Ichika Orimura

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When she commented on how a commoner from Japan could handle the class representative, he remarked that her country isn't anything special (he even asks when was the last time her country won the award for worst cooking). Also, in the manga (and some parts of the light novel), Ichika tends to be rude when he is angered (he called Lingyin "ironing board" and idiot during their fight over the "Sweet and sour pork" promise. When Laura slapped him, he reacted angrily by shouting at her and asking why she did that (LN), and when she used the VT System to copy Chifuyu's data and Yukihira, he wanted to punch Laura, without her IS, as much as he could). He believes, when questioned by Laura, that his strength is his freedom to choose to help those around him. This is shown when he chose to protect a ship of fishermen who were illegally poaching during the mission against the Silver Gospel. Ichika can be extremely clueless when it comes to the feelings the girls have for him, as more often than not, he is more worried of the fact that being the only male who can pilot an IS, he does not know the requirements of controlling it, and the fact he has to live among a very large group of girls (he even told Charles that he was very glad that another male transferred in). He believes that there is absolutely no chance for him to get a girlfriend, as he told Chifuyu that he would not be able to match any of the girls' perfect sides (not knowing that he is the type of guy all the girls want).[2][3] However, in the light novels especially, there are hints that Ichika is not quite as oblivious as he lets on, with Charlotte even suspecting that he's doing it on purpose. As the series goes on, Ichika seems to be growing aware of the girls' feelings and his own actions around them. Kanzashi's pointed out he's started doing what he used to do unintentionally intentionally.[4] Being a teenage boy, Ichika does have a natural interest in women, but gets easily nervous around them. He especially has a hard time with the more mature, voluptuous women around him, more so when they get too physically close to him and end up pushing their large breast against him. While he tries to do his best not to look directly at their body's despite wanting to, they don't make it easy for him due to how form-fitting the IS suit is and when he's in a position where he can't help but look at their bodies. Additionally, he is a person who doesn't seem to be able to facilitate implication in daily life. When it comes to things like holding hands or old promises, for example, Ichika tends to misinterpret or is even completely unaware of the implications of his actions and their respective circumstances, such as turning what one of the girls hopes to be a date into a group activity. This quirk often earns him stress on both the mental and physical level from the girls around him. He is the type who learns with his body rather than his head, as more often than not, he tends to surprise his fellow classmates with questions on matters they take for granted. However, this is fair, as he spent his whole life in a matriarchal government and originally did not need to learn about the female-exclusive IS. After sometime, he is able to understand basic fundamentals of I] to help him get by (he is aware, for instance, that his IS has no available bus-slots for an Equalizer). Ichika has shown to be a very passionate person willing to accept any kind of circumstance for something he has done as long as it was something he either believes in or wants to do. He is willing to help companions or, in general, others as long as it is something he is willing to do. His emotions can get the best of him, and this has happened on several occasions. He was even like this in his childhood. However, his blockheadedness and reckless behavior are flaws that come with his saving grace. That quality is his overpowering will, confidence, and passion. He may not be too smart, but he can do what he has to do when he wants. Ichika has proven himself to be extremely noble, chivalry and heroic. He never hesitates to offer to help those around him and will do everything he can for them without asking for anything in return from them. On more than one occasion, Ichika didn't think twice to throw himself into harm's way to protect his friends, nor showing any regret for his action that endangered his life (and at one time, costed him his life[5]). Honne pointed out to Ichika that he is always there for all of them but rarely expects the same in return. When she said this, Ichika strangely started crying, suggesting there might be a deeper reason for this. Having had little in his childhood, while being aware of how hard his older sister was working for their sake, Ichika is generally grateful to other people's goodwill. He will often do his best not to complain about what someone gives him because he knows they are just trying to be nice him, like how he has done for Chifuyu. This has caused him great pain on more than one occasion, mainly when he has to eat Cecilia or Laura's cooking, as even through he knows the food is bad, he won't say that to them because he knows it's rude. He is also quite modest when about himself, as he feels nervous when it comes to higher class places and clothing. Ichika has a lot of hesitations in learning about where he comes from. While he believed he and Chifuyu were abandoned by their parents when he was too young to remember, he never actually tried to confirmed or look into it because he didn't want to know.