Keisuke Hirose

Keisuke Hirose (広瀬 啓祐, Hirose Keisuke) is a support character in the Koe no Katachi series. He was Shōya Ishida's friend in elementary school who did bully Shōko Nishimiya, but he wasn't a huge participant and usually seemed uncomfortable picking on her. However, he was more than happy bullying Shōya later on.

Biography
Keisuke was the comic relief of Shoya's gang. He would always be the object of jokes and pranks that Shoya would play upon his gang members. One day at school, Shoya even tried to play choke Keisuke, while Shoya had him pinned to the floor. However, Keisuke seemed to be good-natured about the teasing, and would go along just for the laughs.

On the night that Shoya fell from the third story balcony, Keisuke was one of two boys who fished him out of the water and got him medical attention. Much later, at the class reunion of the sixth grade school, Shoya meets Keisuke. However, Keisuke is already married, and has a daughter.

Volume 01

 * Chapter 01 — "Shōya Ishida"
 * Chapter 02 — "Just One of Those Things"
 * Chapter 03 — "Hahahahaha"
 * Chapter 04 — "Nishimiya, You Piece of Shit"
 * Chapter 62 — “A Silent Voice”

Friends

 * Kazuki Shimada:


 * Shōya Ishida (previous):

Family

 * Wife: Not much is known about Hirose's relationship with his wife as they are only seen during the coming-of-age ceremony after graduation. His wife could possibly be Kazuki as there are physical similarities, but nothing has been confirmed.


 * Daughter: Not much is known about Hirose's relationship with his daughter as they are only seen during the coming-of-age ceremony after graduation.

Etymology

 * The name Keisuke means "open, begin" (啓) (kei) and "help, assist" (祐) (suke).
 * Keisuke's surname Hirose means "wide, broad, vast, spacious" (広) (hiro) and "swift current, rapids" (瀬) (se).