Hotaru

Hotaru

Gender	Unisex
Language(s)	Japanese
Origin
Meaning	Firefly
Other names
Alternative spelling	Hiragana: ほたる Katakana: ホタル Kanji: 蛍

Hotaru may refer to:

Places

• Hotaru, in Grojdibodu Commune, Olt County, Romania
• Hotaru, in Andreiașu de Jos Commune, Vrancea County, Romania

People

• Hotaru Akane (1983–2016), Japanese actress
• Hotaru Okamoto, manga artist of Only Yesterday
• Hotaru Yamaguchi (born 1990), football player
• Hotaru Yukijiro, actor, starred in Sexy Battle Girls, GARO

Characters

• Hotaru Shidare (枝垂 ほたる, Shidare Hotaru), a character in the manga series Dagashi Kashi
• Hotaru (.hack), a wavemaster character in the .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet anime
• Hotaru (Mortal Kombat), a male character in the Mortal Kombat fighting games
• Hotaru, a character in the manga series Shugo Chara!
• Hotaru, a character in the manga series Samurai Deeper Kyo
• Hotaru Futaba, a character in SNK Playmore fighting games
• Hotaru Himegi, a character in the visual novel If My Heart Had Wings
• Hotaru Hoshikawa (星川 ほたる), a character in the manga series New Game!
• Hotaru Ichijo, a character in the manga series Non Non Biyori
• Hotaru Imai, a character in the anime series Alice Academy
• Hotaru Tachibana (立花 蛍), a character in the manga series Aoharu x Machinegun
• Hotaru Tomoe, lookalike reincarnation of Sailor Saturn herself, is a supporting character in the manga of Sailor Moon and third season of the 1992-1997 anime. She becomes a supporting character in Sailor Moon Crystal and the 2020 two-part movie Sailor Moon Eternal, based on the 11-episode Dream saga

Other

• Hotaru CMS, a GNU GPL licensed, plugin-powered content management system

See also

• Hotaru River (disambiguation)
• Hotaru no Haka, or Grave of the Fireflies, a 1988 Studio Ghibli anime film
• Hotar