Yuri Fan: He has image spots of both Chizuru/Ayamine and Marimo/Yuuko.Suddenly Voiced: Takeru only has a voice during flashbacks.Smarter Than You Look: His lazy-dope attitude led the Three Idiots to think he was a complete moron until they saw his excellent test scores."The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to the lacrosse team.In general, he is prone to these when someone gets depressed with personal issues. Quit Your Whining: Best demonstrated during the lacrosse match.Ordinary High-School Student: Obviously.It helps him in the Lacrosse tournament, where he pinpoints the various flaws of the team. Only Sane Man: While every other character have a exaggerated character trait, he seems pretty normal.The Nicknamer: Abbreviates Tamase "Tama" and hardly ever calls Chizuru anything other than "Class Rep.".In fact, his " Like Brother and Sister" is how he personally describes the relationship of "Childhood Friends." This changes when he starts seeing her as a woman in her or Meiya's route. Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has a rather vicious sense of humor, especially when Sumika's concerned, but his circle of friends find him reliable and trustworthy.Hot-Blooded: Once he is on something, he gets pretty passionate about it.The Heart: He is this for the female cast.Some of them are actually from his early days with Meiya and his Childhood Marriage Promise with her. Forgotten First Meeting: During the events of Extra, he keeps making dreams of his childhood with Sumika.First-Person Smartass: Not that he's above saying it out-loud.Determinator: He can go to extreme lengths to helps his circle of friends.Childhood Marriage Promise: He made one with Meiya, but he had forgotten about it.Childhood Friend Romance: Potentially with Sumika.Clueless Chick Magnet: To Meiya and Sumika.Chick Magnet: So much that Yuuko calls him a "Love Nucleus".Butt-Monkey: Especially when Meiya, Ayamine or Yuuko is concerned.Brutal Honesty: Part of the reason his friends find him reliable, even though he can came out as blunt at times.Brilliant, but Lazy: Takeru is generally talented both academically and physically, but tends to be rather lazy.Birds of a Feather: He is similar with Sumika in various ways: They like to hit and make fun of each other, they are rather ditzy and sometimes hot-blooded when it comes to their favorite hobbies.Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Sumika.She mentions that it doesn't have to be fake at the same time but he doesn't take it seriously.
The Beard: During Ayamine's route she asks him to be her fake boyfriend because she's avoiding Sagiri.The protagonist of Muv-Luv Extra, Unlimited, and Alternative, he also happens to be good looking and a nice guy, so he ends up fairly popular with girls.