Shimoyamada Akira

**Shimoyamada Akira** is a second year student at **YamiTsume High**. She is the acting class leader of **Class 2-A** after **Hanami Taira** asked her to take over and take care of their friends in 2-A.

She is one of Hanami's most trusted friends, as she asked her to replace her as 2-A's class leader, which she accepted wholeheartedly.

Akira dislikes **Hidetaka** for his actions, judging him as a "crook", and is one of the people who wishes that Hidetaka and his friends kicked out of the school.

Akira and **Ren** are intense rivals in the **Kendo Club**, the two sparred like a one-on-one Sengoku era duel. Both their skills are approximately the same.

## Appearance

Akira has rather long dark blue hair and an intimidating expression. She wears the usual YamiTsume Uniform, and she carries around a wooden sword. Her left arm has several long scars, she got those scars when she fought delinquents in the past. She has silver eyes.

## Personality

Akira is a very headstrong girl. She dislikes waiting for orders when someone is in danger or when someone needs help, she will immediately spring into action or assist them.

She despises delinquents, A LOT. She once fought ten delinquents at once and won. However, she herself was injured in the left arm that day. Akira is stubborn, like Hidetaka. They almost fought once, but the teachers arrived in time to stop them. The two are on really BAD terms.

She holds a lot of amount of respect for teachers, because her parents are teachers. She strives to become a teacher herself one day.

She is friendly and loyal to Hanami, just as Hanami trusts her as well.

It turns out that she likes bands, and admires people who play in a band.

## History

### Winter Princesses's Dance Storyline

Akira briefly appeared in Tamaki's flashback about how Fuyu lost her memories several months ago during YamiTsume's Cultural Festival. Akira was mentioned to have several students finding the perpetrator of the incident, to no avail.

### The Golden Dream of A Future King Storyline

Akira first appeared when King arrived at Classroom 2-A. The two greets each other like usual. Then, **Tamaki**, **Baiko** and **Akihiro** entered the class. Akihiro told them about Hidetaka bullying some other students. She decides to let King handle this issue.

Later, Hidetaka lashed out to their teacher, **Yoshida Senrikobe,** Akira tries to stop him but King tells her not to. She helps Yoshida stand up along with Fuyu, while saying that brutes like Hidetaka doesn't deserve a teaching.

After King returns to class, Akira asked the results about the confrontation. She gave him the notes of the lesson only to notice King's injury on his arm. She then asked if Hidetaka did this. King attempts to lie, but Akira found out and responsively shouted at him, shocking the others present at class. She then asked King to meet her after school.

After school is over, King meets Akira, only to see Akira together with two of their classmates, **Motochika Shinomiya** and **Chiyome Hirai**. Taking the train to Goshogawara, they headed to **Jumpin' Jack and The Beanstalks Cafe**. Inside the cafe, Akira greets the cafe's manager "**JJ**". After the four of them finds a place to sit, they talked about their class' situation.

Akira chose to expel Hidetaka out of the school, with Motochika and Chiyome both giving valid enough reasons to have him expelled, but King hesitates. When Akira wants to have the students of YamiTsume to vote whether to expel him or not, King accidentally reveals the injury on his stomach he got from Hidetaka.

Discovering this, she lets out a big sigh and leaves the cafe to get a bit of fresh air. Outside, Chiyome caught up to Akira and then Akira lost her temper and did not understand why King stubbornly kept Hidetaka from being expelled.

Upon returning, Akira and Chiyome sees King and Motochika talking to several people holding music instruments. After JJ told her that they are **The Beanstalks**, Akira runs to their direction and asked if she can watch their performance, to which **Toki**, the leader of the band, allowed her to.

After the show, Akira and the others returned home. The way back home went awkward after Chiyome and Motochika left, leaving King and Akira in a silent walk home to the station. Akira later confronted King about his reason to stop Hidetaka from being expelled.

## Appearances in Stories / Events

* Artemis Band Story 1 : Winter Princesses's Dance
* Majesty Band Story 1 : The Golden Dream of A Future King

## Trivia

* The constant sparring between Ren and Akira is so intense that the Kendo Club Dojo was almost destroyed once, due to their intensity of their sparring. Even the Club Leader, **Zanketsuke** is confused what to do.
* Their scores of their sparring matches are : Ren = 30 wins , Akira = 30 wins
* There's another instance where she almost fights Hidetaka, but Jinya and his friends arrive just in time to stop them.