Aki Kimiko

**Aki Kimiko** is the protagonist of *Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy*. She is a determined and focused person, who loves drawing, listening to music, reading books, watching movies, and playing *Duel Monsters*. While she is not the greatest *Duel Monsters* player when she first arrives at Duel Academy, she strives to become as great as her inspirations Seto Kaiba, Yugi Muto, and Jaden Yuki by becoming a champion duelist one day.

She is the eldest child of Nakatomi Kimiko, a factory worker, and Shiraki Kawanari, an elementary school teacher. Her younger brother is Tajima Kimiko. Aki is the great-grandmother of Akiza Izinski.

Hyozanryu is her spirit partner and has been ever since she was a young child. She confides in the dragon about things that she does not feel confident enough to tell other people, not even her instructors and friends at Duel Academy due to her self-esteem issues.

While her main rival at Duel Academy is Otani Hikaru, there have been certain occasions where the two have been forced to put aside their differences in order to duel together against an opponent on their instructors' orders. This has extended to them working together to face a common enemy who poses a threat to everyone.

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## Early life

Aki Kimiko was born to Nakatomi Kimiko, a factory worker, and Shiraki Kawanari, an elementary school teacher, on March 23, 1999.

Beginning at the age of twelve, she started working hard to complete her first *Duel Monsters* deck by the time she turned fifteen, so she could attend Duel Academy soon as she graduated one year early from Domino High School, using her saved-up allowance to buy all the cards that would make up her original deck over the course three years.

## Duel Academy

### Likes

* Rock music:
	+ Alternative rock
	+ Hard rock
	+ Alternative metal
	+ Nu metal
	+ Post-grunge
	+ Emo
	+ Grunge
	+ Screamo
	+ Pop punk
	+ Punk rock
	+ Metalcore
	+ Heavy metal
	+ Pop rock
	+ Pop
	+ Soul
* Movies and shows
	+ *Jurassic Park*
	+ *The Land Before Time*
	+ *Ice Age*
	+ *Happy Feet* and *Happy Feet Two*
	+ *Rio* and *Rio 2*
	+ *Surf's Up*
	+ *All Dogs Go to Heaven* and *All Dogs Go to Heaven 2*
	+ *The Fox and the Hound*
	+ *Disney's Dinosaur*
	+ *Dragonball Z: Cooler's Revenge* and *Dragonball Z: The Return of Cooler*
	+ *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*
	+ *Planet of Dinosaurs*
	+ *Armageddon*
	+ *Samurai Jack*
	+ *Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas*
	+ *The Pagemaster*
	+ *Twister*
	+ *Watership Down*
	+ *The Plague Dogs*
	+ *Corpse Bride*
	+ *The Nightmare Before Christmas*
	+ *An American Tail*
	+ *Final Destination*
	+ *Batman vs. Dracula*
* Bands and singers
	+ Linkin Park
	+ Breaking Benjamin
	+ My Chemical Romance
	+ Evanescence
	+ Three Days Grace (before Adam Gontier left)
	+ Chevelle
	+ Disturbed
	+ Paramore
	+ Thirty Seconds to Mars
	+ Papa Roach
	+ Sum 41
	+ Creed
	+ Shinedown
	+ Evans Blue
	+ Bullet for My Valentine
	+ Godsmack
	+ Black Veil Brides
	+ Stone Sour
	+ Escape the Fate (only their debut album)
	+ Korn
	+ Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
	+ Bring Me the Horizon (post-*Count Your Blessings*)
	+ Nirvana
	+ Alice in Chains
	+ Soundgarden
	+ Stone Temple Pilots
	+ Blink-182
	+ The All-American Rejects
	+ Nickelback
	+ Avril Lavigne
	+ Adele
	+ Katy Perry
	+ Kelly Clarkson
	+ Pink
	+ Miley Cyrus
	+ Demi Lovato
	+ Halsey
	+ Billie Eilish
* Novels
	+ *Jurassic Park*
	+ *The Lost World*
	+ *The Mysterious Island*
	+ *The Adventures of Ulysses*
	+ *Goosebumps*
	+ Joel Penton's *Seven Lies Almost Every Teen Believes* and *Stand Your Ground*
	+ *The Animals of Farthing Wood*
	+ *Watership Down*
	+ *Tales from Watership Down*
	+ *The Plague Dogs*
	+ Paul Zindel's *Raptor*, *The Doom Stone*, *Loch*, and *Rats*
	+ *Raptor Red*
* Video games
	+ *Spy Fox*
	+ *Zapper: One Wicked Cricket*
	+ *Dead Frontier*

### Dislikes

Official concept art

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