Character: Takami Ichirou
Series: Eyeshield 21Character Age: 18
Canon: Every sports manga has a protagonist team, and every protagonist team has a rival!!1´ In Eyeshield 21, the rival team is the Oujou White Knights, for which Takami plays quarterback. Takami is a good example of what the hard-working Oujou are like. In a manga where reducing your 40-yard dash by 0.08 seconds is cause of much rejoicing, Takami is one of the slowest runners as a result of a childhood leg injury. Instead of giving up and going home to listen to Linkin Park, Takami takes on more training and studies passing techniques until he's chosen as starting player for his height, precision and accuracy on the field.
Off the field, Takami is an organized and neat young man. He'll bemoan, sometimes even slightly flail, and make a spazzy "DOH?!" sound at the barbarism of eating the leg of a wild boar hunted by his own teammate Shin (what are coach-approved menus for!). Takami's sensitive, getting misty-eyed when teammate Sakuraba finally reaches his full potential. He guards his team's secret techniques with perfect composure and doesn't back down in the face of gun-toting rival teams. Takami is, in short, a mother's number 1 choice for a son-in-law.Sample Post:I think it's time that I admitted to myself that these aren't the Oujou overseas sports facilities. You had me with the hospital, onsen and even the chapel; the inflatable house that you rented made sense as well, since we had one for the school festival last year. It's my mistake for assuming it was a castle, to go with the White Knights theme. Your enthusiastic staff is not to blame, even if they did jump outside a window with no prior warning chanting they "wanna take me to the inflatable gay bar gay bar gay bar."
In return, I hope you'll believe me when I say that in my haste to back off, I didn't notice that the tour guide was right behind me. I'm a bit taller than normal, and I hadn't realized until now that out here that's enough to knock someone off his feet.
The least I can do is help look for his left talus until the medic gets here.After all those exciting misunderstandings, maybe I could take you to the gay bar to cool down over a meal. Coach wouldn't have liked it if I had touched airplane food, and the tour guide definitely needs a lunch break as well anyway, if the teeth marks on the sleeve of my jacket are any indication. Not that the staff haven't already offered their specialty, and I'll agree that it's an
interesting coincidence that I came on a Tuesday. I was going to try it! But having to hunt my soup with my bare hands before eating it is so unsanitary.
Ah, thanks, miss waitress. I'd love to have a look at your menu. Now, where's the page for the main courses... DOH?! -- Excuse me, miss. I know that when in Rome, it's only polite to do as the Romans do, but I have to draw the line here.
My pocket English-Japanese dictionary is very clear on the matter: the phrase "meat market" is
always meant figuratively.
Why was I under "beefcake"!
Voting went
here! 47 IN, 10 OUT. 82.5%
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