Takeru arrives to defend Mari from a possessed Ouka but is disarmed from Witch Hunter form after making contact with Vlad's stakes. It belongs to Takeru, a 13-year-old boy from Earth, who happened to discover the buried robot Susanoo and woke it from its million-year-long sleep. Takeru and co. prepare to head out and they are approached by Kyouya who offers them his assistance in retrieving their objective. Takeru is able to reach Ouka and Mari after their fight concludes with Mari being knocked unconscious while Ouka loses strength to fly. He "meets" Lapis and asks if she was surprised by who he picked as his wife to which she replies that his choice was very much like him. In his older years, Takeru switched his regular academy uniform with the characteristic black and orange suit, tie, and pants of the Inquisition's EXE. Holding back his anger and emptiness, Takeru hands the transfer charm over to Ikaruga for it to be used on the dying Yoshimizu much to Kyouya's surprise and Takeru promises to explain everything when they returned. He is born a prankster, good at making weapons and has a pocket full of candy and pranks everywhere he goes. Yamato Takeru : Aliases: Romaji Title: Yamatotakeru: Furigana Title: ヤマトタケル: Japanese Title: ヤマトタケル: Japanese Studio Name: 日本アニメーション: English Studio Name: Nippon Animation: … View 32 images of Junya Enoki's characters from his voice acting career. The night before the operation's start, Takeru and Lapis meet by the roof and the former reaffirms that he would like for her to stay with him and ignores her warnings, stating that he would risk losing memories if completely necessary. After sending the latter sliding on the floor, the two accept each others help. Takeru regains consciousness in the recreation of the old platoon room and he meets Lapis by the door. On the day of the tournament, Ouka's investigation from the night prior has her share information that Mari's arrest on charges of murder was wrongfully made. Takeru Ooyama (大山 タケル Ooyama Takeru) is the central protagonist of the Maken-Ki! Takeru embraces Ouka and cancels her Witch Hunter form and he sets off to confront Kiseki alone and says goodbye to his friends. While Ouka is slightly perturbed with his strange insistence, the two, however, are separated when Ouka runs off on her own when communications comes in of an Einherjar in the city and Ouka runs off to intercept it. Takeru has Usagi stay at his house for the time being and invites the other members of the platoon to try and work their hardest to convince Usagi's parents to allow her to live her life. Takeru was the victor in his final bout with Haunted and he leads his old team to the location where Haunted revealed to hold a lead on a cure for Kiseki as well as the last remaining Suginami clone. Takeru is called to Nagaru's room the next day where she informs him of Lapis' unique status among the Relic Eaters and how she is not designated like the rest and bids for him to be wary of her. When Takeru falls into the cave, he encounters Tesshin Kushiya, who questions him on his reason for coming. All characters that appear in Maken-Ki! By sunrise, the rest of the alliance apparently succeeded in their respective rescue missions save for Takeru, who walks out of the facility with Kyouya and Ouka in tow instead of Kiseki. After his loss to Ouka Ootori during a mock battle test in his second year and after being shunned by Kiseki during one of his visits, he began to show humility and started to consider what other people had wanted from him. Kanata and Kurogane, now acting as the de-facto leaders of the impromptu of this armistice, arrive to treat their wounds and formulate their last plan of attack. Takeru contemplates sorrow for the first time in his life after Kiseki's refusal in being saved and he is told by Nagaru that he and his platoon will be sent off tomorrow to find a document regarding Sougetsu's identity that might change the tide of their struggle. They are confronted by Scarlet's squad and Nagaru distracts them while everyone huddled together behind Mari as they incur an avalanche as a last-ditch effort to separate themselves from their pursuers. The operation begins and Takeru arranges for Kanaria to remain behind as per Ikaruga's wishes and the team sets off without her. Masane Amaha; Rihoko Amaha; Reiji Takayama; Maria; Shiori Tsuzuki; Nora; Asagi; Witchblade Manga Issues. Ouka continued to accomplish assignments on her own and Takeru tries to have her open up to them. Both become exhausted but Elizabeth arrives with a squad of wizards to take Lapis away. Ikaruga hacks them an assignment meant for another platoon but the platoon room breaks open and Sougetsu arrives to introduce and announce that his adopted daughter, Ouka, would be joining them. Takeru is informed that his comrades are in danger and quickly moves out to find them, with Usagi being saved first and he goes on ahead to find Ouka and Ikaruga inside the 5th