Akari Acura

**Akari Acura** is one of the main characters from the *Coffin Princess Chaika* anime and light novels.

Tooru's younger adopted sister, who has been looking after him ever since Arthur's fall. While *disturbingly* devoted to her brother, Akari's patience has its limits, and after five years she finally forces Tooru to choose between either finding some work or getting stuffed at the taxidermist. Naturally Tooru chooses the former, and in the process they find a longer-term job: guarding Chaika as she collects her father's remains, something she is content with now that Tooru's old spirit has been rejuvenated.

Like Tooru, Akari is also a trained Saboteur, and is more than capable of holding her own in a direct fight. Her weapon-of-choice for these occasions is a war hammer, though she's also more than willing to use this on Tooru himself to keep him in line. For his own good, or at least that's what she claims... Obviously as an Acura, she can also use the same Iron Blood technique to boost her combat abilities.

In the AWA fics, Akari is a student at the AWA Academy.

In the TWA fics, Akari debuted in the Twisted World Animania: Chaika - The Coffin Princess-.

## **Appearance**

Akari is a fairly tall woman, being almost as tall as Tooru. She has thick green hair that stands bulbously on the top and tied into a pony tail at the back. Her attire consists of a pink mini skirt that exposes her hips and a top that lacks shoulders with a low neckline. She also has stockings that match her skirt in color, white knee-length boots with the heels and toes brown, and a yellow knife holder strapped to her behind. She is usually seen carrying her comblade sledgehammer both on and off the battlefield.

### **Iron-Blood transformation**

When in the Iron-blood transformation, her hair becomes red like her Tooru's with crimson markings appear on her face and body. Unlike her brother's marking, hers are less elaborate and thinner as well, appearing as two sets of vertical lines appearing on the upper and lower sections of her forehead and cheeks.

## **Personality**

Akari rarely shows her emotions, usually showing a blank expression and only talking in a polite manner. However, this is a facade as she is actually a pervert. The only times she shows emotion is either during battles or when interacting with her brother, Tooru. Akari "loves" her brother and constantly expresses this "love" to him despite Tooru always ignoring or rejecting her advances. Her attachment to her brother can often borderline on obsession, getting jealous whenever Toru interacts with another girl, prompting a violent or competitive reaction. Akari also has a very wild and vivid imagination, often thinking perverse thoughts or jumping to wrong conclusions, usually about her brother or those involved.

Because she was orphaned at a young age, Akari believes in loyalty to one's family deeply. Thus, she deeply cares and respects her brother despite not being blood-related. After the end of the war, she continues to stay and support him, even though she could have easily found another man to support her. When he decides to follow Chaika, she also chooses to go with him, regardless of the circumstances. However, her devotion does have limits, during the time when he refused to work, she threatened to stuff him if he didn't change. In battle, Akari has a great trust in her brother, able to work effectively as a team. While fighting, she is usually calm and composed, allowing her to analyze her opponent as she battles, although not to the same extent as Tooru. If the fight does become intense, she sometimes become more violent and aggressive.

Outside of her brother, Akari is capable of making rational decisions and interacting with others. While her brother is the only one she truly cares about, she has shown displays of compassion for others. Chaika Trabant, for example, she initially did not accept her at first. However, over time, she has grown to care for Chaika as a dear friend and becomes protective of her.

## **Abilities**

Raised as a saboteur from a young age, Akari possesses many abilities and skills that allows her to do numerous jobs, both on and off the battlefield.

* **High Physicality**: Akari has extremely high physical abilities which includes above average strength, speed, instincts, reflexes, flexibility, and stamina. Her strength and stamina allows her to hold her Comblade sledgehammer with one hand, as well move at fast paces without slowing down even while carrying her weapon. Unlike Toru, she has consistently trained and improved her skills
	+ **Acrobatics**: Akari is a very skilled acrobatic, able to jump high distances and perform skills in mid-air. She also uses this for stealth and fighting.
	+ **Iron-Blood Transformation**: A saboteur technique that causes the human body to be optimized for fighting. Activated by extreme mental concentration, Akari's physical abilities greatly increases and her combat skills also improves considerably. The technique, however, has limited use per day as it requires a great amount of energy to use.
* **Hammer Fighting Style**: Having a Comblade sledgehammer as her main weapon, Akari is very skilled in using the hammer to fight. Her style emphasizes on close range fighting, inflicting heavy damage through brute force and power. Despite the weight of the sledgehammer, Akari is able to single handedly wield it and move agilely without impediment
* **Stealth & Reconnaissance**: Akari is skillfully experienced in both stealth and reconnaissance. Her time as a saboteur has taught her how to scout enemy forts and infiltrate the compound without detection. She is able to hide her presence quickly and effectively, allowing her to spy on enemies or escape without a trace. Outside the field of battle, Akari is skilled in gathering information and resources while traveling. Over the years, she has built a network of information, gathering info through women's gossip sessions, much to her brother's dismay. Despite her source, she has stated that it's ambiguous nature allows her to infer details with enough quantity.

### **Equipment**

* **Comblade Sledgehammer**: A sledgehammer that has a spike on one end of the head. It can change the length of it's handle for carrying in her leather scabbard.
* **Throwing Knives**: Small throwing knives Akari can use to attack from a distance.
* **Poisoned Needles**: In the anime, she used a poisoned needle on Fredrika that slowly weakened her greatly.
* **Explosive Kunais**: Kunais with explosives built into the handle which is triggered by a timer that is set to explode after a short amount of time.

## **Trivia**

* The color of Akari's hair and eyes are the opposite of Tooru's; while she has green hair and blue eyes, Toru has green eyes and blue hair.

## **External Links**

* Akari Acura at Hitsugime no Chaika Wiki