Hitoshi Hanamura

Hitoshi “Neon” Hanamura (華村　仁志 (祢音) Hanamura Hitoshi): A childhood schoolmate of Yoshino’s, Hitoshi was often ridiculed by his peers for his weight. Years later, he became a well-known pop singer, using the alias of “Neon Hanamura”, whose sudden rise in popularity attracted the suspicion of DATS. It became known that he was using a Keramon to manipulate digital information to widen the audience of his music, as well as manipulate statistics for downloads and rankings of his songs. Yoshino went undercover and began a relationship with him, but when it appeared she was getting too attached to the case, Touma decided it was time to act. Eventually, all three members of the team confronted Neon, and the young man’s anxiety led to him inadvertently causing Keramon to digivolve into Kurisarimon. Despite losing what he’d worked so hard for, in the end, Neon’s greatest regret was that he’d have his memory erased, and thereby lose all memory of coming to know Yoshino again. His name is mentioned again in the radio by a voice that says “now you will listen to Hanamura Neon’s song…” later when Yoshino drives Ikuto to his parents. In the last episode, he was also rising his Digisoul into the sky.