Piro

Piro is approximately 21 year old, if not older. Piro is an anime, manga, and dating sims fan. He is best friends with Largo and is one of the main protagonists of the Megatokyo series. Being a gamer, Piro chooses to portray in games with female avatars such as: Piroko, Pirogoeth, Pirokiko, and Pirokoro.

Appearance
Piro looks like a typical young American adult. He has fairly long blond hair (mostly his bangs), and wears glasses; as the series goes on he changes glasses after his original pair breaks after Largo sits on them. He typically wears t-shirts and a hoodie, but later in the series he switches to button-down shirts with a jacket.

Personality
Piro is quiet, shy, introverted, fluent in Japanese, and is introduced as a gamer who happens to love dating sims. In other games he usually plays with female characters. He is usually self-deprecating, but can be fiercely protective of his friends. He lives and knows about life from reading shoujo (girls') manga. He is sometimes forgetful, as shown with his teaching of Sonoda Yuki.

Background
Piro is an American who had flown over from America with Largo to Japan after an incident occured in the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). After the flight had ended Piro had the proper paperwork to enter Japan while Largo did not. In a troubled start from barely entering Japan one of the desk employees had stated that Largo would not be allowed to enter Japan unless he was to fight in a game of Mortal Kombat against one of the security, Junpei. Largo ultimately won.

Now entering Japan both would not go very far, having maxed out their credit cards on games or other products that both of them enjoy. This would lead both to be stuck in Japan for the time being till they could have enough money to fly back to their home. Both would sleep outside of a park for the time.

Largo is quick to complain about their situation and to know that he would miss a release of a game (Baldur's Gate 2) and wishes for someone to shoot him.

Piro retorts to Largo's complaining and tells him that he knows a few people in Tokyo, Japan.

With their first day being stuck in Japan, both Piro and Largo enter the Shinjuku district where Piro's friend Tsubasa lives.