Aru Akise

**Aru Akise** (秋瀬 或, *Akise Aru*) is one of Yukiteru Amano's friends. Aru is very intelligent and dreams of being a world famous detective when he gets older. Investigating the connections between Yuki and the diary owners, Aru becomes a close ally to Yuki, but an enemy and rival to Yuno Gasai. Aru quickly grows to love Yuki and wishes for him to become God.

## Description

### Appearance

Aru is a handsome young man with white hair and reddish-pink eyes. In his first televised appearance he wears a blue jacket over a white dress shirt and black tie. He wears grey pants and black dress shoes. All of his subsequent outfits are some variation on this.

### Personality

Aru is intelligent and logical. Although he was surrounded by people who had future-predicting diaries, he was able to outsmart them. He's also extremely observant, noticing small details, putting them together, and using them to his advantage. He is also very calm and somewhat reserved with his emotions.

Aru is quite social; he doesn't hesitate to befriend those who he's only known for a short amount of time, including people who previously rivaled him, which shows how understanding he is. For instance, although Yuno attempted to kill him on multiple occasions, he still tried to understand and cooperate with her until she kidnapped Yukiteru.

Although it is shown on many occasions that Aru genuinely cares about people and wants to help them, he is not above using manipulation and breaking the law to get what he wants. Throughout the series he constantly lied and concealed the truth, broke into Yuno's house, and cooperated with a known terrorist.

## Trivia

* Aru's character theme song is "Song of A Certain Truth" by Alice Rokugen. It expresses a desire to protect a certain person from the hardships and lies of the world, and to live a peaceful life with that person forever. It also meditates on the nature of Truth, wondering what counts as the truth and whether it's better to know nothing and live in peace.
* His given name, Aru, can mean "exist" if written with different kanji, which could be a subtle hint to Aru's true origins.
* In *Paradox*, Aru's brief alteration of history allows him to create a large alliance made out of most of the diary owners - Keigo Kurusu, Reisuke Houjou, Tsubaki Kasugano, Marco Ikusaba and Ai Mikami, Kamado Ueshita being represented by Orin Miyashiro, and Yomotsu Hirasaka. He never meets Karyuudo Tsukishima and John Bacchus, kills Takao Hiyama and fights Minene Uryu.
* In the Japanese dub of the anime, Aru's voice is deeper than Yuki's. However, this is reversed in the English dub.
* Aru loves Yukiteru. He kissed Yukiteru to make Yuno jealous and charge at him. When Aru tells Deus about his will, Deus tells him it was all created and planned out by him. When Aru tells Deus that he loves Yukiteru, Deus tells him it was also part of his plan.
* Third World Aru is called an observer by Third World Murmur and Deus.
* He was a diary apprentice in the Second World, and he used Eighth's server to use this. His diary is called the Detective Diary, which can resolve an incident, or tell the truth. Incidentally, this is the same ability he pretended to have when he faked being a diary user in episode 9.
* In the Third World, Tsubaki has her eyes on him and is a complete stalker.
* Aru Akise is very similar to Nagisa Kaworu from the Evangelion franchise, particularly their love for the protagonist & close relationships with them. They also both have white hair, red eyes, holy origins, and are both voiced by Akira Ishida.
* In the English dubbed anime on YouTube, not on TV Aru is voiced by Riley Kerr.