Takemichi is of average height and has fair skin. He has bleached yellow hair tied in a faux hawk, but he sometimes leaves it down in a shaggy style. He has blue or gray eyes in the anime and green or brown in the manga. He has a scar on his left hand from a stab wound and another scar on his left foot from a gunshot wound, although it is never shown. He usually wears his school uniform consisting of a white button-down shirt and light gray pants, or his gang attire consisting of a black tokkō.