Ryuichi Taki

Ryuichi Taki is a human detective who became possessed by a Nightbreed after he was shot in the head and reduced to a vegetative state. He was the fiance of Megumi Otsuka and a wedding date had been set before he was possessed. He appeared directly in Episode 3 and indirectly in Episode 4 as the father of the crossbreed Ryuichi Otsuka.

History:
Ryuichi Taki asked Megumi Otsuka to marry him and she agreed. A date was set for their wedding.

Episode 3:
Taki and another detective chase an armed criminal through the streets and corner him in an alley. While attempting to talk the criminal into lowering the gun, Taki is shot in the head. He is rushed to a nearby hospital, and although he is stabilized he is rendered brain-dead.

While in the hospital, a nightbreed possesses his body and escapes form the building. The NOS mans a hunt for him, one Shido Tatsuhiko partakes in after crossing paths with the breed, but it escapes. He retreats to the underground where Shido, in the company of Yayoi Matsunaga and Taki's fiance Megumi, track him down. Shido manages to injure him, but Taki is able to escape with Megumi's help after she shoots Shido with Yayoi's gun.

Megumi is able to drag him back to her apartment and bandage his wounds. After Taki wakes up and starts to struggle, Megumi pins him to the bed so he doesn't reopen his wounds. The two have sex, and are later forced to flee the building when the NOS finds them. They make it to the roof where Megumi pleads with the officers that he did nothing wrong but Taki is shot by a sniper and falls from the building to the top of a police cruiser.

Despite being shot (again) and falling eight stories, he is able to escape into a shopping mall. After killing a dozen officers, he retreats underground where Shido tracks him. Shido is finally able to kill him when Taki jumps at Shido and lets himself be skewered on Shido's blood sword. As he died, he tried to die as a human instead of a nightbreed.

Episode 4:
Taki is mentioned by Megumi when she is speaking to Riho Yamazaki. Megumi tells Riho that Taki lives inside her as she is pregnant with his child. As Taki was a nightbreed, his son would be a crossbreed. The NOS would later try to apprehend Megumi for her crossbreed child.

His son, Ryuichi Otsuka, was born at the end of the episode. His physical appearance is human, though it is unknown if nightbreed traits will appear later in his life.