One of the "god's children" that was in the same box as Aoyama during their trials. He likes to tell the story of his pet turtle who died while he was in middle school, believing it to very funny. The back of his jacket reads "Kokado cycle." In the portrait of hell, Hayato meets up with Akashi and the two converse while following Aoyama up the staircase splitting off into the "Amanojaku Labyrinth" trial.
Chumley Huffington, known in Japan as Hayato Maeda, was initially a Slifer Red duelist with an extremely pessimistic outlook. Chumley was forced to retake his freshman year after he failed his first time around. His best friends, Jaden Yuki and Syrus Truesdale, come to Duel Academy, and encourage Chumley to gain more confidence in himself. He gradually grows to become a respected card designer for Industrial Illusions.
Umib�zu (means "sea bonze", which is a ghost in Japanese mythology; real name: Hayato Ijuin), is a "sweeper" in the underground just like Ryo Saeba. With his giant body, and his superb combat skills, he doesn't really need a partner. He is Saeba's equal in most things, and the two have somewhat of a rivalry going. Umibozu fought against Ryo back in Central America, and had his eyes damaged by Saeba. This should make them enemies, but both men shrug off the past since what happened in the war was not personal. That doesn't mean that they don't fight, though. They often find each other on the same case, but on different sides, and have dueled more than once.
The second pilot of Getter Robo, Hayato is portrayed as a psychopathic yet highly intelligent delinquent. He is first seen as the leader of a student revolutionary group, but is captured by the Saotome Research Institute after a fight with Ryoma and pulled into the Getter Robo storyline, initially as the pilot of Getter-2. He is the only character to have appeared in every Getter Robo series and has fulfilled many roles, from being a regular teenager to an adult colonel and an aging scientist. Like the other Getter Robo characters, his portrayal is drastically different in the 1970s TV series. While still a rebel and a loner, he is far less cold and cruel.
- 22 years old - 3rd year student at Kantou University - Plays shortstop and is right-handed - Went to Koshien as a high school student - Tried out in the U.S. before, but didn't make it - His parents don't approve of his dream to play baseball in the U.S. and want him to settle down and get a job
A journalist who returns to his hometown, ÅŒtomo City, in order to investigate the Skull Man.
Narita Hayato sees himself as a "hard-boiled" person. Back-breaking jobs are nothing to him. Hayato shuns normal human contact, but, during the nights, he would get together with delinquents and other denizens of the night. One such night, he meets the cheerful and oblivious Ootori Naru.