Ten Takashi

* Manga (Ten)
* Manga (HERO)
* Drama (Ten)
* Drama (Ten, Akagi-hen)

Ten Takashi (天 貴史 *Ten Takashi*) is the titular protagonist of Ten - Tenhoudouri no Kaidanji and a supporting character in HERO - Akagi no Ishi wo Tsugu Otoko. He is a mahjong rep player of who used to cheat by turning off the lights and making tenhou chuuren poutou hands to win back money for his friends, and letting his opponents beat him up to pent out their frustrations of losing. He starts to play more seriously as he goes against major opponents such as Akagi Shigeru, and later becomes the leader of the East side of the East-West tournament against Harada Katsumi's West side.

## Personality

Ten at first is seen as care-free and moronic due to how he wastes money and flirts with his wives, along with not taking any of the mahjong matches he's in seriously and acts ridiculous as well, but is also an open-hearted and deeply caring person to others, shown with him going out of his way to help his friends who lost and holding up a falling Christmas tree in the winter to have Tatsumi and Naoko experience their Christmas night.

As he confronts more dangerous opponents such as the yakuza, he starts to show a more serious and intelligent side in his plays while taking massive risks as a gambler.

## Biography

Before the events of Ten, he was a young rep player wandering around Shinjuku who later challenged Asai Ginji due to his reputation in Tokyo and lost to him. He never forgot about his loss towards Ginji and the trick he pulled on him.

### Ten - Tenhoudouri no Kaidanji

Hearing about Igawa Hiroyuki, a young mahjong player wiping out most of his friends, Ten becomes interested and challenges him to a high stakes gamble. Throughout the match Ten intentionally messes up and loses until the last round, confusing Hiroyuki until the lights goes out. Ten through cheating reveals he has a tenhou chuuren hand, winning the match in a comeback. He later befriends Hiroyuki after the match even when he denies he cheated.

Ten later invited Hiroyuki over to move at his house with his wives, who ends up immediately leaving due to Ten giving most of his stuff away out of sympathy towards others. Ten later meets Hiroyuki again as his opponent, who begun working with yakuza member Sawada, teaming up with Nakanishi waging his ramen restaurant property for the match. Ten begins to play more seriously in this match, having Nakanishi cooperate with him and begins to gain the upper hand. However, when Hiroyuki starts to take advantage of Nakanishi's desperation to win, Ten cheats again using his tenhou trick, winning the match. Ten then later confronts Sawada, who cuts his chest with a sword. Later in the ambulance he reveals to Hiroyuki that his major injury was from being hit on the head after being attacked, and is grateful that Sawada took responsibility with his loss dealing with Ten for his sake to avoid further trouble along with calling the ambulance for him. Hiroyuki begins to see Ten's kindness and finds a newfound respect for him.

While recovering in the hospital, Ten hears about the match Sawada will be in after his failure in the last game. Concerned for both Sawada and Hiroyuki, as he is going to serve as his rep player for the game, he later arrives much to their relief due to struggling against the player Murota. Ten switches with Hiroyuki and exposes his opponents tricks, using Murata's own intimidation tactics and strategy against him to his advantage. Ten easily makes a comeback and humiliates Murota.

#### Match Against Akagi

After Murota's defeat, Akagi is hired to replace him to gain an edge over Ten. Akagi's brilliance and skill as a gambler ended up having Ten start to struggle throughout the game. However during the match, Ten manages to notice Akagi's weak point. After another win pulled off by Akagi, Ten starts to see a blindspot in his plans and begins to set up his comeback.
Ten takes a massive gamble and begins to strike against Akagi's blindspot and manages to fare well against Akagi's tactics and making a close comeback, exciting Akagi and having him put his heart into it as well. Ten manages to make a win and a comeback after this, with Akagi stating that he'll quit if Ten manages to outwit him in the end. Ten continues to have a row of wins and a full comeback as well until the last round. Akagi manages to win off of Ten during his dealer turn but ultimately could not make it in the end. Ten wins the match and Akagi drops out, with the opponent no longer finding any other rep player that matches Akagi's level, Ten and Sawada's side wins with Sawada free of his predicament. Ten and Sawada end up going their separate ways with Hiroyuki after the game.