Hiro (TTTE/T&F)

Hiro is a black tender engine from Japan and from The Thomas And Friends TV Series, who is famously known as the "Master of the Railway". During his tenure as an engine of the North Western Railway, Hiro was primarily used for heavy goods traffic before returning to said role in Japan. . Hiro is mature, wise, kind, and able to find good in any engine he meets. He has an appreciation for serenity and order and often thinks fondly of his homeland, far away, where he was once one of the strongest engines. Hiro does not appear to hold a grudge, as he helped Spencer after an accident despite Spencer previously trying to get Sir Topham Hatt to send Hiro to the smelters yard to have him scrapped (in which Spencer later apologized for.) Hiro is also very close to his friends on Sodor, knowing that even in a different location they will always be his friends, even after he returned back to Japan with Kenji.