Yes, all joseki are cooperative efforts and at best Black and White can choose their first two plays regardless of what their opponents do. Although even here...
As long as Black is content with a parallel fuseki, White can not stop Black after this
. White can prevent any diagonal fuseki with 
here. Now White can play in a parallel empty corner next. But if Black tries to directly disrupt White's planning with an immediate approach at 
, White has to be pretty stubborn about it. 
In fact, in GoGoD there are 700 games with this 1,2,3 and playing
at "a" is the second most common choice by White (after the simple knights play at "b").The comment on Takemiya has me scratching my head (
). I think he is the best example of someone very popular for reasons other than his winning ratio. Having said that, a quick run through of the Nihon Kiin homepage gives the latest title sweepstakes as:Code:
Player Titles
Cho Chikun 72
Sakata 64
Kobayashi Koichi 59
Otake 48
Kato 47
Cho U 37
Rin Kaiho 35
Yoda 35
Ishida Yoshio 24
*Takemiya* 24
Fujisawa Shuko 23
O Rissei 22
Yamashita 21
Hane Naoki 21
Cho Chikun 72
Sakata 64
Kobayashi Koichi 59
Otake 48
Kato 47
Cho U 37
Rin Kaiho 35
Yoda 35
Ishida Yoshio 24
*Takemiya* 24
Fujisawa Shuko 23
O Rissei 22
Yamashita 21
Hane Naoki 21
Only eight people in the NK's history have accumulated more titles, so he is no slouch in that regard either.
