Taihei Doma

Taihei Doma
General Information
English Name	Taihei Doma
Japanese	土間大平
Rōmaji	Doma Taihei
Alias(es)	Onii-chan (by Umaru and Hikari) Onii-san (by Nana and Kirie) Taihei-senpai (by Alex) "Demon Taihei" Spiked Hair (by Koichiro)
Age	26
Birthday	June 2nd
Relative(s)	Umaru Doma (Younger Sister) Unnamed Parents
Physical Characteristcs
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Dark Brown
Eye Color	Dark Brown
Status
Occupation	Salaryman
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 1
Anime	Umaru and Onii-chan
Voice Actor(s)
Japanese	Kenji Nojima
English	Adam Noble

Taihei Doma (土間大平, Doma Taihei^?) is the older brother of Umaru Doma and the deuteragonist of the Himouto Umaru-Chan! series. He is also the main protagonist of Himouto! Umaru-Chan: Himouto Ikusei Keikaku visual novel game.

Appearance

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

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 been 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 for Umaru.

Personality

Taihei is a kind and hard-working person who loves to cook. 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.

Taihei, while polite and well balanced, 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.

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.

Taihei is 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.

Even though he seems very sensitive to other people's feelings, he has also shown to be especially oblivious to others' love interests, as shown when he does not realize both Kanau and Ebina have feelings for him.

History

It is known that Taihei had been living in his residential area for a long time, as he remembered walking home from school with his mother when he was small. Considering his father is extremely wealthy, his mother was presumably a mistress.

Taihei has been in his apartment for at least a year, as he noted that Umaru had moved in with him about a year ago.

Trivia

• In high school, he was known as Demon Taihei because of how pointy his hair is and because he got perfect scores all the times, just like his sister.
• Taihei loves cats, as seen in episode 7, and he even dreamt of petting them.
• Taihei is afraid of driving vehicles.
• Umaru greatly resembles the siblings' mother, which might explain why he is extremely tolerant of Umaru and her strange habits or behavior most of the time.
• Taihei works for Diamond Service.
• He has a dislike for chocolates and anime.
• When playing the "Game of Life," Ebina and Taihei married in-game and supposedly had three children.

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