Taka

Taka

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Occupation	Pet hawk
Biological information
Last known status	Alive (May 13, 2028)
Eye color	Yellow
Hair color	N/A* (dark brown, light brown, & white feathers)
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	Simon Blackquill (owner)
Affiliates	Apollo Justice (occasional victim) Athena Cykes (occasional victim) Phoenix Wright (occasional victim) Phineas Filch (victim) Aristotle Means (victim) "Bobby Fulbright" (victim) Judge (perch)
One-off nicknames
My dear, bosom buzzard* (by Simon Blackquill) The class pet* (by Aristotle Means)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	ギン (Gin)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	The Monstrous Turnabout

Taka

*Skree!*

— The Monstrous Turnabout

Taka is a hawk that is the animal companion of prosecutor Simon Blackquill, and often perches on his shoulder. Blackquill uses Taka in court to harass his opponents and witnesses. Taka is also used to relay information involving the cases Blackquill is involved in, carrying it in his beak.

Name

• His Japanese name, "Gin" (ギン), means "silver".
• His English name, "Taka", is the Japanese word for "hawk". According to Janet Hsu, his English name is a holdover from a undisclosed scrapped plot point.

Development

• As Japanese falconry, known as Takagari, was a symbol of nobility and warrior spirit for samurai, having a pet hawk is yet another samurai-like quality about Simon Blackquill.
• Taka is most likely a broad-winged hawk, due to his yellow beak, coloration, broad wings & stripe pattern, but could also be based on the mountain hawk-eagle and/or Japanese sparrowhawk.

References

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