Takeshi Hoshino

Takeshi Hoshino (星野 武史 Hoshino Takeshi) is an esper and one of the children who was invited to the Awakening Lab.

Appearance
Takeshi is a young male teenager with long black hair; long sideburns; dark blue eyes; and a long, prominently pointed chin. Due to his handsome appearance, he is always accompanied by yellow sparkles. His hair is styled into a downwards pompadour that covers one of his eyes. Of the Awakening lab children, Takeshi is the tallest.

Takeshi wears a white, high-collared jacket with four red slits, four yellow buttons, white bell-bottom pants, and black boots with pointed toes. His outfit, combined with his appearance, make him similar to the famous rockstar Elvis Presley.

Personality
Takeshi carries a relaxed demeanor, but during a psychic demonstration to a visiting Ritsu, he becomes very determined to display his newly awakened powers, after which he succeeds. He is polite and has a cordial relationship with Kenji, dispelling Ritsu's suspicions of experimentation on the Awakening Lab's esper children, though he refers to Kenji as "old man".

He is amused with Ritsu's failure to develop psychic powers, laughing at his failure to bend a spoon, and is doubtful that Ritsu has even a slight trace of psychic potential. But Takeshi was utterly shocked after Ritsu's psychic powers emerged and could bend many spoons at once.

History
Before being recruited by Kenji, Takeshi was a regular guy with latent psychic potential. After he was revealed to be an esper with telekinetic powers, Takeshi chose to stay at the Awakening Lab to learn how to amplify his abilities even further.

Big Cleanup Arc
Takeshi, along with his fellow espers Rei, Go, and the twin brothers Daichi and Kaito Shiratori, were introduced by Kenji to Ritsu during a tour of the Awakening Lab. Takeshi displayed feeble telekinetic abilities, only to bend a spoon with great difficulty, failing to impress Ritsu.

After the children's introduction, Takeshi and Rei were the only ones to properly greet Ritsu, while Go, Daichi, and Kaito stayed silent. Ritsu asked them if Kenji had done anything to awaken their psychic powers, disturbing Kenji. Takeshi assured Ritsu that Kenji was just interested in psychic powers.

Later, Takeshi stood leaning at the doorway of a psychic development room after Ritsu left in frustration, amused with the boy's failure to display his own psychic powers. But after Kenji found Ritsu's spoon bent severely out of shape, he told Takeshi not to doubt him so quickly. Later, after Ritsu's psychic powers emerged due to Dimple's possession, Ritsu was able to show Takeshi and Kenji that he can now bend many spoons at once, to their complete shock. Then him and the other are shown tied up when a strong man invades the Awakening Lab.

7th Division Arc
During Claw's attack on the Awakening Lab, Takeshi and his friends were kidnapped by Sakurai. They, along with Ritsu (who was kidnapped by Koyama), are later put together in a cell, where a group of low-ranking Claw members attempts to indoctrinate them into Claw. Ritsu tries convincing a nearby Muto to free them as they don't have psychic powers, but the Scar sees right through the trickery and calls out Kaito, taking the boy with him. Soon after, they hear Kaito screaming for help and see Muto carrying a bloodied knife and Kaito's body, traumatizing the esper children.

However, Daichi reveals that Muto can create illusions and fake Kaito's murder and also tells them that he had created. He uses illusions of him and the others dead. Ritsu then asks him to use his powers along with Go's to pick the lock to their cell and then Ritsu and the kids get past the guards and other members of Claw.

After escaping, Teruki joins the awakening lab to help him and the other kids improve their and his abilities later on improved.

Separate Ways Arc
Him and Go are watching Reigen's press conference interview on his TV and are concerned about him, later when Mob's powers activated in the room the duo are in shock of how much power is being used there.

World Domination Arc
Him and the other Kids along with some of the Scars are gathered by Reigen to discuss and plan about what to do about Claw. Later on after Teruki is retrieved from his fight with Shimazaki and Reigen receives a call about his office and then comes up with a plan, He and some of the others try to distract the Claw members in the city while the other team goes through the sewer. Then, some members of Claw come up to the building they were in and he help fights them off. Later he, Go and Kaito are sent to get Rei, Daichi and Mukai from the sewers and then him and his friends. After the war he and the kids have a chat with Mitsura.

Divine Tree Arc
Teruki takes him and the other Awakening Lab kids to the Salt Middle School festival to eat.

???% Arc
He was watching ???% while it destroyed Seasoning City and other Awakening Lab members.

Epilogue
He appears at Reigen's birthday party along with his friends.

Powers & Abilities
Takeshi is a natural esper. His powers are still weak and premature, but they've improved during his time at the Awakening Lab. They continue to improve even more when Teruki Hanazawa becomes a teacher there.

Etymology

 * The name Takashi means "military, martial" (武) (taka) and "history" (史) (shi).
 * Takashi's surname Hoshino means "star" (星) (hoshi) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no).