Taiga Akatora

**Taiga Akatora** (タイガ・アカトラ) is the main antagonist in Camp Buddy and as of the Camp Buddy 2.0 update, he is one of the love interests in the game that Keitaro can pursue. He is a "secret" romance route.

## Background

**Caution!**

This section contains **spoilers** from the story.
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While littl of his life outside Camp Buddy is know it is shown that Taiga first joined Camp Buddy one year prior to when the game takes places. It also revealed that he joined the camp at the request of Kieran, his boyfriend at the time, so that both of them could have a wonderful summer together.

At first, he was making a lot of friends and enjoyed his time with Kieran there. One day, he saw Eduard being bullied and stood up for him, which won him Eduard's heart. Later, when Lee wanted to stand up against the bullies like Taiga did, he was beaten by them. It was Taiga who raised his spirits again and protected him from then on. Taiga also made friends with Natsumi, and Yoichi, engaging in various activities together. These events however, caused Taiga to distance himself from Kieran and not have any time for him, slowly but harshly difting the two apart.

Because of these actions, Taiga also made himself some enemies, which mirrors the way of Keitaro and Taiga himself a year later. At a sports event which Taiga and his group (consisting of himself, Lee, Eduard, Yoichi, and Natsumi at the time) won, it was said that Taiga beat up one of the members of the opposing team. This was a lie though; the members beat up their own teammate and forced him to lie to make everyone believe it was Taiga's doing. Thus, he was framed as a bully and a cheater. When Lee and Eduard tried to stand up for Taiga, they were bullied as well, which Taiga could not approve of. This led to a fight with another camper which was unfortunately witnessed by Sir Goro and visitors of the camp.

By this point, the boy that was beaten up decided to leave the camp out of guilt, but not before confessing to Taiga that it was Kieran who was behind the false beat up. After being confronted by Taiga, Kieran confessed to him that he did it out of anger and jealousy as not only Taiga distanced himself from him, but also pushed him away further by suggesting him to join another group during the Sports Fest instead of inviting him to join his. In the heat of the moment, Kieran accidentally injured Taiga's face, leaving a permanent scar over his nose. Horrified at what he had done and unable to face him, Kieran soon left the camp and Taiga's life, leaving Taiga traumatized by what had transpired.

News of this incident eventually spread throughout the entire city and led to the Camp Buddy scouts leaving the camp until only a handful remained. Taiga was broken down by this and pleaded Yoshinori to allow him to re-enter Camp Buddy the next year. Yoshinori, who witnessed one of the assaults on Taiga and knew he was innocent, initially disagreed, wanting to protect him. Taiga insisted though and eventually, Yoshinori agreed for him to rejoin Camp Buddy the following year (the year the game takes place).

When Eduard and Lee heard that Taiga wanted to join again, they followed him into the camp despite having a hatred for Camp Buddy for the past.

## Appearance

Compared to the other campers, Taiga has a relatively average yet well-toned body overall. However, compared with the general public he is below average in height and weight while having an average sized . He has spiky, maroon hair with yellow streaks in the shape of a flame and matching red eyes.

Full frontal nudity sprites have been omitted in the table above according to the rules of this wiki.

## Personality & Traits

Taiga is initially very spiteful and hateful towards Keitaro despite the latter's utter determination to make friends with him. Taiga hates the fact that everyone likes Keitaro from the start while not giving himself a chance.

After he opens up to Keitaro, he changes and becomes a more likable and funny person, even though he still teases people by calling them "dweebs" (as he put it himself, "Old habits hard").

As Lee once put it, Taiga used to be just like Keitaro. It can be assumed that the rest of his real personality is a reflection of Keitaro.

It's also revealed that Taiga is quite perceptive, as he is able to notice that Goro also has a feeling toward Yoshinori through some of his subtler actions.

## Routes

**For the first few days, the choices for the main 4 will have to be less than Taiga's score, so follow this guide to guarantee to get Taiga's route.**

### **Day 8-33 ~ Determines Perfect Ending**

**Whether Taiga top or bottoms depends on the response given. Follow the rest of this guide and you won’t be disappointed:**

## Trivia

* His initial name is Ryota Akatora, meaning strong red tiger.
* His name 'Taiga', may be denoted from his animal motif, the tiger.
* In Scoutmaster Season, Keitaro has been removed in his dislikes.