Kei is always a smooth winner, he's rarely seen stressed out or concerned unless it involves Hikari in trouble. He likes to refer to Hikari as "Number Two," or "Miss Rank Two" which never fails to provoke her. 

He has the ability to remember anything he reads, including phone numbers. He excells at all subject from academics to athletics to martial arts. He usually prefers to do things on his own, until Hikari shows him how much fun it can be to work together with other people. 

He is first in 10th grade for best grades. He is in love with Hikari, but she is too dense to notice it. Although he doesn't come straight out and admit it, it is common knowledge among the SA that he loves her, and Kei himself also doesn't deny it. The reason he hasn't confessed his love to her or asked her out is because he figured, knowing her, she'd probably just laugh it off (yes, for all her intellectual excellence, she is quite stupid/naive/innocent when it comes to love). 

Although he is stoic most of the time and always keeps a calm facade under any circumstance, things involving Hikari are the only ones that bring out intense anxiety within him. It bothers him whenever Hikari pushes herself too hard, although it is for this very reason that he admires and respects her. 

His birthday is on November 22nd.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Hikari Hanazono has always been second to Kei Takishima. When they were six years old, their pro-wrestling loving fathers introduced them to each other. Assuming that she was the best in wrestling, young Hikari challenged Kei to a wrestling match only to be thoroughly defeated by him. 
Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in school grades, sporting events - anything. To do this, she has enrolled in the same school as Kei since elementary. Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money. 
Hikari and Kei are the top two students in the school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position. While Hikari considers Kei to be a rival and important friend, she is completely unaware that Kei loves her. The story primarily focuses on Hikari and her constant attempts to defeat her one and only rival, Kei, and how she finds love in their rivalry.

__Height:__ 173 cm
__Skills & Abilities:__ Kendo

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Fukuyama released his debut music album "Romantic World 31" on his birthday (November 26) in 2009, his second album "Love Letters 2: Paris Romantic" on July 21, 2010, his third album "Fukuyama Jun, Ai wo Utau!" on May 25, 2011, and his fourth album "Love Letter 3 ~Matsuri no Kuni de~" on May 22, 2013. He also appeared in a 2009 romantic comedy movie Fujoshi Kanojo in a cameo role.

**Non-anime roles:**
- [Joker](https://anilist.co/character/121590/Ren-Amamiya) - Persona 5
- Renya Goutou - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
- [Camu](https://anilist.co/character/278324/Camu) - Punishing: Gray Raven
- [Kamui](https://anilist.co/character/259960) - Punishing: Gray Raven
- Vyn Richter - Tears of Themis
- Martin - Rune Factory 5
- Hugo - Zenless Zone Zero
- Logos - Arknights

Blake Thomas Shepard is an American voice actor who works on anime series at ADV Films, Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. 

Her whole life, Hikari Hanazono has been consumed with the desire to win against her school rival, Kei Takishima--at anything. He always comes out on top no matter what he does, and Hikari is determined to do whatever it takes to beat this guy...somehow!
 
At age 6 Hikari lost to Kei in an impromptu wrestling match. Now, at 15, Hikari joins "Special A," a group of the top seven students at a private academy, for the opportunity to trounce the guy who made her suffer her first defeat.
 
(Source: Viz Media)
 

Included one-shots: 
Volume 1: Mikansei Chorus 
Volume 11: Shoku no Miyako (Food Paradise) 
Included specials: 
- Vol.8 Special Short; The Hana to Yume 2006-09 
The short is about what Kei was like as a child, and when he and Hikari first met. 
- Vol.9 Special Short; The Hana to Yume 2007-01 
The short is about when Yuhiro meets Sakura. 
- Vol.16 Special Chapter; The Hana to Yume 2008-05 
The chapter is about Hikari and Kei's middle school days.