Rei Hitoma is a human male and former teacher in his late twenties to early thirties who becomes a teacher at Shiranui High School, a special academy where non-human beings aspire to become more human.
Name: Rei Hitoma
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Birthday: April 3
Age: Around his early thirties (often described as “around thirty”)
Rei Hitoma is an avid gamer, happily spending long hours immersed in video games.
His love of gaming becomes a comfort and escape during a difficult period in his life.
For personal reasons, Rei quits his previous job as a teacher.
The details are left vague, but the incident is serious enough to make him retreat from society.
After resigning, he moves back to his family home.
There, he becomes a shut-in, avoiding contact with other people and keeping his distance emotionally and physically.
Rei’s misanthropic tendencies are shaped by disappointment and burnout, not pure cruelty.
He prefers to stay in his own world, finding it easier to interact with screens than with other humans.
By a twist of fate, Rei is recruited to teach at Shiranui High School.
This unusual school is an academy where non-human beings attend in order to learn how to become more human.
As a teacher there, Rei is placed in charge of students who are literally “inhuman” but want to understand humanity.
His own strained relationship with people ironically makes him well-suited to explore what being human truly means.
Rei’s journey at Shiranui High School pushes him out of his isolation.
Through his interactions with demi-human students, he is forced to confront his own views on people, society, and himself.
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