Akemi Sentoku

> There will be no relationship between us forever. All people are connected and at the same time have nothing in common. You know ... people are terribly weak creatures.
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**Akemi Sentoku** (先徳明美) is a student at Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles and a participant in the Killing School Semester at Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. Her title is Ultimate Psychologist .

## History

### **Early Life**

Akemi was not a fan of the series featuring Killing Games, Danganronpa, created by Team Danganronpa. In her audition video she revealed that she had joined him only to feel the thrill.

Akemi and other helpless participants of the 53rd Killer Game undergo a fabrication process in which their entire past and personality (partly) have been permanently fabricated. She also received the talent and title of Ultimate Psychologist. All this was done to please Danganronpa audiences from around the world.

In high school, Akemi attended High school Falling Comet. It is not clear, however, whether this memory of her is part of the fabrication of the Danganronpa team. Monokuma confirmed that she grew up emotionally in an 'average' family who was a ghost hunter by profession.

### **Fabricated Past**

After successfully participating in the 53rd Deadly Game, Akemi's memories and past were fabricated by the Danganronp Team as follows:

She had a talent for understanding people and their habits since childhood. In one sentence, she could change the attitude of the people around her.

For this reason, her father, who was a prosecutor, took her to a government psychologist, where she helped him at work. Akemi could learn a lot about her patients in a shorter time than the psychologist, and eventually began to perceive people as inferior beings.

She stopped being interested in other people, which worried her mother, who, after hearing from her that she was to stop being a bitch, committed suicide. The loss of her mother did not sadden Akemi, who at her funeral played on a portable constellation with her father (whom she recognized as the only one).

Until junior high school Akemi was an exemplary student: vice president of the basic student council, a star at sports meetings, winning independent research awards, poetry awards, slogan slogans and participating in essay competitions. This, combined with her beautiful appearance and respected family, made her well known, especially among classmates. However, Akemi was not particularly loved or hated because she went through school life in a state of withdrawal, preferring to observe everything from afar, pursuing her life philosophy to 'look for cool, distant people'.

At this point, her observations were not used to the sick, but rather a mere hobby, but slowly became more and more an obsession. At some point, she is employed as a well-known psychologist.

## Appearance

Akemi is a young teenager with extraordinary beauty. She has an average hourglass figure, beige eyes and long, thick, black hair tied into one ponytail on the side of the head. Because of her talent, she wears heavy makeup with a dark red rag.

Unlike her personality, Akemi dresses in a charming outfit. She wears a black sports bra, part of which is exposed because of a large T-shirt in a black collage. The T-shirt in the middle has a pink pattern. Akemi also has a pink sweater, which shows her love for this color. She also has blue skirts with high waisted, under the skirt has dark gray leggings covering her smooth thighs. Sentoku has colorful sneakers on her legs, which are on the platform, adding her a few centimeters tall. A must-have element is the bow that holds her ponies, she also often wears a stylish, dark pink backpack.

In Prolog, Akemi wears a school uniform consisting of a black seifuku, collar and skirt in a red shade, with a white finish around the collar and a double around the cuffs and a red scarf loosely tied on his chest. She also wears white knee-high socks and penny loafers, and the hair is extremely loose.

## Personality

Akemi claims that humanity is a worse race than her. What she particularly likes in humanity is the unpredictability of human nature and she likes to put people in pleasant or chaotic situations to observe their reactions. Thanks to a thorough understanding of human behavior and tendencies, she is able to define human thoughts and predict their reactions with high accuracy, which is her main advantage as a psychologist. Akemi is cunning and charming, but her manipulative nature prevents her from establishing a real or lasting relationship with others. She has a cheerful and mocking personality, talks informally with most people as if they were close friends and often uses nicknames. During conflicts, playing on both sides so that anyone wins had the advantage.

She likes to play twisted versions of checkers (usually using a combination of chess pieces, othello and shogi) with her in her apartment, often using a chessboard as a representation of battles, giving her the right look of the one she watches around the world and controls the actions of others. The principles she follows go beyond normal people, which seems to be a metaphor for the way she lives her life. She does not think, however, that chess is a serious representation of the world, because it usually prefers to observe people acting at their own discretion, rather than controlling them.

