Gen Takekura

Gen Takekura, also known as Musashi and 60-Yard Magnum, is one of the main characters from the Eyeshield 21 series.
== Charactah Account ==
The third founder of the Devil Bats and the team's original kicker. Musashi was a mature, level-headed guy who's a constant source of sagely advice to the first-years. He first appeared as a carpenter who helped with expanding the Devil Bats' clubhouse, and for a while, none of the first-years was aware of his real identity. Upon the revelation that he was the last member of the founding trio and the kicker whom the team desperately needed, Musashi dismissively said that he left Hiruma and Kurita due to the boredom of staying in a weak team. However, it turned out that he was actually forced to leave school to help with his family business after his father fell ill, and still harbored a burning desire to return to the team. Aware of this, his father's employees all gathered together to tell Musashi to go back to the field to help his friends. And Musashi eventually returned to the Devil Bats midway through their match against the Wild Gunmen.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Eyeshield 21
=== Manga ===
* Eyeshield 21
=== Video Games ===
* Eyeshield 21: AmeFoot Yarouze! Ya! Ha!
* Eyeshield 21: Field Saikyou no Senshi Tachi 
== Trivia ==
* The kanji in Musashi's last name, Takekura, can also be read as Musashi, thus his nickname. The name is derived from Miyamoto Musashi, a famous samurai, who was famous for his skills with two swords, which relates to the fact that Musashi must put up two kicks for every successful possession (extra point kick or field goal and the kick off). Gen's rivalry with the Bando Spiders kicker Kotaro Sasaki is also a play on Miyamoto's rivalry with the legendary swordsman Sasaki Kojiro.
* Musashi has a habit of picking his ear whenever he's not serious (or as a comedy gag).
* He also has a knack for making insensitive statements (Claiming that the Devil Bats are a weak team when Monta and Sena ask him to rejoin, and also saying that the Ha-Ha brother's are weak compared to him who worked for a year as construction worker, claiming that he is the one more fitted to be quarterback) to cover his true, much more noble, motive (he can't rejoin the Devil Bats since his father's company is in danger and with his father's illness, he's the one who expected to work, and he doesn't want to see the first year get injured by Gao).
* Musashi is a skilled carpenter as shown in the Deimon School Festival when he built a whole casino for the Ha-Ha Brother's Shozo Togano in a matter of minutes, and ended with the saying "Do you want me to stop now? How big do you want this thing?"
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Gen Takekura at Eyeshield 21 Wiki
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