Laboratory's ruins while Kanaria, Mari, and Usagi guarded the entrance. He wears a white shirt with black sleeves that show a tiny bit of white at the edges and two orange diamonds over-lapping eachother, one lighter then the other, and four black-and-white chess-like squares at the bottom of his shirt and at the folded bit at the top. Azumanga Preschool and Takeru & Hikari is a 12 episode slice of life, comedy OVA (original video animation) of the 2 anime series of the same names as one: the Azumanga Daioh prequel Azumanga Preschool and its spin-off Takeru & Hikari.It features the 6 main characters from the shows Chiyo Chan, Miruchi, Yuka, Takeru, Hikari, and Mikan. He unbuttoned his shirt to show off his abs (6 pack). He is the twin brother of Kiseki, and the hapless leader of the titular 35th Test Platoon (more infamously known as the "Small Fry Platoon") who is one of the last surviving members of the Kusanagi Clan as well as one of the only remaining blade users in the world, a lifestyle that he is constantly taunted for and he is contracted to Lapis Lazuili. Takeru visits Haunted and asks if the priest had learned anything over his long life that was close to a cure for his family's curse. 1 Background 2 Personality 3 Appearance 4 History 5 Relationships 5.1 Kukuri 6 Quotes 7 Gallery 8 Etymology 9 Trivia 10 Navigation Takeru has short aqua colored hair and blue eyes. Her sole intent is to continue hunting witches and eventually find the one who was responsible and Takeru makes a promise that if he showed his strength to her, she would allow him to assist her in her goals. He has also apparently forgiven Tesshin and his father, realizing that they were not at fault for Atsuma's death. Takeru expects Kurogane to show some resistance but unexpectedly relents and places his trust on Takeru to do what needs to be done. Although he doesn't really mean to do these perverted things on purpose to Haruko Amaya he still gets beat upon by her. Takeru reawakens draped in twilight flames and clad in an irregular armor whilst his platoon fended themselves from the encroaching flesh mass. Usagi and Ikaruga also hone in on Orochi's position and take a shot at his deteriorating leg and Takeru prepares himself to fight again. His tough appearance and demeanor makes it difficult for others to approach him. On the way to his destination, Takeru runs into the restored Yoshimizu who thanks him for sacrificing the transfer charm to save her instead of saving his sister. Takeru reminisces his indecisive past and finds himself with Lapis in the same realm where he entered his contract with her and she offers him more power to be used to fulfill his desires and asks if he would sacrifice anything if it meant having it, to which Takeru agrees. Kanna (Ancestor) Lapis describes her emotions as something strictly "human" and wanting to monopolize Takeru for herself and fears that she might eat away at his memories of the others if she feels jealous enough. Yuri garnered huge appeal, so much so that its merchandise sold like hot cakes across the United States and elsewhere. The date comes to an end when Kyouya appears with Nero and enters combat with Takeru, only to have the short fight be ended by Kurogane. Takeru Nakashima (Japanese: 中島 (なかしま) 猛 (たける) , Nakashima Takeru)wasa third year student and the captain of the Wakutani Minami volleyball team, as well as one of the team's outside hitters. Takeru's eventual tiredness from his menial administrative work as well as his non-existent romantic pursuits (banned by the Inquisition's board in fear of more demonic children) has him inquire an audience with Haunted, who was revealed to have been spared much to his own chagrin. In his deity mode, Takeru wears Sengoku period inspired armor with an armor pad on his left shoulder and his waist is adorned with blue fur. Their arrival is uncannily quiet but Takeru calls out to the five individuals who he sensed near them and Nagaru reveals herself to be affiliated with this group of pureblood wizards who have joined her dissident faction as they had voiced disapproval in the West Side's decisions. Reima's Tyrving proves to be a difficult fight but Takeru's experience and Lapis' abilities allow Tyrving's wish-granting magic to be used against him and Takeru knocks Reima unconscious as to keep his promise on Reima's judgment to be left in Usagi's hands. The academy itself is in shambles and the corpses of many Inquisitors and students alike littered the street. As the team entered the abandoned newspaper press to find the document, they encountered Kurogane as well as a number of EXE operatives sent to apprehend him. Two, he stops wearing glasses as they kept getting broken for being “too gay". For some strange reason, Takeru's "narrowness" began to fade when he conversed with her and he started visiting her daily and his violent nature began to subside until the day his father discovered this and forbade him to visit her again.