TakaMiya

"Do your best."

- Takashi to Miya, SK8 Chill Out! - Line 12.

TakaMiya is the slash ship between Takashi and Miya Chinen and Takashi from the SK8 the Infinity fandom.

Canon
Takashi was one of Miya's old friends that had abandoned him when he started being a popular skater. He's first seen at the third episode of the anime, where he's seen leaving a classroom as he glared at Miya for a moment until a girl asked Takashi to await for her. That's when he leaves the place as the girl asked Takashi if he knew him, to which he only denies it, as he said he didn't knew him at all. Miya only could see Takashi getting away with his classmate with a neutral expression on his face.

When he arrived at his home, Miya saw his parents with an open photo album, to which he asks them what were they doing. They reply that a reporter wanted photos of him from when he started skating, as the father held a photo of Miya and Takashi when they were young, and the lent it to his wife to ask her about what she thought of the photo, to which he gets a positive answer from here part saying that Miya was having fun. Miya then suddenly takes the photo away from his mother and hides his hand with the photo behind him as he angrily wraps it, causing the photo to wrinkle completely.

Before racing against Adam, Miya's repulsed by the idea of friendship, because of what happened to him before, and he tends to get angry when he sees people being friendly to each other. This is shown he also being when Reki clinged onto Langa and shaked him before the race from that day). While he did so, Miya remembers when Takashi and his other old friends abandoned him, as Takashi told him that the hero (Miya) couldn't play with "slimes" (himself and his other friends). After Miya lost at the beef against Langa, Reki explains to Miya about the reason of his lost: because he wasn't having fun, and skating was about that. Miya wonders about the word "fun", and it's in that moment when he flashbacks again when he used to do skating with Takashi, explaining it used to be fun, but that everyone had disappeared. He concludes that the better anyone became, they would all disappear in the end. Reki then reassures him along with Langa that they wouldn't disappear, and before it Langa proposed him to race against each other again, as it was fun doing so with him.

At the end credits of the anime, Miya walks through a hallway in his school, in which he runs into Takashi again as the latter said something to him while passing by Miya. Because of what he said, it made Miya feel relieved and caused him to run to somewhere with a happy and satisfied expression on his face.

In SK8 chill out - line 12, it's shown the famous scene of Takashi and Miya at the end of the anime, but this time Takashi's words to Miya are revealed which were "Do your best". After that line, Miya dashes to somewhere to pick up a skateboard and asks excitedly to Takashi if he wanted to skate with him, since it happened that he had a spare board with him. The next scene both are seen skating, and Takashi comments that there had been a rumor about ["S"] (secret race held on some mountain), and that if the rumor was true, he'd like to go there, but Miya only advices him on not doing that, as he says there was a bunch of weird old dudes there (and next to Miya it says "Eyes like they've seen a battlefield...").

Quotes
"Fun? It was fun. It was really fun, indeed. In the beginning. But... Everyone disappeared. The better you become... They all disappear in the end anyway!"

- Miya, as he flashbacked his former friendship with Takashi and his other old friends.

Fanon
It's known in the fandom, but it's not that appreciated because of Miya's past and how it had affected him. This also hurted to many fans, which ones then were against Takashi and his other friends, but there are others who were okay with that fact that Miya and Takashi could finally reconciliate by the end of the anime, though it seemed rushed or sudden.

Due to the lack of ships for Miya (because he's around people way older than him, and fans prefer avoid shipping Miya romantically with any of them, or rather doing so but as family/friendship), Takashi is one option for him, and the second could be also Koyomi (Reki's sister), although the latter mentioned doesn't interact with Miya or even met him, but still it's somewhat known in the fandom, but mostly shipped as friendship as both are considered minors, same going with Takashi's case.

On AO3, it has a decent amount of works, with it being 28 for the romantic side and 18 for for the gen/friendship side.

Fandom
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