Takeshi is Daisuke's best friend in school and is the son of Police Inspector Saehara, who pursues Dark under the command of Hiwatari Satoshi. He usually serves as comic relief, as he is very excitable, friendly, rude and irresponsible. He is an enthusiastic reporter who uses his father's contacts to his advantage. However, he is rather reckless, proven in his plans, which Hiwatari often justly criticises, calling them ineffective. Saehara also likes to dump his workload, such as homework and cleanup duty, on Daisuke, so he can get out early to find a good spot to get good shots of Dark.    In the anime, Takeshi bribes students with photos; he offers the girls pictures of Dark in exchange for being able to copy their notes and offers Daisuke pictures of Risa Harada in a bikini in exchange for Daisuke cleaning the art room for him.

Niwa Daisuke is your average teenager, until his fourteenth birthday. He tries to declare his love to the girl of his dreams, but fails. Suddenly, whenever he thinks about this girl he turns into the legendary phantom thief known as Dark Mousy. Daisuke's mother, very much aware of this, makes him turn into Dark and steal valuable works of art for a purpose unknown to Daisuke. As the story unfolds, he learns why, and about his classmate who seems to have the same ability.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

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Minoru Shiraishi is a Japanese actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter and radio personality who was formerly affiliated with I'm Enterprise and Pro-Fit. He is the only "live-action" character (as he played "[himself](https://anilist.co/character/2728/)" in [Lucky☆Star](https://anilist.co/anime/1887/)) in the Newtype Anime magazine to be featured in the Monthly Top-10 Most-Popular Male Character charts. Also known for roles such as [Sakamoto](https://anilist.co/character/41069/) in [Nichijou](https://anilist.co/anime/10165/), [Taniguchi](https://anilist.co/character/257/) in the [Haruhi Suzumiya](https://anilist.co/anime/849/) series, and [Itsuki Takeuchi](https://anilist.co/character/7955/) in the [Initial D](https://anilist.co/anime/20842/) reboot feature films in 2014.

Minoru married on August 9, 2011, but has chosen to keep his wife's identity anonymous.

On December 29, 2015, Minoru revealed that he has facial paralysis, making him unable to move the right side of his face. He is currently taking medication and undergoing treatment.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Daisuke Niwa is an ordinary, if slightly unlucky, middle school student. On his fourteenth birthday, he comes down with a 'condition' that has plagued the men in his family for three hundred years. When he sees his crush, Risa, he transforms into his alter ego, the phantom thief Dark Mousy. Unfortunately, when Dark Mousy sees his crush, Risa's twin Riku, he transforms back into Daisuke. The only cure for this craziness is if Daisuke can get Risa to fall in love with him ... 

(Source: Tokyopop) 

Included one-shots: 
Volume 1: Namaiki no 'N' (N is for Nishiki) 
Volume 2: OumagaAGAIN (The Demon Returns) 
Volume 4: Kanno-ke wa Kanai Anzen. (Protecting The Kanno House) 
Note: Includes 5 extra chapters.

Takeshi Saehara