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For his anime counterpart, see Mr. Higsby (anime). For his eponymous store, see Higsby's.

Higsby, known as Yamitaro Higure (日暮闇太郎 Higure Yamitarō) in Japan, is a recurring character from the Mega Man Battle Network series. He is found in every Battle Network game except for Mega Man Battle Network 6, although for the most part of the story his role is selling Battle Chips in his chip shop, Higsby's. His NetNavi is NumberMan.EXE.

Higsby often says "huh!" (-demasu in the Japanese version) while speaking, making it clear it was him with the e-mail about chip traders in Mega Man Battle Network 2.

Appearance[]

Higsby is tall and has brown hair. He wears glasses, white shirt with red tie, blue pants with brown belt, brown sandals and white socks.

Personality[]

Higsby's personality is defined by his love of Battle Chips and travels the world looking for them. He is willing to work for the WWW in order to get them. However, he learns the error of his ways and decides to sell chips for a living.

Higsby has a crush on Ms. Mari in both the games and anime. In the anime, he is known to be excitable and freaks out often, but becomes a father figure to Shuko Kido.

Game History[]

Mega Man Battle Network[]

Higsby is first introduced as a substitute teacher by Ms. Mari lecturing on Battle Chips in Lan Hikari's class 5-A, although he acts oddly and asks the students to trade chips with him. It is revealed that this is a ruse: Higsby is actually a World Three agent that instigates the WWW's Re-education Program after class. He locks down the ACDC Elementary School to prevent escape and projects Lord Wily's image on the blackboards which spouts WWW propaganda to brainwash the students and staff. Then he ties up Ms. Mari in a storage room to prevent anyone from opening up the doors with an ID. After doing so, he bumps into Lan, who was going toward the storage room. His motivation for doing this was the promise of rare battle chips. After being defeated by Lan and MegaMan, he opens a shop and promises to be good from then on, leaving the WWW. Higsby reveals he used to work at Scilab with a colleague before he joined the WWW.

Mega Man Battle Network 2[]

Higsby goes on a trip to Netopia collecting rare chips and installing Chip Traders in other countries; he helps Lan and MegaMan reconcile after their fight in Netopia. During the latter half of the game, he sends NumberMan throughout the net as a traveling Battle Chip salesman. After some time, he returns to Electopia and goes camping with Lan and company.

Mega Man Battle Network 3[]

Higsby goes on vacation to YumLand and returns later to Electopia. Mayl promises to help him with chores, but on the same day she got the BubbleWash. She convinces Lan to do it for her and he has to accomplish several tasks.

Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge[]

Higsby is one of the participants in the Battle Chip GP tournament. His shop is also accessible, providing the option to buy a single Battle Chip, 10 Battle Chips or Get info on gameplay. Higsby will eventually open up a couple of other shops, which feature an increase in both rarity and price of the Battle Chips sold.

Mega Man Battle Network 4[]

Lan goes to Higsby for consultation on the Dark Chip he obtained. Higsby gives his knowledge and warns Lan to never use it. Higsby also hires a new assistant for the store, Nanako. Apparently Higsby's is also raking in profits due to the tournaments.

In Blue Moon, Higsby is a contestant at The City Battle Tournament. Immediately as he's paired with Lan, the tournament host informs Lan that Higsby is forfeiting. It's revealed that Higsby is troubled by Cone, an advisor of a world-leading company called NAM. The company financed the shop and deemed it unprofitable, they plan to close down his shop and replace it with a shop that sells scrub brushes. In an attempt to save the shop, Lan helps out by handing out posters for his assistant. The promotion boosted sales, so Cone tries to sabotage them by trapping NumberMan in their Cyberworld warehouse. Later, kids started coming in to support for Higsby's, Cone gives up, and the shop is saved. After that, he and Lan battle each other at the Tournament, where Lan and MegaMan beat him.

Mega Man Battle Network 5[]

Higsby is mostly absent from his store, leaving the cashier duties to his assistant. When Team ProtoMan/Team Colonel required a new base after being their old one was infiltrated by Nebula, Lan goes to Higsby for help. After Lan helped him with a task, he allows the team to use the back of his shop as a base.

In Team Colonel, Higsby joins the team to prove his manliness but gets sidetracked and delays their next Liberation Mission for a date. He shows an infatuation with Ms. Mari and has NumberMan and her Navi go on a date together. On their date, MegaMan appears and deletes Ms. Mari's Navi. Angered, Higsby and NumberMan fight MegaMan, only to be revealed that impersonator Navis were copying them both to have the two duke it out. The two then proceed to delete the impersonators. Higsby proceeds with the mission and proves to be a valuable member of the team.

