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Hyoku
Yun and hyoku
Yun (left) and Hyoku (right)
Information
Gender Male
Occupation Hunter
Location New Yogo
Appears
Novel Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Anime Episode 04: Torogai's Letter
Voice Actors
Japanese Takayuki SASADA
English Johnny YONG BOSCH

Hyoku (ヒョク) is a Hunter and a descendant of one of the Eight Warriors who aided Torgal in defeating the water demon. He is the only Hunter with light hair; his own father, however, has dark hair and an eyepatch. "Hyoku" is an alias meaning "six"; his real name is Suyou Rakusuran[1] (pronouced "su-yoh").

Hyoku is one of two Hunters sent to assassinate shaman Torogai, though his name is not given in the novel. She incapacitates Hyoku and Rai using a poisoned mud doll. (In the book and the manga, the poison is injected using spikes buried in the doll; in the anime the poison is inhaled.) While Hyoku is unconscious, Torogai writes a message to the Master Star Reader and to Shuga on the inside of his coat. She also takes his money pouch, citing it as payment for her not killing him.

As a teenager, Hyoku was brash, violent, and bad-mannered[1]. He was a friend of Jin's younger brother, Touji, and reacted to Touji's death by bullying Jin, mentioning several times that he had wished that Jin had died instead. Jin's father hoped that Hyoku, being of the same age as Jin, would help him get up to speed in Hunter training and had the boys spar together; Hyoku won their first match and had to be stopped before he could seriously hurt Jin. Hyoku developed an instant crush upon meeting Jin's betrothed, Mayuna, which she did not notice or reciprocate. After witnessing her death, Hyoku helped Jin kill the men responsible, and the two resolved their differences.

Along with Jin, he is the youngest of the Hunters[2]. During the events of the anime series, Hyoku is approximately 19 to 20 years old and is married with three children, implied to be white-haired triplets[2]. In the anime, Hyoku is the only Hunter who does not carry a traditional Yogo sword. Instead, he has two "Song Swords", matched short swords worn on either hip [3]. He also does not wear sleeves on his uniform in the anime (he does in the manga). 

Trivia[]

  • At 154 cm (5'0.5"), he is the shortest of the hunters.[3]

Gallery[]

Anime[]

Seirei no Moribito Manga[]

Jin Gaiden Manga[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Jin" Gaiden Comic - Square Enix, 2007
  2. 2.0 2.1 Official Moribito anime fanbook, MOOK
  3. 3.0 3.1 Seirei no Moribito model sheets
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