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| - The main protagonist and Seleção No. 9, Akira Takizawa awakens outside the White House with no memories and stark naked. He befriends Saki Morimi, a Japanese college student on vacation in America on her way to catch a flight home. Armed with a Cell Phone, Takizawa learns he is part of a game created by one Mr. Outside to use the ten billion yen on the phone to improve the state of Japan. Takizawa meets his fellow Seleção, whilst trying to recover his memories before and after he was selected for the game. In Episode 10, Mononobe reveals Akira Takizawa is not his real name. He was born on January 7, 1989, making him one day younger than Saki. Although that date is up for debate, seeing as how the passport he decides to use doesn't even have his real name on it, so his actual birth date is just as anonymous.
* Action Survivor: He gets involved in a lot of action - being attacked by a oil tanker, taking on a missile attack, escaping numerous explosions, etc, and always comes away relatively unscathed.
* Amnesiac Dissonance: Discovers he was possibly responsible for the Careless Monday missile attacks, but actually used it as an excuse to save 20,000 NEETS that helped him evacuate citizens from being arrested for the same thing, and then erased his own memory to cover up his and their tracks.
* Bavarian Fire Drill: Is very skilled at this
* Big Fancy House: More like big fancy shopping mall.
* Cell Phone: All of the Seleção have unique phones, including him.
* Charm Person: Takizawa is quite the charmer, showing his Johnny to a businessman to give up his pants, and convinces a policewoman to let him and Saki go to the airport.
* Chick Magnet
* Cloudcuckoolander: He's pretty crazy and spontaneous, with and without his memory.
* Cool Bike: He rides around on a neat yellow motorcycle. Why he can remember how to ride it is a mystery.
* Makes sense actually. Memories on how to perform tasks and procedures are stored completely separately from memories about oneself and past life experiences.
* Crowning Moment of Awesome: When he stops the missile attacks in Episode 11, and again when he gives all of his money to every person in Japan.
* Easy Amnesia: Twice.
* First Kiss: He gives Saki one in episode 5.
* Foreshadowing: The fact that he picked the name "Akira Takizawa" from one of the various passports with his face on it should've been seen as a massive clue that it's not his real name.
* Gag Penis
* Genius Ditz
* Genre Savvy: And how! In fact, some of the very few things he does remember are the numerous movies he's seen, and how they apply to his situation(s).
* Gray Eyes
* Guile Hero
* Heroes Want Redheads
* Heroic Bastard: In the films, he is accused of being the illegitimate son of the deceased prime minister of Japan. This is later proven to be false.
* Heroic Sacrifice: Willingly gives up his memories twice to save others. The first time he wound up naked in America, and the second time he became an international celebrity known as the Air King, and revealed to possibly be the son of the dead Japanese prime minister.
* I Have Many Names: He has numerous passports. In the films he goes by the name of Akira Iinuma.
* Identity Amnesia
* Keet: Even in serious situations he retains a cheerful and friendly demeanour.
* Knight in Shining Armor: To Saki, and somewhat Diana.
* Last-Name Basis: Basically everyone calls him by his last name.
* Memory Gambit: He pulls it off twice!
* Naked First Impression: His first appearance involves him walking towards Saki and two cops completely naked, although his groin is covered by a Censor Box scribble.
* Naked on Arrival
* Nice Guy: It's impossible for anyone to hate this guy.
* Pet the Dog: He owns an adorable Shiba Inu, previously owned by his mother.
* Pop-Cultured Badass
* The Scapegoat: Takizawa willingly makes himself this three times.
* Shiny Midnight Black
* Shout-Out: Takizawa comments that his situation when he finds himself in Washington is similar to The Bourne Series.
* Or how his gun-closet is remiscent of Taxi Driver, and how Kate and Leopold is the first thing that pops into his head while standing over a bridge with Saki.
* Take My Hand: Takizawa reaches out to Saki when departing home on a boat and she decides to stay with him.
* The Tease
* Will They or Won't They?: Takizawa and Saki throughout the anime and movies. They do sort of become a couple. Sort of.
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