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7 unusual facts about Hiro


F-Zero

The opening theme is called "The Meaning of Truth" and is sung by Hiro-x.

Hero of the Rails

When Thomas explains Hiro's situation to the Fat Controller, he reassures Thomas that he would never have scrapped the "Master of the Railway", and the following day, Thomas and Percy bring him to the Steamworks.

Spencer apologizes to the two engines, saying they are "both fine engines and fine friends." Hiro misses his home island, so the Fat Controller arranges for Hiro to return home.

A farewell party is held at the docks, and Thomas promises Hiro that Sodor will always be his home too.

While Thomas and Hiro wait for Percy with the last part, they hear Spencer's whistle and run.

Hiro-Kala

The character next features in the story-line of "Dark Son" from writers Greg Pak and Scott Redd, which runs bi-weekly in Incredible Hulks #611-617, the renamed Incredible Hulk comic book (as it will feature Hulk, Red She-Hulk, Skaar, She-Hulk, A-Bomb and Korg), leading on from events in the "Fall of the Hulks" and "World War Hulks" storylines.

Hiro-x

Hiromitsu-Aoki, popularly known as HIRO-X, is a modern J-pop artist.


Adam Monroe

After Hiro time travels to 1671 in Ōtsu, Japan, a swordsman rides alone against a larger unit of Japanese warriors before a solar eclipse occurs.

Cinema Rex fire

Dillip Hiro, author of Iran Under the Ayatollahs, said that anti-Shah groups were not likely to have caused the fire, since the Cinema Rex was located in a working-class neighborhood and showed the film Gavaznha ("The Deer"); Hiro added that Gavaznha "passed the censors with considerable difficulty."

Five Years Gone

Future Hiro, last encountered in the episode "Hiros", is featured more prominently, this time as the world's most wanted terrorist and a master of Battōjutsu.

Fredrika Stahl

Her second album, Tributaries, features Hiro Morozumi on piano, Oyvind Nypan & Andreas Öberg on guitar, Pierre Boussaguet & Acelio de Paula on bass and Simoné Prattico on drums as well as a large array of Parisian horn and string musicians.

Hero of the Rails

There, Victor and his assistant, Kevin work together to restore Hiro.

Heroes: Saving Charlie

Ando Masahashi is Hiro's best friend that works with him at Yamagato Industiries.

Takezo Kensei is a Bushido Samurai warrior from the 17th century whom Hiro refers to many times.

Hiro Sachiya

Under the pen name Hiro Sachiya (derived from the Sanskrit Satya), he has written more than 400 books and articles.

Hirogawa, Wakayama

Thanks to the story called Inamura no Hi: The Burning Rice Fields" by Tsunezo Nakai (translated and published in English by Sara Cone Bryant) and Lafcadio Hearn's Gleanings in Buddha-Fields(1897), Hirogawa (then Hiro-Mura) is often referred to the home of "A Living God" : Goryo Hamaguchi (1820-1885).

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋 寛子 Shimabukuro Hiroko, 7 April 1984, Okinawa, Japan), best known mononymously as hiro, is a Japanese singer.

Hiroshima Castle

"Hiro" was taken from Ōe no Hiromoto, an ancestor of the Mōri family, and "Shima" was taken from Fukushima Motonaga who helped Mōri Terumoto choose the castle site.

Koizora

When summer vacation starts, one day, Nozomu drunkenly phones her, but his friend Hiro confiscates the phone and converses with her instead.

Mag Garden

Among the manga artists who moved to Mag Garden were Kozue Amano, Rin Asano, Mayumi Azuma, Nanae Chrono, Moyamu Fujino, Maki Hakoda, Sakura Kinoshita, Satomi Kubo, Hiro Matsuba, Minene Sakurano, Kazusa Saitou, Kaili Sorano, Seiuchirou Todono, Sirou Tunasima, and Natsuki Yoshimura.

Run!

Hiro tells Hope that he is Japanese, not Chinese, to which she responds "Whatever. Thanks for your help, Sulu."

The Hard Part

Sylar arrives at his mother's home in Queens, with Hiro and Ando following a short distance behind.

Trust and Blood

Ando tries to book a flight to Russellville, Arkansas after tracking Hiro's GPS signal, but the person on the other end of the phone seems to have never heard of Russellville.


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