Daisuke Hiraoka

Daisuke Hiraoka
Profile
Kanji	平岡　大輔
Romaji	Hiraoka Daisuke
Gender	Male
Alias	Dai-chan (大ちゃん) by Tarou Takanashi
Personal Status
Company	N/A (Freelance, Movie) Musashino Animation (Anime) Kimon Pro (Former, Anime)
Occupation	Producer (Movie) Production Assistant (Anime)
First appearance
Anime Debut	Episode 14

Daisuke Hiraoka (平岡　大輔(ひらおか　だいすけ), Hiraoka Daisuke) is a production assistant at Musashino Animation who replaces Tatsuya Ochiai after the latter switched sides to Studio Canaan.

Character

It was a shithole. Creepy people are only capable of producing creepy work. But despite that, I worked my ass off trying to get things done. ~ From Episode 22

In his younger days, Hiraoka was a passionate guy: according to Yano, he showed his leadership during his time in college. However, after facing so many frustrations, he had become a cynical person, only focused to finish the animation more, while complaining about his job. This caused some staff in Musashino to dislike his attitude and made some conflicts.

In the movie, even though he was quitted from Musani due to the Timp Hippo incident, he is still so ideal that can cheers Aoi Miyamori up.

History

When Hiraoka was in college, Erika Yano and Hisamitsu Isokawa was his college mate. After graduating, he has started his animation career. However, Hiraoka quickly faced harsh frustration, made him cynical year after a year. When he entered Musashino Animation, it's his fifth job in his five years. Hiraoka's complaining and cynical character also make the other staffs displeased. One of the examples is that he opposes Hironori Madoka's retaking, which increase their conflict and result in fighting each other eventually.

After conflicts occur, Aoi Miyamori has a discussion with him. He finally got a positive attitude on his job. When Hiraoka befriends to Tarou Takanashi, he also regains his passionate again. They became the best friend after that.

After the Timp Hippo incident, Hiraoka quitted from Musani and becomes a producer.

Trivia

• Hiraoka has a pet cat called Kemeko.
  • About the naming reason behinds Kemeko, Michiko Yokote, one of the screenwriters, states that it's from a song called "The Kemeko Song" (ケメ子の歌, Kemeko no Uta), while Reiko Yoshida, the other screenwriters, states the reason of this naming is that "it's cute".