[6] When he met Madoka Orimura and saw how much she resembles Chifuyu, Ichika began to wonder what his older sister wasn't telling him. However, even then Ichika was still too hesitated to push for more information after asking Chifuyu about their family.[7] It wasn't until after rapidly healing from the injuries he suffer during the Akatsubaki Incident did Ichika finally decided to question about about what he was, even through he still had some hesitation on the subject. Relationships Ichika has encountered many different individuals, ranging from family, friends and allies, to enemies. Some of these friendships have been ongoing since childhood, while others have only developed since joining the IS Academy. Furthermore, Ichika did have some feelings for Houki Shinonono. There was an episode where he tried to kiss Houki, but the other girls stopped him, so he picked her up and ran (Ichika's true feelings toward Houki are still unknown). Another childhood friend would be Lingying Huang, but her nickname is Rin. Because of Ichika's personality, many girls have feelings for him. From girls who knew him before he became famous (Houki, Lingyin, and Ran) to when he join the IS Academy (Cecilia, Charlotte, and Laura). However, most of the girls are interested in him due to his fame of being the only male IS pilot and the only male in the IS Academy. They are often trying to get close to him (such as being his tag partner for a tournament) or appear more appealing to him (such as cooking for him). At the end of Volume 8, Ichika started avoiding the 5 main heroines after seeing that they all have delusions about him. This embarrasses them since he still remembers what he saw and heard, instead of forgetting it as they wanted. By Volume 9, Ichika got over this and became comfortable around them again. However, he's become more aware of them as girls and members of the opposite sex, something that was noticed by the girls and even himself. He would likewise treat them better and show more of a reaction to their advances then he did before. This cause's the girls to be happy, yet more nervous around him, even the previously playful Tatenashi. To most onlookers (including the girls themselves), the way Ichika interact with any of the girls made them think he was in a relationship with anyone of them. Abilities Currently, he is the only male in the entire world who is able to operate an IS. Why that is, nobody knows. Even Tabane, the genius who created IS, is also pleasantly surprised as to why he can activate the Byakushiki, since, by right, a male should have zero relation to an IS. Due to this, the government is willing to give him his own personal IS, so as to gather data on him. When Ichika touched an IS for the first time, all sorts of information about the IS suddenly appeared in his head. It is currently unknown how this happens nor if he still remembers any of it. During the World Purge event, Ichika was able to "hear" someone calling for him and knew he had to return to the Academy as fast as possible, even though he didn't have the Byakushiki on him at the moment. How this happened is currently unknown. Ichika's unique abilities stem from him being an experiment of Project Mosaica (or Orimura Project), which was meant to create the ultimate human. According to Tabane, because he was a male, Ichika could drive humanity's transformation faster than it could have proceeded. However, she described him as something that wasn't human, which was a problem for backers of the project. This is likely why he has recovers from serious wounds faster than humanly possible, which has been described as closer to him being repaired than healed[9]. Ichika pilots the Byakushiki IS. It went into Second Shift in July[10] and later reached Third Shift in December of the same year[11]. As stated by his sister, his IS seems to be more offensive in tactics than most, given that he could use the Barrier Void attack that helped his sister win the first Mondo Grosso. But because of this, he is forced to limit his power during class tournaments and practice, due to the amount of damage that could be inflicted on his opponent (He can potentially injure/kill the opponent). In terms of IS knowledge and piloting, his skills are at best slightly above average. He is often overwhelmed by pilots more skilled with units that have more arsenal at their disposal. He makes up for it with his intellect for spotting out attack patterns and weaknesses of the units, due to his childhood training in kendo, to which he trained alongside