Akeno Himejima

**Nicknames** = Priestess of Thunder → Priestess of Thunder and Light

Daughter of Lightning

Vestal of Thunder

Daughter of the Himejima Clan

Black-hair Pony-tail Queen (by Issei Hyoudou)

Queen of the Gremory Group

Self-Proclaimed Lady of the House (by Kuroka)

Demon Goddesses of Sex (alongside Kuroka and Xenovia)

Equipment = Holy Lightning

Fallen Angel Mode

Magic

Thunder Maiden Mode

**Relatives** = Baraqiel (Father)

Shuri Himejima (Mother) †

Tobio Ikuse (Second Cousin)

Suzaku Himejima (Cousin)

Ageha Ikuse (Great-Aunt) †

Unnamed Grandmother

Suou Himejima (Great-Uncle)

Issei Hyoudou (Husband)

Kurenai Himejima (Son)

Sumire Himejima (Daughter)

**Affiliations** = Himejima Clan

Rias Gremory's Peerage(Formerly)

Akeno Himejima’s Peerage (King)

Team Rias Gremory (Formerly)

Team Red Dragon Emperor of The Blazing Truth

Kuoh Academy (First-Year College Student) (Graduated)

Occult Research Club (Former Vice-President)

Hyoudou Residence

Hyoudou Clan (Branch House)

Himejima Clan (Underworld)

D×D

Three Factions (Underworld)

Grigori (Executive)

Heavenly Breasts

Japanese Culture Research Society (Formerely)

Status = Alive

Ranking = Ultimate Class-Devil

Super Devil

True King

Queen (Formerly)

**Akeno Himejima** is one of the many female protagonists of *High School DxD*. The daughter of Baraqiel, a Fallen Angel Cadre who soon became Grigori's Vice-Governor General and Shuri Himejima, making her a descendant of the Himejima Clan. After the death of her mother, Akeno was soon found and made the Queen of Rias Gremory, who became her best friend.

Akeno is one of Kuoh Academy's Two Great Ladies alongside Rias, soon becoming a first-year collage student. She is also one of Issei's wives

After the Evie War, she went on to form her own peerage, become an executive at the Grigori and become a branch house to the Hyoudou Clan, taking the name **Akeno Himejima Hyoudou**

## Appearance

Akeno is a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous figure, very long black hair and violet eyes. Her hair is usually tied in a very long ponytail, reaching all the way down to the floor with two strands sticking out from the top and sloping backward, with an orange ribbon keeping it in place.

Like most of the girls at Kuoh Academy, she wears the customary Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform, along with black calf-length socks.

As revealed in the visual book with her data , her body measurements are [B102-W60-H89 cm] [B40-W24-H35 in]. Her body weight is [54 kg] [119 lbs] while her height is 168 cm (5 feet 6 inches).

Her measurements increased to 170 cm (5 feet 7 inches) and 104 cm

In the anime, during battles, she often transforms her clothes into a traditional miko attire, consisting of a white *haori* with red accents, a red *hakama*, and a pair of *zōri* with white *tabi*.

Her Grigori attire consists of a standard business suit with a black jacket, matching pencil skirt, heels and a white shirt with the buttons open to give view to her enormous breasts. She often wears glasses, despite not needing them, and alternates with a lab coat at times.

After she revealed her Fallen Angel side in front of Issei, she reveals one Devil wing and one Fallen Angel wing. As the series progressed and she came to terms with her fallen angel powers, her wings increased to six, at first, because of the aid of Azazel's bracelets, then eight, resembling a High-Tier Fallen Angel. She later gained all 12

## Personality

She is first seen to be a very elegant and gentle woman, embodying the principals of the ideal Japanese woman: "Yamato Nadeshiko". However underneath her calm atmosphere, she is shown to be highly sadistic in battle and doesn't show any mercy or remorse towards the enemies she slays, casually keeping up her smiling elegant persona over an enemy's death and showing an expression of pleasure and lust upon delivering them pain.

As a result of seeing her mother be killed in front of her eyes and her father being unable to save her, Akeno developed a hatred for Fallen Angels, she has developed a sense of self-loathing towards her Fallen Angel nature, for it was the reason her was mother killed which led her to sever ties with her father, going into exile before being saved by Rias after Akeno's maternal relatives nearly killed her. Due to this reason, she empathizes with those who have suffered under the hands of Fallen Angels like Issei and Asia, who were manipulated and killed by the Fallen Angel Raynare as she was worried that Issei would dislike her due to her Fallen Angel nature but fell in love with him after he told her he still liked her. With Issei's help, she was able to overcome the sadness of her mother's death and reconcile with her estranged father, renewing their familial bond. Due to Issei helping her, Akeno's love for him deepened considerably as she confessed her feeling for him.

