Hirama
The veteran detective who questioned Shinichi and helped bring down Reiko Tamura.
Hirama is the detective in Parasyte who questions Shinichi Izumi after Kana Kimishima's death and later plays a pivotal role in killing Reiko Tamura. He is an older man in a suit with grey hair and square glasses, with a strong sense of justice and a personal resolve to put an end to the parasites.
Quick Facts
- Role
- Police detective
- Partner
- Mita
- Cases
- Kana Kimishima's death; the parasite killings
- Key event
- Hikari Park confrontation with Reiko Tamura
Facts from the source article.
Background
With his partner Mita he works out that the parasite that killed Kana was itself killed, and he suspects, rightly, that Shinichi is hiding something. When the private detective Shirou Kuramori comes to the police, Hirama sympathises with him, persuades him to help and has him write a full report on what he knows; reading it, Hirama realises they must capture Reiko Tamura quickly. His team breaks into her home, finds Kuramori's note setting a meeting at Hikari Park and spreads out there, where Hirama and Katsumata find Kuramori dying.
Hirama's squad of detectives is the police side of the fight against the parasites. Newly promoted to inspector, he is introduced to the JSDF commander Yamagishi in Director Takizawa's office, where it is agreed that Hirama will handle the City Hall operation from outside while Yamagishi's squads go in; at its end he shoots Gotou several times in the chest, but the parasite's armour stops the bullets.
Source
Text adapted from Hirama on the Kiseijuu Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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