Taka Takahiro

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**Taka Takahiro** is a character featured in the English fangame *Danganronpa: Antebellum* created by **Rippilie**.

He is known as the **Ultimate TV Personality.**

## Gallery

📷 For more images of Taka, see: Danganronpa: Antebellum/Image Gallery and Taka Takahiro/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Taka is a short, nineteen-year-old Swedish-Japanese man with pale skin, messy blonde hair, and blue eyes with star-shaped pupils. Taka wears a white button-up shirt with gold buttons and a star print, a red blazer with golden accents and buttons connected with matching chains, three gold pins, one star-shaped on his left lapel, a red bow tie with a golden button, a red belt, and blue dress pants with a red beaded keychain with a gold star attached to his left pocket. On his feet, Taka wears burgundy loafers with red bows and black stars on the sides and yellow and white striped socks. When not carrying his microphone, he carries it in his left pocket.

## Personality

Taka is loud, eccentric, and seemingly never stops talking. Although Taka puts on a smiley persona most of the time, he can be quite cynical, secretly despising pandering to old people only wanting their money and having a shallow view on happiness, believing that fame, money, and an army of fans under his control are the keys to his happiness.

In an attempt to branch out to a younger audience and become 'cool' to the youth, Taka frequently references outdated slang and internet memes and inserts emojis, asterisks, and abbreviations usually used over text into his speech by saying them out loud.

## History

### Early Life

At the age of five, Taka came out to his parents as transgender, or what he refers to as "God [making] a factory error." Although both of his parents were fully supportive of him and helped him transition, his peers bullied him, which not only led to him being homeschooled from then on but also to him becoming out of touch with others his age and having only his pet fish, Man, for a friend.

### Killing Game

#### Prologue

Shinku meets Taka in the sterilization center, recognizing him from television. Taka introduces himself as if he were on one of his shows. Shinku remembers that his grandmother watches one of Taka’s shows, to which Taka sighs, explaining his goal to reach out to younger audiences who he hopes will no longer make fun of him on the internet. Shinku asks him about the girl hanging from the ceiling, Asuga, to which Taka replies that he tried to communicate with her, but she only laughed. Asuga jumps down from the ceiling and admits she was having fun listening to Taka and Shinku's awkward conversation. Taka insists that he is skilled in acting and was only pretending to be awkward.

Following Mononeko's announcement of the killing game, Taka asserts that since some of the students, like himself, are famous celebrities, someone will come looking for them. He later leaves the lecture hall. That night, when Taka and the others are in their dorms, Mononeko broadcasts the first trio of crimes, Ismene's, Kotaro's, and Mint's

#### Chapter 1

The next morning, Taka joins the others in the dining hall for a communal breakfast. When Ismene shows up late, many of the others antagonise her for her crime, and the conversation quickly devolves into a blame game about the other two crimes as well. Shortly after Ismene leaves, Taka posits that the muffins Mint made for them all may be poisoned, prompting Shinku to have had enough and leave the dining hall.

The next morning, Taka, Kiyoshi and Mint arrive at Shinku's door to tell him the girls had congregated in the sterilisation room along with Kotaro. Taka is quick to tell him about "honkers!" and says that Shinku should come along with them to see what the girls are doing, implying Taka himself believes they're doing something sexual. Whether Shinku agrees to go or not, Taka, Kiyoshi and Mint go to the sterilisation room to find the girls in a circle performing a sacrificial ritual, with Kotaro in the middle as the sacrifice. This disappoints Taka, and the trio leave the girls alone.

After their gathering, Mononeko releases motive videos on the students MonoPads, depicting a hostage of someone they each care for. Taka's motive video shows his pet fish, Man, as a hostage. After viewing the video, she starts to cry and Asuga and Maiko try to calm him down.

The next afternoon, Taka alongside the others is called to the lecture hall to be informed of a tea party Yui was throwing. Taka agrees to attend. Once at the party, Taka and the others hear a scream in Ismene's voice, Dracul rushing out to investigate it. Kotaro and Eiichi then bring out the food, and Taka eats and socialises with Asuga and Eiichi, but passes out soon after.

He wakes up an unknown amount of time later, seeing Dracul's body disemboweled on top of the giant cake Kotaro prepared. During the trial, he initially believes Ismene killed Dracul, but eventually votes for Maiko as the killer.

After the trial, Mononeko reveals the second trio of crimes. The first is Taka's, revealing he tampered with evidence at crime scenes to make for more compelling true crime programs, followed by Kiyoshi's crime and Maiko's crime. After the crime reveals were over, Maiko attempted to strangle Taka, but would be stopped by Asuga.

## Talent

### TV Personality

Taka is the Ultimate TV Personality who is most famously known for hosting several television shows, including a family gameshow, a true crime show, and a news broadcast. Much to his dismay, he is mostly popular with elderly people, and he wishes to improve to branch out to his younger target audience.

## Creation and Development

Taka's beta design was similar to his final design but featured more saturated and blue-tinted colors. His hair was shorter, and his bow tie, lapels, and belt were black instead of red. The white bow tie logo on his blazer was black and located on his left sleeve, while the star keychain attached to his pocket had yellow beads instead of red. The chains connecting his blazer's buttons and his microphone were absent. Taka also wore a small red top hat with gold accents, similar to the one presently worn by his pet fish, Man.

Early in development. Taka was going to be Rei Higashi's cousin or nephew.

## Trivia

* Taka has an official Twitter account under the name thetakatakahiro.
* The theme song Taka creates for his pet fish, Man, in his Free Time Events is a reference to the lyrics of the English Sailor Moon opening.
* The "friend fiction" Taka creates in his Chapter 3 Free Time Events, "Taka's Friends Sugar Girls," is a reference to the anime parody web series Nyan Neko Sugar Girls.
* Taka's favorite food is Mountain Dew with ramen and fried chicken.
* Taka is both transgender and bisexual.

## Reference

1. ↑ **Instagram:** Been slacking on the flags!