| Hideo Tanaka | |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Birth Name: | Hideo Tanaka |
| Age: | 21 |
| Occupation: | Creator of Warcross (Game) CEO of Henka games (former) |
| Fate: | Alive |
| Physical Information | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair: | Black with a silver streak |
| Eyes: | Dark brown |
| Relationships | |
| Family: | Mina Tanaka (Mother) Mr. Tanaka (Father) Sasuke Tanaka (Younger brother) |
| Significant other/s: | Emika Chen |
| Allies: | Emika Chen Kenn Edon (former) |
| Enemies: | Zero (former) |
Hideo Tanaka is the CEO of Henka Games and creator of the NeuroLink.
Physical Appearance and Background
Hideo Tanaka is a person of Japanese heritage. His eyes are dark brown. He has thick black hair with a silver streak, a mark of his grief over losing his younger brother Sasuke years earlier.
Biography
Tanaka was born as the son of neuroscientist Mina Tanaka and a repair technician father. He had a younger brother, Sasuke Tanaka, who at the age of six disappeared when both of them were playing in a park near their house. It is later revealed in the second book Wildcard that his younger brother had an incurable disease, but Hideo never knew about this.
At age 11, he started to teach himself how to code, and at the age of thirteen, he released his mindblowing, innovative invention, the NeuroLink, along with the world-renowned game, Warcross. The NeuroLink is a virtual reality device that connects with the user's brain and allows them to connect with people worldwide, not only easy to use and lightweight, but also with the ability to finetune itself to the user's brain so that their experience can be as rich as possible.
Relationships
Emika Chen
Hideo first hired Emika as a spy to flush out a mysterious adversity that went by the name of Zero who had sabotaged Warcross and led Hideo to believe that he had more ominous plans for the NeuroLink's users, rather than to simply put it out of action. He develops a close romantic relationship with Emika, but this relationship soon went stale when she found out about the controversial plans he had in mind for the future of the NeuroLink. Later on, in the second book, Wildcard, this connection was re-established when Emika offered him the information she found on his brother. He reveals his vulnerable side to her on his yacht after learning of the fate of his brother, and they both reveal that they still care deeply about one another. After his true plans concerning the NeuroLink were exposed and he is sentenced to an indefinite period of house arrest, paparazzi catches he and Emika leaving a restaurant holding hands, leading to speculations about their relationship.
Parents
His relationship with his parents is affectionate and pure, and he uses his wealth to make life easier for them in every way he can.
Sasuke Tanaka
His brother, Sasuke, who was kidnapped when they were both young children, left him with everlasting guilt and hatred towards himself, but most importantly, malice towards the kidnapper. His number one barrier he faces in book one is Zero, a faceless hacker who he hires Emika Chen to hunt down within his virtual world. However, it is revealed that this villainous persona was really just a threat toward's Hideo's final plan for the NeuroLink, a desperate stretch to find and punish his brother's kidnappm jmnkmer. Zero fought for the freedom of the NeuroLink users, which was soon going to be torn away. Emika manages to return Sasuke's human side to him towards the end of Wildcard, and he chooses to dissolve his plans for world domination, living on instead as data and occasionally checking on Emika and Jax. As brothers, Hideo and Sasuke share a very close relationship. Although they haven't been shown with each other much, the fact that Hideo dedicated himself into creating NeuroLink for Sasuke, to make sure that there will be no crime in the world, like kidnapping, which was what happened to Sasuke, meant that he truly loved Sasuke very much.