Taiko Nakamura

Taiko Nakamura, better known as Checkered Ninja or CN for short, is the titular deutagonist of the Danish Animated Film Checkered Ninja and it's sequel Checkered Ninja 2. He is the vengeful spirit, who was a ninja 400 years ago, but due to him losing the children he took care of, he decided to give his soul to kill anyone who would dare hurt children.
He is voiced by Anders Matthesen in the Danish Version, and by Luke Griffin in the English Dub.
== Biography ==
=== Backstory ===
Taiko Nakamura was a ninja 400 years before the events of the story, who protected ten children. One day, his village was attacked, and a leader of a clan told Taiko to bring his children to a house in the middle of the forest, which he did, but the leader betrayed him and sent sixteen samurai to the house. Taiko was able to kill all the samurai, but was injured from the fight and saw the house with the children burning.
After this, he swore revenge and killed himself so he could become a spirit, and after doing so, he went to the town the clan leader who betrayed him was in and stabbed him to death with ten swords. For the next four hundred years, Taiko would murder people who would hurt children by possessing living and non-living things to kill them.
=== Checkered Ninja ===
Taiko's spirit possesses a ninja doll a Thai kid named Quang made from the scarf of Philip Eberfroe, which is what gets him killed, so Taiko goes on a revenge mission to kill Philip. While in a boat to go after Philip, Stewart Stardust finds the doll and decides to give the doll to his nephew Aske Stenstrom, and while he was getting bullied by Glenn, Taiko faked Aske's voice, nearly causing Glenn to beat up Aske had it not have been for one of the school's teachers appearing and stopping Glenn.
Later that day, Taiko also fakes Aske's voice and causes Glenn to go after Aske, only for him to knock Glenn off his bike. When they got back to Aske's house, Aske questions how he is alive, and Taiko tells him that he is his new best friend, and that he would make his life better if he helps him find Philip Eberfroe, whom he mistakes for the father of Jessica, a girl Aske liked.
Taiko would later train Aske how to fight, and at school, he made Aske stand up to Glenn, causing Glenn to declare that he would fight Aske that Saturday. Later, he would also ask for Aske to distract his teacher while he took several tools from a room at school, and while he did get the tools, Aske was sent to the headmaster's office, as Aske told him that he wanted to make a sword, which the school doesn't allow. Sune later goes to the headmaster's office as well, as Aske made his book report with proffanity as revenge for blackmailing him, but he then finds out that Sune had a copy of Aske's drawing about Jessica, and Sune told him that he would send it after he got out of the headmaster's office.
Taiko then faked Aske's voice and used the school's radio to tell everyone that he loved Jessica, which suprisingly got Jessica to like him because of his courage. They would then make several traps to fight against Glenn, and during this, Aske would ask how Taiko was alive, and he tells him his backstory.
That Saturday, he helps Aske defeat Glenn, which causes Jessica to allow him to go to her party. While at the party, Taiko would pressure Aske into meeting with Philip Eberfroe so he could "deliver his credit card" and when he found out that Jessica's father wasn't the Philip Eberfroe he was looking for, he told Aske to leave the party and go after the Philip Eberfroe he was after, but he refused.
To make sure he would go after Philip, Taiko threw a drink in his pants and faked Aske's voice and humiliated him. Taiko then went to Jessica when she was in the bathroom and used Aske's voice to tell her that he was too hot for her and that she should start dating Odysseus, which caused Aske and Jessica to break up. Taiko then tells Aske that he would bring them back togheter if he helped him find Philip, which he agrees. They then go to Philip's house, and they find out Philip is planning to go on a trip, and after finding Philip's tickets, Aske says bingo, causing Philip's dog Bingo to attack Aske, but Taiko knocks it unconscious.
Philip then hears this and goes to his room, where he finds the unconscious Bingo and asks who was in his house. Taiko then to kill Philip, but Aske stops him, causing Philip to run away and call the police. Taiko and Aske then have an argument before they leave Philip's house. Taiko then asks where Philip was going, but Aske refused to tell him as he didn't want to be part of a murder. Taiko then threatened Aske to force him to tell him where Philip was going, but Aske still refused, but he refused, as they had been through so much togheter, so he decided to try to kill Aske's half-brother Sune, and tried to use Aske's earlier words of Aske saying that he wanted Sune dead, but Aske tells him that those were just words, but Taiko tells him that he doesn't understand words, only actions.
Taiko then goes to Aske's house and tries to kill Sune by smothering him with a pillow, but Aske stops him, but before his parents witness this event and misunderstand it for Aske trying to kill his brother, causing him to get sent to a mental hospital. Taiko then appears in Aske's room where he starts taunting him over him not being able to help him kill Philip, and threatened to kill the psychologist who was taking care of Aske if he didn't help him kill Philip, but Aske convinces him of a way to stop Philip without killing him.
Taiko then convinces Aske's psychologist to free Aske by threatening him, and they then go to see Aske's uncle Stewart, as Aske believed he could help him. Aske then asks his uncle how he could get in possession of drugs, with Stewart telling him of a drug dealer named Scooter Scotty, whom Aske got one kilogram of cocaine before knocking him out and having him arrested. They decided to use the cocaine to stop Philip by accusing him of smuggling it. Taiko goes to the airport to go to the plane to Thailand which Philip was using, while Aske stayed and sayed goodbye to Taiko.
