Akatsuki Minami

* Anime
* Light Novel

**Akatsuki Minami** (南 暁月, *Minami Akatsuki*) is a one of main supporting character of the series. Best friend of Yume Irido and a childhood friend of Kogure Kawanami. She is also a first-year high school student of Rakurou Private High.

## Appearance

She's short with little to no chest. She usually ties her hair into a ponytail using a black bow tie. Just like an ordinary outgoing high school girl, she is up-to-date concerning fashion sense. She also knows how to wear make-up, whether she'll be putting it on her face or her friend's face.

## Personality

She’s chirpy and great at interacting, a cute, outgoing character who resembled an animal. She's also full of confidence and cares about the people around her. However, she gets grumpy about chest size talks and lashes out her frustration by doing excessive skinship towards other girls.

## Background

She is a childhood friend of Kogure Kawanami. Their parents were always too busy with their jobs which left the two childhood friends alone in their homes. Since their houses are next to one another, they naturally became closer due to their similar environment, and during their elementary days, they became a couple. However, her affection for Kogure was overwhelming for him, which caused him to be hospitalized, and their relationship ended up in a break-up during their middle school days.

## Overview

She is a short yet athletic high-school girl who is best friends with Yume Irido. She is shown to become obsessive when she begins to care about and like someone, such as Yume Irido.

She's Mizuto and Yui's classmates, has a bright personality. She was a childhood friend of Kogure, and she was dating Kogure when he was in elementary school to junior high school, and he was called "Ko-kun". However, her love for Kogure causes him to be hospitalized under stress and break up.

When she entered high school, she became very fond of Yui. She had enough affection to ask Mizuto to have a relationship on the premise of marriage because she could become a sibling if she married Mizuto.

## Relationships

### Yume Irido

Yume is the best friend of Akatsuki. She usually voices out her distress and frustrations towards Akatsuki, to which Akatsuki returns a reply or advice on her problems on how Yume must deal with them. More importantly, Yume is shown a strange kind of affection or favoritism from Akatsuki.

### Mizuto Irido

A step-brother of her best friend, Yume, and to get closer to Yume, Akatsuki thought of becoming a girlfriend and even marrying Mizuto so that she could become a sibling. However, all her advancements got stopped by Kogure Kawanami and Mizuto, which made her drop this plan of hers. Later on, after that incident, they became regular friends instead.

### Kogure Kawanami

A childhood friend of Akatsuki. They were once a couple from elementary school until the end of middle school. Akatsuki showed too much affection towards Kogure when they were dating, which caused him to accumulate stress and even hospitalized him. Because of this, they had no choice but to break off their relationship status. Since then, they have become distant and constantly bickering if they interact.

### Isana Higashira

Isana got help from Yume and Akatsuki when she looked like that; she didn't realize she was in love with Mizuto. However, despite their efforts, Mizuto rejected Isana, leading them to the decision of both Yume and Akatsuki to become friends with her.

## Etymology

* The name **Akatsuki** means "dawn, daybreak" (暁) (**aka**) and "moon" (月) (**tsuki**).
* Akatsuki's surname **Minami** means "south" (南).