"There's no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all." - Hidenori. Template:Infobox Hidenori Tabata (田畑 ヒデノリ,Tabata Hidenori) is the glasses-wearing character of the main trio. He is also a student of Sanada North Boys High School. He is the one that usually gets the group involved in his hare-brained schemes and crazy simulations. He used to be bullied in the past until he was saved by Rubber Shooter. Hidenori's older brother, Yūsuke Tabata, used to be the ringleader of their group until he went off to college.
Appearance
Hidenori is a lean adolescent boy, with messy brown hair and grey eyes. He wears large frame-less glasses.
As a Sanada North Boys High student, he is most commonly seen wearing his school's standard uniform; a collared white button-up (often depicted untucked when he is not at school) with a striped red and blue tie and dark blue pants and blazer.
Personality
Hidenori has a magnetic personality in the group. He does most of the talking and provides the most humor.
Hidenori is a self-righteous maniac but he has shown he doesn't just care for himself. More than trying to impress, he cares about others' situations and perspectives. He is also often the first to read the situation and becomes frustrated when others are unable to do the same, similar to Yoshitake.
Relationships
Yassan/The Literary Girl
"Let us make haste, lest the wind ceases."
Hidenori reads her book while she is beating up Tadakuni for not picking up on the ambient atmosphere. The novel depicts a boy and girl meeting on a riverbank, the boy has wind-controlling powers so naturally Yassan is delighted when Hidenori begins the conversation with the remark "The wind is troubled today." She appears to have feelings for him as when she was with a classmate, she saw Hidenori looking at them and chased him to explain this so he wouldn't misinterpret their relationship.
In episode 12, after graduating from their respective schools, the two meet each other again at the riverbank. Unlike their previous meetings, they are calm and composed, even quoting poetic lines about the wind, with Hidenori ending it by saying "Let us make haste, lest the wind ceases". He seems to reach his hand out to Yassan as she takes it, smiling and blushing; but then it is revealed to be Tadakuni having a dream so they presumably did not become a couple.
In the manga, Hidenori keeps meeting Yassan in different locations like in the movies, in an elevator, the cultural festival, etc., resulting in more awkward encounters for both of them. In the elevator meeting, he followed her after seeing she wasn't chasing him and thinking she wasn't interested only to see that she still has interest in him and only went to the bathroom. In another meeting, after he has a failed meeting with Yanagin, Hidenori smiles joyfully at her for the first time. While Yassan, not knowing what had happened, gets nervous and blushes at his sincere smile.
Miss Mole Hair
It is also revealed in Episode 3: High School Boys and the Train to School that Hidenori has been regularly riding the same train to school as an unnamed girl with a hair in a mole on her neck. On a voice-over, he says that he has naturally become interested in her. After much deliberation, Hidenori decides to tell the girl that she has a hair in her neck mole. Initially, the girl reacts with humiliation, then humor and finally gratitude.
Country Girl
Hidenori meets a girl during his visit to his grandparents in an isolated country part of Japan. When they first meet, she drop kicks him into the river, mistaking him for someone else.
On the last day of their summer break, she tries to confess her feelings to Hidenori by asking first if he currently has a girlfriend. Hidenori denies it but reveals to her that, from what his grandmother told him, they are related and are actual cousins. In the manga, Hidenori brags to Motoharu, Yoshitake and other school friends that he has an actual girlfriend showing them the picture of his cousin and him together. Everyone is unimpressed saying that they already knew something was up. Hidenori then tells them it was a joke, that she is a distant relative but his friends barely believe him since they "have seen him with different girls" so they weren't surprised.
Yanagin
In the manga, Hidenori is the only main character that meets with the Funky Girls group face-to-face. He sits on the riverbank as usual and Yanagin sits next to him. He then tries to initiate a conversation with his wind monologue but Yanagin never listens to him, she keeps getting distracted by her book, her phone, until she finally sleeps.
Defeated, Hidenori leaves the riverbank but meets Yassan on the road. For the first time, Hidenori smiles joyfully at her. Yassan, not knowing what had happened, gets nervous by his sincere smile.
Tanaka (Yoshitake's sister)
(Christmas episode encounter) (Broken arm special episode encounter)