"You really want me to beat you up?"" |
Takeru Ooyama (大山 タケル Ooyama Takeru) is the central protagonist of the Maken-Ki! series. He is a member of the Student Council Security Division and a freshman student at Tenbi Academy. He is the child of Takeshi Ooyama and Atsuma Ooyama, the descendant of Oousu no Mikoto and Yabiko Ooyama and a very distant relative of Kodama Himegami.
Takeru originally enters Tenbi Academy without any knowledge of the school, other than that the school had changed from all-girls to co-ed. Before moving to Tenbi, he was at an all-boys school. He currently lives with Haruko Amaya, Inaho Kushiya and Kodama Himegami.
Appearance[]
Takeru is a teenager with brown hair that is shaved close on the sides and forms a crown in the back. He originally wore glasses and presumably still needs them. His usual attire is the Tenbi Academy male student uniform which is a white shirt, green tie, blue pants, and black shoes.
In Maken-Ki! Two, he stops wearing glasses as they kept getting broken.
Personality[]
Takeru is a helpful and kind person, who has a perverted mind. He also tends to be clumsy, leading to 'lucky pervert' moments. He never thinks before he acts, as described by Haruko. For a long period, he dislikes seeing women fight, and refuses to fight women, due to his mother Atsuma Ooyama dying after she lost a duel. He considers his father the one responsible for her death despite her dying from a disease.
After encountering Tesshin Kushiya during the Summer Training Camp Arc, Takeru has since changed his opinion of fighting women, recognizing it as his own weakness and refusal to face his past. He has also apparently forgiven Tesshin and his father, realizing that they were not at fault for Atsuma's death.
Plot[]
Welcome to Tenbi Academy[]
In the beginning, he dreamed of a mysterious person which is most likely Blood Pointer's true form. That mysterious person said that it's too early for Takeru to be his master, but "it seems you have already awakened."
Upon arriving at Tenbi and heading for the opening ceremony, he comes across two girls dueling. While he wonders at what's happening, he notices Kodama Himegami hanging upside down from a tree branch. Takeru comments to her he can see her underwear, and she falls out of the tree on top of him. Somehow in the fall they end up kissing, and a symbol appears on Takeru's chest, which Kodama sees but Takeru is unaware of. Kodama immediately states that he's her mortal enemy, and challenges him to a duel at the welcoming ceremony. She tries to use a time-delay electric attack that will kill him after a few days, but she is stopped when Inaho Kushiya appears and blocks her attack.
Date with Takeru[]
Life at Tenbi[]
Clash with Venus[]
Summer Training Camp[]
When Takeru falls into the cave, he encounters Tesshin Kushiya, who questions him on his reason for coming. When Takeru attempts to attack him, Tesshin makes a fist and punches Takeru away with his fist's air pressure. Takeru screams that Tesshin killed his mother, leading to Tesshin realizing that Takeru is Atsuma's child. Tesshin accepts the accusation, and claims he and Takeru are sworn enemies, and calls for a fight. Tesshin and Takeru begin to fight, although Tesshin fights with his eyes closed. Tesshin, noting Takeru's good instincts, begins to command him about how to fight while they do so. However, Takeru's fear over Tesshin's right fist begins to overwhelm him, disappointing Tesshin, who tells him to leave. Takeru then considers himself, and realises that his hatred for Tesshin and his father, along with his conviction against fighting women (himself or others), was simply his own weakness and refusal to face his mother's death.
With new courage, he rushes Tesshin, who gets excited as Takeru's eyes are now just like Atsuma's. As Tesshin punches Takeru, Takeru leans back to the point of breaking his own back to avoid the punch, shocking Tesshin. He then bites Tesshin and uses Tesshin's Element to heal himself. After Takeru lands a massive punch, Tesshin realizes that Takeru is using Blood Pointer, and tells him about Blood Pointer's ability to take people's emotions, good and bad, and turn them into Element. He thanks Takeru for showing him how to use Blood Pointer, while Takeru tells him that Tesshin has also helped him to understand something about himself. Takeru later wakes up on Tesshin's back, having lost the fight. Tesshin is carrying him out of the cave, which was collapsing due to their fight. He reveals that Inaho is his daughter, much to Takeru's shock, who points out that they have nothing in common physically.
Hime Kagura[]
True Maken[]
Trivia[]
- Takeru's surname Oyama/Ooyama means "big" (o) and "mountain" (yama).
- Takeru was born on July 22nd.
- Despite being a perverted boy, Takeru is very lucky, since the most famous and popular girls in all of Maken-ki are in love with him: Haruko , Kodama , Inaho , Shiria and even Aki .
- Takeru 's personality , especially being a pervert, and his leading role in the story are identical to those of Issei Hyoudou , the male protagonist of the manga and anime High School DxD.
- Furthermore, in a curious fact, both are lucky enough to have romantic relationships with the most beautiful and popular girls in their respective series.
- This fact also coincides with Tomoki Sakurai's character from the anime Sora No Otoshimono. Both are frequently beaten by their childhood friend.
- Another interesting fact about Tomoki is that both became women, although the difference is that Tomoki became a woman thanks to a machine that was created by Ikaros while Takeru became a woman by accident due to Shiria's maken during the second OVA.
- In the manga, Takeru 's hair is dark brown, while in the anime it is reddish brown.
- In Chapter 59 of the manga, Takeru finally remembers the promise he made to Inaho and the reason why he forgot about it. It turns out that Takeru had given himself a hard blow to the head to match the one Tesshin had given Inaho.
- Despite his relationship with Haruko and Inaho, Takeru's first kiss was given to him by Kodama, both in the manga and anime.
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| Characters | |
|---|---|
| Maken-Ki | Takeru Ooyama • Haruko Amaya • Kodama Himegami • Inaho Kushiya • Kengo Usui • Azuki Shinatsu • Chacha Akaza • Kimi Sato • Uruchi Minaya • Aki Nijou • Furan Takaki • Yuuka Amado |