Rensuke Takeda

"*Can you guys stop making horse jokes or anything about my future profession? It gets a little bit annoying when you hear them for umpteenth time.*"
—Rensuke Takeda

**Rensuke Takeda** (武田 錬介. *Takeda Rensuke*) is a student of Class 1-E located in Kunugigaoka Junior High School and is basically infamous for his ridiculously unkempt hair. Originally a student from C-Class, he was regarded as the best, but due in part because he was caught violating school regulations (that being beating an A-Class student simply because the A-Class Student is bullying Rensuke for being poor and having terrible hair). Now in Class E, Rensuke would be good friends with fellow animal enthusiast Haruna Takenaka while also developing a rivalry between himself and Taiga Uesugi. For a while, it would look as though Rensuke's future in Class E is already set in motion, if it weren't for the appearance of a being known as Korosensei, the same being that somehow destroyed the moon. Now with the entire class in motion to assassinate Korosensei, Rensuke wouldn't take it upon himself to fall behind, and if he really wishes to, he may as well send in his favorite hounds to chase Korosensei; mostly for amusement as he see this as funny when a being like Korosensei is running away from Rensuke's hounds.

## Appearance

One thing that can make people recognize Rensuke Takeda is his brown hair that appeared to be messy.

## Personality

Noted to be the opposite when it comes being compared to Haruna Takenaka, Rensuke Takeda is mostly seen as more smart but it comes to the cost of Rensuke having to be more of a hard worker compared to Haruna's more laid-back personality. It is also shown that Rensuke is sarcastic, about on par with the amount of sarcasm that Rensuke says with Hidemitsu Kuroha.

Aside from being a hard worker, Rensuke is also calm and collected as he prefers to let his mind do all the work for him, being able to analyze what strategy is the best for assassinating Korosensei.

## Abilities

**Animal Communication:** Known to be an animal whisperer, Rensuke Takeda's skills in communicating with animals helped with his training to be an assassin, such is with the case of Rensuke managing to bring in a flock of birds in order to pick Korosensei, all the while Rensuke would take this opportunity to rain fire upon Korosensei, but like any other plan, it would fail.

## Etymology

* Rensuke's surname **Takeda** means "military, martial" (武) (**take**) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (**ta**/**da**).
* His given name **Rensuke** means "inexpensive" (廉) (**ren**) and "shell, shellfish" (介) (**suke**).

## Behind the Scenes

* Rensuke Takeda is physically based off of **Nate** from **Pokémon Black 2 and White 2**.
* His given name comes from **Rensuke Isogai**, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
* His surname meanwhile comes from **Takeda Shingen**, a daimyo and head of the Takeda clan.
* Rensuke's ranking of 70 comes from Meng Kang.
* His birthday of May 5 corresponds with how Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire, when Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica, the completion of the Invasion of Ryukyu, and when Project Mercury took place.
* It happens to be the same day that King Afonso III of Portugal, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, and New Zealand-Australian politician Thomas Bavin are born.
* This just so happened that his birthday of May 5 happens to be the same day that Prince Tsunenaga of Japan, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, Albanian Politician Qemal Stafa, and English civil Engineer Donald Bailey all died.