Otaka is an 11-year-old Japanese-American girl with autism who's friends with Mega Man. She appears in the fan anime Mega Man: Bass's Revenge.
Description
Otaka usually wears a yellow sweater and denim jeans, though on occasion she wears a blue sweater and black pants or a green sweater and beige pants. She also sports black hi-tops, lilac socks, and dark red or light pink glasses. She has short brown hair swept behind her back.
Personality
Otaka is a brainy, quirky young girl who loves to help her father around his shop and code simple programs in C++. She's imaginative and always believes there's a solution to things. However, the things Otaka likes has gotten her bullied by other people. Otaka has learned to ignore these people and continue on with her life.
History
Otaka was born in Okinawa, Japan, as Danielle Otaka. Her parents, Kirsten Blackwood and Toru Otaka, were involved in the field of robotics. She was the second child they had, the first being Haku, the third being Ami, the fourth being Kenshiro, and the fifth being Samuel. Otaka and her family migrated to Tenma City in southern California when she was 2, so Toru could set up a robot parts shop there.
Over the years, Otaka met many people and lived a normal life. For example, in kindergarten, she wrote her own picture book. When she was 7, she tried to ride a bike; she scraped her knee while doing so. She has bad drawing skills since she's never drawn since she was 8. When she was 9, she learned how to code in BASIC.
She was 11 when she met the recent hero Mega Man, and thrilled at meeting Tenma's famous hero, she resolved to help the Blue Bomber out during his travels. Otaka has made close friends with a few of the Robot Masters too.
Story
Mega Man: Bass's Revenge
Otaka is one of the people who travel with Mega Man in his journey to rescue Roll and stop Bass. Along the way, Mega Man and Otaka get to know each other and find out they're not all that different. She helps hack into the fortress Bass sets up.
Marvel vs. Capcom: The Animated Series
The Otaka Robotics Shop sponsors Mega Man in this series, and Otaka is one of Morgan Johnson's associates.
Trivia
- Otaka is strikingly similar to Yuuta and Akane Kobayashi.
- All three of them have Japanese names and all three are human. Furthermore, Yuuta and Akane appear in Mega Man: Bass's Revenge and are part of Mega Man's group there.
- Otaka is the second human female character in the series, after Kalinka Cossack, and the third female character. The third human female character would be Ami, Otaka's sister.
- Otaka means "grand."
- Otaka has shown some hints of a relationship with Mega Man, most notably during the events of Mega Man: Bass's Revenge.
- In Marvel vs. Capcom: The Animated Series, Otaka seems to have a crush on Morgan Johnson.
- Otaka is the first character in the series to have a mental disorder; in this case, autism.
- Otaka loves video games.