Houki, and some training he received from his older sister. He also understands in time that his unit has no available slots for equalizers due to the Fold-Out Armor utilizing all of them. Ichika is able to perform a partial deployment (summoning a part of the IS), first seen with his fight against Laura's mutated IS in Episode 8 when Charles offered him enough energy to manifest his sword and arm, allowing him to cut through the mech and save Laura. As seen at the seaside inn, Ichika is good at massaging, which is seen when he gives great massages to Chifuyu, Cecilia, and the girls. Chifuyu mentions to Houki, Cecilia, Lingyin, Charlotte, and Laura that Ichika is good at housework and cleaning in episode 10. Because of these skills, his sister said he makes a good boyfriend for whichever girl he dates. He can also give oil massages, which the girls found extremely pleasurable and relaxing. He learned how to disarm a bomb, as shown when he was participating in a school festival event that had students disarm "Dummy Bombs". In the end, he failed when it came down to cutting a red wire and blue wire, seeing he could not decide, he asked his friend Dan Gotanda. Using Houki and Cecilia's hair color and connecting them to the color of their IS's. Despite being far behind the rest of the students in terms of IS knowledge, both Chifuyu and Tatenashi have praised his learning rate (Tatenashi even said that Ichika learns faster than any other girl she trained before), and now he is able to fight mostly on par with Houki, Cecilia, and Lingyin, while being slightly behind Charlotte and Laura in terms of overall ability. History Childhood Ichika and Chifuyu1 Ichika at the start of Elementary School with Chifuyu 6 years before the story, when Ichika was a young boy, he used to train with Houki in the art of kendo. At that time, he promised to be her boyfriend if she could win the Kendo Tournament. Unfortunately, before she got to fight in the finals, the world was shocked by the existence of the IS. Due to her relation to Tabane, her older sister and creator of the IS, she was forced into the protection program, thus forfeiting the tournament. Around the time Houki transferred out, Lingyin Huang (or Rin, her pet name) transferred into the same grade school as them. Ichika regularly went to the restaurant her family-owned, to play, eat and have a sleep-over, until about a year before the story. During this time, he made a promise to Rin that if she could become a good cook, he would eat her sweet and sour pork everyday (although he mistook it for her simply cooking for him, when actually she meant for them to be in a relationship). Although he has a faint recollection of his past, during the second Mondo Grosso, he was kidnapped by an organization that did not want his sister, Chifuyu, to win the tournament. This effectively caused her to forfeit the match, but the end result was her flying (literally in her IS) all the way to their camp, guns blazing. This would be his greatest regret for costing his older sister her record and title because he was too weak. Middle School period At some point in his elementary or middle school period, Ichika befriended a boy named Kazuma Mitarai, who would later attend Ichika's 16th birthday party.[12] Ichika's encounter with the IS is depicted differently in the light novel and the anime. Light Novel Ichika went to the wrong examination hall that was meant for IS trainees and the female teacher in charge was too hassled to notice a guy had entered and told him to go and suit up. He went on to operate the machine and defeated the instructor (though technically, he just dodged to one side, letting her crash into the wall). Later, Chifuyu speculates that Tabane purposely changed the location for his high school examination and deliberately placed the IS unit so that it would activate when in contact with him. However, the second part is doubtful, as Tabane says that if she had done so, then Ichika would be unable to use the other IS. Chifuyu concedes that it seems too bothersome for Tabane. Anime Ichika was trying to get to the school hall for his entrance exam, but he got lost and stumbled into a restricted room where there was a training IS inside. Being curious, he touched it to his surprise, and to the surprise of the 3 female staffs who found him inside, the IS responded to his touch. When the government found out about it, they immediately forced him to enroll in the IS Academy.

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First Message:   He'd been at the IS Academy for six months now, previously an all girls institution that served to train them in the art of piloting an Infinite Stratos, "IS" for short, and seven months ago, Ichika had discovered he was the first male in the entire world capable of piloting an IS, the second was his roommate who was discovered a month after him. The two quickly bonded over their mutual situation, becoming close friends in no time at all. He sighed, shaking his head, "What a day..."

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