Akatsuki

**Akatsuki** (**Resurrected War Demon Thunder God** or **Prototyp 1**), is the first titular protagonist in the ***Akatsuki EN-Eins*** series, starring in ***Akatsuki Prototyp Nr. 1***, and its retitle updates ***Akatsuki Blitzkampf (Ausf. Achse)***, except in ***EN-Eins Perfektewelt (Anastasis)*** where he is one of the two deuteragonists.

He returns in ***BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle*** as one of the Season 2 DLC playable characters.

## Bio

Akatsuki is a man of mystery who worked for Imperial Japanese Army during WW2, up until 1955. After forming a Military Technique Research alliance called the Gesellschaft organization with Fritz, Ernst von Adler (from Ahnenerbe), Mycale, and Akatsuki Zero. They discover an energy source from Agartha, which was found beneath Tibet and begin the creation of Blitz technology, such as the Blitz Motor. Akatsuki is the first successful volunteer of the Blitz Motor equipped super soldier program, earning the code name "Prototyp 1", and endowed with a vital secret, from anyone else. This is because Akatsuki's gene is confirmed positive to be a descendant of Agarthan civilization. While deporting an unknown amount of Blitz Motors, Akatsuki's ship was stranded in the Artic, and he was believed to have been killed in action. However, he managed to survive after being frozen in ice for fifty years.

After awakening from his long slumber in the year 2005 AD/2665 BC, he returned to his homeland to discover the scenery had become all too unfamiliar. Despite not knowing left from right in this land, but learning that Akatsuki Zero (now goes by the name Murakumo (or Murakumo Zero to avoid being mistaken for *Senran Kagura'*s Murakumo) was the one who sabotaged his ship and recently compromised Gesellschaft into the rise of regiment power secretly as it is today, he fully intends to accomplish the mission that he was entrusted with: "In the event the mission fails, destroy the Blitz Motor and erase all traces of its existence".

While being hunted down by those who are aiming for his prototype Blitz tech for their own purposes (whether they are unwitting pawns to Gesellschaft or not), Akatsuki manages to get in touch with his old friend, Fritz relating to Gesellschaft's abuse of using Blitz Motors ever since, revealing that Adler remained with Murakumo for his own sinister research. He ultimately gains aids from two people who lives in Hong Kong, Sai and Anonym Merel Lambuth, due to the former has some history with Murakumo in the past, while the latter's organization

As he, Sai, Kanae, Marilyn, Wei and Anonym Merel were present on the assault at Gesellschaft main base at Tibet, with Akatsuki being the one who defeated Murakumo's original body, he also directly saved EN-Eins, who is a sole survivor of his cloning batch, the Enegaias, before they begin to hunt down the remaining Gesellschaft's army led by Mycale (who was now possessing Anonym Merel's body), but in separate ways. The only problem being that Murakumo survived in a new body, who happens to be his clone, Major Senke, Kanae's former superior. When Mycale took over Gesellschaft's assets back its originator she co-founded with Praeses/Grandmaster Valkyria (the latter revealed to have possess a corpse of a prototype clone of Unity Valkyrie Mitford-Freeman), The Neu Perfecti Tempera Orden, and declared a war on humanity in 2015 AD, Akatsuki is one their primary targets. Realizing Antartica might be the actual source where power of god's energy source that was found in ancient underground civilization, Neuland, he sets to destroy it to ensure no one will find it to create more Blitz technology ever again.

## Trivia

* He is the first and currently only downloadable titular male character of his series.
	+ He is also the first male character to be one of the titular protagonists of his home series, just as Team RWBY members are. The other protagonist of his series being a recently datamined EN-Eins.
* Akatsuki's special interactions with Akihiko Sanada is a nod to both of their English voice actors use to voice Type-Moon’s Nasurverse franchise character from *Fate* series, the original Archer/EMIYA (the alternate future reality’s Shiro Emiya).
* Akatsuki guest appearing in *Under Night In-Birth*, where he instead woke up in a different timeline that is not based on his home universe's timeline. Due to this, all characters hailing from his home series will use sprite and effect graphic styles as *Under Night* characters (excluding Blitztank, whose sprite graphic style is different), starting from first *Under Night* guest series before his home series, and Type-Moon's *Melty Blood* Remake timeline series (since *Type Lumina*). Unfortunately in Akatsuki's case (safe for the Astral Skill BGM), he has *Under Night In-Birth* style Infinite Worth (EXS) Portrait Animations and Background, due to being a guest there, instead of the Final Special Attack or EXs variations from either Akatsuki title(s) or the sequel, *EN-Eins Perfektewelt*.
* Thankfully, as many pre-*Under Night In-Birth* veteran players (mostly Japanese) already told the new players from mistaken Akatsuki for that series’ character, French Bread and Subtle Style help the old players to remind the new players where Akatsuki actually come from prior *Under Night* during Mori’s interview. Same goes to another *Under Night* guest who is somehow datamined, the sole representative of Type-Moon’s *Melty Blood* of *Nasuverse*, Sion Eltnum Atlasia.
* Despite representing his home series, he is still missing in Special Edition cover.
* Akatsuki is the only protagonist who isn't a starring character in this game's storyline.
* Akatsuki has color palettes of the following characters: Sin Kiske and Faust (*Guilty Gear*), Bang Shishigami (*BlazBlue*), Chie Satonaka, Sion Eltnam Atlasia (*Melty Blood*), Neptune Vasilias (*RWBY*) and Lelouch vi Britannia Lamperouge (*Code Geass*)
	+ Thus, Akatsuki and Tohru Adachi are the only known characters who don’t have any Under Night-related palettes.
	+ Akatsuki's Guilty Gear colors happens to be a hybrid between two characters: The battle color akin to Sin, while the coat and lightning effects are akin to Faust, instead of Sin's red lightning color on the latter Faust-based color. It can also be a nod to his English voice actor voices Faust since *Guilty Gear Xrd*.
	+ Akatsuki's Sion color palette is based on her appearance *Under Night In-Birth*, whether the latter's current design which first appeared in French-Bread's original game act as an early bird appearance before appearing in Remake timeline series of *Melty Blood*, or not.
* Interestingly, Akatsuki has an interaction with all of the protagonists except for Ruby, Yu, and Yumi.
	+ This may likely as of the current game, like Asuka being replaced by Yumi, Akatsuki being replaced by EN-Eins on primary protagonist roles.