TakuTen

TakuTen is the slash ship between Arion Sherwind and Riccardo Di Rigo from the Inazuma Eleven Go fandom.

Inazuma Eleven Go
Arion arrives at Raimon Junior High School. Here, he challenges Victor Blade after the latter insults football. After Tenma finally manages to get the football from Victor, the main team of Raimon arrives, led by Riccardo. Victor summons his team, the Black Templars, and the two plays the match to see whether everyone gets replaced or not. Arion is eventually sent onto the field, with Raimon currently losing 10-0. He tries to keep the ball so to make sure the other players don't get hurt. Unfortunately, that means that the opposing team would begin to target him exclusively. Riccardo tells to a tired and injured Arion to stop doing that. But the latter tells him to not give up while reaching and grabbing his shirt (specifically on the lightning symbol).

That shakes something inside Riccardo, and he cries because he can't protect his team despite being its captain. But the tears are quickly replaced with rage, and he summons for the first time his Fighting Spirit, Master Conductor Maestro, which shock everyone. He is unable to listen to Arion telling him to calm down, and he goes to fight Victor. But the Black Templars leaves, and their coach says that Raimon won because of Riccardo awakening his Fighting Spirit. The latter collapses and Arion has to attend the opening ceremony. Riccardo wakes up in the infirmary, with Gabriel by his side. He asks him what happened because the last thing he remembers was Arion grabbing his shirt. Later, Arion keep trying to pass to Riccardo, but he doesn't move. At the end, he snaps and shoots. The shot goaled, and this means Riccardo disobeyed the Fifth Sector. This leads to their coach, Percival Travis, being forced to resign.

After that, Riccardo doesn't show up to trainings, despite now having the legendary Mark Evans as their new coach. He gives a letter to the coach, telling that he's leaving the team. But Arion hears that and refuses to let Riccardo leave. Eventually, he goes to his house and challenges Riccardo. If Arion wins, Riccardo will have to stay on the team but if he loses, Riccardo will be allowed to leave the team.

Inazuma Eleven Go Chrono Stone
After returning from Okinawa, Arion is surprised that he can't find the football club. He wanders around, until he meets up with Riccardo. He asks what happening but Riccardo responds with "This school doesn't have a football club". Tenma obviously thinks he's joking but Riccardo leaves, saying that Arion should have gone to a different school if he wanted to join a football club.

After resolving the time paradox that had caused the football club to be erased from existence, Arion finds all of his teammates (sans Victor) back at the football club with their memories mostly restored. They unfortunately still don't remember who Victor Blade is and when Arion informs them about the time paradox, they all want to solve the problem. But the next day, most of the team is late, leaving only 4 players (including Arion and Riccardo) and Clark von Wunderbar, the time machine driver. They all travel back in time without the rest of the team.

Much later in the season, Arion gets self-esteem issues while watching how Sol and Riccardo are acting. He begins to wonder if he is really worthy being the team's captain. Their next destination is quite the unusual one, as they need to go to Camelot. Everyone thinks it's impossible, but they all go anyway. They are separated during the travel. Arion wakes up in the fictional world of Camelot. And learns that the rest of the Raimon players have become knights. In private, Riccardo talks to Arion about the situation. He reassured Arion that they didn't lose their memories but they have to act that way as they were worried it would create a huge paradox in the fictional world. Arion tells Riccardo about how unworthy he feels about replacing him as the team's captain. But Riccardo reassures Arion that he is a worthy successor and was a good choice despite being so different from himself.

Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy
Before the selection, Arion and Riccardo talk about how much the Raimon team has changed alongside Victor and J.P. But after the selection, Arion and Riccardo start to argue about their inexperienced new teammates, who were chosen for the Japanese national team alongside them and Victor. Riccardo wants only himself, Arion and Victor to carry the team, while Tenma wants to give the other members of the team a chance, despite their lack of experience.

Fanon
Despite being a ship of two main characters, it's a rare ship. Riccardo is being shipped more often with Gabriel Garcia and Terry Archibald, while Arion with Victor Blade and Skie Blue. However, it seems to be popular in the Japanese fandom. In the West, Arion and Riccardo tend to be seen as brothers.

Fandom
FAN FICTION


 * Matsukaze Tenma & Shindou Takuto tag on AO3

WIKIS
 * TakuTen on the Inazuma Eleven Shipping Wiki

Trivia

 * The ship's name comes from Riccardo and Arion's Japanese names, Shindou Takuto and Matsukaze Tenma respectively.
 * The two share a song called Aoki Tamashii.
 * In the Go games, when Arion finds Riccardo's notebook, the latter is actually nearby. And he hears Arion crying. He runs off and you have to run after him.

Variations

 * Gryphon Trio - the ship between Tenma, Tsurugi and Shindou