Aimi Fukuhara

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Status

### **Weight**

Unknown

* Pre-timeskip
* Post-timeskip

### **Occupation**

Head Coach of Karasuno High`s Volleyball Team (retired)
CEO of Ukai Corporations

### **Teams**

Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High
Karasuno High

## Background Information

### **Family**

Unnamed Paternal Grandfather
Unnamed Paternal Grandmother
Unnamed Maternal Grandfather
Unnamed Maternal Grandmother
Unnamed Father (née Takeda)
Akemi Hasegawa (mother)
Ikkei Ukai (first husband)
Ciel Ukai (son from first marriage)
Hendry Ukai (son from first marriage)
Alix Ukai (daughter from first marriage)
Keishin Ukai (grandson)
Aki Ukai (granddaughter)
Akifumi Fukuhara (second husband)
Kazuyo Kageyama (brother-in-law)
Akari Kageyama (sister-in-law) (née Hirabayashi)
Suna Kageyama (son-in-law)
Rin Kagyema (daughter) (née Fukuhara)
Sakusa Kageyama (eldest grandson)
Tobio Kageyama (youngest grandson)
Miwa Kageyama (eldest granddaughter)
Himari Kageyama (youngest granddaughter)
Rintarō Kageyama (middle grandson)
Sora Kageyama (middle grandson)
Rintarō Suna (grandson-in-law)
Rin Suna (granddaughter-in-law)
Sakusa Suna (granddaughter-in-law)
Yua Suna (grandniece-in-law; timeskip)
Ichika Suna (great-grandniece-in-law; timeskip)
Yui Suna (oldest great-granddaughter; timeskip)
Akari Suna (youngest great-granddaughter; timeskip)
Sara Suna (middle great-granddaughter; timeskip)
Aoi Suna (middle great-granddaughter; timeskip)
Niko Suna (middle great-granddaughter; timeskip)
Ren Suna (oldest great-grandson; timeskip)
Hiroto Suna (youngest great-grandson; timeskip)
Haruto Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Minato Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Yuma Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Riku Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Kaito Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Asahi Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Sora Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Reo Suna (middle great-grandson; timeskip)
Mirai Oota (eldest paternal grandniece)
Vada Meyer (youngest maternal grandniece; deceased)

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**Aimi Fukuhara** (Japanese: **福原 (ふくはら)  愛美 (あいみ)** , *Fukuhara Aimi*) is the current CEO of Ukai Corporations (Ukai C.) and the ex-wife of Ikkei Ukai, being the estranged grandmother of Keishin Ukai and his fraternal younger sister: Aki. A member of the illustrious Hasegawa family by birth, she was engaged to Ikkei Ukai with the two eventually marrying after they graduated High School; their unhappy marriage produced only two children and the two eventually divorced with her husband taking custody of their children, as Aimi was ashamed by their lack of academic accomplishments in school. While her husband immediately remarried to Akemi Sakanoshita, Akemi being a divorcee herself, with his second marriage producing several children, Aimi refused to remarry but eventually relented to the pressure of her family members. She was remarried to Akifumi Fukuhara, finding herself pleasantly surprised by the kindness and generosity of her new husband. Her second marriage produced several prominent members of Japanese high society; with her favorite grandchild being Rintarō Kageyama, a gentle and well-mannered young man. Though she disapproved of his romantic attraction towards men, specifically Rintarō Suna as she found Suna lazy and inefficient, her pride in his academic and club accomplishments override such disapprovment. In contrast, she regarded Tobio with great disappointment and rarely-if-ever lavished him with praise, seeing him as an "utter disappointment" to the Kageyama name. Post-timeskip she has become the #1 Sports Analyst for the Asahi Shimbun Newspaper.

## Appearance

Aimi has short straight black hair and black eyes; a contrast to her eldest daughter who has hair of an extremely dark-blue that appears as black to a lot of people. Her youngest daughter is said to be "the one who most resembles her". She is often shown wearing a black pantsuit paired with an extremely dark blue skirt. During her youth, she wore the Akiyama North Junior High female standard uniform with white uwabaki.

## Personality

Described as a cold and unloving wife to her first-husband Ikkei Ukai and a kind and loving wife to her second-husband Akifumi Fukuhara, she is a difficult person to define in terms of her personality. During the time her daughter and son from her first marriage were growing up, she acted cold and wasn`t proud of either their accomplishments or their academic scores, merely telling them to "try harder" as in her mind, they weren`t trying hard enough. She didn`t do this out of disdain, she merely expected a lot out of them for she didn`t want them to end up like her, unable to finish going to college or end up like a deadbeat like her older brother; this was simply her way for caring for them, however twisted it may be. After getting remarried to Akifumi Fukuhara, she was cautious of him at first but eventually he won her over. Unlike her first marriage, she doted majorly on her children but expected a lot from them; her three daughters [her only children born from her second marriage] responded accordingly and achieved finishing college, while her eldest daughter got her PHD in Electrical Engineering having gotten it from Harvard in the United States of America, her youngest daughter got her PHD in Medical Sciences and became a scientist of research at a major vaccination clinic in the United Kingdom and her middle daughter got her PHD in Corporation Management and became the highest-payed female CEO in Japanese history. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren are not different; Sakusa [one of the youngest of her male grandchildren] went onto to play in the Japanese V. League Team the Black Shadows as the starting libero of the team itself, Miwa became a hair and makeup artist at a major company in Japan, Tobio also went onto to play in a Japanese V. League Team the Schweiden Adlers, Rintarō became a figure skater on the Japanese Men`s National Skating Team as well as join a figure skating team in league I of the Japanese Skating Federation, the Septum Rabbits, Sora got her PHD in Nursing from Harvard University and became the Head Nurse at a mental hospital/mental facility in New York City and Himari traveled to Africa to help the people in need there. Shaped by the death of her beloved mother from a young age made her grow up more mature than she should have been and it showed in her parenting knowledge.

