Takkun

Takkun (タッくん?, Takkun) is a stray kitten that Mamimi adopts in episode 2 but he eventually abandons her to be with a white cat.
==Profile==
He is one of many pets of Mamimi's to share this name, though he is around for the longest. He is 4 months old at he time she adopts him. Since Mamimi is not allowed to have pets at her house, she keeps and plays with Takkun by the riverbank. However, he still follows her constantly, including to the Nandaba house. He favors playing with Canti while there and jumps towards him often. He goes with her just about everywhere, but in episode 6, he is shown to have left Mamimi in favor of a white female kitten for a mate.
In the novel, it was revealed that Eri Ninamori was now taking care of the cat. In the novelization of "FLCLimax", as Mamimi searches the riverbed for Takkun, Ninamori looks down at her from the bridge and vows that the high schooler will never find the cat. Ninamori then explains that during the previous week, she had found Takkun freezing in the rain. She had noted that Takkun had injured one of his legs, his skinny frame was convulsing and that he was too weak to even meow. After realizing that the cat was the one that Mamimi had been carrying around with her, she became angry that the high schooler would be that careless to let a pet suffer like that. As she continued to watch Mamimi search in the rain for Takkun, Ninamori whispered to herself that Mamimi will never find the cat, because it is now at the Ninamori residence and that she should learn to do things properly if she ever gets a pet again. 
Later in the chapter, it was explained that Takkun was a small, weak cat that was being bullied by several elementary school children (with Mamimi believing they were actually demons from Endsville). Despite having been bullied herself a few moments earlier, Mamimi had ran over and picked up the cat from the children, and threatened to hit them with rocks if she saw them again. While she did have good intentions, she then noted that the place she lived at would not allow pets (and if her parents had the money, they would have moved to a place that did) After two hours of searching, she had hoped that someone would have taken him in as a pet, before realizing that she is now alone without the cat.
In FLCL: Grunge he makes a brief cameo. In "Shinpachi (episode)", he is briefly seen running through the alley behind Miyabi Sushi as Shinpachi and Orinoko taking about his knife. In "Shonari (episode)", he is seen resting on a platform before being scared off as Haruko arrives to reclaim her Vespa.
==Appearance==
Takkun is a small, black cat with cartoon-ish proportions. He lacks much detail, his legs ending in points without paws or feet and his mouth being virtually nonexistent. His only distinguishing features are his large, round eyes, which have small black dots for pupils with no irises. When he is jumping at something or trying to be expressive, his legs are represented by cartoon-ish lines conveying incredibly fast motion.
==Gallery==
Takkun/Gallery
==Trivia==
*In his Newtype USA section, director Yoshiyuki Sadamoto reveals that Naota's voice actor is used for Takkun because the cat is named after him.
*According to early proposal documents in The FLCL Archives, Takkun was at one point originally going to be a puppy.
*In FLCL: Grunge, while he is not credited with a voice actor in the Japanese cast, the English cast list Maki Terashima-Furuta as his voice actor.
**Maki Terashima-Furuta is the president of Production I.G. U.S.A. and also provided the voice for "Fish".
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