Taiko then blames Philip of smuggling cocaine by throwing himself to Philip with the cocaine inside him, causing a search dog to rip Taiko in half and revealing the cocaine, and Philip is then arrested. It's later revealed that Taiko recorded an audio message to Jessica where he apologizes to her while using Aske's voice, causing Aske and Jessica to start dating again, and thus keeping his promise. By the end of the movie, Aske becomes a ninja and decides to protects people.
=== Checkered Ninja 2 ===
Taiko posesses the body of a hedgehog that was close to Aske while he was going home, and after understanding that it was him, Aske brought Taiko home. There, Taiko explains that Philip Eberfroe was going to leave prison as all the evidence against him was destroyed, so he asked Aske to help him stop Philip, and while Aske wanted to keep his promise with Sune about going to Spain, he understood that stopping Philip was more important, so he convinces his mother to go to Thailand. Aske then decided to make a ninja doll for Taiko, which Taiko posessed when his hedgehog body started dying because he ate too much smoothie, which hedgehogs have an allergy.
After getting to Thailand, Aske and Taiko would go to the prison Philip was in, and saw him leaving it with his henchman Carsten, so Taiko decided to taunt Philip by taunting him over killing a child by faking a journalist's voice. Philip, scared by this, decides to leave to a restaurant, and while they were talking about the children that used to work for Philip since he wanted to kill them to get rid of evidence, Taiko tried to spy on them, but a kid appeared and took him, so Taiko decided to stab the kid in the hand, causing the child to start crying and his mother decided to give him to Aske back, which causes Philip to leave as he was feeling unconfortable over seeing a ninja doll similar to the one that got him to prison.
Taiko and Aske then found out that Carsten and Philip were going to a strip club, so they decide to go there. While in Philip's office, Jessica called Aske, but after seeing that Philip and Carsten were going to the office, he faked Aske's voice and turned off the phone. Philip and Carsten started talking about the first child they would kill, which was a girl named Honey Bee, and while they were talking, Aske's phone started to ring, causing them to find Aske, and noticing that Aske was the kid who was spying on them in the restaurant, Philip decided to leave while Carsten tried to interrogate Aske.
Taiko then decided to leave Aske behind to try to kill Philip, but he failed. That night, Aske and Taiko would have an argument over how he almost left him to be interrogated by Carsten, and was only fine because his uncle Stewart appeared and saved his life, and after understanding that Sune was spying on him, he decided to leave Taiko in the balcony of the hotel they were in. Aske was then able to convince his step-father Jorn to go to the island where Honey Bee was in, with Taiko and Aske going to every restaurant in the island to find her, but they fail to do so. Aske is then almost hit by Philip's former interpreter Jasper by accident, and Jasper tells him that he would help him stop Philip.
While Taiko and Aske were arguing on wheter or not they should trust Jasper, it's revealed that Sune filmed them talking and threatened to tell his parents about Taiko's existence if they didn't allow him to join the mission, which they accept. Aske and Taiko would then go to the shop where Jasper was while Sune stayed outside, with Philip and Carsten being there as well and they lock them in a room about to explode, and when Jasper tried to stop them, he is knocked out and put in the room by Philip as well before they left. Taiko was able to escape the room and informed Sune that Aske and Jasper were trapped, which leads to Sune oppening the room and saving Aske, and when Taiko suggests to leave Jasper behind since he betrayed them, Aske refused and he and Sune save his life before the shop exploded.
Aske, Sune, and Taiko would then go to the restaurant Honey Bee was, but Philip notices them going to the restaurant and orders Carsten's gang to go after them, although Taiko knocks them out and they are able to go to the restaurant. They then stop Philip and Carsten from kidnapping Honey Bee, with Carsten getting beaten by Taiko and Philip accidentaly dying while fighting Aske. At the end of the movie, Taiko told Aske that he wanted to stay with him even after the mission was over, with him later getting a new ninja doll body which Aske made for him.
== Personality ==
Taiko has a great desire for justice and revenge to those who hurt children, due to him swearing to do so after he lost the children he took care of. Despite this, his obsession to complete his mission comes off as partialy hypocritical, as he is very ruthless towards others in his way and is willing to kill innocents in order to achieve his goals, especialy with Sune, who, despite bullying Aske, was still just a child. However, Taiko decided to help Aske in getting Philip arrested after he told him there was a way to stop Philip without killing him, and would make Jessica start dating Aske again after the latter helped him stop Philip.
Taiko also seems to believe that women are better at cooking than fighting. He also doesn't forgive his enemies as easily as Aske does, as seen when he was fine with leaving Jasper in a shop about to explode because he betrayed him and Aske. Taiko develops a friendship with Aske, as he decided to stay with him even after the mission was over.
== Gallery ==
CheckeredNinjaPoster.png|Taiko in the Checkered Ninja Poster.
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Checkered Ninja 2.jpg|Taiko in the Checkered Ninja 2 Poster.
Taiko Nakamura Doll Reveal.jpg
Taiko Calling Aske a Coward.jpg
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