While she originally had no interest in dating men due to her past, she began to take an interest in Issei, thinking of him as a cute junior and that interest intensified after seeing his determination in the Rating Game against Riser Phenex and his actions during Rias' engagement ceremony, where he defeated Riser Phenex. She has stated that Issei is the first boy she has ever felt such feelings for as she is shown to have a desire to further her relationship with him. She also loves to tease Issei and Rias, as she loves to make Rias irritated by flirting with Issei. Akeno has also stated that she has some masochism in her as well, as she is only masochistic towards Issei in contrast to her sadistic nature in battle. She is shown to be quite vulgar, flirting with Issei as such and doesn't care if Rias knows or saw her doing the act as she tried to have sex with him while also trying to help Issei further his relationship with Rias, but does care enough to not steal him away from her as she even helped Issei confess to Rias. After falling in love with him, she becomes very seductive and is obsessed with having an affair with Issei whenever she finds a chance, which is often interrupted by Rias and some others.

She also has a weak side to her once she removes her mask of being an Onee-Sama, what is left is her true side of "depending" on a man which is generally Issei and her father Baraqiel after reconciling with him. If danger arises to them, she will become depressed or it can also lead to a rise in her tension. The latter occurred when Issei was injured in the Rating Game between the Sitri and Gremory groups, and the former when Issei was thought to be dead in the Dimensional Gap.

Despite being seductive toward Issei and acting like a mature young woman, Akeno is still innocent and emotional towards love and acts like a girl her age whenever she is on a date with Issei. However, this still does not stop her being seductive and flirting with Issei. Despite being seen as calm and clear, Akeno does get jealous like the other girls and will fight for Issei.

Akeno took a step further into accepting her Fallen Angel heritage; After college, she took a position at the Grigori and eventually rose to a high level executive spot. She now takes pride in her heritage and encourages her children to do the same, even giving Kurenai his own set of Tarot Cards to lead his own peerage.

Despite her kindness, Akeno has a vengeful side to her, primarily directed to those that harm’s her family. She demonstrated when she went back for revenge against Kurenai’s attempted murderers and slaughtered them.

## History

Akeno is the only child of Shuri Himejima, a Shinto priestess and Baraqiel, a Fallen Angel and one of the leaders of the Fallen Angel organization, Grigori. As a child, Akeno was close to her mother as her father was mostly away on missions and fell into despair when she witnessed her mother's death, blaming Baraqiel for not being able to protect her. After the death of Shuri, Akeno stayed with her mother's relative before being kicked out due to her Fallen Angel blood.

At the tender age of 10, without food or money, Akeno journeyed throughout Japan using her skills to purify evil spirits that she learned from her mother in order to survive, doing so for a year and a half. When she stumbled into a certain town, Akeno indirectly saved a human that was contracted with a Devil from the Gremory Clan. Fearing that the Devil would kill her due to her Fallen Angel heritage, Akeno decided to hide from them. Later, while trying to leave the town, Akeno was suddenly attacked by her relatives from the Himejima Clan who came to kill her. Before her Grand-Uncle Suou Himejima could land the decisive blow, Rias, and her father's Bishop, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, appeared and talked Akeno's family out of killing her with two conditions; first Akeno is to never enter the territory under the Himejima Clan and second, to always stay beside Rias. She then moved into the Gremory Palace where she was taught various things from studies, to how a lady should act as well as deepening her bonds with Rias, becoming her best friend in the process. She had also become acquainted with Sona Sitri around this time.

Upon entering Junior High, Rias received her Evil Pieces and made Akeno her first servant. Two years before the series, she entered Kuoh Academy alongside Rias and helped her in re-establishing the Occult Research Club becoming its Vice-President. Akeno and Rias went to the Kyoto trip during their second year, Rias enjoyed every moment of it, however, they didn't plan a proper schedule and therefore there were places that she wasn't able to visit like the Nijou-jou, Rias was so upset that she stomped her feet at the railway station as Akeno tried to calm her down. Also during their second year, Akeno and Rias organized their club as a haunted house for the school festival, they even used real ghosts as Rias requested friendly Youkai looking for jobs to plan the decorations. This, however, got them in a lot of trouble with Sona who scolded them for using the real thing.

## Powers & Abilities

**Great Demonic Power:** Akeno has great potential in using demonic power, comparable to her King despite being a reincarnated Devil, being the second strongest in the peerage. Riser acknowledged that, pre-training, she was the only one among Rias' peerage who could face his peerage. She became one of the first three to be promoted to Middle-Class, with Azazel stating that she now rivals High-Class Devils. Akeno enhanced her powers to the point of being able to defeat an army of mass-produced Evil Dragons. Akeno is able to use her demonic power to create a special technique that allows devils to move freely within shrines and temples without any drawbacks. At the end of the Evie War, she was officially recognized as a Super Devil.

