Airi Takanashi

* Second Generation Tokyo Manji Gang Fifth Division Captain (伍番隊 隊長, *Goban-tai Taichō*?)
* Brahman Captain

### **Occupation**

Student (past)
 Gang Member (past)
 Gang Member (present; alternate timeline)
 Magazine Editor (present)

## Personal Information

### **Age**

27 (2017)
 18 (2008)
 15 (2005)

### **Height**

172 cm (5'7¾") (past)
 174 cm (5'8½") (future)

### **Hair Color**

White (past)
 Pale Silver (future)

### **Eye Color**

Aquamarine (left)
 Cerulean (right)

## Relationships

### **Relatives**

Takanashi Family* Unnamed Father†
* Maharu Takanashi (mother)†
* Himari Takanashi (half-older sister)†
* Fuyu Takanashi (half-younger brother)
* Anju Takanashi (half-younger sister)†
* Warabi Takanashi (aunt)

Matsuno Family

* Chifuyu Matsuno (husband)
* Unnamed Father-in-Law†
* Unnamed Mother-in-Law

### **Affiliation**

Tokyo Manji Gang
 Brahman

## Portrayal

### **Live Action**

Sana Minatozaki

**Airi Takanashi** (小 (た) 鳥 (か) 遊 (なし)  姶 (あい) 俐 (り) , *Takanashi Airi*?), or **Karina** (かりな, *Karina*?), is a founding member and the Fifth Division Captain (伍番隊 隊長,, *Goban-tai Taichō*?) of the Tokyo Manji Gang and later, it's rebuilt Second Generation Tokyo Manji Gang. She is a main protagonist of the *Tokyo Revengers* manga as well as the anime adaptation.

## Appearance

Karina is a fair-complexioned young woman of fairly tall stature and slim, but curvaceous physique. She has long, white hair that reaches down to her waist, framing her face and is often styled in braided styles. Karina later cuts her hair down to a ruffled bob previous to the fight against the gang, Valhalla. Having heterochromia, Karina has two different colored eyes: her left being aquamarine and her right being cerulean. They are fairly large, kind-looking, and framed by notably long and thick white eyelashes. She also dons a variety of jewelry among her many piercings on her ears, mostly compromised of studs, small hoops, and a bar through her helix. On her collarbone, she has a tattoo that reads "Never surrender without a fight."

While a member of Brahman, Karina wears a more decorated version of Brahman's uniform, consisting of a baggy hoodie with long flared sleeves and adorned by flowers and the gang's name. Karina also styles a small section of her hair in a braid to the side of her face, tied of by a black ribbon.

During the original timeline, Karina had ruffled thigh-length pale silvery hair. She is noted to have looked much happier compared to her younger years while still in the Tokyo Manji Gang.

During her second appearance as an adult, Karina appears with very long pale silver knee-length hair. It is worn in a half-up and half-down style, the upper portion bun tied off by a thick, long and black ribbon, leaving out pieces to frame her face. She still rides her 1977 Kawasaki Kz1000, but is no longer in a gang.

In Karina's younger years, she had long waist-length pristine white hair and cerulean blue eyes. However, when Mikey punched her in the left eye over a misunderstanding, her eye turned aquamarine during the healing process — in contrast with her original right eye color.

## Personality

In all, Karina is a very loving, loyal, and stubborn young woman who will do absolutely anything for the safety for her friends. She is endlessly loyal to her friends and to the Tokyo Manji Gang, as a promise she made to Mikey, Draken, Pah-Chin, Kazutora, Baji, and Mitsuya upon founding the gang. Karina tries to be steadfast in all aspects of life, even when fights and events seem hopeless. She strays away from showing any kind of sadness or weakness. According to Mitsuya, the only people who have ever seen her cry are some of the founding members and Takemichi.

Being the Fifth Division Captain of the Tokyo Manji Gang, Karina is respected by the members for her strength, authority, and judgment. Although she is typically quiet in rally's and meetings as leaders, Karina will not be hushed in expressing her thoughts when she has something to say. She isn't afraid of talking about controversial opinions and won't get frightened when in a big disagreement with Mikey. While respecting her higher ups, Karina will typically not go unheard, in the situation she has something to say, and is also known to be particularly stubborn among the gang.

Although Karina prefers not to act on impulse, she can be rather temperamental when those she truly cares about are put in harms way. She is proven to be prone to making some thoughtless decisions, even when advised not to, as evident when Karina stormed Valhalla's Hideout for Baji after he injured Chifuyu, and Mikey specifically told her not to act on it. However, Karina would never place herself in a situation where she knew she couldn't win, regardless if she had little thoughts about it previous.

Despite typically displaying herself as striking and intimidating around her gang members, Karina is actually a very serene and caring person naturally. While she is respected by Toman's members, vast majority hold some extent of fear towards her and her extraordinary fighting ability. According to Chifuyu, the last thing Toman members want to do is get Karina angry. However, as just a person, Karina cares a lot about Toman and has a lot of faith in the things they can achieve. Despite her commanding person as a captain and powerful fighter, Karina is still a teenage girl at heart. She has teenage-like tendencies, loves to go shopping for clothing, and goes out to eat with her friends a lot.

## Skills and Abilities

### Authority

As the Fifth Division Captain of the Tokyo Manji Gang, Karina possesses the authority to command her division and is highly respected among the members of the gang. Karina has the power and role to initiate infighting, interrogate, conduct investigations, and sentence punishments on those she believes are possible traitors of Toman, without receiving any permission from Mikey or Draken.

