Enokida (榎田, Enokida) is a long-time acquaintance of Zenji Banba. He is a genius informant and hacker. The name Enokida is a nickname given to him, referring to the fact his haircut resembles an enoki mushroom.
Characteristics
Appearance
Enokida has dyed light blond hair with long bangs covering nearly half of his face. His hair resembles an enoki mushroom, hence he is given the name Enokida. He is usually seen wearing a yellow parka with red skinny jeans and checkered patterned shoes.
Personality
Enokida is a rather aloof and playful individual. He is known to use his hacking skills for his own entertainment such as changing all the street lights to red for ten minutes in a certain radius or converting the weather forecast for the week to 'snow'.
He is rather prideful and self-asserted when it comes to his abilities in hacking.
Background
History
Light Novel Volume 1
Banba visits Enokida in an internet cafe in Nakasu and shows him a photo of Mayor Harada accompanied by a woman whom Banba suspects to be a killer working for the mayor. Enokida finds out that the woman is Reiko Asakura by hacking into Murder Inc. where she previously worked and provides information about another killer who left Murder Inc. who specializes in strangulation, Ivanov. After accepting Banba's payment for the information, Enokida gives Banba a GPS-equipped redback spider model listening device.
Enokida is visited by Banba a few days later, inquiring about a killer that arrived to his office and asks him if he knows anyone fitting the description for a male cross-dresser. Having already looked up a man with a similar description for Yamato and Martinez, Enokida brings up the information on Xianming Lin and shows Banba. Later that day Banba retrieves Ivanov's cell phone and tasks Enokida to hack into it for information. Enokida arrives to Banba's office to discuss what he has found and shows the footage of Takuya Itou being framed by Reiko and Munakata. He then plays them the recording of Reiko and Munakata's conversation taken by the redback spider bug that was planted on Ivanov's body, revealing the true culprit of Qiaomei's murder is the mayor's son, Yusuke Harada. Lin proposes a plan to get him close to Yusuke and asks for Banba's and Enokida's assistance to pull it off.
Later, Enokida is confronted by Reiko and Munakata who found him by tracking the last signal emitted from Ivanov's cell phone. They take him into the bathroom to extort information out of him. Unfazed by the rough treatment, Enokida merely requests for payment for the information before divulging Banba and Lin's plan to assassinate Yusuke. Near the end of the exchange, Enokida secretly slips the GPS-equipped redback spider listening device onto Reiko's person.
After Banba and his team manage to capture Yusuke, Jiro sends over the recording of Yusuke confessing to his crimes and requests Enokida to broadcast it throughout Fukuoka via an electromagnetic hijack, effectively leading Mayor Harada to lose his position.
Trivia
- Enokida's real name, Chihiro, is first revealed in the anime by Yagi.
- He does not have an official residence and will often operate in various internet cafes in Fukuoka.
- He is the center-fielder for the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens baseball team. His shirt has the name 'Enokida' on it instead of his real name.
- His hacker handle is Blackleg Nameko - both black-leg and nameko are names of mushrooms.
- It is mentioned in the Durarara x Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens crossover novel that he learned piano since middle school.
- He's mentioned in the Durarara!! novel A Standing Ovation with Izaya Orihara.