Although Akemi likes conflicts, often showing up where there is potential, she usually does not use it, preferring to observe the fight instead of directly participating in it. However, after provocation, she quickly puts her opponent in place, simply proving her superiority without actually beating the other person. Therefore, she is usually seen as the one who starts fighting, but hides in the shade instead of directly participating. She is bitter when there are big events in the academy without her involvement.

Akemi is known as one of the strongest women in the Killer Game, although the title of the strongest woman belongs to Tenko Chabashira. When she has to protect herself physically, Akemi uses fire and has the ability to parkour and freerun. Akemi likes to start fighting with Miu. Shuichi after a short conversation noticed that it is impossible that Akemi could be an assassin, because she helps them out of sight. However, Saihara knows that Sentoku is one of the most dangerous people. She is a person that most heroes, including her, could never trust because they never knew what she could do.

## Talent and skills

### Ultimate Psychologist

Akemi Talent as the Ultimate Psychologist is the work of the Danganronpa team. For this reason, it is not clear if Akemi was a talented psychologist in the past.

She gained her title after 'converting' prisoners of prison, but then she only made them pawns. Monokuma once noticed and told Monoredi that her talent would develop so much that Junko would probably lose to him quickly.

Akemi's talent allows her to quickly analyze the environment with almost superhuman speed, detailed thinking and remembering. This skill also allows her to learn and understand new skills and talents by seeing / studying them for the first time, seeing how she could learn all the necessary techniques.

This talent gives her excellent ability to create very detailed plans in a short time. She is also excellent at reading and thus manipulating others. She can often predict what a person will do before she does it - a skill that she can use to defeat enemies that are much stronger than him. This skill, unlike Junko's very similar ability, does not make her bored but delighted. When someone does something in front of her predictions.

Akemi also showed that sometimes she want to help someone with her ability. She can easily calm down other people and mislead them. She was shown that Kokichi was not in the sleigh to overcome her manipulation, despite knowledge of her.

### In other languages

Akemi's talent that appears in official translations of Danganronpa's material.

## Relationships

### Shuichi Saihara

Saihara values ​​Akemi, considering her important during the Killer Game. While Shuichi basically follows Akemi's orders, he will oppose Sentoku's orders if he thinks Akemi is being too manipulative.

Together, they investigate and help each other, but Akemi tries to complicate his task at the same time. Akemi says that if Shuichi needs support, she will always be around to help him. Akemi, in her own twisted way, motivates him and stays on his side.

Shuichi was very saddened by the discovery that Akemi killed Monoredi. Akemi told Shuichi that she is not jealous of Shuichi for his deductive skills because she knew from the beginning who the brain was. Thanks to her reasoning, they were able to stay alive, undergoing many class tests. Akemi told him to promise that she would do something that would surprise her. Saihara decided to bring Monoredi's corpse and then began to pretend her voice so that Akemi could help someone as a psychologist for the last time. When asked by Kaito if he was alone with Akemi, Shuichi confirmed this and admits that Akemi (and Kaito, however, only after his death) is the only reason he is still alive. It turned out that many of Shuichi's happy memories of the killings concerned Akemi, showing that he still remembered her as a close friend and companion.

### Maki Harukawa

Maki strongly believed in Akemi's innocence during the second trial, as always in the people she wants to believe. Akemi was happy confused by this sudden trust in her and seemed to be reluctantly moved by Maki's faith in her. It turned out that the reason Maki believed in Akemi was her happiness during her conversation from Kaito.

Akemi was happy with Maki's faith for her because he considered her the third most interesting person but her. She and Maki get along very well and she has contributed to Maki's closer relationship with Kaito.

Maki was crying when it turned out Akemi killed Monoredi (as the only one knew the reason, that is Monoredi's threat to her). When Akemi, despite the injuries she had persecuted, Monoredi helped her during her execution, she screamed for her to stop.

It was shown that Maki still remembers Akemi after her death. She feels grateful for saving her and other students and decides not to cry anymore. Sometimes, when she thinks about her tenderly (like a friend), she calls her a 'friendly manipulator'. Although she was initially devastated when she learned that her feelings for Akemi were only fictitious, she decided that this was not true, and her feelings for her were always true and she was her friend.

### Kaito Momota

Kaito and Akemi often joke and talk together. Kaito was the first person to trust her because of her behavior. Akemi felt agitated by this, but quickly thought she was constipated. Kaito supports Akemi very much and compliments her for her persistence. However, she comments on how quickly she is able to act alone, which she offers as his helper.

