i thought about it because celes had characters from real gambling manga as her opponents in the past, and since freetime events are pure fanservice it only makes sense😄 you like certain type of classmate => you spend time gaps between main scenario events with them => you get more things you like as a bonus👍 SO, i thought it would only make sense for his freetime events to reference recognisable zoku titles too BUT this genre is so specific that only a very-very little amount of people interested in it😡 outside of japan😡 which is why nobody translates even such significant things like tokutaku or shobaku!!!😡 and nobody will explain things to me!!!😡

SO i kind of fixated on this idea😇 mndwd to "bukkomi no taku" connection😇🤞since some details on his splash art are like obviously-obviously already referencing takemaru☝️🤓 the "real man rides kawasaki" line was most suspicious to me, because this is kind of specific thing to say and most of tokutaku main characters seem to be kawasaki adepts☝️ i thought on ryuya because decoration of his bike looks similar to what you can see in danron cg 🤔 but gpz900r is a 4-cylinder engine motorcycle and judging by what mndwd says in freetimes i think he probably rides one of their "vulcan" models😄👍 so i'm not sure about this one🙁 is it nervous yelling part? is it liking specifically small and fluffy dogs part? the whole tragic death during a race plot?.. no i actually believe in kodaka's writing with this one✊😅 but the point is that i can't possibly physically know this for sure because of the language barrier!!! and it makes me soo sad!!!😭 so if anyone knows anything please let me know...

p.s.: his character design (in a wide meaning) is inspired by this guy 🙂👇 which is why i believe in more possible connections to tokutaku so much haha