Hideo Watanabe

Hideo Watanabe, often referred to as Mr Watanabe, is a member of Black Cross. He is the oldest member of Kate's cell. He is killed during the attack on Evernight Academy in Stargazer.

Background
Hideo was born in Japan, later emigrating to America. When he was a young man, he fell deeply in love with woman named Noriko and married her. Noriko died at some point - Bianca Olivier speculates that vampires may have been involved, though this is not confirmed. At some point, Mr Watanabe joined Black Cross. He is mentioned as being unusually old for a vampire hunter; most hunters would consider themselves fortunate to even get close to Mr Watanabe's age before being killed in action.

Evernight
Mr Watanabe is present at the church when Bianca is brought there by Lucas Ross and Kate. He is friendly to Bianca and wields an axe to protect her and the cell when the Evernight vampires arrive to retrieve Bianca. Like the rest of the cell, Mr Watanabe is under the impression that Bianca is a human girl kidnapped and raised by vampires. Mr Watanabe escapes the church with the rest of the cell, after Bianca willingly goes with the vampires.

Stargazer
Mr Watanabe travels to Amherst with his cell to hunt Charity More and her tribe. He is relieved to see Bianca is alright and comments how the young love between her and Lucas reminds him of his wife, Noriko. Months later, Mr Watanabe goes with the rest of Kate's cell to launch an attack on Evernight Academy, after they received a (false) tip-off that the vampires were intending to massacre the human students. Mr Watanabe is killed by vampires during the fight; the details of his death are not specified, with Dana simply commenting that "they got him" when asked. As a result, Mr Watanabe never finds out that Bianca was in fact half vampire, unlike the rest of the cell.

Appearances

 * Evernight
 * Stargazer