When Kokichi tries to convince other students that Akemi forces them to despair, Kaito gets angry and assures Akemi that she wasn't guilty. After revealing that Kaede, not Akemi, is the culprit of Rantaro's murder, Kaito cries both with happiness (because his friend turned out to be innocent) and sad (because Kaede will die). For the rest of the time he, Akemi and Maki spend time together.

### Kaede Akamatsu

Despite Kaede's kindness towards Akemi, the latter showed her distrust, openly showing her dislike. She even blames Kaede for destroying the unity she was trying to create among the students. Although showing little emotion in response to Kaede's death, Akemi did not enjoy it, but she was discouraged. In her mind saying that one of her pawns had to leave.

However, it seems that Akemi has a slightly better relationship with Kaede in the Final Talent Development Plan.

### K1-BO

Although K1-B0 was initially defensive due to his robotic nature, he told Akemi that he was happy to be her friend although he discovered that she was robophobic.

Akemi doesn't seem to have any bad intentions because she seems to really be interested in K1-B0. Her behavior is more like ignorance and innocent bigotry, because she apparently thinks robots are interesting and 'cool', but she thinks they're not human, and therefore doesn't treat K1-B0 as a real person. She is excited about K1-B0, wants to make friends with him and learn how to manipulate robots. Ultimately Akemi gains the trust of K1-B0 and often drinks tea with him.

### Miu Iruma

Miu feels irritated by Saitoku and believes she is the brain. She insults her by calling her 'psychological whore'. Akemi, in turn, turns out to be very mean and annoying towards Miu, often calling her offensive terms like a bitch and bitch and saying that she is ugly, smelly and useless. She often offends her and calls her a pervert because of her sexual nature. Akemi's treatment of Miu seems much harsher than anyone else (except Kokichi), because she often seems more serious, insulting her, although being a masochist, Miu often just likes insults. Both insult each other many times during rehearsals, and Akemi wins these debates because of her stronger personality and Miu's cowardly tendency when she speaks.

### Kokichi Ouma

Kokichi seems to be amused and in some way likes Akemi (who thinks about him in a very similar way), stating that Sentoku seems different, which is a very rare and noteworthy compliment from him. He regularly calls her his "beloved Akemi-chan" in the Japanese version, and sometimes calls her "Mrs. Psychologist." He once called Akemi 'Akimi', who called him 'Omami'. Kokichi enjoys her company, finding her as one of the most interesting people in the group and praising her often. He also repeatedly mentioned that he "constantly thinks about Akimi" and claims to be her favorite, which he loves the most. His board shows that Kokichi has a more positive, though somewhat vague impression on Akemi, considering him a 'zwiercznik'. Given his hatred of boredom, Kokichi seems to be intrigued by the development of Sentoku. During rehearsals, he often doesn't reveal Akemi's lies despite noticing them. From time to time, he ridiculed the truth about Akemi by calling them lies.

While he likes to play with her, Kokichi seems to care about Sentok and seems not to want to hurt her. During his free time events, Kokichi tries to 'kill' Shuichi and Akemi, engages them in many of his selfishness and pranks, although he also seems to make sure that Shuichi and Sentoku are not harmed and seem to just mess with them with words . He also invites her to a tea party and suggests that Shuichi can join his organization so that he does not have to die, which Akemi denies, saying that her favorite pawn is not weak. When by accident, he almost fell from the roof of the headquarters of the psychologist Akemi, Sentoku deals with him a little worried. Kokichi is happy with this and tells Akemi that he won, which annoyed Akemi leaves him, which makes him cry disappointed. He then claims that she never intended to kill him. Because he forced Akemi to constantly think about him, he claims that he has already "killed her" by stealing her heart.

### Rantoro Amami

During Chapter 1, Rantaro has a good impression on Akemi and considers her interesting, she seems to be the only unmoved death threat.

During her first free time with Kaede, Rantaro tells her that Akemi has a strong personality, but if she takes the time to talk to her, she will begin to understand her. He complements Korekiyo and Akemi saying they are a calm person who seems to be one of the smarter types.

