Takeshi

Takeshi (たけし Takeshi^?) is a character in Ao Oni.

Appearance[]

Takeshi has short blonde hair, pale skin, and a rather large nose. He is cowardly and frequently hides from the monsters. He is unable to speak due to the immense fear he experiences (e.g. shivering, teeth chattering). In some versions, he will blame himself for bringing his three friends to the mansion in the first place, implying that it was he who initially suggested it. In the movie, instead of blonde, he has darker black hair in a different style. In the novel, he has rather a small and short height. He wears a white vest and black shirt in the second novel, he is also seen wearing a green sweatshirt. His pants are green cameos and he wears white shoes with black and yellow linings. His nose is smaller.

through different medias, his eyes were blue, green, or brown. (Via, redesign)

Roles[]

Ao Oni (Games)[]

Version 1.1: Takeshi meets up with Hiroshi and Kazuya along with Takuro, Megumi, and Ryota. When they all get separated, Hiroshi finds Takeshi in a closet shaking. After Hiroshi finds Ryota's body, Takeshi disappears and is never to be seen again; meaning he escaped by himself or was killed by the Oni.

Version 3.0: Takeshi is found in a closet at the start. He runs off shortly after, leaving the library key in the closet. Later, Takeshi is seen with Takuro and Mika in the basement section of the mansion. He and everyone else flees after the Oni enters the room and bites Takuro's head off. Takeshi and Mika lock themselves in a jail cell, while Hiroshi finds an exit. They agree to come with Hiroshi to the rope ladder exit. When they reach there, they see the Oni consuming the ladder and flee, but Takeshi trips over and is killed by the Oni, his body is left near the ladder. After Hiroshi takes the metal piece from Takeshi's dead body, he decides to sleep, and Takeshi can be seen in Hiroshi's dream with a cake stating that he planned the whole event and nobody actually died.

Version 5.2: Hiroshi finds Takeshi hiding in the upstairs closet very early in the game. He can be found later in a cave-like basement blaming himself for bringing everyone to the mansion and then runs off crying. He can be found in a random closet at the end of the game. After Hiroshi saves everyone and the good ending is obtained, Takeshi has a nightmare. He is inside the mansion, being chased by the Oni. He hides in a closet only to be found by an even more terrifying Oni with visible teeth. He wakes up in bed soon after, panting and realizing it was merely a bad dream.

Version 6.23: Hiroshi finds him hiding in a closet upstairs very early in the game. In his next appearance, Takeshi is found in a darkened room and blames himself for bringing everyone to the mansion. He hangs himself, appearing later as an Oni. It is not clear whether or not the monster possessed Takeshi and caused him to hang himself, using him to bait Hiroshi; or whether the monster attacked him after he had already hanged himself.

Ao Oni (Novel)[]

Takeshi is Takuro's lackey who has a big mouth and talks tough, but he's really as timid as a mouse. He's particularly cowardly concerning aliens and ghosts. Once he starts trembling, no force in the world can get Takeshi back to his senses. His parents run an eatery.

Ao Oni Movie[]

Takeshi is first seen with Takuro harassing Shun in the streets as seen by Anna who doesn't prevent anything, we then see Takeshi waiting for Takuro with Mika outside the Jailhouse gates, when they all enter Takeshi stays with Shun in one of the halls until hearing growling sounds further down the hall. Takeshi decides to investigate but Shun accidentally knocks over a vase which startles Takeshi and makes him freak out and run around the jailhouse, he then hides in a closet staying there for a while. It isn't long before Mika and Hiroshi find him and try to convince him to come with them. Mika grows angry with Takeshi and tells him that they will come back for him when they have found a way out, a few moments later Takeshi's phone goes off and he quickly answers it but no one answers leaving him upset. The door outside opens and he hears Takuro's voice calling for him a relieved Takeshi opens the closet doors but is grabbed by the face by the Oni, the others hear it and rush to the sound's source but the door is locked and they can't get in all they hear are the blood-curdling screams of Takeshi and the sounds of him being torn apart. Hiroshi opens the door and the group finds the torn clothes, the headphones, and a lot of blood and guts all over the floor.

Trivia[]

Takeshi's icon from version 3.0 - 5.2 is a running gag throughout the entire Ao Oni series. This is probably because of his big nose in which the illustrator of the novel would put his famous icon face as bonus art. Many fans have portrayed him in artworks this way.
Takeshi also has the minor role of the main antagonist of the South Park code.
His favorite drink is milk despite that he’s not growing any taller (Novel 1)
In fragments, he’s in the paranormal activities club alongside Naoki
The restaurant is Chinese. (Sourced: Karin Suzuragi Twitter ,194th weekdrohttps://tw itter.com/suzuragi/status/1387240151336751106?s=21)
Takeshi’s birthday is 9/20 (Kenji’s Peing: https://peing.net/ja/q/5ab37e8f-17b7-4ac9 -9b4c-479fb5c5174f)
He is really picky about food and doesn’t like the cafeteria food.
The trace son of "Shokudo Manpuku".
Takeshi won third place for the Jr Novel popularity poll with 144 votes.
He is a good cook and the food is delicious.
Takeshi’s father is a formor colleague of Kinpei & Ginpei (Jr Novel)