Akari Furutaka

## Akari Furataka

### Dislikes

Whoever has a crush on Makio or blocking her interactions with Makio, embarassing herself in front of Makio, nightmares

### Occupation

Student

**Akari Furutaka** (古高あかり *Furutaka Akari*) is one of the main protagonist in Yandere School. She has a crush on Makio Sono.

## Appearance

Akari is depicted as a beautiful, school girl with waist length dark-violet hair that she keeps braided into two low-pigtails, purple eyes that have an upwards point with large, dark-purple irises and heart-shaped magenta pupils, rather child-like features and a somewhat underdeveloped body when compared to her female classmates. Her default outfit is the standard school uniform, consisting of a brown seifuku uniform with a rather short skirt, a white collar, red ascot, black Mary Janes and her classic black stockings.

Her other outfit/ accessory choices include; An alternate school uniform, a black and white French maid uniform, black and pink cat ears, tiger ears, different stockings, and other that can be changed in the mirror in her room.

## Strengths

* Murder: Akari knows how to effectively kill someone with a shovel, fire axe, knife, katana, baseball bat, screwdriver, hammer and a crowbar. She is also able to push anyone off a roof.

* Bilinguism: in Yandere School's world, a mix of Japanese and English is spoken.

* Numbness: Akari seemingly doesn't care about blood, corpses or violence at all.

* Physical strength: Akari is able to carry several heavy weapons and one body at a time,she can carry anyone,although walking very slowly when carrying a body but that also shows that she is very strong

* Enlightment: Akari is able to sneak past others without being noticed to the degree that she can get away with murder.

* Digging holes: Akari is able to dig holes in a garden, whereas she is able to calculate how big one hole must be to use it as a grave for a human body.

* Athletism: Akari can run faster than any of the other students without getting tired.

* Reputation: Akari does not care what others think of her and won't be bothered when everyone at school knows she is a serial killer, as Makio Sono isn't programmed to listen to gossip.

* Clairvoyance: Akari has the ability to detect where her current rival, Makio Sono and any object that can be used as a weapon can be found, no matter how far she is away from these things. She can tell by matching icons appearing.

## Weaknesses

* Schedules: Akari is unable to ask Makio Sono out before she has eliminated her current target. If she does so, she will be teleported to the back of the school.

* Self-defense: Akari is not capable of defending herself in front of someone with defense skills. Since that, she cannot defend herself from getting apprehended by teachers went they witness her murdering other students.

* Making friends: It appears that Akari has no social group whatsoever. She is also quite awkward when approaching her schoolmates, starting conversations with "um..." or "hah".

* Makio Sono: Akari is prone to murder as soon as another girl is talking to Makio. Also, she falls in a coma-like state when Makio finds out about her being a killer, making her defenseless.

## Relationships

### **Makio Sono**

Main Article: Makio Sono

Akari's love interest. She has met him prior to the beginning of the game, stating she has been "following" him in the itroduction cutscene. She only realized she was in love with him after having overheard a conversation between Meisa Ito and Eriko Sakura about Makio.
Akari cares a lot for him and wishes to spend as much time with him as she can - no matter what the cost may be.

### **Students**

Akari seemingly doesn't care about the fates of the students, and will get rid of them if they get in her way.

Akari has no problem talking to her schoolmates, however, some students don't feel particulary pleased when Akari confronts them, speaking in an awkward tone and wondering why Akari would confront them. They also don't seem to think highly of her. Akari is generally nice to her schoolmates and doesn't eliminate them in real life as she wishes not to cause herself too much trouble. However, in her dreams, she is easily able to kill off the entire school. If a student witnesses Akari killing someone, they will run away in fear. However, this is different with Ryoichi Taniguchi and Keita Hiyama as they will instead respond by strangling Akari from behind.

### **Mr. and Mrs Furutaka**

Akari doesn't seem to have a negative relationship with either of her parents, but they do not physically show up during gameplay.

It is worth noting that Akari's apartment only has one bedroom, which is her own one, suggesting she doesn't live with her parents. The developer has stated her parents are just on a business trip.

Akari also never talks about her parents.

## Rivals

Main Article: Rivals

All of Akari's rivals seem to share the trait of being loud and bratty. Some of them also think of Akari to be an annoying no-one. To Akari, her rivals are blocking her goals, making her feel an unusual amount of rage. Her rivals are lower than the lowest of the low to her.

## Trivia

* Her name, **Akari** can mean "bright" (明), "vermilion red" (朱) (**aka**), "village" (里) or "white jasmine" (莉) (**ri**).
* Akari's surname **Furutaka** means "Old, ancient" (古) (**furu**) and "tall, high" (高) (**taka**).
* Akari can gain a favor from Saya Kaito to ask Eriko Sakura  to meet her after class, but this will not make them friends.
* Despite her child-like appearance, Akari wears rather seductive lingerie.
* When the game was first released, Akari's face was much more childish and her hair was much longer.
	+ However, this was a mistake and fixed along with Angelina Ivanova's implementation.
	+ Akari's birthday is September 1st.
* Akari appears to be very girly and childish as she enjoys things such as pink kitten key charms or wearing braided hair.

## Gallery

Akari in the game's icon.Akari in her introducing cutsceneAkari hearing the dialogue between Eriko Sakura and Meisa ItoAkari after hearing the dialogue between Eriko Sakura and Meisa ItoAkari leading Makio Sono to their dating spotAkari having a date with MakioAkari after failing her first date with MakioAkarin after Nightmare 1.Akari being blocked by Ryoichi Taniguchi and Keita Hiyama when trying to talk to Makio.Akari hearing the dialogue between Makio and Yuka Moriyama.Akari stalking Makio and Victoria Ishihara.