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Akira Okuzaki is the roommate and classmate of Takumi Tokiha in the same middle school division in Fuuka. She is regarded as the school's number one cute "boy" (causing the likes of Yayoi Ota and Aoi Senoh to swoon at the thought of his in-room antics with "rising star" Takumi).

However, it is revealed that Akira is a HiME (and as such, female), wielding as an Element a twin-bladed Kunai and the Child Gennai, a giant toad. Her boy appearance is part of her undercover mission to gather information of HiME by her father, the head of the Okuzaki clan. Her ninja appearance by Gennai was notable in respect to Akira's use of a summoning incantation.

Akira okuzaki

History[]

Mai-HiME[]

Akira's strong-willed and forceful personality contrasts with Takumi's kind and (relatively) feminine attitude and is extremely private, setting up a curtain and strict boundaries for the room.

In the 10th episode, Akira assists Takumi in baking a birthday cake for his sister Mai for her surprise party. When Takumi is attacked by an Orphan after sending Akira to buy icing sugar for the cake, he is rescued by a masked ninja, who asks that the identity of the "academy's secret ninja" be kept secret by him. At the end of the episode, the ninja tending to "his" wound is revealed to be Akira, thus revealing herself as a woman and a HiME.

The "secret ninja" later appears during the Searrs Foundation's raid on Fuuka Academy, after Akira leaves the gymnasium, ostensibly to scout out the school. Attending the HiME's conference with Mashiro Kazahana and Fumi Himeno at Kokuyouguu in secret, Akira is accosted by the mysterious Nagi Homura and apparently co-opted into alerting the Student Council (who are being held in the council room) as to a route for a possible escape, which is led by Reito Kanzaki.

Shortly after this, Takumi inadvertently uncovers Akira's true gender when he bursts into her drying herself, a circumstance which obliges Akira to kill Takumi. Despite her orders to kill anyone who learns of her secret, she cannot bring herself to slay Takumi alive, but makes him swear to silence and instead helps his medication when Takumi experiences another seizure.

In the final episode she is seen under their care tied to a wooden post when Mashiro revives the fallen HiME and their most important people, including Takumi. After participating in the final battle against the Obsidian Lord, Akira travels to America with Takumi where he receives surgery for his heart condition.

When Takumi is hospitalized, Akira visits him and discovers one evening that he has fallen into Nao Yuuki's clutches, smarting from an injury sustained in battle with Natsuki Kuga (at which Takumi's sister Mai was present), and summons Gennai to facilitate their escape. However, using webbing from her Element, Nao manages to track the pair to a wood. Further escape attempts prove futile, as Akira and his companions have fallen under an illusion cast by Sister Yukariko's Child St. Vlas (under Mr. Ishigami's directions). They are further assailed by the mysterious Child Yatagarasu, which works for a ghostly HiME seemingly hell bent on injuring Mai, as well as Mikoto Minagi, who interferes ostensibly on Mai's behalf while influenced by the Obsidian Prince.

Gennai is destroyed causing Takumi to evaporate spelling Akira's defeat whom Mai witnesses on at the scene. Mai blames Mikoto for the result as she summons Kagutsuchi, who goes into berserk mode. However, the true culprit for Gennai's demise and Takumi's translation to Kokuyouguu is Yatagarasu, later revealed as the child of Shiho Munakata, now Mai's enemy and rival for the affections of Yuuichi Tate. A distressed Akira collapses after this, and is later seen being carried off by members of her father's clan. She is later imprisoned by her father for revealing her true identity. However, with Mashiro Kazahana's resetting of the HiME Carnival, Takumi returns to life (in Akira's place of confinement). Akira later accompanies Takumi when he sets off for the USA for his heart transplant operation, and is seen at his bedside in more feminine dress, albeit still peeling an apple with considerable effectiveness.

My-HiME manga[]

Akira is blackmailed by Haruka Suzushiro into joining the Ori-HiME Team in order to preserve her identity. She often visits Takumi, who is much sicklier in the manga, to give him notes as the class representative, though her relationship with him goes unexplored. She becomes good friends with Mikoto Minagi, who had been her enemy until they resolved their differences after Mikoto rescued her. At the end of the manga, Akira is seen wearing a girl's school uniform, Mikoto checks to see if she is wearing a bra.

Relationships[]

Takumi Tokiha[]

Akane's relationship with Takumi starts off somewhat coldly, with Akira castigating Takumi's homemaker traits and installing a curtain and line to separate each's side of their room. She later warms up being somewhat physical approval of Takumi's burgeoning independent streak. With Takumi, she is often found in the company of Student Council Vice-President Reito Kanzaki.

It also becomes evident that they have begun to develop deep feelings for each other, which becomes significant as the events of the HiME carnival progress, and from her sketchbook filled with her drawings of Takumi.

Trivia[]

  • She is a talented artist, thus also a student of Wataru Ishigami, the art teacher.
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