Multi (To Heart)

HMX-12 Multi
To Heart character
Illustration of Multi by Tōru Minazuki.
Created by	Tatsuya Takahashi
Designed by	Tōru Minazuki
Voiced by (English)	Lenore Lenore
Voiced by (Japanese)	Yui Horie

HMX-12 Multi (マルチ, Maruchi^?) is a fictional character in Leaf's and Aquaplus' visual novel To Heart. In the visual novel, she is an experimental maid robot, and she made her first appearance as one of the game's ten female main characters. Multi was created by writer Tatsuya Takahashi, who wrote her scenario for the visual novel, and designed by illustrator Tōru Minazuki. She is voiced in Japanese by Yui Horie in the visual novel and anime, and by Lenore Lenore in the English version of the 1999 anime.

Multi was the second heroine in To Heart to be created by writer Tatsuya Takahashi and illustrator Tōru Minazuki, after the pair had created Aoi Matsubara. Takahashi recalled that he thought the development team would react surprised when he declared he would make one of the heroines a robot, but he instead received calm responses. Minazuki held no objections because he thought a robot character would allow the pair more creative freedom, and thought Multi's innocent personality would be fitting for a robot character. Takahashi also stated that as a robot, Multi in turn made the magus Serika Kurusugawa and esper Kotone Himekawa acceptable characters for the story. In an interview, Takahashi noted that he initially had difficulty creating contrast between Multi's, Aoi's, and Akari Kamigishi's personalities, but said their personalities eventually diverged, and Multi ended up as having an "earnestly pure" personality.