Akito Takagi

Akito Takagi (Takagi Akito) is the deuteragonist in the series, Bakuman. Takagi was also the one who first found out about Mashiro Moritaka's manga drawing talent, he was the one who proposed the idea of Mashiro teaming up with him to draw manga. Like Mashiro, Takagi strives to be the best he can be.
==Background==
Takagi's father lost his job as a banker when Takagi was in second or third grade. His mother wanted him to avenge his father, and pushed him to study very hard, even before he was in elementary school. When he was in fifth grade Akito snapped and told his mother he would decide his own future. Since then his mother has said nothing to him of his choices. Takagi has an older brother who is in a university.
== Overview ==
Takagi's is Mashiro's classmate and the smartest student in their class. He comes up with the idea to become a mangaka with Mashiro in order to do something more interesting with his life
==Appearance==
Akito is quite tall and skinny, he has medium length blond hair, gold/yellow eyes and wears glasses. He is quite often seen wearing a large pair of headphones around his neck. He often wears a red track sweater. At the start of the manga, Akito's hairstyle was more curly and wild, but it has now flattened. 
==Personality==
Intelligent and calculating, Takagi is very observant of his surroundings. At the beginning of the story, he stated that he doesn't have neither ability to sing nor outstanding looks, which would eventually help him through the show-business, that's why he decided to stick with manga, calling it a popular modern medium and a quick way to earn money. He dreamed of creating manga since his childhood, but lacked the skill to draw, something he made up for by teaming up with Mashiro. A good manga writer, Takagi only has trouble with gags, something that lead to the end of Tanto. He is also very awkward when it comes to romance in his younger days, often accidently insulting Miyoshi. He is not very good at hiding his frustration, such as when Tanto was failing. He also seems to have care greatly about society's opinion on his work, not being able to bear complaints on PCP from enraged parents, them saying it has bad influence on their children. 
==Trivia==
*Takagi wears Converse brand shoes (He wears the All Star Model) and Sony brand headphones.
*Takagi ranked 5th in Weekly Shonen Jump popularity character polls.
*Takagi bears a slight resemblance to Light Yagami from Death Note, another manga created by Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba. He also bears a grat resembance to Utau Zeigo.
*Takagi can be compared to Tsugumi Ohba, the writer of Bakuman partnered with illustrator Takeshi Obata.
*Dragon Ball, by Akira Toriyama, is his favorite manga.
*He among Moritaka Mashiro made a cameo in To Aru Majutsu no Index episode 10 walking near Accelerator.
*Occasionally in the more recent chapters, when receiving calls from Jump, he has a smartphone resembling the Galaxy S line of phones by Samsung.
*In the anime, Akito already has his hair the style it would be later in the manga. Possibly done, so as to not confuse anyone by the sudden change.
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