* **Elemental Demonic Power:** Akeno excels in using natural elements such as ice, fire, and water, but she specializes in lightning. She is able to create thunder clouds using her demonic power, making lightning bolts rain down on her opponents. She could freeze Cerberus' flames in an instant and target ice spears at her opponents. Much like her Holy Lightning Dragon, Akeno can also form Asian Dragon made out of fire and ice, sending them at her enemies.
	+ **Lightning Manipulation:** Akeno originally specialized in lightning demonic power alone before she began using her Holy Lightning ability, where she imbues it with the power of light. Even before combining it with the power of light, Akeno's strongest lightning bolts were powerful enough to destroy the Kuoh Academy gymnasium. Her strikes are shown to be capable of inflicting paralysis and inducing great pain on opponents.
	+ **Fire:** Akeno is seen to can perform Fire Demonic Power through Asian Dragon.
	+ **Water:** Akeno has shown to be able to summon a vast amount of bodies of water, large enough to fill a swimming pool.
	+ **Ice:** Akeno is capable of freezing her target and create ice into spikes and projectiles. She is shown creating a blizzard that instantly freezes even fire.
* **Defensive Magic:** She has been shown to be able to use magic to strengthen the power of her defense by focusing on the Rook trait of her Queen piece, to protect herself as well as others from powerful attacks.
* **Teleportation:** Akeno has demonstrated the ability to teleport herself and others.
* **Hypnosis:** Akeno has shown the ability to hypnotize others as she used it on her college friends to keep Issei's identity a secret while introducing him as her boyfriend.
* **Illusions**: Akeno often creates copies of herself to fool the enemy and attack through their blindspots. She has combined this with her lightning to make illusions that electrocute does on contact.
* **Cloth Manipulation:** Usually when Akeno needs to use all of her magic power, she alters her clothes into a Shinto priestess attire that gave her the epithet, "Priestess of Thunder". She also uses this to repair hers or the clothes of others.

**Enhanced Magic Power:** As a Queen, Akeno can strengthen her magic and demonic powers using the Bishop aspect, which she has shown to be the most adept at using in combat.

**Holy Lightning** (雷光, *Raikō*): Akeno's signature skill that she inherited from her father Baraqiel. Akeno combines the power of light and lightning to create Holy Lightning. Akeno can make high-density lightning strikes on her opponents.

* **Fallen Angel Mode:** A special form, achieved through Akeno making her *Holy Lightning* blood denser. In this form, she gained six Fallen Angel wings, strengthening herself, making herself appear more like a Top-Tier Fallen Angel. At first, Akeno needed special bracelets created by Azazel, however she later became able to enter this state at will. Akeno's strength increased to the point of being able to gain a total of eight wings.
* **Holy Lightning Dragon** (): Due to her constant draining of Issei's Dragon aura, she has gained the ability to shape her Holy Lightning into the form of an Asian Dragon, which can move as if it was alive. It has been shown to be powerful, devouring large fragments of rocks and erasing one of Grendel's fireballs. She became capable of creating five of them at once, each of which are described as having a dense aura.
* **Twelve Draconic King Burst:** Akeno summons 12 magic dragons, 3 made of each of the 4 elements she has truly mastered, including lighting, fire, ice, and water and shot them individually under her control. This is her strongest attack in her Fallen Angel mode

* **Thunder Maiden:** After making a contract with the God Raijin, Akeno gained some of his power to use for battle. Her physical and magical abilities are raised greatly, allowing her to battle the Persian God of Vengeance Verethraghna and gains a new set of shrine maiden clothes wi to lightning bursting around it and white eyes. Issei described her as “having become lightning itself”. She can maintain this form for 15 minutes.

* + **Fallen Draconic Thunder Clap:** Akeno Summons a 12 headed holy lightning dragon that she can launch at her opponent

**Senjutsu:** Akeno can use senjutsu to a limited degree to manipulate her presence and avoid detection.. It later grew to where she can sense the chi of others in the environment.

**Enhanced Strength and Defense:** As a Queen, Akeno possesses enhanced strength and defense through the Rook trait of her Queen piece. She grew strong enough to endure light infused punches from Yubelluna, enduring her explosion magic at close range and being kicked into a stone pillar. Her physical attacks are enough to send people flying through walls.

**Enhanced Speed:** As a Queen, Akeno has the Knight speed enhancement through her Queen piece. Akeno was capable of evading many of Zhu Bajie's attacks with ease.

