck mole. Initially, the girl reacts with humiliation, then humor and finally gratitude.