yajima hideaki

Birth date: 08/02/2004 Age: 15 Blood type: A Gender: Male Height: 180 cm Weight: 62 kg Birthplace: Tokyo Metropolitan (Kanagawa prefecture) Siblings: Younger sister (Saki Yajima) Hobbies: Baseball Hideaki Yajima is another of Kouichi's childhood friends. He provided blunt force to protect Kouichi from bullies since they were children, forming a solid bond with him. Despite being more level-headed than Kouichi, he noticed changes in his friend's attitude and tried to reason with him, to no avail. This led him to attempt to knock some sense into Kouichi. However, this proved fatal for Hideaki when, during one of their brawls, the out-of-control Machina Apparition suddenly attacked, resulting in his mauling and death. In the manga, his fate remains unknown. In the anime, however, the same Machina that nearly killed him lost its Factor and chose him as its new one. The Katou Organization then cured him and provided an artificial arm to replace the one he lost. The anime also reveals that while Kajima seemed to protect Kouichi to gain Risako's attention, he was deeply in love with her. These conflicting feelings led to another harsh confrontation with Kouichi, after which the two friends reconciled and stood side by side in subsequent events. Ironically, Yajima pilots the machine that almost killed him, the Machina Apparition. While comparable in size to Linebarrel, Apparition is much slimmer and lacks a huge outer casing. It is the only Machina capable of using optical camouflage and is armed with a machine gun and an ultra-long-range sniper rifle equipped with high-piercing bullets.