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Isami Aldini

Takumi's partner and sometimes rival in the kitchen, Isami is Takumi's younger twin brother. In their lives, the brothers are often seen together, whether in the kitchen or any place they go. Despite their different personalities and cooking skill levels, both brothers share a very strong bond and dream of making Trattoria Aldini the best restaurant in both Italy and the world. Takumi is very protective of his younger brother and would do anything for his sake, and cannot forgive those who insult him. While Takumi is the older brother, Isami seems to be the more level-headed of the two, usually seen dragging his brother off when he embarrasses himself or laughing him off when he goes into a tears about someday beating his rival, Sōma Yukihira. What is quite interesting about Isami is that he is usually a little chubby, but he looses weight every summer suspiciously. Though Takumi seems to be worrying about this, Isami reassures him that he will be fine and that happens almost every year. It is revealed by Mimasaka Subaru that the two most important things in the world for Takumi are Mezzeulina and Isami. For this reason, when Mimasaka humiliates those two, Takumi loses control and does a Shokugeki with him. Though he loses the Shokugeki, he starts to think about beating his past self and find himself as a chef. Isami initially feels inferior to his brother and later realises his own style of cooking through his mistakes at Trattoria Aldini. Later, he becomes aware of his own style of cooking and tries his best at the Autumn Selection. Though his cooking gets quite high marks but because of those who surpass him, he doesn't get selected. And they surpass all hurdles together along with the other 92nd Generation "Prodigies". After winning the Régiment de Cuisine and becoming a new member of the Elite Ten Council, Isami hugged Takumi to congratulate him.

Takumi's Father

The head chef of the Trattoria Aldini, Takumi's father is Takumi's idol and also the one who recommended him to enroll into Tōtsuki Culinary Academy to polish further his skills. Behind his recommendation is his concern about Takumi's achievements. Even though Takumi's skillful cooking did earned praises from various customers, he deemed that popularity would make Takumi stop learning and only his encounter with another rival would make him see his weakness. Prior to his son's departure, he gave each a bottle of Aldini olive oil as a memento and good luck charm.

Takumi's Uncle

The owner of Trattoria Aldini, Takumi's uncle also recommended him to enroll into Tōtsuki Culinary Academy to polish his skills further.

Tōtsuki Culinary Academy: Allies and Rivals

Sōma Yukihira

Like many students, Takumi became determined to defeat Sōma following Sōma's infamous entrance speech. Having also worked in a restaurant since his childhood, Takumi deemed Sōma his rival, although they would not meet in person until the Tōtsuki Friendship and Rapport Training Camp. Since then, Takumi has had a largely one-sided rivalry with Sōma, constantly seeking his attention in hopes that he will notice his presence. He is constantly annoyed when Sōma doesn't notice him and always observing him and wondering about his whereabouts, showing he cares for him or at least making sure that no one else will beat him before he does. Beyond this rivalry, the two have a friendly, brotherly relationship with one another.

While Sōma understands Takumi's drive and passion, he still does not always see Takumi as a rival because of his apparent need for contests, making almost everything they do into a competition and acting all high and mighty as well as dramatic about it. Sōma is not above teasing Takumi for the latter's own quirks, flustering Takumi. Because Sōma often disregards Takumi's taunts or challenges by treating him like a friend or sometimes a sidekick, this leaves Takumi both frustrated and embarrassed.

Takumi and Sōma have challenged each other to Shokugeki's which resulted in wins and losses on both sides with claim of the Mezzaluna as their only stipulation. While their rivalry was strong, Takumi assumes he could never truly "defeat" Sōma as their matches seemed rather pointless as well as their constant challenges. It was after losing that Takumi believed that he and Sōma are chefs who can collaborate as a team better than as rivals. The two seemed to have developed a brotherly bond during their Shokugeki against Calma as they were able to use the Mezzaluna together, similar to how Takumi does so with Isami.

Polar Star Dormitory

Through his heated-yet-friendly rivalry with Sōma, Takumi befriends all the Polar Star Dormitory students.

Subaru Mimasaka

Takumi's first opponent for the Autumn Election Main Tournament was Mimasaka and also his first Shokugeki opponent. Before their match, Takumi found him sneaking into his room and told him to leave. However, an insult from Mimasaka about Isami enraged Takumi and prompted him to quickly accept Mimasaka's 100th Shokugeki match. During the match, Takumi realized Mimasaka was mimicking his semifreddo and improving upon it. Without time to start over, Takumi tried to turn the tables by making his improved Semifreddo with his fourth layer. Sadly, Mimasaka predicted this move and adjusted his recipe to compensate, defeating Takumi 5-0 and forcing him to give up his prized mezzaluna.

After Soma defeats Mimasaka, Takumi declared that despite his previous defeat, he will be victorious in their next battle by going 10 to 100 steps further than Mimasaka's single step ahead. This declaration made Takumi gain a new rival besides Soma.

Megumi Tadokoro

Although they haven't had that much interaction in the series, Takumi and Megumi are shown to have known each other well. Slight evidence is shown when Megumi panics and starts to write "person" on her hand and Takumi states that it was too early for "that ritual". Also, Takumi showed a sincere relief towards Megumi after she shared the same motivation to defeat Central as him. The two become closer during their time preparing for the Regiment de Cuisine.

Erina Nakiri

Takumi did not directly interact with Erina much in the series, they are natural to each other, although Takumi is respect in Erina. Their relationship seem to be positive during the Régiment de Cuisine, and the two are friends afterward. However, during their face-off in the BLUE, while Takumi wanted a fair match with Erina, she was cold to him. After his defeat by Erina, she called her own cooking "garbage" and threw it into the trash, much to his shock.

Hisako Arato

While Takumi did not interact with Hisako at all, he respected her knowledge. Takumi once said that her knowledge would be a threat if they were matched against each other. Their relationship seemed to be positive during the Promotion Exams and Régiment de Cuisine.

Elite Ten Council

Etsuya Eizan

At some point, Takumi realized that Eizan was the mastermind responsible for rearranging his match against Mimasaka instead of Sōma, which was a part of Eizan's dirty tactics to get rid of Sōma for interfering his ambitions.

After the Regiment de Cuisine's 2nd bout is over, Takumi decided to choose Eizan as his opponent, determined to pay back for what happened in the Autumn Election through his cooking battle. Knowing Eizan's tendency for underhanded tactics, Aldini looked into Eizan's Shokugeki's, allowing himself to foresee Eizan's attempt to sabotage and adjusting his dish to prepare for it.