## Background

Aimi Fukuhara was born Aimi Hasegawa on 1 December in an unknown year to her parents: her unnamed father who was a relative of the Takeda family before he married Aimi`s mother and Akemi Hasegawa her mother. She had sixteen other siblings that were all much older than her and a seventeenth sibling that was the only person close to her age. Soon after the birth of Aimi`s younger siblings, her mother began to fall ill from tuberculous, a disease that she had inherited from her great-grandparents and subsequently both of her parents. Tuberculous was a common illness among the members of the Hasegawa family for an unknown reason, presumably linked to their often sickly condition, yet Aimi and her siblings showed no signs of having inherited it; in place of the tuberculous disease, they inherited a severe form of asthma that would plague them their entire lives.

## Plot

### **Kageyama Family OVA**

She makes her first appearance in the Kageyama Family OVA as a young girl, crying at the bedside of her late mother. When she asks her siblings if their late mother is truly dead, her father looks as if he is pained by the mere asking of the question and Aimi notices. After that she falls silent. A timeskip happens, with Aimi now appearing as a young adult first meeting the young Ikkei Ukai, Aimi is infuriated and tells him that he will never win her heart to which he simply smiles sadly. She next appears as an older adult arguing with her husband over a divorce.

### **Karasuno High Team Formation Arc**

Aimi makes several background appearances in the beginning as an unnamed shopper at the Sakanoshita Market.

### **Tokyo Expedition Arc**

Aimi is first shown in the main series bringing her grandson Rintarō to visit her ex-husband at his home; when they get there, her eldest grandson [Keishin] is being flipped over by her ex-husband much to her and her grandchildren`s surprise. When Keishin spots her and Rintarō, he is shown with a disdainful look on his face and greets Aimi with much animosity while he greets Rintarō with great happiness. Rintarō is noticeably shocked before his facial expressions turns into a

### **Final Arc**

In a coverage of events that took place after the Spring Tournament, Aimi became closer with her estranged grandchildren and with the death of Ikkei`s eldest granddaughter and the death of Aimi`s second husband, the two became closer friends.

Upon Hinata's return to Japan and acceptance into the V-League, Aimi attends the match between the MSBY Black Jackals and Schweiden Adlers, shown happily greeting Keishin and Takeda and teasing them both about their weight gain, leading to Keishin to sarcastically reply that she was no better either.

## Statistics

As a former volleyball manager, Aimi has exceedingly brilliant talents in both strategy and analyzation; easily able to find a well-hidden weakness and take advantage of it by using the psychological and physical attributes of her teammates to her advantage in order to win. Even when she has only a single scrap of data on her enemies, she is capable of formulating an effective and well-thought out plan in order to overwhelm her enemies.

## Relationships

### **Karasuno High**

* **Alix Hasegawa**: Aimi and Alix have a frenemy-like relationship. Though they were on the same team during all of their years of schoolings and were classmates, as well as seatmates, they competed with each other often, even over trivial things such as who can eat their lunch the fastest; they also kept a tally of their wins (Alix-39 wins, Aimi-38 wins). They argued with each other often and sometimes it even evolved in full-blown fights to the point where their other teammates worried about their friendship breaking apart. Despite that, they saw each other as teammates and displayed a more childlike and animated side to themselves whenever the two of them were seen around each other. After both of them retired from the volleyball club in their third year after having made it to Nationals, they became the Coaches of the Karasuno High Girls` Volleyball Team. After both of them became third years, they became far more mature and their fights lessened in their severity to mere teasing and slight sarcastic jabs at each other. After they both retired; Alix married into her family, becoming her sister-in-law with their relationship becoming far more casual and relaxed then how it was during High School.
* **Makomo Fujimori**: The Logician of the Team, Makomo often clashed with Aimi over both trivial and non-trivial issues during their time in High School as both of them were seatmates and classmates in the same homeroom. They were also fellow managers on the Karasuno High Girls` Volleyball Team.

### **Family**

* **Ikkei Ukai**: Ikkei is Aimi`s ex-husband and Karasuno's former volleyball coach.

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Tamago Kake Gohan.
* High school Concern: The wind is blowing her hair into her face a lot.
* Post-timeskip Concern: Her skin is always very oily and disgusting
* Aimi was actually a member of the Karasuno High Girls` Volleyball Team, as their fearsome manager.
	+ Conversely she held a long-running rivalry with another teammate: Alix Adler, holding a similar relationship with her as Shōyō does with Tobio.
* For some odd reason, she wore solid steel-enforced gold metal bracers on her arms and legs when she was a young child; it is probably related to the history of her family. These same solid steel-enforced gold metal arm and leg bracers have been passed down in her family for generations and are from the Warring States Period, having been excellently preserved and used despite their old age.