Hiei

Hiei is the shortest of the four main characters at only 4' 10" during the Dark Tournament (excluding his hair) as stated by Juri. At the end of the series, an artbook puts him at 5'3". His height is never mentioned in the anime or manga, aside from the DT reference. Despite his short size, he has a lean and athletic build. He wears a white headband that conceals his Jagan Eye, which is placed on his forehead and has a purple iris. His eyes are crimson (blood red), with a sharp and angular shape, giving him a very sinister look in the beginning of the series. He has raven-black hair that spikes upwards at the back of his head, and with a fringe in the front, having white streaks above his fringe. His skin complexion is regular peach-tan and slightly darker than Yusuke in the 2018 OVA adaptation and recent videogames. Despite the similarity to Vegeta in appearance and personality, Hiei was actually based on the character Scunky from Patarillo!. His live-action appearance appears different than his anime counterpart; he has short black hair combed into an upward pompadour style and has no white streaks. His white headband where he covers his Jagan eye has no tie and is replaced by black stitches sewn on each side. His Jagan eye appears to be smaller than his anime counterpart and instead of getting surgery from Shigure, Hiei himself had made the Jagan eye by pointing the tip of the Conjuring Blade on his forehead. Living up to his classic villainous persona, he usually dresses entirely in black. He wears a long black overcoat (with a white scarf) and black pants tucked into black boots. In his initial appearance, he wore nothing beneath his overcoat, but later he starts wearing a black (and sometimes pale blue) sleeveless undershirt, he has a red tie at the center of his black pants but it was soon changes into two white belts where he frequently carries a sword with him that was strapped across his back. He is the only one of the four main characters to never change his primary 'costume' during the series. The only exception was when he briefly wore light-colored Chinese battle costume at the start of the Dark Tournament competition (though he apparently wore his normal pants, shoes, and shirt under it). In the live-action adaptation, his outfit is a combination between his cloak-like jacket look and his Chinese battle costume. His black jacket has a large gray V-neck line to reveal his white turtleneck, his black pants appear baggy and his two white belts had another set of two white belts, making him wearing four belts and he wears a pair of white ancient wooden shoes. Before mastering the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, he kept his right arm covered in bandages and bindings to keep the dragon from escaping. After gaining full control over it, a dragon tattoo now covers the arm and is visible when the bandages are removed. In the live-action adaptation, he rips the right sleeve of his jacket to reveal the white bandages and bindings and once it was removed, the dragon tattoo covers the right arm through his right hand. In his battle against Bui at the Dark Tournament competition and through the near end of the Chapter Black Saga, his black pants was updated as it shows its socks from his black boots and the white belt now gained five straps with a purple buckle. In the Three Kings Saga, Hiei has minor changes from his primary attire with the exception of his black cloak-like jacket. His black pants is similar to ninja tights and his black boots are replaced with black martial arts shoes and white long shins which is tucked into his pants. He also regains his red belt from his initial appearance and is now rolled up into two. Hiei prefers to keep his distance from others, so he often comes across as aloof and elusive. He has a rather cynical and even misanthropic view of the world around him, often belittling and mocking humans and their emotions and the significance they place on friendship and life. And while he is relatively taciturn, he occasionally squabbles with and insults his teammates, especially Kuwabara, due to their differing personalities. It is obvious that deep down he holds a certain amount of respect and kinship for his teammates, but seems to be closest to Kurama and Yusuke. While he holds an affinity of kinship towards demons, this goes as equally far as his preference for humans, despising weaker demons, including braggarts and "tourists" who lack impetus for a degree of respect from him. As a fighter, Hiei is very unbiased when it comes to his enemies. He shows the same degree of ruthlessness to his foes — regardless of age or gender. This is seen when he terrorizes Ruka and the Masked Fighter with threats of death as his power is returning. According to Kurama, however, he has an honor code that prevents him from going all out against an opponent he perceives as weaker than himself. In battle, Hiei has killed the most opponents on the team- often making good on a threat he made at the outset. He is also phenomenally arrogant, and has a tendency to underestimate his opponents; this was noted to be one of his greatest weak points, which people such as Genkai were very aware of, that lead to Hiei's defeat against Yuu Kaito's Power of Taboo. Apparently, this later invoked heavy irony as Hiei mocked Yusuke for being able to defeat Toguro, yet was able to get easily captured by humans, only for Hiei to experience the same result which was contradictory to Yusuke's expectations. Despite belittling Kuwabara's intelligence at every opportunity he gets, he himself is not a terribly cerebral fighter. His basic tendency in battle is to charge in at full power and simply overwhelm his opponent. However, he can still be quite a clever combatant when the situation calls for it. However, he shows a surprising degree of sincerity, warmth, and protectiveness when around Yukina. It is made clear in both the anime and the manga that he holds the demoness Mukuro in high esteem. He respects her for her power and accomplishments. At the end of the series, there is clearly a bond between them, as it is made clear that its by his choice that he remains at her side. He also goes out of his way to free her from her past, breaking her shackle in the anime and delivering her abusive father to her as a birthday present in the manga. When Kurama sees the injury Hiei received from Mukuro after provoking her about her past, he asks if the two are having a "lover's spat". Whether Kurama is speaking honestly or just joking remains unclear, as Hiei neither confirms nor denies being romantically involved with Mukuro. Hiei prefers to remain focused on his own agenda, and has a notorious reputation in Demon World as a killer even when he was a D Class demon. Despite this, deep down he has struggled with his identity as a loner and his abandonment Hiei is known as Imiko" ("cursed child"), because he is a male fire demon born to a kōrime" ("ice maiden"), an all-female race that can reproduce asexually. He was born male because his mother Hina had sexual relations with a male fire demon outside her isolationist Koorime community, which led to him being cast out as an infant and thrown over the mountain in which he was born, being feared as a hellion offspring who would one day bring about violent doom onto their community. The one who threw him was Hina's best friend Rui, while other ice demons restrained a screaming, pleading Hina who begged them to spare him. After surviving his fall down to the surface of Makai, he was found and raised by a gang of bandits, but it didn't last long. After realizing the value of the Tear Stone shed by his mother at his birth, he wore the Stone in full view of everyone, hoping to attract enemies to kill. At the young age of five, prior to his acquisition of the Jagan Eye, Hiei achieved A Class youki status (according to Mukuro). As he grew older, he killed mostly for fun, causing those that survived to greatly fear and reject him. After he was rejected, he continued to wear his stone in full view, yet gathered an attachment to it, as it gave him a sense of calmness and kinship. Nonetheless, he lost it when he fought a demon, and he vowed to thenceforth search for it.[1] Later, Hiei received the Jagan implant from Shigure, the demon chiropractor/surgeon, in return for telling him the story of his life up to that point in time. Though Shigure warned that the surgery would drain Hiei of all his (former) strength and that it would be incredibly painful, he undertook it anyway. Afterwards, he chose to accept Shigure's lessons in the art of swordsmanship in order to survive. He did so because his power level was reduced to that of a lower D-Class apparition. After that moment, Hiei traveled everywhere, intent on finding his sister, Yukina. His search eventually took him to the Human World, and it was during this time that he first met the human form of Yoko Kurama, Shuichi Minamino. Hiei met Kurama one year before when they defeated the demon Eight Hands. This took him from his quest, briefly in the form of planned robbery of the Spirit World's artifact vault. Together with another demon named Gouki, the three stole three dangerous weapons from the Reikai (霊界, lit. Spirit World), and became the targets of Yusuke Urameshi's first case.