### Fighting Prowess

Karina is greatly regarded as one of the strongest members of Toman, just behind Mikey, and is arguably the strongest female character in the series from a fighting standpoint. Her moniker, the Matchless Karina, is reflective of her strength and how she has yet to meet her match (aside from Mikey). She is strong enough to finish off an opponent with one punch, and her opponents often remark they can't believe she is a girl, much to Karina's dismay.

Similar to Mikey, Karina favors kicks from punches as she has mainly practiced Taekwondo and Muay Thai, making her hits more effective in terms of strength. Although she has amazing punching ability that rivals her kicks, she typically uses them sparingly and more often to throw off her opponent from her kicking style. In conjunction, Karina frequently uses her knees and shins to deliver attacks which have become infamous for destroying motorcycles.

It is later revealed by Draken that the only person who has been able to defeat Karina was Mikey and even then, it was an extremely tiring fight for the two of them.

### Marital Arts

Unlike majority of delinquents, Karina has had and continues to receive training in martial arts, particularly in the disciplines Taekwondo and Muay Thai. Gained from her training, her reflexes, fighting intuition, flexibility, and strength are unrivaled.

Karina's fighting style is heavily influenced by Muay Thai in particular, using her shins to deliver roundhouse kicks; rather than the balls of her feet or instep like Mikey. She has shown to have mastered various Muay Thai and Taekwondo kicks, but has become extremely infamous for her roundhouse kicks and it's variation the switch roundhouse kick. Karina is effortlessly fake out her enemies who are all knocked out instantly.

### Endurance

Karina has an incredible amount of stamina and endurance, being able to fight for long periods of time without even breaking a sweat. She has shown to be hit by powerful bowls that would typically have taken out majority of people completely, however Karina is able to put them past her and continue to fight on. In the occasions that Karina has been knocked out, she is able to get up fairly quickly and return fighting like nothing happened. Possibly fatal injuries mean nothing to her and her offensive abilities do not lower in the slightest.

### Flexibility

Karina has also become infamous for her extremely limber body, allowing herself to stretch and contort her body into typically unnatural positions. She has incorporated this into her own fighting style, to be quick and have a wide range of motion. Utilizing her flexibility, she is able to give more powerful blows, flexing her body into unnatural positions to deliver kicks, and deal with them better herself, as she is less likely to pull muscles and gain injuries. She can perform consecutive backflips into the splits, hold her leg directly up against her face, and balance on hand while stretching her legs out, among numerous actions she has proven capable.

### Charisma

Karina has been blessed with great charisma and ability to get along with many different types of people, which allows her to maintain her division and garner the respect of other people and gang leaders. She has been shown to easily persuade people with her charismatic nature and inclination to be kind. Upon first meeting people, Karina is able to gain their liking and favor from just a simple conversation, as shown with her first interaction with Takemichi. Between her sweet personality and allure, she is incredibly good at keep relations between Toman and other gangs in check.

### Medical Expertise

From her interest in the medical field, Karina has taken a variety of classes in learning to treat injuries. Thus, she is able to tend to a wide variety of injuries effortlessly. She tries to get to everyone following incidents, but because of all the members, she is unable to tend to everyone. According to Mikey, his wounds heal faster when Karina has taken care of them.

## Quotes

* *"You know, Mikey... I am so lucky to have you in my life. I genuinely could not have imagined better days until now without you in them... And I just want you to know that I am there for you. Through thick and thin, rain or shine, I'll stand here all the same."* — Karina expresses her feelings and care for Mikey
* *"If you truly want it to end, then stand up, Hakkai. You're trying to go the easy way out and I won't let you."* — Karina tells Hakkai she knows what he wants to do
* *"I'm not strong and you know that. To be strong is to not lose yourself, regardless of how hard the circumstances. I'm fragile; amidst change, whether I'll retain myself stays uncertain."* — Karina explains her perspective of strength to Takemitchy
* *"I've never met a strong person with an easy past."* — Karina talks to Emma

## Etymology

* The name **Airi** means "beautiful, good-looking" (姶) (**ai**) and "clever" (俐) (**ri**).
	+ The nickname **Karina** means "love" or "precious" in English.
		- **Karina** is a short form of the name **Katarina**.
* Karina's surname **Takanashi** means "little, small" (小) (**ta**), "birds" (鳥) (**ka**), and "play" (遊) (**nashi**).
	+ Her surname is a wordplay as it means "small birds play" all together. Because it consists of of eagle (たか) (taka) and without (なし) (nashi). Without the eagle, small birds can play safely.

## Trivia

* According to the first official character book:
	+ Karina's most prized possession is her 1977 Kawasaki Kz1000.
	+ Her favorite foods are Katsudon, Pad Thai, Senbei, and Drunken Noodles.
	+ Karina dislikes Natto and Umeboshi.
	+ Her image color is teal.
	+ Her special skill is contortion.
	+ The person she admires the most is Mikey.
	+ The person she fears is nobody.
	+ Karina's relationship chart:
		- Mikey: Adore
		- Chifuyu: Beloved
		- Takashi: Cherish
		- Takemichi: Like
	+ Her dream is to be a light to all delinquents.
	+ Her heroic story (or failure): She defeated an entire biker gang without breaking a sweat after pulling two all-nighters for school.
	+ A daily activity of a certain day (from morning till bedtime):
		- Wake up early to go in a shower and style her hair, go to school, unmeaningly intimidate her classmates, eats lunch, completes any studying and homework for the afternoon in the park. Then goes for her typical bike ride with Mikey to the Toman rally.
	+ From the question, "Who do you want to be your lover?", Karina is ranked number 2 from Top 3 Worst Girlfriends.
	+ From the question, "Who do you want to marry?", Karina ranked number 1 from Top 3 Worst Wives.