Yoshitake Tanaka is a second-year student in Class 2-A at Sanada North High School. He is part of a central trio alongside Hidenori Tabata and Tadakuni, frequently engaging in their imaginative and often absurd activities. He attended East Yada Elementary School, where he was involved in numerous childhood incidents, including embarrassing moments like soiling his pants during play, though these events are often misattributed to his classmate Mitsuo. During elementary school, Yoshitake was a primary member of the group adopting the "Rubber Shooter" vigilante persona, created to protect weaker children from bullies. He is heavily implied to have been the specific Rubber Shooter member who rescued Hidenori from bullies approximately eight years prior. He met Tadakuni during junior school and Hidenori in middle school. Physically, Yoshitake is tall, slim, and fair-skinned, standing 172 cm (5'7") with olive-brown eyes. His most distinctive feature is his spiked blond hair, though childhood depictions occasionally show him with dark brown hair. He typically wears the Sanada North High uniform with his shirt untucked and almost never wears the school tie. Personality-wise, Yoshitake presents as fun-loving, energetic, and impulsive, enthusiastically joining the trio's escapades. Despite this, he demonstrates level-headedness, quick thinking, and athleticism surpassing even Hidenori, evidenced during activities like Kick the Can. He exhibits a competitive streak, such as faking injuries to secure the scariest ghost story. According to Hidenori, Yoshitake reacts dramatically to situations, describes experiences as surreal, adheres strictly to rules, and cries easily over minor incidents. He is capable of lying convincingly with a straight face. Yoshitake holds profound convictions about friendship and love, becoming irritated when others toy with his emotions and deliberating extensively on actions showing loyalty to friends, stemming from his childhood sense of righteousness motivating the Rubber Shooter activities. His family includes an unnamed older sister who attends Central High. Their relationship is hostile; Yoshitake admits he relies on her bad manners to reassure himself he is not the worst kind of person, though this realization confirms his own flaws. He works an undisclosed part-time job and cannot handle carbonated drinks. Yoshitake frequently adopts role-playing avatars during the trio's improvisational games. Notable personas include: The Captain, a genial, deep-voiced leader of a white knight's crew (later revealed to be a woman); Markovich, an excitable crew member with a high-pitched voice ending sentences with "-ssu!"; and Yoshī C. Tenryūji, an uncooperative singer-songwriter guest antagonizing mothers. He also serves as narrator, damage alert, monster, and mid-boss (later revealed as a demon lord) during the "swordsman Tadakuni" adventures. His birthday falls between August 23 and September 22. He ranked 7th in a character popularity poll with 5,916 votes and appears in 56 of 139 manga chapters, making him the second most featured character after Hidenori. His various avatars also ranked in the poll. The etymology of his name "Yoshitake" may derive from kanji combinations meaning "lucky," "righteous," "good," "mountain," "strong," or "prestige," while his surname "Tanaka" translates to "dweller in the rice fields."