Shinji Noe is a male supporting character in *Hana-Kimi*, portrayed as an upbeat, friendly second-year student who is close to Mizuki Ashiya and active in the Manga Research Club.
Shinji Noe is a classmate of Mizuki Ashiya and they share a close friendship.
He is assigned to the same dorm room as Kyogo Sekime, and the two have been inseparable since their first year.
His name is derived from Noe Station in Joto Ward, Osaka City, served by the Keihan Main Line and the Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line.
His image flower is the pansy.
He is a playful, mood-making type who keeps the energy high.
He dislikes scary things, especially ghost stories, and is often frightened on purpose by Daiki Kayashima.
He is self-conscious about being short.
Like Mizuki Ashiya, he loves animals.
He is a dedicated otaku who sometimes attends fan events on holidays.
As a Manga Research Club member, he is great at talking about anime and manga.
He is skilled at sewing and enjoys making cosplay costumes.
His love of cosplay is so strong that he may even change the way he speaks depending on the character he is dressing as.
He and Kyogo Sekime are close friends and longtime roommates.
Before he had a girlfriend, he and Sekime used to go pick up girls together.
He was attracted to Rio Umeda, but after a joint dance party he began dating Erika Abeno.
He denies the relationship status, though Sekime claims he still had some lingering feelings for Rio.
In the 2007 version, he is positioned as a sub-character and is nicknamed a “friendly-type handsome guy.”
He is portrayed as highly technical, capable of building machines such as a lie detector, devices to check whether someone has a girlfriend, a machine to identify a culprit, and even a device to confirm someone’s sex.
He investigates Erika Abeno’s preferences and helps transform Kyogo Sekime into Char Aznable as part of a scheme.
At the dance party, he is paired with Erika Abeno, but Sekime’s plotting prevents him from dancing that day, which makes him furious afterward.
In the 2011 version, he becomes a main character with a bright personality and very high energy.
As in the original work, he excels at sewing and makes a sailor-style cosplay uniform for Mizuki Ashiya, but it gets stained by Senri Nakao before it can be worn, leaving him devastated about his “greatest masterpiece.”
In the final episode, he points out that Mizuki Ashiya wears the uniform strangely.
He then adds that the “uniform wearing you” vibe suits Mizuki perfectly.
In the drama CD, he is voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino.
He is played by Shunji Igarashi in the 2007 Japanese TV drama, Katsuhiro Suzuki in the 2011 Japanese TV drama, and Wenxiang Chen in the Taiwanese drama.
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