Akito Takagi

Akito Takagi (Muto Ashirogi)
Name	Akito Takagi (Muto Ashirogi)
Kanji	高木 秋人
Romanji	Takagi Akito (Ashirogi Muto)
Characteristics
Age	14 (Start), 18(Currently)
Gender	Male
Eyes	Black
Hair	Blond
Profession
Occupation	Manga-Ka Writer
Stories	Detective Trap Two of MeDouble EarthsFuture WatchSunglass PitcherRun Tanto, Run
Magazines	Jump
Personal Status
Marital Status	Married to Miyoshi Kaya (In Chapter 71-2)
Relatives	Mom
Education	University
First Appearance
Manga Debut	1st Chapter
Voices

Akito Takagi (commonly called Shujin) is one of the two main protagonists of Bakuman. He is an aspiring mangaka who is very smart and gets the top grades in his school. Akito is classmates with Mashiro and when he discovers Moritaka's drawing ability he convinces him to write a manga with him when he discovers and tells Moritaka that the girl he likes (Miho Azuki) wants to be a voice actor for an anime.

Appearance

Akito is quite tall and skinny, he has longish blond hair, brown eyes and wears glasses. He is quite often seen wearing a large pair of headphones around his neck.

Personality

Akito is usually quite a happy and enthusiastic person, especially when it comes to manga. He gets along well with most people and is usually the one who does most of the talking for himself and Moritaka. He is very loyal and protective of his friends and he shows this when he punches someone who is insulting Moritaka and his art. Also, he deeply loves his girlfriend/wife Miyoshi Kaya but possibly has trouble showing it. That, or he just likes to tease her.

Relationships

Moritaka Mashiro

Moritaka and Akito start off not knowing each other that well but after Akito convinces Moritaka to write a manga with him they become best friends. Akito and Moritaka work very well together, they are both very determined and they almost always get along.

Kaya Miyoshi

Kaya is Akito's girlfriend and is also the best friend of Moritaka's girlfriend Miho Azuki. After they begin dating, they are rarely seen without each other.They become married later on in the series.

Akira Hattori

Mr. Hattori is Akito and Moritaka's former editor, and worked with them until the serialization of Detective Trap. His knowlegde of manga has been a key part of Akito and Moritaka's success.

Eiji Nizuma

Eiji is considered a high school genius and has prodigious ability for creating manga. Though Eiji is a major rival to Akito and Moritaka, they compete respectfully and have a friendly relationship.

Akamaru Jump

In Akamaru Jump, Akito and Moritaka created a manga called Money And Intelligence. Money and Intelligence was a one-shot story about a future where people's minds were bought and sold as commodities. The manga was published and highly praised, especially by Eiji

The manga Takagi made Money and Intelligence

Breaking Up

During the school holidays Akito promises to think up a story for the Golden Future Cup while Moritaka practices his drawings. Akito gets writers block and decides to help Kaya with her ambition to become a famous writer. Moritaka thinks that Akito doesn't care about making manga anymore and decides to split up with him and do manga on his own. Akito didn't really want to split up with Moritaka so he goes to Mr Hattori and asks him what he should do. Hattori tells Akito to keep working on his stories and then in a couple of years to go to Moritaka and ask him if they want to work together again. Akito agrees with this idea but then a couple of days later he talks to Moritaka and they find out they they were both having the same idea for a manga and they get back together again.

Golden Future Cup

For the Golden Future Cup, Akito and Moritaka both came up with the idea to do a mystery manga. They end up deciding on a story called Detective Trap. The manga is about a con artist who works for the police to help catch criminals. Their manga was very successful and ended up winning.

New Years Party

At the New Year's Party, Mashiro and Takagi are introduced to many mangakas. Some of them are new artists just like Mashiro , for example Hiyamaru and Arai (Who made Otters11 and Cheese Okaki respectively).

Detective Trap's Serialization

Moritaka has been working extremely hard while Detective Trap is being serialized. He has been getting less and less sleep and he finally collapses. He was taken to the hospital after that. He is diagnosed with a liver infection which requires surgery. Mashiro wants to keep working while he is in the hospital so that the Trap won't have to go on hiatus, whereas everyone else believes that his first priority should be to get better. Mashiro tries to convince Takagi to bring him his materials, but Takagi decides to call Azuki to see if she can convince him to stop working. Azuki goes to the hospital the next day and begins talking to Mashiro from outside his room.

Two of Me, Hitman10, and Future Watch

Two of Me

Two of me is, as the title suggests, are about two of the same people. They can't decide which one is the real one so they agree that one of them should go to a different environment. That way, they will be different. They drop a pencil and the person it points has to leave.

Future Watch

The son of an inventor father makes watches that travel to the future. Apparently, if you push the switch on the watch that is set 7 minutes ahead, then you will travel 7 minutes into the future. The son tries it and calls himself from 8 minutes ago. He tells him that he can travel to the future by using the watch. Takagi wants to add battles to Future Watch. As for Two of Me, he wants to make a fantasy world.

Hitman10

The final manga they come up with is a gag manga. Hitman Ten is about the top ten hitmen in the world fighting each other to become number one and receive a billionaire's prize. The main character is one of these hitmen.

Help from Aoki

In Chapter 60 (Men And Women) Takagi was trying to think about a story for his new manga, But his problem was that he can't write about women very will, He spent the night think about the story,Takagi thought bout add an animal to the story, so the next morning he went to the zoo, where Takagi saw Aoki. Takagi and Aoki start to talk, and Aoki told Takagi that she is having trouble writing from a male's Point of view, Then Takagi realized that Aoki is having problems writing about the opposite sex too. Takagi told Aoki that he is having problems writing about girls, So Aoki says that she will help him write about girls if he help her write about men, and he agrees, ans in the last panel in it says " They're suddenly getting closer...!! Will they be able to help each other understand the oppsite sex." as they talk Takagi said that his girlfriend Kaya might not be able to see the difference between work and play, so Takagi told Aoki to keep it on the downlow and only talk on the phone do that Kaya won't get jealous,but he will tell Mashiro because he is his partner, so he told her that he will call her at 10 o'clock.

Manga

Akito has authored two successful manga so far: Money and Intelligence, and Detective Trap, a mystery manga which won the Golden Future Cup and has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump.