Taichi Ichinose

Taichi Ichinose (一ノ瀬太一, Ichinose Taichi) is the main protagonist of Blue Flag.

TAICHI ICHINOSE
age	17-18
status	Alive
height	155cm or 5'1

Appearance

Taichi is short and of a slight build with minimal muscle definition. He has straight black hair that is grown out and unkempt having a bed head appearance. When not wearing his school uniform he typically wears cropped loss fitting pants and gamer shirts.

Personality

Taichi is a worrier by nature. He is afraid of sharing his interests and feelings with others, fearing that he might be judged unfavorably. When he does attempt to share his thoughts, he often has a hard time putting them into words. This difficulty causes a lot of miss communications.

His paranoia and communication problems are apparent at the beginning of the series with his struggles to maintain his friendship with Touma. This situation is caused primarily by Taichi's belief that he is too inferior to maintain a friendship with someone of such levels of popularity as his childhood friend causing him to put distance between them.

While he doubts a lot of his abilities and suffers from generally poor self-esteem, Taichi is a good problem solver. When faced with figuring out a way to help Futaba, he quickly outlines a plan of action and follows through to set her up with the best outcome possible.

We also find out that Taichi is very skilled with his hands, being able to build and craft ornate objects, having even once had a dream of opening his own toy store. Throughout the story, you see Taichi making lots of handmade games.

Aside from his interest in crafting toys, Taichi has a soft spot for cute things. We find this out when Touma makes a comment to Futaba about his love of collecting cute Pokemon when they were little.

History

Taichi has had a close friendship with Touma Mita since primary school. They spent much of their time very close together until their first year of high school when they begin to have different classes and form new friend groups.

During their middle school years, their differences become more apparent to Taichi starting the progression of his self-doubt.

In Taichi's first two years of high school, he becomes friends with Yorkie, Omega, and Mon-chan.

The series starts with Taichi getting ready to start a new semester of school, which is his last year of high school. He quickly finds out that he in class with Touma.