Natsuhiko Taki

Natsuhiko Taki
Character information
Rōmaji	Taki Natsuhiko
Kanji	瀧 夏彦
Gender	Male
Birthday	April 10
Blood type	AB
Height	182 cm (5’11½”)
Weight	72 kg
Bench press	90 kg
Relatives	Suzuna Taki (younger sister) Yukiji Taki (father) Haruka Taki (mother)
Status
Affiliation	Deimon Devil Bats
Year	1st year
Jersey	37
40 Yard Dash	5.01 seconds
Position	Tight End Safety Outside Linebacker
Team	Deimon Devil Bats
Debut
Chapter	83rd Down
Episode	Episode 33
Voice actors
Japanese	Kōji Ochiai
Image gallery

Natsuhiko Taki (瀧 夏彦, Taki Natsuhiko) is the Tight End of the Deimon Devil Bat and Older Brother of Suzuna Taki.

Personality

Natsuhiko is a lovely good-hearted brainless beauty. The very definition of bishounen with uncountable bishie sparkles with an odd and rather foolish attitude and is apparently quite oblivious to the silliness of his actions. He was an extremely beautiful kid who sometimes looks pretty and girly because of his immensely natural good looking, his ballet skills, his soft features, feminine skills and womanly traits.

Although he's really the clueless, narcissistic fool, he is undeniably a very good (not to mention useful) player in the team. His personality is noted to be pretty sympathetic, simple-minded, very kind, honest, gentlemanly, quite emphatic, diligent, cheerful and brave but he's still an idiotic, competitive showoff. He loves his family very dearly especially his baby sister Suzuna Taki. Natsuhiko has a strong affection towards his teammates and treats them like his own family. Natsuhiko genuinely cares for every girl and woman he encounters with and almost always call them with an honorable suffix like lady except his beloved sister Suzuna Taki and their darling mother Madame Taki, Natsuhiko always nice, polite, protective and sweet to every female. During the Bando Spiders game, after getting thrashed pretty badly by Akaba of the Spiders, Natsuhiko gets serious for the first time and manages to out-perform Akaba. He also began wearing his hair in a samurai topknot. However, after getting a tiny bit of praise, he reverts to his usual idiot persona. Though not a major player in the surprise win over the Nagas, Natsuhiko made key blocks and catches throughout the game.

There are several key instances that show his idiocy, one of which is the ability to understand directions. Before the match against the Amino Cyborgs, he made Sena and himself take the wrong bus to Nagano; however, thanks to Hiruma and the Zokugaku Chameleons, Sena eventually got back to play in the match in time. But then, Natsuhiko got lost (again) by taking the wrong train back. In the end, he missed the game, yet Hiruma later stated he was not going to play anyway since he had yet to enroll at Deimon at that time. He is also an idiot when it comes to academics. He proudly announces that he only knew up to the 6 times tables, and said that 9 X 9=18. However, if he associates the questions with football, then he gets it right and it was through this method that he was able to cram for the entrance exam.

Hiruma quietly threaten the examiner in Deimon to make Natsuhiko pass, but the examiner concluded that he passed (barely) and was eligible to enroll in Deimon High School. When Hiruma injured and Deimon had to choose another quarterback, Ha-Ha Brothers quickly rules him out thanks to his stupidity and narcissism ("He'll likely try to run the ball on his own").

Plot

Natsuhiko was first introduced in the series when Sena met him in the San Antonio stadium (Natsuhiko was trying out for the team there). He has a habit of opening his jacket to bare his pecs, making weird poses like rising up his leg 180 degrees, often portrayed as a ladies-man, has a lot of devoted fangirls, has numerous rivals like Raimon Taro, allies like Hayato Akaba, Kengo Mizumachi and in between like Daikichi Komusubi and Ha-Ha Brothers. His dream is to become a pro football star, even though he didn't know the rules, nor the positions, stating that he was an all-around super player. He couldn't play American Football in Japan, he wasn't qualified, so he went to America to apply for a position in the San Antonio Team by taking all the savings in his house to fly to America. He failed, however, the coach did praise him on his potential and asked him to try out again after gaining some experience in high school football. Sena passed the pro-tryouts as Eyeshield 21, (though he and the Taki siblings left before his name was announced). Sena, feeling sorry for him, sensed that Natsuhiko had potential and that his talent shouldn't be wasted, asked him to join the Devil Bats back in Japan as a Tight End. He manages to qualify as a Devil Bats team member after undergoing the rest of the Death March.

Natsuhiko's height and leaping ability also helped Monta cover Sakuraba during the match against Ojo. He also plays a part in the final play of the game in Hiruma's Killer Hornet tactic.

Relationship

Family

Suzuna Taki

He always addresses Suzuna as "My Sister". His catchphrase is usually a loud "AH-HA-HA!", and exclaiming that he has a 150% success rate at anything he does. This usually leads to the Ha-Ha brothers being irritated at him.

Deimon Devil Bat

Taro Raimon

Monta harbors an intense dislike towards Natsuhiko; in junior high, while Monta was taking an entrance exam, Natsuhiko approached Monta and asked him whether a book he found earlier, Son Son (with a picture of a chimpanzee on it) was Monta's since he thought that Monta looked like a chimp. Natsushiko's flexibility is also comparable to Monta's, further deepening their rivalry.

Techniques/Strategies

• Flexibility - Taki's body is incredibly flexible, which allows him to bend and contort at extreme angles to make catches or blocks. It also helps him to makeshift his gravity point quickly, making Akaba's Spider Poison ineffective.

• Power Off Tackle/ Gentle Prince Tackle - Basically it's a one-man Sweeper using just Natsuhiko to open a smaller path for Eyeshield to run through. He can also do this with help from other players, though.

• Prince Gentle Hurricane - Taki's own variation of Sena's Devil Bat Hurricane, he lifts up one of his legs and spins around with the football down the field. Unfortunately, the technique is easy prey against an opposing team's defense and is considered more for show than effective.

• Prince Spiders Poison - Training with Hayato Akaba for the Christmas Bowl, Taki learned his defensive maneuvers to assist against Teikoku.
• Quick-Draw Pass - Taki were able to do the same pass techniques like Kid,although,he has no aim during the pass.(Anime only)