Akiko Takakura

**Akiko Takakura** is one of the 5 "subjects" who underwent a clinical trial to cure their neurological disorders. She was a college student that attended Reinan's Senjukuha Program (SP). After graduation she became a doctor and counselor to students in the SP (much like Dr. Yamaguchi).

## Appearance

Akiko is a wiry and lean girl standing only at 151cm tall with short black hair, similar to a bob style along with bangs that reached her eyebrows, she wears glasses and has unnaturally intense amber eyes. As the series progressed, Akiko's hair grew longer.

## Background

Akiko’s Spiritual Incontinence is the result of a training accident where she was put in sync with the lie-lines of energy around her. As she was being instructed in how to gather all the harmonized energy her focus and concentration wavered and as a result she became able to sync with other people and gained the ability to read their hearts and also read "residual thoughts" in objects. While impressive she wasn’t able to turn it off causing her to unconsciously read everything about a person's heart, even things they don't want to hear or see.

Due to her years of this ability running amok she has a mental focus far beyond anyone else her age since she had to endure constant bombardment of thoughts. To cope with this, Akiko lived in the forest by herself for several years prior to enrolling at Reinan. Akiko is the only one of the five who still has a complete set of parents, though little is known about her personal life before college.

She used to have a teddy-bear called, "No".

## Personality

Akiko seemed to be one of the more soft-spoken and eccentric members of the 5 when she first arrived on campus. She quickly proved to be one of the more assertive and crafty members of the group, second only to Yamato in the beginning.

She adopted the role of the group's "mom" because of her fiercely loyal, watchful, and protective behavior regarding her fellow former Incontinents. Was also generally considered to be the most responsible and level-headed among the crew.

Though Akiko did become arrogant and too trusting of her power throughout Year 1 due to how exceptionally powerful she was. Though she did show a shy and timid side around especially around Seiji.

At the outset she was not particularly interested in figuring out what she wanted to do with her life and experienced a severe mental shock after participating in Reinan's Crucible in Year 3.

## Abilities

Akiko has developed an ability dubbed Super Tuning that allows her to sync with other people and gain the ability to read their hearts and also read "residual thoughts" in objects. With this ability Akiko can pull out information directly from the opponent's mind and she can predict the opponent's moves. The ability works by scanning the electrical pulses the brain sends to the muscles. Thus, it cannot be countered by erasing one's own sounds, body signs or thoughts. After the procedure that cured her of her Spiritual Incontinence she had an almost unprecedented range in which she could read minds and exceptional spiritual control.

Akiko is a master of a form of qigong called Renkan Keikikou. It lets her control the ki of not only herself, but the ki of living and non-living things, similar to powers of psychokinesis. Aikiko only needs to exert a small portion of her own ki to utilize this technique.

## Trivia

She is a combination of Mary Smith from Super Powereds and Takakura Akiko from Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru.