Akane Shinjou (SSSS.Gridman)

Akane Shinjou is one of the main characters from the SSSS.Gridman series.
== Charactah Account ==
A girl at the same high school as the others, who is seen to be a perfect student and is very popular. This hides her true capricious and vindictive personality traits that come out when she has Alexis bring her Kaiju to life to right perceived wrongs with the city.
Akane appears to be a nice girl, offering Yuta a special dog when he forgets his lunch. However, behind that facade lies a mentally troubled individual with sociopathic tendencies, easily harboring petty grudges against anyone who wrongs her, even if it was an accident. In the first episode, the special dog she offered Yuta gets knocked to the floor because of a volleyball thrown by Sakiru Tonkawa. Akane retaliated by sending Ghoulghilas to kill Tonkawa while it wreaked havoc on the city. This malice even extended to her homeroom teacher, whom she nearly killed with Devadadan after he bumped into her without apologizing. She is also shown to be extremely manipulative. She keeps up her kind and peaceful charade on a daily basis, only showing her true colors to those who knew before hand, or figure out the truth for themselves. This plays into her manipulation tactics.
Akane also displays violent tendencies when she gets frustrated. For instance, she kicks her monitor, throws things, and shatters the screens of all her computers, phones, and tablets. Alexis Kerib even remarks on this, and calls her "violent."
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* SSSS.Gridman
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=== Manga ===
* SSSS.Gridman
* SSSS.Gridman: Neo Genesis Junior High School Students Butler Cafe
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=== Video Game ===
* Super Robot Wars 30
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== Trivia ==
* Akane's character is partly based on Takeshi Todo from live-action Gridman series as well as the latter's expy/successor in the scrapped show that later became the basis to SSSS.GRIDMAN, Gridman F. In stark contrast of the more introverted and unlucky Takeshi, however, Akane managed to put up a friendly facade in front of everyone and is the ace of her class, further reinforcing her disguise.
** Another basis to Akane is a minor character whom shared her namesake from episode 16 of Ultraman Cosmos, Akane Tachibana. Like the former, this Akane was mentally troubled and manipulated by a cosmic entity who even helped her created a kaiju where in her case, Chaos Head. Not surprisingly, both shows had Keiichi Hasegawa as their writer.
** As with many other characters in SSSS.GRIDMAN, Akane's design has minor references to Transformers franchise color. scheme-wise where in her case, matches that of Optimus Prime's Shattered Glass incarnation. In addition, the glasses she wears are cracked in its right side, just like one of the parts of Shattered Glass' Optimus Prime.
* Akane's voice actress, Reina Ueda, also voices Jasminka Antonenko from Little Witch Academia, another Trigger production.
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== External Links ==
* Akane Shinjou at SSSS.Gridman Wiki
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