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Akeno began learning martial arts from Black Lightning and Batman, with her attacks taking inspiration from Boxing, Muay Thai, Jiujitsu and other styles. She has no problem fighting dirty when backed into a corner and enhances her attacks with her magic, either unleashing them last minute or infusing her punches with them.

**Expert Swordswoman**: Akeno demonstrated her skills in her match against Yubelluna, engaging in bladed combat for lengthy periods of time and often resorts to it in close range. Kiba states that she is on par with Issei in swordsmanship. She has her Knight, Sebastian, tutor her in bladed combat.

**Expert Magician:** Akeno has shown herself to be skilled in the use of magic with her, Rias and Rossweisse being the top magic type specialists in the Peerage (before Rossweisse left). Her magic abilities are enhanced through the Bishop trait of her Queen piece.

* **Summoning Magic:** Akeno has some skill in summoning magic, being able to instruct Asia in its use. She is shown to summon up to six Imp-like familiars that are useful in recon. Her ability to summon creatures was strengthened after she entered the Himejima household and strengthened her Himejima blood, thus allowing her to summon legendary Youkai like **Ura** and **Ibaraki Doujou**.
* **Purification:** Akeno has the power to purify evil spirits which she learned from her mother. However, since she lacks Senjutsu prowess, her ability is inferior to Koneko's and Kuroka's.

**Extrasensory Perception:** Kiba has noted that Akeno has particular skill in reading different kinds of energy flows, being able to tell how the spirits of Kiba's old friends were released from the orb, and sensing Vali's arrival.

**Stealth Expert:** As mentioned by Issei and Rias, Akeno has developed a skill to sneak behind people without leaving any presence. Rias mentioned that Akeno has learned a skill that allows her to avoid detection from Koneko's Senjutsu sensing ability.

**Master Chef:** Akeno is an extremely skilled cook, cooking delicious foods such as nikujaga, which reminded Baraqiel of Shuri. Her cooking skills are enough for her to be known as one of the Four Heavenly Kings alongside Miki, Rias, and Asia, cooking delicious foods, often competing with Rias over Issei.

**Flight:** Uniquely, Akeno has two different methods of flight, the first being her bat-like wings as a reincarnated devil or fallen angels wings due to her heritage.

## Equipment

**O Katana:** An O Katana made for her by Azazel. It appears no different than a standard sword and has been crafted with a metal that allows her to channel her magic into the blade, often using it to surprise her foes.

## Formerly

**Queen Piece:** (女王の駒, *Joō no koma*): Akeno was reincarnated using the Queen Piece, which grants her the characteristics of a Rook, Bishop, and Knight. Although, she is more aclined to the Bishop trait, instead of the Rook and Knight.

**Oni Mask:** Akeno possesses an oni mask, something that she uses to summon two powerful, and legendary Oni under her contract. One is Ura, a famous Evil Oni who served as his tribe's leader on Onigashima, while the other is a Daiyoukai, Ibaraki Doujou, who served as Shuten Douji's right-hand man.

## Trivia

* Like some of the girls, Akeno has forgone wearing a bra or undergarments, wanting to be ready for sex in a moments notice
* Her office is capable of converting into a King sized bed; Her doors and windows have been altered with magic so no one can see or get in
* She has a Werewolf/Dragon bodyguard made from the DNA of Apophis and the original Werewolf
* She has several scars on her body from an assassination attempt but refuses to get rid of them
* She considers herself the Lady of the Hyoudou Clan, much for the annoyance of the other girls.
* Akeno and Xenovia manage a sex shop together in the human world

1. ↑ Dragon Magazine *D manual*
2. ↑ Light Novel Volume 4, Life.3 I got a Kouhai (boy), Part 7
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Light Novel Volume 12, Life.-2 Pal, Part 2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Light Novel Volume 14, Life.4 Go, Occult Research Club & Student Council!, Part 2
5. ↑ Light Novel Volume 2, Life 4
6. ↑ Light Novel Volume 25, Life 1
7. ↑ This is only for the anime.
8. ↑ Light Novel Volume 17, Life.1 Praises During the Training!, Part 2
9. ↑ True Light Novel Volume 2, Middle Game, Part 3
10. ↑ Light Novel Volume 19, Life.3 Fist and Sword (Carnival), Part 3
11. ↑ True Light Novel Volume 2, Life.4 The Game Begins!, Part 3
12. ↑ Light Novel DX.7, Life 7
13. ↑ Light Novel Volume 24, Life.4 Template:Ruby and Template:Ruby, Part 2
14. ↑ Light Novel Volume 7, New Life