Subject No.1 : Hiro Nakamura

Hiro Nakamura is a programmer at Yamagato Industries in Tokyo, Japan and possesses the ability to manipulate space and time.Hiro is a salaried employee, bored with the monotony and conformity of his job. He is also a huge science-fiction nerd, sometimes referring to Star Trek, the X-Men, and Back to the Future. Hiro is a bit of a dreamer and loves the idea of having powers, though he's finding the reality more difficult than expected. Initially very happy-go-lucky, Hiro's adventures have already begun to sober him to a certain extent. While Hiro has a very strong sense of purpose and a good moral compass, he is also a little unworldly and finds himself easily manipulated by his friend Ando, whose motives are frequently more down-to-earth.

Hiro discovers he has the ability to actually affect the space/time continuum, stopping or slowing time with sheer power of will. The first noted occurrence is when Hiro supposedly made a subway train late using this power. This is especially notable because a Japanese train being late at all is an extremely unlikely event. Later, he theorizes that he may soon be able to teleport by bending the space part of the continuum. Although this isn't seen, he does seem to teleport from the seating area of a Karaoke bar to a ladies' bathroom on a dare (said in jest) by Ando. When he believes he needs to go to New York, he concentrates intensely, teleporting to Time Square, New York, five weeks into the future.Awestruck, Hiro lifts his hands up and yells "Yatta! Hello, New York!" Ultimately, he is also able to revert the process to the exact place and moment he left when an explosion in the alternate future threatens his life. Although being able to teleport and time travel great lengths at once, Hiro had no apparent control over how much time elapsed when he teleported. This shows that, without further honing of his powers, he cannot teleport great distances without also traveling in time. He has also frozen time relative to himself. In Six Months Ago, he was able to keep time frozen long enough to fold one thousand paper cranes.