Chiho Johansson

Chiho Johansson (ちほヨハンソン, Chiho yohanson), also known for her stage name Papico (パピコ, Papiko) is the female main character in Gigant. At the beginning of the story she was an adult video actress, but later on after saving Japan from a devastating attack and becoming a national idol, Chiho stated she quitted doing AVs as she wants to focus on being a TV celebrity from now on. By chance she received a device that could make her gigantic which she uses to save the public from catastrophes caused by ETE. She is also the girlfriend of Rei Yokoyamada.

Appearance
Chiho is a young beautiful girl with relatively short pink hair and pink eyes. She has a mole under her left eye and on the left side under her lips. She is a half-japanese, half-Swedish, as her father was from Sweden.

Personality
Chiho is a nice girl that got into AV business as an easy way to make money for living and to support her family. Even thought her brothers and mother exploit her for her money, she still loves them and helps them out. She loved her father as she remembers him as the only person from her family to truly love her.

Chiho is not a girl to give up and let her being abused. Even at the times she got into a fight with her ex-boyfriend Ryuji, she was fighting and hitting back. At first she was seeing Rei as nice person and fan, who later became good friend and in time her new lover. For his sake, she started fighting the gigantic monsters that appeared in Japan.

The fight led to damages in the city and she was in trouble at first, but the attention she got from all of this led to her boom in popularity. Even though she became extremely popular, she still remained the same, living in the same place and still loving Rei.

Plot
As rumors and sightings for Papico living in the neighborhood increased, Chiho one day saw a boy removing posters about her and wondered if he had put them on. As Rei denied it and explained he did it as he was fan or her and thought that may bother her, she decided to invite him to a restaurant as thanks. They exchanged their contacts and started chatting and meeting some times.

One day, Chiho saw an old man hit by a car. As she went to check him, he prevented her on calling an ambulance and stuck a device on her and then died turning into a doll. Her boyfriend, Ryuji thought she was crazy. Later while playing with the device, she thought everything shrunk and started panicking, but eventually realized it was due to the device and managed to turn to normal realizing that actually she became bigger. Seeing her Ryuji quickly came with the idea of a The Giant Girl adult film and she agreed and ended up filming it with her producer. She gave Rei a disc that the old man had and after watching him, he thought it was an independence film as the old man had grew bigger in it, but Chiho then revealed she can become big too. In that moment Ryuji came back and thought she was cheating with Rei, so he started beating him. Chiho had to become bigger to stop him, but after that Ryuji left her and never returned.

As days passed, she was spending more time with Rei and he showed her a website ETE that was causing strange phenomenons as people vote on it. Eventually Rei asked her if he can be her boyfriend and Chiho needed time to think, but eventually accepted.