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Hiroto Honda is a street thug who became a friend of Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto), Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler), and Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner). He plays few of the games that Yugi plays, and doesn't play Magic and Wizards (Duel Monsters) that often (In the anime, he dueled in the episode in Noah's ark against Big 3, the Robotic Knight).

In the manga, Honda starts out as Jonouchi's henchman. Eventually Honda is no longer important to the story and fades away. In the manga, Honda at first has a crush on Miho Nosaka but she rejects him. In the Duel Monsters anime, Honda develops a crush on Jonouchi's sister, Shizuka Kawai (Serenity Wheeler), and he fights with Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin) over her. In the manga, Honda also owns a female dog and has a cousin named Johji. Honda is also a sharpshooter; Honda says in the manga that when he was a kid, he could shoot a 100- yen piece with a BB gun from 50 feet.

In the first anime series, Honda's crush on Miho spans the series, but Miho is seen having a crush on Ryo Bakura. In the first anime series, Honda is Jonouchi's verbal sparring partner instead of his crony. In the Duel Monsters anime, Honda and Anzu are more or less cheerleaders for Yugi and Jonouchi. His crush for Shizuka was carried over to the Duel Monsters anime.

In the original Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Honda tends to omit honorifics just like his friend Jonouchi does.