Hiroaki Hirata

Founder of Hirata Production

Film Deaths[]

Digimon Adventure tri.: Determination (2016; anime) [Leomon]: Slashed by a corrupt Meiccoomon (voiced by Yukiko Morishita) as the DigiDestined watched in horror.

Digimon Adventure: Tokyo Tower is Hot! DeathMeramon (1999; anime) [SkullMeramon]: Explodes after getting hit by MetalGreymon's (Chika Sakamoto) missiles.
Digimon Adventure: Oh Wind! Oh Light! SaberLeomon (2000; anime) [Leomon]: Disintegrates into bits of data after he sacrificed himself to shield Mimi (voiced by Maeda Ai) from getting hit by MetalEtemon's (voiced by Yasunori Matsumoto) darkness beam.
Digimon Tamers: The Kind-Hearted Hero, Leomon Dies (2001; anime) [Leomon]: Disintegrates into bits of data after Beelzemon (voiced by Hiroki Takahashi) stabbed him with his bare hands.
Elfen Lied (2004) [Prof Kakuzawa]: Beheaded by Lucy (Sanae Kobayashi) after she refuses his plans.
Hellsing OVA: Episode 7 (2009) [Pip Bernadotte]: Stabbed in the back by Zorin Blitz (voiced by Yoko Soumi), he dies after kissing Seras Victoria (voiced by Fumiko Orikasa). (For the English version, see Yuri Lowenthal).
The 13 Lords of the Shogun: Konkyo naki Jishin (2022) [Yoshimasa Satake]: Slashed with a katana by Koichi Satô.

Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy (2011) [Laguna Loire]: Killed (off-screen) while battling the Manikin army, along with Lightning (voiced by Maaya Sakamoto), Vaan (voiced by Kenshō Ono), Yuna (voiced by Mayuko Aoki), Tifa Lockhart (voiced by Ayumi Ito) and Kain Highwind (voiced by Kôichi Yamadera), in order to allow the other Warriors of Cosmos to survive and enter the next cycle; their bodies vanish from this plane and return to their own worlds, where they are still alive. (As they had been defeated and killed by the Manikins, who are an unauthorised foreign presence to the battlefield, they are permanently erased from the battlefield and constitutes a death in the eyes of the gods.) (For the English version, see Armando Valdes-Kennedy.)