About Hiro

[oozora]

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From the second installment of Danball Senki (LBX/Bandai and Level-5 try to sell gunpla to little kids and is not very successful), Hiro Oozora wants to be a hero! Because what is a Level-5 game without thematic pun names.

This is all over the place rn i'll get back to organizing everything later

Son of A.I. scientist Haruka Oozora, Hiro was often left alone, presumably with a massive stack of cash or bank card a 5 year old is allowed to use. One day while watching television, he came across a tokusatsu hero show, Cosmic Hero Senshiman. The themes and characters of the show left such an impression on Hiro, it practically shaped his life. He wanted to be a hero from then on, but being a physically weak nerd meant getting knocked out immediately when punched in the face. While not patrolling Akihabara for bullying and harassment, he spent his free time watching Senshiman, collecting Senshiman goods, and playing video games (most of which are sadly not of Senshiman). He roams arcades and shops in his eternal quest for Senshiman, unintentionally using his powers to beat other nerds, and that's where Danball Senki W begins.

More summary on W's anime plot, it gets really weird.

I forget what he was doing in the timeskip up until Wars. I think he turned pro LBX player?

LBX Retsuden: History of Justice chronicles a scenario that takes place after Wars where Hiro gets kidnapped, brainwashed into a villain, tries to kill people with D-Regwdea, then apparently goes into a coma when Ban kicks his ass. His fate is unknown as the rest of the stories center around the Wars cast minus Arata.

Hiro has a couple of inexplicable canon abilities. The most prominent is precognition. Whenever the of Dansen W needed him to, Hiro could see glimpses of the future. While he cannot change the events he sees, they are vague enough for him to tell others and change other aspects that happen because of those events. For example, he foresaw part of a hotel exploding; while he could not alter the fact that a part of the hotel will explode, he used that forewarning to prevent more of the hotel from exploding. Hiro cannot trigger these visions himself, and as stated early, can only see them whenever the plot demands him to.

The other power he has is Overload. Vaguely described as "concentrating really hard" in W, it is further elaborated on in DanSen Wars.

Overload in action

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As seen in the video, the user of Overload enters a state of intense concentration, bolstering their senses and perception to the point that it seems to them that time is slowing down. In their confrontation with the A.I. Mizel, Ban described Mizel having a huge advantage as he could directly control and react from inside an LBX. However, with Overload, Hiro was able to nearly match Mizel's reaction speed. Aside from LBX battles, Hiro has used his ability to beat nerds at fighting games. It is slightly implied Haruka may also possess the Overload ability, but it is much weaker than Hiro's and isn't used as often, only seen once when Haruka and Otacross were attempting to map and time a route.

While Hiro is never shown to experience negative side effects from using Overload (Something something it's a different form/level of Overload), most users become exhausted from using it over a short period of time. As Jin explains, Overload has the brain use much more energy than it normally does. Overuse of the ability (prolonged use, etc) can potentially be fatal. An apparent lingering side effect of using Overload causes the user's normal senses to become sharper, but not to the level during use of Overload. Again, Hiro does not exhibit these symptoms.

LBX Operated in story: Perseus, Ikaros Force, Achilles D9, D-Regwdea (History of Justice)

Comments

Super Power crossover?

[jadewaltz3rd]

I just had a sudden realization. What if Hiro is actually similar to an X Rounder? X Rounders are super powered people like Overload users yet, they have an entirely different capabilities, with Overload only enhances focus. For X Rounders' case, they don't just have their focus enhance. In fact, super enhance focus is actually an abnormal feat of a human being but also a rare talent. X Rounders get super human abilities when the unused "X-Region" turned active, allowing them to have increased spatial awareness and possess acute precognitive abilities. Of course, people may (or may not) know this is from Gundam Age (I know it's silly to think it has a connection) but I do think this is what exactly happened to Hiro upon receiving future vision powers. He have unintentionally activated his "X-Region" when he started playing LBX, allowing him to see the possible outcomes and specific logics. His visions are mostly death leaning its rear head, and it's possible that this is a trigger to activate his "X-Region" capabilities along with Overload. X-Rounders were said to have come to existence before the creation of the civilization, and they act like animals. Not wild animals, but animals that can sense danger. In other words, Hiro's powers only react to upcoming threats which is similar to how dogs sense earthquakes.

Agree with me or not, to me, Danball Senki seems to be an alternate reality of Gundam Age. Instead of mobile suits, it only centers around tiny robots. Also, the Gundam Age games were also created by Level 5.

[oozora]

That's certainly an interesting thought and theory, and I have no doubt that there is a lot of Gundam's influence in design anf Dansen's gameplay. I'd say however, that it's more likely to be an alternate reality of Build Fighters for obvious reasons.

But also, Dansen W was in production at the same time as Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stone, which featured superpowered children (various forms of loosely defined psychic powers), and those kids parallel the kids with Overload in Dansen Wars. I don't know if they were planning on fleshing out those powers in Wars when they were making W, and the confirmation that Hiro had a form of Overload came in short stories after Wars, and even Dansen Retsuden doesn't have all of them, which is infuriating.