Hinata Komone

Hinata Komone (小茂根日向, lit. Komone Hinata) is the deuteragonist of the series and is a student in Saiki Kusuo’s class and she is considered to be a very average person, who is usually easily ignored and forgotten, and others would often comment on her for being “So Average…”. She was played by Hamabe Minami as the second main protagonist in the live action film of the series as well.

Appearance
Hinata is described to be an average person, which goes in contrast with the other bizarre looking characters, and she also admits this herself. She is of average height, with short black hair that is kept into a straight bob cut and dark brown eyes, which are notably just described as being black in the anime. She has a rather nondescript expression on her face, though will react to abnormal situations with exaggerated and humorous reactions to them, because of her sanpaku eyes, she also has a tendency to glare at people whenever she’s suspicious or weirded out by them or is scared of them, and her expression changes to reflect whatever emotion she’s feeling during this state. In school, she wears the PK uniform that a standard female student wears, a long-sleeved shirt with a ribbon on her chest, and she wears a short green skirt with tight black leggings on her long legs. The skirt is quite short, which is why she wears black leggings underneath them, not wanting the majority of her thighs and legs being revealed, and feels uncomfortable whenever she starts to wear revealing clothes, with her clothing style being a mixture of feminine but also somewhat masculine, as she usually doesn’t know what she wants to wear, she’d rather be creative and come up with her own sort of style.

Personality
Despite being a main character, the story is driven by both of Saiki’s and Hinata’s perspective, switching to either her or Saiki’s narrative, Hinata is a broadly developed character throughout the course of the series.

As a child, Hinata had a fairly normal life, and had a loving family, but she wasn’t very rich at that time, with her family running their own construction business that hasn’t gotten a particularly significant amount of business over the years, which had affected their lifestyle. Neither of them were compatible with the jobs, and were struggling with financial problems because of this. Even as a small child, Hinata desired to try and help her family out in any way that she could, trying to earn money by running some of her neighbourhood errands to make some quick money. That way, they could reduce labor costs and sell their heavy lifting equipment. However, her father always told her that the way to truly make them happy would be if their daughter could achieve her own dreams. As a result, her grandma was the one who had moved her to a different environment with her family, and decided to move in, and have a fresh new start some place else and earn small amounts of money, which results in them becoming greedy for other people’s money, and wanting Hinata to get married to a “rich boy” soon because of this, which makes Hinata extremely disappointed in them. Thus, she became a highschooler, with her mother expressing her wish for Hinata to graduate high school and experience life as a high school girl, something she was never able to do.

Hinata is introduced as being a very ordinary person, to the point where she feels a little insecure about it, especially if she feels that the people around her are “special” and “unique”, though is often weirded out by her classmates actions, being how they act like their in some kind of dramatic anime or do unnecessary things, with her insecurities shown when she was with Teruhashi, thinking that Saiki was looking towards Teruhashi because of how beautiful she was to get a good look at her more. Hinata is also a bit paranoid, causing her to be intimidated by others a lot, this is shown when she first thought that Nendou was Saiki’s “pal”, but when seeing him up close, she quickly got intimidated by him, thinking that he was a “delinquent” but quickly wasn’t as intimidated by him like before. She is also rather blunt in her communication, seeing no point in being less than completely honest. Her insight into the motives of others' behavior is keen, though she is clueless about her own feelings, particularly when it comes to those of physical attraction or romance. Hinata is quite the laid-back and calm person, and whenever she doesn’t get into any crazy scenarios, is shown to usually go with the flow of things, and therefore in comparison with peers at her age, she is a bit more haggard and unenthusiastic about things.

Coming from a poor household, Hinata tends to become easily shocked and surprised over little things, even losing her composure when faced with actual luxury, to the point of nearly fainting. Bonus materials have depicted her as frugal and occasionally stingy, since she goes to extreme lengths to save money, including sleeping so she doesn't waste oxygen or skipping meals in order to save food. She’s also one of the most responsible in the series, usually helping out her parents, doing the chores in the house with her grandmother and helping her throughout her day, doing groceries, and saves up money to get what she really needs, and whenever she has extra money, she would usually use it to get things she really wants, an decides to get an average amount of grades, usually because she doesn’t want her parents to waste any money for a celebration to waste money on her. Most of all, she tries heavily to not rely on her parents or her friends, wanting to achieve things for herself.

Hinata is also a forgiving and understanding individual who doesn’t get mad easily, though when she does show her anger she’ll tend to exude an aura of hostility and suspicion while glaring dead at the person, but Hinata is not at all spiteful and often tries to hide or dismiss this feeling whenever it appears, or just not think about it that much, and never holds grudges or resentment towards those who've hurt her. Her most prominent display of forgiveness was when even if she was humiliated, isolated, and abusive, she decided to just forgive Minori as she doesn’t want to show the same spite that she’s shown to her, and just casually walked away from her to keep it all in the past, she also forgave Teruhashi despite all the crude comments that she would say about her, and even decided to become her friend afterwards because of this, and also became more willing to befriend others in the process whenever they look like they’re in trouble, and is rather a genuinely caring person, though in her own, quiet and monotone way. Hinata’s words are somehow able to move others and instill confidence as well as almost unconscious obedience due to how forgiving she is towards other people, and Hinata does not enjoy this when this happens, and seems to be very uncomfortable and confused as to why they would be doing this.

She eventually learned to not see the world in black or white, becoming the one others turn to when they need emotional support or advice as she can be direct and make hard but valid points, even to a friend. Hinata later thinks of herself as a friend of several of her classmates after many weird scenarios going from Saiki, Riki, Shun, Kineshi, Kokomi, Chiyo, Reita, Aren and Mikoto. She is becomes exceptionally loyal to them, and will usually try to help them whenever their in trouble, and will defend them if they’re harmed in any way, despite showing awkwardness and timidness towards while trying to protect them, she’ll usually try to calm them down while sweating immensely, not wanting to get hurt herself.