Akane Koumoto

* Anime
* Ancient

**Akane Koumoto** (紅本 茜, *Kōmoto Akane*) is one of the supporting characters of *Jitsu wa Watashi wa* series. She is the principal of the high school and the great-great grandmother of Akari Koumoto.

## Appearance

Though over one thousand years old, Akane takes the appearance of a young girl with pink hair and green eyes, also possessing a set of demonic horns.

    Her ancient form wears a male yukata and has long hair, a pair of dark square-shaped horns, and spiky teeth. She also carries a long-stemmed smoking pipe.

## Personality

Akane loves to toy with others, often at their expense - a trait that most other characters associate with her being a demon. She is, in essence, a prankster, and her favorite target is none other than Akari Koumoto (Akane's own granddaughter), although she has played quite a few pranks on Youko Shiragami and Asahi Kuromine.

Being a demon, she sometimes offer her help, but then requires compensation; not souls, as one might expect, but sweets and candy, due to her having a sweet tooth. As a result, the character whom she is most liable to help (or tempt, or manipulate into asking for help) is Nagisa Aizawa, due to the latter being extremely talented at making pastries and cakes - so much so that Akane has literally fallen in love with her cooking.

Due to her having been a teacher, and to currently being the principal, she is not adverse to sharing some words of wisdom with other characters, such as with Youko or Asahi - although she usually finds a way to make fun of (or to blatantly troll) the person she gives advice to.

It is hinted that she actually cares about her great-granddaughter Akari a lot, to the point where she shows extreme distrust of Sakurada Kousuke's feelings for Akari, despite him being depicted in the manga as a rather virtuous, straight-laced sort of person. She has yet to admit it openly, however.

It is also shown, in spite of all her demonic trolling, that she regrets not having been able to honour her promise to Touko to help protect Genjirou Shiragami's secret of being a vampire while they were high-schoolers, and it is hinted that she intends to fulfill it by allowing Youko and Asahi to graduate safely in their stead.

## Biography

### Background

Akane is a legendary class Demon who can travel through dimensions.

### Plot

Started as a teacher at a high school in ancient Japan, after the accident of Genjirou Shiragami, Akane killed Shirayuki and took over the school's principal position just to make the relationship between humans and non-humans comes true.

## Relationships

### Akari Koumoto

Akari is Akane's great-great granddaughter whom she loves to keep around as a plaything or a nanny. Akane will feel lonely if Akari has a boyfriend or eventually a husband so she mostly ended up ruining her grand daughter’s plan of getting a love interest.

### Asahi Kuromine

She loves to see the dramas to happens around him and what he did to help his friends. Has helped him multiple times but most of them are drama flags.

### Youko Shiragami

Treat each other like kohai-senpai because of their childish nature. In reality, she tries to protect her as a proof that humans and non-humans can coexist.

### Genjirou Shiragami

Yoko's father and Akane's former student. She failed to protect him from being noticed as a non-human because of her lack of knowledge about vampire.

### Touko Shiragami

Genjirou's wife and former student of the high school. One of the humans who accept the existence of non-human at first sight. Akane helped her and Genjro as a homerun teacher but also played pranks on them a lot.

### Shirayuki

Her former disciple from feudal age Japan. She has been holding a grudge with her since Shirayuki’s view towards humans changed, Akane considers her to be a major threat to the whole Morobare school and its inhuman students.

## Etymology

* The name **Akane** means "deep red, dye from the rubia plant" (茜).
* Akane's surname **Koumoto** means "crimson, deep red" (紅) (**kou**) and "base, root, origin, source" (本) (**moto**).