Taka Yukihira/Relationships

Through his course of life, Taka has formed various relationships with everyone he has met from his early childhood in his neighborhood to his high school life in Tōtsuki Culinary Academy. From family and friends to rivals and adversaries, Taka's interactions with many people have helped to develop his cooking skills on his journey to become the ultimate chef.

Kenjiro Yukihira
Kenjiro is Taka's father, who is a freelance world-class chef and owner of Restaurant Yukihira. Taka respects his father not just as a parental figure, but also as his mentor, friend, and rival though Taka often gets annoyed when he makes fun of him. Taka aspires to become a great chef one day like his father and hopes to defeat him in a cooking duel, which he has yet to do. Though Kenjiro initially thought that Taka would give up after a few cooking duel losses as Taka was too lazy to devote himself to anything, however, Taka's tenacity to try over and over convinced Kenjiro to give Taka some basic training, but still allowing Taka to mostly craft his version of the Yukihira Style on his own.

Shiori Yukihira
Shiori is Taka's Mother both of them share a rather tough relationship as she was very strict and tough with Taka which resulted in Taka's negative attitude towards girls. Taka often getting in fights with his mother where she often scolded him when he gets into trouble or doesn't listen to her.

Despite this Taka truly cares about his mother and respects her for how she always willing to make up for her failures by learning from all her mistakes as she was originally a was terrible chef but became a good chef after going through many trials and errors.

Shiori also cares about his son wanted her son to grow up as a good person and being able to live his life as he sees fit.

Toshiro Yukihira
Toshiro is Taka's late Maternal Grandfather who Taka deeply respect for his unyielding value and ideals as a Chef and is a famous chef who is an unknown legend that only known in the Gourmet Mysterious Wandering Chef around the world to learn new cooking style and inspired Taka for being the chef he is today. Having been one of the people teaching him about cooking.

When Taka was 5-6 year old he and his grandfather was stranded on a rock for about 30 days manage to survived with the 1 weak worth of food during which time both of them nearly starved to death. Toshiro secretly give all the food to Taka after weeks of eating nothing he went to see his grandfather learning that his grandfather gave all the food they had. Taka was touched and grateful by his Grandfather's kindness and greatly indebted to him.

Toshio was not only his parental figure but also his mentor as he began to respect him as a person and as a chef for his unafraid demeanor to move forward in creating many dishes. He reveals that his Grandfather was originally a terrible chef in his youth, but was always willing to make up for his failures by learning from all his mistakes and become a great chef.

Erina Nakiri
Renown for her "God's Tongue", Erina is Taka's main rival. As the current 25th seat of the Elite School Council and the one of the only first year in the Student Council, Erina views herself as superior to all of her classmates. Erina sees Taka as an imperfection in her otherwise flawless world and looks down upon him mostly due to his humble, less prestigious background. In Taka's initial entrance exam in which she was the judge, she was impressed by Taka's dish, however, a mixture of her pride and Taka's cockiness caused her to reject him from the school. Unbeknownst to Taka and Erina, her grandfather, Senzaemon Nakiri, would later taste Taka's dish and immediately accept him into the school.

At the entrance ceremony, Erina was present as Taka was introduced as one of the last minute entrants along with his friends. Though Erina tried to intimidate Taka by saying that everyone else has been in culinary education since middle school while he has not, Taka is unfazed since he has been cooking in a professional setting for 12 years, compared to the minimum 3 years of formal education training the others have. Since that day, Erina's main goal has been to make Taka's school life as miserable as possible or refute his skills such as vocally revoking Taka's participation in the Autumn Election, though the notion was overruled. Any mention of his name sends Erina into a spiral of frustration and anger. Erina also tries to make clear of their difference in status and skill, though with little success as Taka either simply taunt her or ignores it entirely and does not care about Erina's status or reputation Taka, on the other hand, is not hostile towards Erina, however, he was annoyed by the fact that Erina called his food disgusting in spite of her reaction of his dish that show it was delicious and it makes it his goal to make her admit his food is good and wanting Erina to take back what she said about his entry dish knowing full well that she really enjoyed his food.

Since then Taka has made it his Goal and vows to make Erina taste another future dish of his that will make her admit his food is good; basically wanting Erina to take back what she said about his entry dish knowing full well that she really enjoyed his food and make her say "delicious".

After learning of Erina's past through her grandfather Senzaemon, Taka claims that her family issues is not exactly his matter to deal with, but believes he can save her through his cooking, as it was his goal from the start to have her admit his cooking is good. Initially, Erina did not know that Taka was the son of her cooking idol, Kenjiro Saiba. After the revelation of his parentage, their rivalry still remained the same until Erina decided to confide in Taka about her past and how Jōichirō showed her the world of cooking was fun until her father decided to "educate" her. It was then Taka decided to help her remember her goal by giving her a taste of Yukihira-Style Cooking.

After the BLUE their relationship remained the same while Taka is dejected by his lost against Erina and Kaito mostly focus on creating a new dishes that would surpass Erina and Kaito When Taka's mother Shiori visit Polar Star Dorm to check on Taka when confining to his mother about the advice Asahi gave him about a special person he wishes to make his best cooking for to which Shiori told him that Kenjiro intended to tell the same advice to him when he was taking the entrance exam to Totsuki which led Taka to think who be this special someone he to give his cooking him.

Meanwhile, Shiori revealed the fact that her Grandfather was responsible for Taka enrollment in the Academy and gave advice to Erina and the other female student to find someone very special to them that make them devoted their cooking to them although Shiori stated that they don't necessarily need to find someone special to devote their cooking to these words reminded Erina how much she wanted her Grandmother to say her food was delicious and wonder if other then Grandmother Taka would be someone Special she wants to devote her cooking however Erina denial the Idea and decide to focus on her task as the Elite Council Member and the Vice Director of Totsuki. However, this change When invited to attend the Birthday party of Ryogi Nishiki who is the fourth seat in Elite Council from Central Academy from America and He and Taka are acquaintance through his father with Taka Kaito Erina Sojiro Goro Ayame Takumi Mie Yuichi and Megumi invited When Taka witness Ryogi and Erina talking to each other where he attempt kiss Erina in order to prove that Taka has feeling for Erina to which Taka stop him as he expected when Taka confronted Erina what Ryogi said to her

Kaito Dojima
Taka and Kaito

Sosei Ishida
Sosei is the first person that Taka befriended when he attended Totsuki and they are on very good terms with each other.