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Taihei Doma
General Information
English Name	Taihei Doma
Japanese	土間 タイヘイ
Rōmaji	Doma Taihei
Alias(es)	Onii-chan (by Umaru and Hikari) Onii-san (by Nana, Kirie, and Sylphin) "Taihei the Demon" (by Bomba and others in high school) Spiky-Haired Guy (by Koichiro)
Age	26
Birthday	June 2nd
Relative(s)	Umaru Doma (Younger Sister) Unnamed Parents
Physical Characteristcs
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Black Brown
Eye Color	Dark Brown
Height	170cm
Blood Type	A
Status
Occupation	Salaryman
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 1
Anime	Umaru and Her Brother
Voice Actor(s)
Japanese	Kenji Nojima Miyu Tomita (Child)
English	Adam Noble Katelyn Barr (Child)

Taihei Doma (土間タイヘイ, Doma Taihei^?) is the deuteragonist of the Himouto! Umaru-chan series and the main protagonist of Himouto! Umaru-Chan: Himouto Ikusei Keikaku visual novel game. He is the older brother of Umaru Doma who works at a company.

Appearance

Taihei's design in the anime.

Taihei is a young man of average build, appearing fairly slim with pale skin. He has shaggy, straight black brown hair with a noticeably sharp, pointed strand ahoge at the top of his head. His eyes are colored brown, just like his sister, Umaru Doma.

Taihei is most often seen wearing his work uniform which consists of a black suit with a blue striped tie, a white undershirt, black shoes, and his usual glasses.

Taihei can also seen wearing a variety of outfits common to young men such as himself like jeans, button-up shirts, t-shirts, etc. He also occasionally wears a blue apron when cooking.

Personality

Taihei is a kind and hard-working person who loves to cook since kid. He is well known for being a pushover and excessively tolerant of other people slacking off, such as Umaru or his co-worker, Takeshi Motoba (Bomba).

While polite and well balanced, Taihei is described as a bit of a doormat, as his younger sister constantly relies on him, making him cook, clean, buy, and do whatever she tells him to. Though Umaru may be unbearable at times, Taihei appears to deeply care for his sister and worries about her future as an independent person, admitting that he has spoiled her for too long. Although Taihei does internally express anger towards Umaru during her more unbearable moments, he often calms down and tries to take a friendlier approach to winning her happiness back, which he always succeeds in doing.

Taihei often gullible and is easily duped into doing whatever Umaru tells him to, especially in the presence of peer pressure, which he is extremely sensitive to. In one instance, she made him miss work so he could help her win a Necolumbus, covering up her motive by convincing him to use that time as a form of relaxation when in actuality, she tricked him into helping her and improve her odds of winning.

Taihei is also a cat lover, which possessed by his mother. Most of his clothes has cat pattern on it. He often give a cheer or blushing reaction everytime he saw them, also following whatever the cat goes. He even once dreamt of having lot cats in his apartement and is petting them, which few hours later Umaru joins his dream and petting the cats together.

Even though he seems very sensitive to other people's feelings, he also has shown to be especially oblivious to others' love interests, such as when he does not realize both Kanau Kongo and Nana Ebina have feelings for him. This is because Taihei is more prioritizing his own family (Umaru and their mother) than everything.

At times, Taihei seems to have trouble with remembering certain things in his past, a result of a possible long-term memory deficiency. Umaru seems to take the place in his mind of the people he has forgotten, such as a memory of him ongoing home with their mother, or when he teach about stars to Hikari Kongo.

Background

Taihei was only seen lived with his mother ever since he was kid, without any appearance of his father. He started wearing glasses when he was in the early grades of elementary school. He rather choose reading book, mostly recipe book, than playing with another child. He once waiting at at the shrine for his mother came after go somewhere and pick him up, than waiting her at home.

Albeit Taihei seems has no friend, but he often helping the kids around him to calculate their Pokeham's parameter.

Few years later, at his high school age, Taihei became a student in Arayada High School. He getting perfect scores all the times, made him known as Taihei the Demon by his classmates and teachers. He also excellent at cooking, playing table tennis and arcade. From here, he acquainted with Bomba and Kanau.

Taihei is seems only living in a luxury apartement with Umaru, without any clue their mother was there too. They possibly had same situation like Kanau and Hikari, that their living place were seperated from their parents who busy on their own.

Five years later, after graduation, Taihei decided to work at Diamond Service. His reason are the company has flexible time, and the new workers can join the current meeting. It seems that Taihei has been moved to Corpo Yoshida Apartement since for at least a year, as he noted that Umaru (also Nana) had moved in with him about a year ago.

Etymology

• The name of Taihei has no meaning in Katakana form (タイヘイ), but in Kanji form (大平), it can be mean as "big, great" (大) (tai), and "flat, peaceful" (平) (hei).
• Taihei's surname, Doma, means "dirt floor" (土間).

Trivia

• Taihei usually use "Ore" (俺) as first-person pronouns, but when at office or introducing Umaru to viewer, he use "Boku" (僕). Probably for not making a conversation sounds harsh, and polite instead.
• Taihei is one of the characters that the forename is written in Katakana form, not in Kanji form neither Hirigana form. The other characters is Sylphinford Tachibana, Alex Tachibana, and Hikari.
  • Although so, Nana once calls Taihei with his whole name, and his forename written in Kanji form (太平), not Katakana form (タイヘイ) as usual.
• Since Taihei's ahoge is resembles a horn, which also accompanied by his intellegience too, he refered as demon by his classmates in his high school era.
  • Koichiro Ebina also refers Taihei by his ahoge, as he don't know his name at that time.
• Taihei is not really fond of chocolates, anime, and some games, even concert.
• Taihei is afraid of driving vehicles. He afraid that he may could hitting everyone else in the street, include hurting Umaru.
  • This also happened when Taihei tried to learn skating with Umaru.
• Umaru greatly resembles their mother, which might explain why he is extremely tolerant of Umaru and her strange habits or behavior most of the time.
• When playing the "Game of Life", Nana and Taihei married in-game and they supposedly had three children.