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Name	Hachi
Age	Unknown
Gender	Male
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Phantom Thief Assistant (Trainee)
Partner	Joker (Mentor)
Voice Actor	Kobayashi Yumiko
English Voice Actor	(WIP)
Physical Status
First Appearances

Hachi (ハチ) is one of the main characters in the Kaitou Joker Series. He serves as Joker's apprentice to become a Phantom Thief. His cooking skills and creative wit proves to be vital for Joker during their heists.

In the manga Kaitou Boy Jokers, he serves as J and Kai's Phantom Thief master.

History

Anime

He met Joker during an attempt to steal the Dragon Gem that Mr. Kaneari had taken from his ninja village. Joker was also after the same treasure.

After Joker stole a treasure, he was amazed of Joker's skill and later begs to be his apprentice. Although Joker immediately rejected him when he first asked, Hachi followed Joker to his ship, persistently asking him to let him be his assistant.

As soon as he saw the mess Joker made, he quickly cleans the kitchen (practically the whole place) and made curry for Joker, which made Joker accept him as his apprentice immediately.

Appearance

Hachi full body

Hachi wears a blue and yellow ninja suit with sandals and a small sword on his back. He has yellowish, brown eyes and short black hair.

Personality

Starting out as clumsy crybaby, Hachi changes into a more confident and competent person due to Joker's influence (this is more expressed when people who knew him before meeting Joker, such as Koga, note how much he has changed since meeting Joker). Hachi is a clean freak and dislikes Joker's laziness when it comes to cleaning. Out of the two Hachi is the more compassionate and caring one. Those kinds of feelings lead can lead Hachi to a misunderstanding such as thinking that Joker was protecting the weak in episode 7 of season 1 but in reality, he was just upset that they used a helicopter instead of climbing like they did. Also unlike Joker, Hachi can be naive and not understand a situation until it is explained such as, when he thought Chappa's miracles were real until Joker revealed that it was a fraud. Hachi learns quickly and has shown to have a good memory. Despite his clumsiness, he has shown to help Joker out of pinches and he even got himself out of a pinch by remembering a trick from a mystery novel he read once. He is also shown to be scared of the supernatural, such as ghosts. Hachi is very patient and easily forgives Joker for his various pranks. He will not however, be afraid to voice his opinions. He will openly tell Joker that he can't do anything without him since he makes sure Sky Joker doesn't become packed with garbage. He also voiced that Joker couldn't win the Bride Grand Prix since he can't cook. Hachi,also unlike Joker, is shown to like cats. This is mostly shown through his affection towards Hosshi.

Before Series

Hachi and his nine siblings

Hachi was born in the ninja village of Fuma and is the 8th child born out of ten siblings. He then went to and graduated ninja school. During that time, he made friends with Hyakkimaru and several other ninjas from the Koga district. Despite being seen as "the biggest ninja failure that comes once in a decade", Hachi goes to Kaneari's mansion in order to get back the Dragon Gem.

Equipment

Image Gum:

Image gum is a pink, ordinary looking gum, that was created by Silver Heart and is one of Hachi's tools-of-the-trade. It has the overall ability to transform him and anything else by matching the shape, rigidity, and appearance of anything the user has seen the object or person at least once.  

Balloon Gum:

Balloon Gum is an anime exclusive tool that looks identical to image gum other than its green color. It was also another tool-of-the-trade created by Silver Heart. Balloon Gum is used to either float in the air for escaping and pursuing foes like Phoenix.

Shurikens:

Hachi has ninja shurikens that he uses in a similar way to Joker's cards.

Hachi using his sword

Grapple Hook:

Hachi has a grapple hook that he uses to grab faraway objects such as the Crystal Skull Key in season 3.

Sword:

Hachi has a small sword on his back that he uses for close-combat or defense.

Smoke Bombs:

Hachi has smoke bombs that he uses in similar ways to Joker's J pin in that he uses them to create smokescreens.

Abilities

Cooking:

Hachi's cooking

Hachi is a fantastic cook. His knowledge of food has helped in some situations and his curry is described as the best in the world by Joker as he enjoys his cooking. Others such as Pheonix, have also voiced high praises for Hachi's cooking.

Ninja Skills:

Despite not being as skilled as Koga, Hachi can use many different ninja skills such as: Flying squirrel, Substitution, and the Hiding Technique. Even though he can't use most of them, Hachi has been shown to be able to identify ninja skills such as Koga's leaf hiding technique.

Ceramics

Hachi is shown to be good in pottery. In season 2 he made a pot for his mother to cook rice in for her birthday.

Gardening

Hachi has his own garden and is shown to take very good care of his crops. His garden is located in the upper part of Sky Joker. He takes advantage of the opening roof in order to give his plants sunlight.

Housework

Hachi in his apron

Hachi is good at common household work such as, laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. He also changes into an apron when he does these.

Intellect:

While not as smart as Joker, Hachi has a good memory and learns quickly. He remembers all of Joker's tricks as well as things from mystery novels. He can also learn kitchen skills quickly. He is a visual learner and can learn things just by seeing it done. An example would be when Koga taught Hachi how to properly throw a Shuriken when they were still in ninja school and still remembering it years later.

Trivia

• Hachi's birthday is April 28th
• In episode 4, it is revealed that Hachi is a fan of Shuffle Sisters and is fond of them (who sang the season 1 closing, particularly Ai.
• Hachi is one of the few Phantom Thieves with living parents. The only other confirmed one being Dark Eye.
• Hachi keeps a hidden stash of Salty Diafuku in his room. Despite his best efforts however, Joker finds it and eats it frequently.
• Hachi is a fan of the author Spadon King.
• Hachi cares a lot for Joker and is loyal by his side.
• According to the manga, Hachi's blood type is A, and his star sign is Taurus.
• His name is 'eight' in Japanese.
• Hachi has a crush on Ai.
• He resembles Kanzo Hattori from the Ninja Hattori comics and TV show.
• Hachi comes from the 'Fuuma' family of ninjas, Ichi Fuuma being his ancestor, implying that his full name is Hachi Fuuma (he also officially calls himself 'Hachi Fuuma' in the last chapter of volume 27)