Ayumi Takahara

Ayumi Takahara is a character from the The World God Only Knows series.
== Charactah Account ==
Ayumi is Keima Katsuragi's classmate at Maijima Private High School. She is the first capture target in the series and the host of the goddess Mercury.
Ayumi's defining character traits include general cheerfulness and athleticism. She is the track and field team's star runner at Maijima and quite possibly the fastest person in the school. In the anime and an omake, she is depicted as running recklessly to get anywhere, often running in her haste into walls or people. Although she initially succumbed to upper-classman pressure, along with her own insecurity of self-confidence, with the help of Keima, she quickly became an important member of the team. One of her habits is to tie her hair up whenever she is preparing to run seriously.
Ayumi claims to have excelled at academics in the past, but due to her devotion to running, it seems that she is not performing as well presently. She is a good friend to Elsie and has appeared multiple times in the manga, cementing her position as a character of some importance. Ayumi is also in Chihiro's light music band, the 2-B Pencils, where she plays the guitar.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* The World God Only Knows
* The World God Only Knows II
* The World God Only Knows: Four Girls and an Idol
* The World God Only Knows: Goddesses
=== Manga ===
* The World God Only Knows
* The World God Only Knows Pilot
== Trivia ==
* Ayumi enjoys running, comedy television shows and eating.
* Ayumi dislikes warming up, muscle training and spicy food.
* Ayumi describes her recent troubles somewhat pragmatically and ironically, as having her breasts increase in size, which impedes her ability to run.
* The cause of the crevice in Ayumi's heart was peer pressure from her seniors and her own lack of confidence.
* Ayumi's personality may have been based on the Dōkyūsei heroine, Tanaka Misa.
** Similarly, a character with similar looks and personality to Ayumi appeared in one of Wakaki-sensei's earlier work, Seikesshou Albatross, by the name Rika Midorikawa, even though her relation with the main hero is much more friendlier from the start in Albatross.
* Ayumi fandom shorthand is "93".
* Ayumi has had her first kiss with Keima Katsuragi and vice-versa.
** During her re-conquest, Ayumi kissed Keima the same way she had kissed him in her first conquest, taking the initiative of the act.
* Although Ayumi is the first capture target of the series, she is the last Goddess hostess to be revealed.
** Therefore, Ayumi is also the first Goddess host shown in the series. Meanwhile, Tenri Ayukawa is the first Goddess host introduced to have one.
* Ayumi's conquest is the shortest one of all other conquest targets, being only 1 chapter (although, the 1st chapter got a lot more pages compared to the other chapters). Meanwhile, her re-conquest is the longest conquest so far, measuring as long as 21 chapters, 38 chapters or even 69 chapters!
* In her omake, Izumi Ishikiri stated that Ayumi's trend of tying up her hair was becoming popular. However, Ayumi's "trend" of faking an injury right before a track meet also seemed to spread.
* It is revealed in the omake that Ayumi was having trouble calling Keima an "Otamegane" after her conquest. When she did try, she called him "Otamegi" instead, which is a conjunction of "Otamegane" and "Katsuragi".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ayumi Takahara at The World God Only Knows Wiki
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