Mega Man Battle Network 6[]

Higsby doesn't appear, because he is once again traveling, but he does send his congratulations to ACDC Elementary School for graduation.

Mega Man Star Force 2[]

In Lan's diary entry from July, it is said that some years after, Higsby's shop moved to a new location that will be 10 stories tall and would be called "Higsby's Chip Emporium".

Anime History[]

Main article: Mr. Higsby (anime)

MegaMan NT Warrior[]

Higsby shows up to teach the students of Lan's school about Virus Busting, but is mostly concerned about rare chips. After class, he locks Lan's classroom and attempts to steal Yai's chips in a battle against Glide. Lan, MegaMan and Roll manage to unlock the door and rescue Glide, and they discover Higsby was behind it. After his defeat, Ms. Mari convinces Higsby to stop stealing rare chips, reminding him of how he would feel if chips were stolen from him. After this event, he quits teaching and opens up a chip shop like in the games. In the anime, he is Maysa's rival for Ms. Mari's affection, and the two are seen fighting on many occasions.

Later, he runs out of money for his Battle Chip shop. NumberMan thinks it is because he won't sell his rare chips. Gauss Magnus offers him a job at his company where he makes lots of money and buys several rare chips, but it turns out the money was being stolen from the company of Yai's father. After Lan and Chaud Blaze foil Gauss's plan, Higsby returns to his chip shop, though he is temporarily relocated near a bridge where the trains run, the vibrations knocking his chips off the shelf every time they pass, much to his dismay.

In MegaMan NT Warrior Axess, he wins a pair of virtual bowling tickets, and uses them to ask Ms. Mari out. Lan and Maylu come along too. He tries to impress Ms. Mari, but remembers he's not good at sports. NumberMan decides to help by cheating, making every time Higsby bowls, he gets a strike. This attracts the attention of BowlMan, who was recently transformed into a Darkloid, and he attacks. MegaMan defends NumberMan, but BowlMan comes to the Real World with the use of a Dimensional Area. Lan and MegaMan use Cross Fusion to defeat him, and Higsby and NumberMan apologize for cheating, earning a second chance with Ms. Mari.

He later becomes a role model for Shuko Kido because of his upbeat attitude despite his misfortunes. She and SpoutMan enter a promotional tournament for ten pounds of rice and wins. When the electricity is turned off, SpoutMan goes to turn it back on, only to attract the security Navis. SpoutMan then starts crying, causing a flood of tears and Shuko falls into despair at the hopelessness of the situation. However, Higsby motivates her and with her help they stop SpoutMan with MegaMan's newly acquired Number Soul. Shuko admires his attitude and decided to work for his Chip Shop ever since.

Higsby continues to appear throughout Stream, Beast and Beast+.

Etymology[]

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For the forename Yamitaro, Yami () means "darkness" and Taro (太郎) is a common name suffix in male given names.

The name Higure derives from 日暮れ (Higure), meaning "nightfall" in Japanese.

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Trivia[]

  • Although Higsby knows how dangerous Dark Chips are and even freaks out at seeing one, in Mega Man Battle Network 5 the player can obtain a Dark Chip from the Number Lotto in his shop.
  • In Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge, Higsby's shop provides the option to "Get info", which means to receive advice on gameplay. The varying pieces of information are shown at random and there's a chance that Higsby will say: "Sigh... Ms. Mari...".
  • In Mega Man Battle Network 5, it's revealed that the decorations in his store are all handmade by Higsby himself.
  • In Mega Man Battle Network 3, Higsby's username when posting on a BBS is "HigHig" (ひぐひぐ Higuhigu).
  • Higsby, unlike his Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force successors, has several ways of selling Battle Chips: through a normal vendor and via a premium service order list. Players may be able to buy some rare chips they can't ordinarily get from his shop or other places if they look through Higsby's display shelves. To get the chip from his service order, you must either look at his shelves or collect that chip from defeating the virus in battle. Additionally, his "bargain bin" may also contain some chips for sale.
  • Higsby's Japanese voice actor, Yūji Ueda, also voices NumberMan and ColorMan.

References[]

  1. MegaMan Battle Network
  2. Spanish Mega Man Network Transmission manual
  3. English Mega Man Network Transmission manual
  4. European Mega Man Battle Network 3 manual


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