Hideki Ide

Hideki Ide (伊出 英基 Ide Hideki) is a member of the Japanese Task Force. He helps coordinate their efforts, and performs actions such as organizing a blockade of police cars to trap Higuchi. He is voiced by Hideo Ishikawa in the Japanese anime and Brian Dobson in the English dub.

Conception
Obata said that he liked Ide because he could understand the mental process of Ide leaving and rejoining the team. Obata said that he finds it easier to draw characters that reveal their motivations for their actions.