Akane Sanada

23 (joining Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation,Eternal Punishment Arc S1-S2)
24 (Eternal Punishment Arc S2Pt2-onwards)
32 (P2FG)

### Relative

Jun Kitagawa (father)
Chiaki Henderson (mother)
Junta Sanada (elder brother)
Junko Sanada (younger sister)
Makoto Sanada (younger brother)
Nanoka Sanada (younger sister)
Minami Sanada (younger sister)
Yuka Sanada (younger sister)
Sarah Silverman (younger sister-in-law, friends, ally)
Melissa Mayuzumi (wife, friends)

## Affiliation

### Affiliation

Kounan Police Department
Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation (as 6th Division Head,recently)

## Likes and Dislike

### Likes

Telling the truth
Justice
Law

### Dislikes

Telling lies

"*You’re more fucking disgusting, fucked up, and depraved than your bitch cunt of a traitor.*"
— Akane taunting Ryousuke with writhes in pain after shocked, Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc Season 3 Part 2
**Akane Sanada** (真田明音(さなだあかね), *Sanada Akane*) is a main playable character in *Persona 2: Hope Harmony*. He is a member of the Armed Angel Agency and a magazine celebrity, touted by his fans and social media as the third detective prince (after the second appeared in *Persona 5*).

He is also the main protagonist of *The Time*, the sequel story of *Persona 2: Hope Harmony The Havoc* and the inheritor of the new Wildcard.

4 years later, he is a participant of the Final Survival Game featured in the manga and the Netflix anime series *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School* with the Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation Directors.

During this anime's event, he took the role of the deuteragonist of the themes and events of these anime stories although he is the main character.

In *Future Generation*, he replaces Katsuya as the police chief.

## Appearances

* *Persona 2: Mochizuki's Story:* Cameo
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony*: Playable Character
	+ *Episode: the Time*: Protagonist
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony - The Agency's Strikers: Playable Character*
* *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc*: Major Character, Deuteragonist
	+ *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School - Eternal Punishment Arc: Black World*: Deuteragonist.

## Design

Akane is the tallest member of the Armed Angel Agency when he with other girls (shortest when he with other boys). He looks feminine in his appearance despite having a handsome face. Initially, he has blank brown hair before he awakens his Persona, and his brown hair is mixed with a dyes white shade of ombre after awakening his Persona which follows the Armed Angel Agency's tradition and has a brown eyes.

As Seven Sisters High School students, he wear a male-variant Seven Sisters uniform, consisting of a black blazer and black pants with contrast trim worn over a white button-down shirt, and black sneakers shoes. Additionally, he wears a blue tie, indicating his status as a third-year student. However, he wear glasses to make sure no one can expose his identity.

After being captured by the military police, he wears an orange prison jumpsuit and has a number code tracker tattoo on his hand pulse.

In the second part of the third season, his hairstyle changes to the Rock God Rings short hairstyle, his brown with white shade hair is cut, and let the length on top waved and curled up as nature intended with sneak a curling iron in there. His outfit, however, he removes his black blazer due to hot. To add his new gear, he sports a black leather single-thigh harness, his black shirt was flipped to the pulse from his hand, a black vest suit was still on along with his black shoulder holster, and a black harness that loops over his body.

## Personality

"*Do you know why I become a detective? I learned from my friends since I was 10. …He taught me how to investigate, capture the suspect, deduce the culprit's guilt, and observe what the culprit does. That's my dream as a detective… …But, in the real world, I don't have many friends at all… All boys nor girls didn't know me either, luckily I have my friend Keisuke.*"
— Akane Sanada, *Persona 2: Hope Harmony*
Akane is an agile, professional, skillful, calm, intelligent, overconfident, and cunning young man who describes himself as a detective.

In reality, Akane is a more jealous, hatred and sarcasm towards Tatsuya and Maya for seeing them lead the world and story. He always sarcast to Tatsuya and Maya when he tell to anyone and considers them as "the throne stoler". However, he don't want let them lead the story or the world and want Makoto and Sarah to be fame for the world.

## Skills and Ability

### Persona's Ability

*Main article: White-Feathered Angel Eagle*
Akane has his powerful Persona's Ability, **White-Feathered Angel Eagle** (白羽天使の鷲(しらはらてんしのわし), *Shiraha Tenshi no Washi*).

### Skill

* **Skilled Marksman**: His gun allows him to shoot the Shadows.
* **Skilled Detective**: Like his namesake, Akane is a skilled detective. He can investigate Sudou's murder case.
* **Spy and Disguise**:
* **White-Feathered Angel Eagle**: His Persona's Ability from his Persona; Chroma Diamond Apollo.
* **Skilled Assassin**: According to Ryoji, Akane is a skilled assassin and was a former assassin before becoming a detective in the past. This allows him to kill all foes or shadows
* **Observing Eye**: Akane has his powerful eye to observe the enemy's movement when he spying on the enemy's headquarters.
* **Wildcard**: Allow him to use the multiple Persona during the battle.

### Weakness

* **Shock Collar**: As his punishment for treason, Akane was strapped to his legs and hands with wires from the shock collar. Ryousuke puts the shock collar on Akane to learn the truth — that he was frameup to murder of Ryousuke's agent during their mission of hunting down Ayatō. As he writhes in pain, he says that Ayatō frameup him and considers him that he was joining The Masquerade of Evil to kill Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation's agents.
* **Nose bleed**: Akane is allergic to see the pornography. When Akane accidentally watches pornography, his nose will be bleeding, and unconscious.

## Etymology

* The name **Akane** means "bright" (明) (aka) and "sound" (音) (ne).
* Akane's surname **Sanada** means "real, genuine" (真) (sana) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (ta/da).

## Trivia

* Akane wasn't scared of ghosts when he watched the jumpscare videos from social media, horror movies, and ghost stories.
* In the second part of the third season of this anime series, his new hairstyle is similar to the Australia-South African songwriter and singer, Troye Sivan.
* Akane's favorite color, white. Explained by himself to the female protagonist during Agency Den, he loves white because of his motifs of the virginity and passion. He describes his favorite color as "a detective with a angel wings".
* Akane is the one of protagonist can talk during the storyline of the sequel story, unlike two protagonists, who is can't talk during the storyline.