Yutaka Takai

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| **Yutaka Takai** | |
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| **Profile** | |
| Japanese name: | 高井 豊 (Takai Yutaka) |
| English name: | Yutaka Takai |
| Age: | 15-16 (beginning)   17-18 (post-timeskip) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of birth: | 1970 or 1971 (manga) |
| Occupation: | High school student   Genius inventor |
| Status: | Alive |
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| First appearance: | Manga: *[Wait For Me](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama%27s_Collection_of_Short_Stories#Wait_For_Me "Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories")* (short story)   Anime: *[Wait For Me](/wiki/Wait_For_Me "Wait For Me")* (OVA) |
| Appearances: | [Yutaka Takai Appearances](/wiki/index.php?title=Yutaka_Takai_Appearances&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yutaka Takai Appearances (page does not exist)") |
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| Japanese voice: | [Kappei Yamaguchi](/wiki/Kappei_Yamaguchi "Kappei Yamaguchi") |
**Yutaka Takai (高井 豊 ,*Takai Yutaka*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese"))** is the protagonist from the one-shot *[Wait For Me](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama%27s_Collection_of_Short_Stories#Wait_For_Me "Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories")* and its [anime adaptation](/wiki/Wait_For_Me "Wait For Me"), who also appeared as a fictional person in [an Original Video Animation](/wiki/The_Wandering_Red_Butterfly "The Wandering Red Butterfly") related to *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")*. He's a 15 or 16 years[](#cite_note-1)[](#cite_note-2) old teen prodigy (17-18 years old after a time skip) and inventor currently attending a unnamed high school in the [Senkawa](/wiki/Senkawa "Senkawa") District[](#cite_note-3) of the [Toshima](/wiki/Toshima "Toshima") Ward in [Tokyo](/wiki/Tokyo "Tokyo").
## Contents
* [1 Plot overview](#Plot_overview)
+ [1.1 *Wait For Me*](#Wait_For_Me)
+ [1.2 *The Wandering Red Butterfly*](#The_Wandering_Red_Butterfly)
* [2 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [3 References](#References)
## Plot overview[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Yutaka_Takai&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Plot overview")]
### *Wait For Me*[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Yutaka_Takai&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Wait For Me")]
Main article: [Wait For Me](/wiki/Wait_For_Me "Wait For Me")
Yutaka Takai is a genius inventor, despite just being in the first year of high school[](#cite_note-4). During a test run he inadvertently creates a time machine while trying a jetpack he built. With this, he plans to travel to the past to be the same age as his girlfriend [Mamiko Abe](/wiki/index.php?title=Mamiko_Abe&action=edit&redlink=1 "Mamiko Abe (page does not exist)"), who's two years older than him. But in a moment of distraction, she grabs the jetpack instead and travels two years into the future to fulfill Yutaka's wish... Can Yutaka remember Mamiko in time to catch her when she returns?
Yutaka on the poster of the double feature in *The Wandering Red Butterfly*.
### *The Wandering Red Butterfly*[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Yutaka_Takai&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: The Wandering Red Butterfly")]
Main article: [The Wandering Red Butterfly](/wiki/The_Wandering_Red_Butterfly "The Wandering Red Butterfly")
[Yusaku Kudo](/wiki/Yusaku_Kudo "Yusaku Kudo") and [Wandering Red Butterfly](/wiki/Yukiko_Kudo "Yukiko Kudo") go to the cinema to watch the double feature movie *[Wait For Me](/wiki/Wait_For_Me "Wait For Me")*/*[The Santa Claus of Summer](/wiki/The_Santa_Claus_of_Summer "The Santa Claus of Summer")*, with Yutaka Takai, [Mamiko Abe](/wiki/index.php?title=Mamiko_Abe&action=edit&redlink=1 "Mamiko Abe (page does not exist)"), [Keisuke Hara](/wiki/Keisuke_Hara "Keisuke Hara") und [Asuka Anzai](/wiki/index.php?title=Asuka_Anzai&action=edit&redlink=1 "Asuka Anzai (page does not exist)") visible on the promo poster. Yutaka and Keisuke can also be seen on the cover of the *[Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama%27s_Collection_of_Short_Stories "Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories")* volume Yusaku is placing down on the seat next to him.
## Trivia[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Yutaka_Takai&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Trivia")]
* Yutaka Takai's name is a composite of the names of [Yutaka Abe](/wiki/Yutaka_Abe "Yutaka Abe") ([Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama")'s senpai he was an assistant of back then, in turn an assistant of him nowadays) and [Mamiko Takai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamiko_Takai "wikipedia:Mamiko Takai") (a popular Japanese idol during the eighties), who was Abe's favorite idol back then. She is also mentioned in-story by [Yuri Shiozawa](/wiki/index.php?title=Yuri_Shiozawa&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yuri Shiozawa (page does not exist)"). Yutaka Abe in turn made a similar joke that same year in his series *[100% Tantei Monogatari](/wiki/100%25_Tantei_Monogatari "100% Tantei Monogatari")*, in which the protagonist is named [Momoko Aoyama](/wiki/Momoko_Aoyama "Momoko Aoyama"), a portmanteau name of Gosho Aoyama's surname and the first name of his own favorite idol of that time, [Momoko Kikuchi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momoko_Kikuchi "wikipedia:Momoko Kikuchi").[](#cite_note-5)