Akira Takaoka

Akira Takaoka is a trained soldier, a former ally of Tadaomi Karasuma and an early antagonist of the series.

Appearance
Takaoka is a rather large man and claims that his love of food increased his waistline. He is also very muscular from years of intense training. He is first seen with a very friendly look on his face, but this drastically changed when he showed his true colors as a brutal drill sergeant. In his second appearance, he had clawed at his face to the point of leaving scars (reflecting the psychological scars inflicted by Nagisa Shiota).

Personality
Takaoka appears to be a very kind and helpful person in his first appearance in Chapter 38. However the second half of Chapter 39 reveals that he is a sadistic drill instructor who abuses his strength and power through brute force and violence. He does not hesitate in beating up anyone, even the students (such as kneeing Maehara and slapping Kanzaki when they object to his training), just to show how powerful he is. The truth is he does not care about the students' welfare at all - he only cares about gaining fame from them killing Koro-sensei due to his teaching, as well as forcing Karasuma to acknowledge his methods and being able to boss him around. He hates to lose to anyone, becoming crazy after losing to Nagisa.

After getting fired from losing to Nagisa, he became even more psychopathic. He devised a plan to poison most of the students in Okinawa for his revenge. He began scratching his face due to being mocked by his colleague after he lost to Nagisa. After confronting the students again, he threatened everyone by telling them that he’ll blow up the antidote if Nagisa doesn't beg for forgiveness, (but once again he broke his promise by blowing up the antidote just to see Nagisa's despair). Once he lost to Nagisa for the second time, he went into a blank state after seeing Nagisa’s killer smile expression.

He has an obsession of seeing a person's despair and will sadistically beat/kill someone just to gain control of others. He furthers his control by forcing them to recognize him as ‘father’. He also has a habit of raising his tongue whenever he has the upper hand.

History
When he was in the military, he was able to produce elite loyal troops in a short span of time by connecting with them as a tightly-knit family and standing as a violent father at the same time. It is assumed that Takaoka was never reported on due to the possible reprisals against any whistleblowers.

As a PE teacher
Takaoka first appeared as a new P.E. teacher for Class 3-E sent by Ministry of Defense as they were impatient of killing Koro-sensei. Once he appears, he greets the students and gives them food, drinks, and sweets as a sign of greeting them. He tells Class 3-E (minus Karma who skip classes again) that he'll be taking over the P.E. class from now on and self-proclaims himself to be their 'father'. Karasuma was then informed by the female bodyguard who accompanied him telling him that he's very dangerous. Sure enough, once Karasuma sees a second picture of him showing his 'previous family' his abuse, he begins to give Class 3-E a hell schedule with no time to study. He knees Maehara and slaps Kanzaki when they object to his training and forces Karasuma and Koro-sensei to see his hellish method of training. His goal is to gain fame and popularity after one of the students kills Koro-sensei due to his training and gets to boss Karasuma around. After attempting to punch Kurahashi who calls Karasuma for help, Karasuma steps in to stop abusing the students. Anticipating his actions, he decides to make a wager that if one of the students Karasuma selected stabbed or poke him with a knife, he'll leave the rest to Karasuma and leave the school. Otherwise, Karasuma has to allow him to follow up with his hellish training with no objections. However, he makes one of the students uses a real knife knowing he'll gain the upper hand as he knew his students had never held a real knife before.

Once Nagisa was selected, he belittles Karasuma for his decision as he observes Nagisa as the 'weakest' among the students. His actual plan is to avoid Nagisa's attacks and beat him up so badly that the students would forcefully listen to him. Added, he also wants to see his despair face regardless if he loses or forfeits the match. Unexpected, Nagisa casually walks towards him with a smile as he’s ‘walking to school’ and manages to beat him. He was shocked that he lost and after recovering from his shock, he refused to accept his loss and asks for a rematch. He finally snapped when Nagisa refuses to fight him and was about to attack him when Karasuma elbows him in the face. To add insult to injury, Gakuhou Asano came and fires him due to his actions (breaking his promise) and being a horrible instructor (for misusing the fear to the students by violence and brute force).

Assassination Island Arc
After he left the school, he was mocked and teased by his upper-class superior that he lost to Nagisa. Unable to deal with the humiliation, he stole the office funds and hired professional assassins to poison the students in Okinawa. Before the reveal, he spoke in the P.A. system that he has the antidote and wants Nagisa and Kayano to bring Koro-sensei to him. His identity was revealed when Karasuma suspects some of the bodyguards were part of his department and the sudden stolen funds that only a member of the department could stole it. He reveals to everyone that he plans to kill Koro-sensei by filling the anti-sensei bullets in the bathtub, tying up Kayano and buried BOTH of them in the cement; letting Koro-sensei dissolve since he can’t kill his own students. Inhuman, Takaoka even threatened that he’ll blow up the antidote by forcing Nagisa to fight him and paying him back for every humiliation he suffered at the hands of Nagisa. Despite Nagisa doing as he was told, he blows up the antidote; madly laughing to see his expression as he breaks his promise.

Both fight against each other (with the help of Terasaka’s stun gun and motivation) and Takaoka initially gains the upper hand. He tells him once he wins, he’ll kill him and use his arms and legs as decoration. Sadly, Nagisa uses his new technique and defeats him for the second time and blows up whatever is left of his sanity. Takaoka never suspected that his hired assassins had double-crossed him by giving a fake poison when he reveals that he has no intention of giving the students the antidote at all.

He was last seen being dragged away by the officers and was interrogated for his actions.

Quotes

 * "To bring students under your thumbs, you have to give them just two things. Affection and Fear"
 * (To Class E Students) "What naughty children..., you came to see your respected instructor, and you come through the back entrance. Papa would never have instructed such children. Guess i have no choice. I'll give you guys supplementary lesson for your summer vacation!"

Trivia

 * Ryoma Terasaka was called "Pseudo-Takaoka" during class 3-E training using code names.