Horohoro

Horokeu "Horohoro"(ホロホロ) Usui is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Shaman King.

Appearance
Horohoro is a short boy. He is most commonly seen wearing a white and blue skiing outfit. He has long blue hair that when tied together with his head band sticks up in spikes. When he was activating his new medium he wore his new battle outfit of a an head wrap, open vest, shorts, and boots all with Ainu markings. His street clothes are a plain white shirt, shorts, and tennis shoes. He also wears a towel as a headband

Personality
Horohoro is good-matured and cheerful, but he gets serious in dangerous situations. He argues constantly with his teammate Tao Ren, and they don't seem to get along at all. However, it is shown that he really does care for him when, in the manga, he tells Yoh Asakura that if he can't save Ren, as his friend, Horohoro would never forgive him. Horohoro is also very secretive about his past not willing to talk about it even to his friends. In addition, Horohoro can also get very competitive, even going so far as to turn Ryu's arms to ice and shatter them during the fight between Team "The Ren" and Team "Funbari Onsen". Opacho, while reading his mind, has called him a wolf.

Horohoro can be a very responsible person too. For he can take care of himself and his sister on his own. He is also a very sensitive guy, he can easily provoked and his moods change quickly. During the final part of the shaman king tournament he changed radically to a very serious fighter with little joy during a fight but when he was not in combat he was joking and very jovial.

Abilities and Powers
His furyoku is 120,000 (as seen in chapter 276) In the manga, he becomes the third strongest of the Five Elemental Warriors and gains the Spirit of Rain

Spirit

 * See More: Kororo|Spirit of Rain

His guardian ghost is Kororo (Corey in the English anime. "Kōri" (氷) means ice), a spirit who is smitten with Manta Oyamada

For his first oversoul he channels Kororo into his snowboard. The snowboard sprouts Kororo's eyes and mouth and is covered in a blue aura. He can also attach his snowboard oversoul to his arm and use an attack called the Nipopo Punch. Horohoro mainly uses his oversoul to freeze water vapor into ice and use it to attack his opponents. He also forms an oversoul by channeling Kororo into an Ikupasi given to him by Pirka. The oversoul creates an icy bule shield with eyes and six blades. Like most of the characters he achieves Giant Over Soul in the anime. In the manga he develops an armor oversoul called the Nipopo Gauntlets after being taught by Pascal Avaf. This oversouls can manipulate moisture in the air so intensly that it can cause limbs or an entire body to shatter in the blink of an eye. Horohoro's attacks with this oversouls are Harakihoku: Wose(Left Husband: Little Regret) in which he puches the air with his left gauntlet freezing solid and then shattering anything that is in the linear path of the hand even if out of arms reach, Shimonmataki: Rupushikateku(Right Wife: Freezing Hands) in which Horohoro freezes and shatters anything he touches with the right gauntlet but this is a defensive technique, and Shushu Waki: Kamuiranke Opukeni(Howling Wind: The fist that god offered) an offensive version of the previous technique in which Horohoro punches the target and flash freezes them at the same time which causes them to shatter making this his most powerful attack.

Past
Horohoro is an Ainu from Hokkaidō, a prefecture in Japan. Horohoro's main goal in the Shaman Fight is to save the Koro Pokurru (Minutians in the English anime), a tiny spirit people. As part of this goal, he intends to plant a vast field of Butterbur. He was raised with the believe that the strongest prey on the weakest. When he grew up he was trained by his father but later he left home to pursue his dream. Because of this his father will no longer take care of him.

Shaman Fight First Round: Coming to Tokyo
After the destiny star was seen he came to Tokyo in order to participate in the Shaman Fight. He was tested by Kalim and won his Oracle Bell which a little while later revealed that he would fight against Yoh.

Fighting at the Plants
When at the plants he fought in every battle against the priests he could not win but was able to stall them enough to allow the others to defeat them especially since he died in the marsh plant and was brought back with Ren by Jeanne. When he was at the Grassland plant he fought against Kalim himself using his armor oversoul in the process but was utterly defeated.

Family
His younger sister, Pirka (Pilika in the anime) trains him harshly, similar to how Anna trains her fiancé, Yoh Asakura. Despite this, Horohoro certainly cares for his sister, and he fights for both of their dreams. As for his parents, his father is only seen in his the Manga. Like Ren, his relationship with his father is rather estranged and distant, as he thinks of himself as a "dumb, unworthy son". His father also shows his uncaring for his son by stating while Horohoro fights Hao's Minions that "[He] could always have another son" adding that he only came because "Pilika begged [him] to come after him.".

Anime/Manga Difference
In the English anime, his real name is Horohoro but he prefers to be called Trey Racer. In the manga and Japanese anime, his real name is Horokeu Usui (碓氷ホロケウUsui Horokeu), and Horohoro is a nickname. In the English anime, he is described as from "the Northern Woods" instead of from Hokkaidō

Also in the manga, he gains a different battle uniform during his time in america.

Trivia

 * Horohoro's name sounds and is spelled (in Katakana) like "boroboro," which means "crap," which causes humorous problems when some characters mispronounce his name.