Takeda

Takeda is a minor character appearing in the Persona series. He was renamed Tiny in the original release of Revelations: Persona, but his name was reverted to Takeda for the PSP re-release.

Appearances

 * Megami Ibunroku Persona / Persona: Minor character, Boss (Meta Order)
 * Megami Ibunroku Persona (Manga)

Megami Ibunroku Persona
Takeda acts as Takahisa Kandori's head of security at the SEBEC building and the first boss battle of the game. He is regarded as incompetent by his employer due to repeated breaches of security by St. Hermelin students. He is also capable of summoning a Persona, although its name is unknown.

During the fight against him, he will be accompanied by four Agents as the battle starts. Takeda himself will use the Delyte skill to try and blind the party. Despite his efforts, he is defeated by the party who chase after Kandori. However, his fate after his defeat isn't shown.

Megami Ibunroku Persona (Manga)
As Kei Nanjo and Masao Inaba (alongside Hidehiko Uesugi) make their way through SEBEC forces with their Personas (sans Brown who didn't awaken his yet), Takeda arrives to help stop them. Due to Mark and Nanjo exhausting themselves by overusing their Personas, he's able to capture them and orders his agents to take them inside.

His next appearance mirrors his game counterpart as the students (who rescued their captured friends) confront him and Kandori in the latter's office. Kandori berates him for his incompetence, for which he apologizes to his employer. After Kandori attacks the students with his Persona (which causes a serious injury to Brown), Takeda is ordered to finish them off. Summoning his own Persona, he attacks them but is taken off guard by Brown awakening to his Persona, Nemhain. Nemhain knocks down the security chief, but doesn't knock him out. However, before he could retaliate, Maki Sonomura and Eriko Kirishima use their Personas to encase him in ice (with his nose being left unfrozen so he could breathe) thus defeating him.

Etymology

 * The surname Takeda means "military, martial" (武) (take) and "many" (多) (ta/da).

Trivia

 * According to an interview with the developers, Takeda was based off of Takeshi "Gian" Gouda from the Doraemon series.
 * According to Megami Ibunroku Persona Club page 59, one of Takeda's duties was to pay off Takahisa Kandori's mistresses.
 * According to Megami Ibunroku Persona: Digital Collection, prior to working with Kandori, Takeda originally wanted to be a singer. This is an homage to Gian who as known for his, albeit terrible, singing skills.
 * Takeda is one of the few Persona users in the series who has used a Persona on-screen, but its identity is unknown. He shares this status with Yumi Tasaka.