In the end she and Rantaro spend some time together. Amami is surprised by her talent and the way she looks at the world. Akemi for the first time in a long time thought that people could surprise her with goodness. When she learns that her companion was killed, she is saddened by the death of her 'favorite pawn'. She also pretends not to be moved by his death when she was accused by Miu of killing Rantaro.

### Himeko Yumeno

Before the second-grade attempt, the two did not interact at all. Although Himiko noticed how everyone pressed on Akemi, not even considering her feelings. After watching the executions, Akemi comforts Himiko.

During Chapter 3, Himiko at one point is satisfied that she was just an average citizen and that if she ever had the will to live as strong as Akemi, she would just crouch somewhere in the corner, unable to bear responsibility.

### Tenko Chabashira

Tenko, despite apparent dislike for her, Akemi, always tries to talk to her. While Akemi openly said she didn't care about gender and that she could strip naked, Tenko stopped her. Tenko wondered why Akemi never cried. When I asked about it, she got the answer: 'demons have no feelings'.

### Kirumi Tojo

Akemi, as she summoned herself, could make friends with Kirumi, but she doesn't like her work. Sentoku believes that every person should take care of themselves, not others, which means that Tojo does not immediately meet her expectations.

### Monokuma

Akemi apparently saw Monokuma as a cool robot. Unlike K1-B0, however, Sentoku didn't irritate him as a robot. She thought Monokuma was the coolest of all Monokuma, and even considered her children, Monokuma, to be annoying deceptions of Monokuma. From time to time, she spoke to Monokuma in a friendly and free manner, even if her words suggested the opposite.

### Monoredi

Akemi and Monoredi did not get along. Both often met and stabbed by accident. Akemi asked Monokuma many times how much Monoredi is his sister. Eventually, Monoredi began to persecute Akemi, who did the same as her. Akemi at one time saw Monoredi trying to kill Maki, which caused her to hit her chair in the head. It turned out that Monoredi is not a mascot, but a girl dressed as her. For this reason, Monoredi turned out to be a student, which caused Akemi to be executed.

## Trivia

* The name Akemi is written as 'light' (明 akira) and 'beauty' (美 bi). Her surname is written as 'destination' (先 saki) and 'virtue' (徳 pending).
* She doesn't like the eyes of dead fish. It has been revealed that she also does not like and is afraid of dogs.
* She is an atheist who claims that there is no proof of God's existence. Regardless of this, due to the following events and her plans, she primarily adopts an agnostic view of the afterlife.
* Reveals by interacting with Kokichi that she doesn't know much about video games.
* Akemi is one of the candidates to become Ultimate Despair.
* Her execution had nothing to do with her work as a psychologist. Only before execution she could one last solve a problem.

## Citations

* I am Akemi Sentoku. I am the Ultimate Psychologist. Let's play with life.
* (To Kaede) 'I hate people who, thinking about their own interests, hide behind the good of others, and people who devote their lives hate exceptionally!'
* (To Maki) 'What you believe will always save you. However, if you doubt, you'll be gone forever.'
* (To Gonta) 'You're practically dead now, right? So why do you care about the opinion of others? If you don't want to be cheated, you die. Then everything that happened to you in this world will disappear with you. '
* (To Tsumuga) 'That there should be some' emptiness' after death? Death means the end, but your suffering is not over, but your existence. Imagine a 'void' in which you can exist, but if you find yourself there, the 'void' will cease to exist. In other words, you have no idea what it means to die.'
* (To Monoredi) 'Do you think of yourself as someone special? By the way, that's not true. We are all the same. There is not a single person in the world who can lead a sincere life. Look, no matter what their worries, they were just a bloody stain on the concrete. No matter who they were, everyone stood before the creator as equal.'
* (To Miu) 'It's so funny that I want to puke.'
* Throwing knives is dangerous, children. Don't try this at home.
* (To K1-Bo) 'Listen ... You stand out a bit from the rest. But in this bad sense ...'
* In any case, once you accept their existence, you suddenly discover many of them. Cursed blades, fairies and stuff.
* (At trial) 'If you want to hate someone, hate my friend. Hating someone is free and it doesn't hurt.'
* (To Maki o Kaito) 'Friend ... how would he react if I announced that I was using him ...? I don't think he would react at all! '
* Drink blood, it's got vitamins.
* Start going to church. For real, I don't want to miss you in hell.