Akari (New Life)

### Appearance

Slender, pale skin, black hair, magenta eyes, magenta flower headband, black top with straps, black shorts, magenta flats

### Reletives

Mr. and Mrs. Kawaye (parents, deceased)
Mieko Kawaye (younger sister)

### Allies

Unknown group of friends from elementary school, Masayo Miyazaki, Sachiko Hachiya, Ria Fujimoto, Yoshi Okamoto, Reiki Rachi, Maari Sasaki, Wakumi Mishima, Binya Tomitake,

### Likes

Animals, nature, making new friends, Masayo,

### Dislikes

Intruders, her parents’ deaths, her secret exposed, being abandoned, Masayo getting hurt or lost, getting captured, dead animals, other boys flirting with her,

**Akari Kawaye** is a character in *Devil Beats!: New Life*, voiced by Akane Fujita in Japanese and Erika Harlacher in English. Her younger self is voiced by Rio Sasaki in Japanese and ViviAnn Yee in English.

## Personality

Akari is a somewhat bitter, cynical, and sensitive girl. She is so sensitive because of two things: the deaths of her parents and the fact that she was abandoned by many villagers due to being a mysterious individual who kept Akuma as a secret, resulting in her having to hide in the sewer underneath the strange house where Miyu Oikawa and the other akuma were hiding in a year ago. Rarely had she come out to hunt for food and anything to drink. When Masayo found her all alone, she looks at him but gets very anxious and shy around him as she tells him to stay back for fear of being killed. When the two get anywhere close to each other after a pep-talk with Masayo, who tells her he is not an akuma and convinces her to be his girlfriend, she begins to have a crush on him as he takes her out of the sewer so he can help her find her friends and her sister.

Other than being bitter and pessimistic, Akari is known to be an animal-lover and tends to love nature, and is willing to help Masayo out, especially when he has motion sickness. She was concerned about him on two occasions: one was where the re-resurrected Hiroyuki wounded him in battle, and another was when his arm was slashed by a beast, that led her to use her hidden healing powers on him. She doesn’t like to be around anyone else who flirts with her, especially when Hiroyuki kidnapped her with the intention to bring her to the side of the akuma, a plan that was foiled when Masayo, Sachiko, and Ria saved her when he and Hiro are out looking for anything necessary to open the portal to Akuryo. Aside from finding her old friends, she is used to making new friends besides Masayo as well, no matter how shy she is around them. She is also good at socializing with others, an example being that she told Hinote and Mariko that all three have the same thing in common: their love for nature.

## Appearance

Akari is seventeen years old with pale skin, black hair with a ponytail over her shoulder, magenta eyes, and a magenta flower headband on her head. She wears a black top with her belly button showing, black shorts, and magenta flats.

During a flashback to when she was six years old, she wore a purple laurel hairpin, a violet dress with a black ribbon, long white socks, and black Mary Janes with dark gray soles.

When she was ten, her hair was in pigtails and she wore a striped magenta and white shirt, blue jeans, and pink shoes with white soles.

## Trivia

* She is inspired by Kiyoshi and Fluttershy.
* Her name means “vermilion red village” in Japanese.