Aki Shino

* Anime
* Light Novel

**Aki Shino** (志野亜貴, *Shino Aki*) is one of the main characters of the series. She is a resident of Share House Kitayama who came from Itoshima, Fukuoka.

In the alternative timeline of 2018, she and Kyoya got married (which makes her **Aki Hashiba**) and she gave birth to a daughter named Maki Hashiba.

## Appearance

Aki has dark-blue hair that has two long bangs with some pieces swept to the right side, baby pink eyes, a petite figure and big breasts.

She wears a pink sweater over a black sleeved and white bottom long-sleeve shirt, a short-short brown shorts, black panty hose and brown ankle boots.

## Personality

Aki is described as innocent by her outlook and her voice. She is shorter than most of people in her age and she is somewhat clumsy in the way she talks. Indeed, she is talented at painting arts and illustrations but due to her introvert personality, she didn't have guts to stand out and proved her talent in front of many people. Still, after meeting Kyōya, she has been pushed up by his words and tried her best to continue on her paintings.

Aki has a mother's temper while also known to have a caring nature too.

## Background

Aki is a second-year student in Kyōya Hashiba's Department of Film who is commonly known as "Shinoaki". As of 2016, she was working as a famous illustrator under the name **Shino Akishima** (秋島 シノ, *Akishima Shino*), whom Kyōya adored.

Along with Kyōya, she went on to belong to the Art Society. While living as a student with Kyōya, she gradually became a favor with Kyōya. After developing a doodling game, she fell into a slump, but at Kyōya's recommendation, she began to demonstrate her amazing talent while working on illustrations with the addition of the Kuroda-ji.

In the world of 2018, she married Kyōya (which makes her **Aki Hashiba**) and become a mother of one child named Maki Hashiba, but had to quit to being a painter as she had lost interest in art. After some time, she quickly found the passion to draw again.

## Relationships

### **Kyōya Hashiba**

Kyōya is one of her close friends in Share House Kitayama. Aki first met Kyōya while he was unconsciously falling asleep when he first arrived to Share House Kitayama due to his long travel there. When Kyōya woke up, he found that Aki was defenselessly lying on his side and she eventually teased him after then which makes Kyōya flustered. Because of this side of her, she always ended up making many erotic misunderstandings that made people in Share House Kitayama suspected about her relationship with Kyōya, especially Nanako. Even Aki was a promising talent in painting arts and illustrations, she found herself helpless in doing such casual activities, let alone be too shy to apply to the department of panting. After hearing Kyōya said that her artworks were beautiful and admired how she put souls to her paintings, she got encouraged again and rather developed a special feeling for him. In the School Festival, she kissed him in the lips and a give an excuse to Kyōya that she had been carried away by the Festival.
In the alternative timeline of year 2018 occurred due to Kyōya's second time leap in episode 9, Kyōya was surprised that he had married Aki and they had already given birth a daughter named Maki Hashiba in this timeline.

Still, she is the only person in the anime who has kissed Kyōya. She has feelings for him even in the younger age, so it might be possible that she and Kyōya will eventually marry in the future even after the 2nd time travel. This is eventually confirmed as Kyoya confesses to Aki in the second timeline, showing that he still loves her and the time they spend as a family together in the alternative timeline. This leads them to getting married a second time and the birth of their daughter Maki.

## Etymology

* The name **Aki** means "second, Asia" (亜) (**a**) and "valuable" (貴) (**ki**).
* Aki's surname **Shino** means "will, purpose" (志) (**shi**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).
	+ Her married name **Hashiba** means "bridge" (橋) (**hashi**) and "field, place" (場) (**ba**).

### Pen Name

* The name **Shino (1)** is written in katakana (シノ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (篠, 志乃, 詩乃, 紫乃, 史乃, 信乃, 志野, 詩野, 紫野, 史野 or 信野), it could possibly mean:
	+ 篠 - "dwarf bamboo".
	+ 志乃 - "will, purpose" (志) (**shi**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).
	+ 詩乃 - "poetry, poem" (詩) (**shi**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).
	+ 紫乃 - "purple, violet" (紫) (**shi**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).
	+ 史乃 - "history" (史) (**shi**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).
	+ 信乃 - "trust, believe" (信) (**shi**) and "from" (乃) (**no**).
	+ 志野 - "will, purpose" (志) (**shi**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).
	+ 詩野 - "poetry, poem" (詩) (**shi**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).
	+ 紫野 - "purple, violet" (紫) (**shi**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).
	+ 史野 - "history" (史) (**shi**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).
	+ 信野 - "trust, believe" (信) (**shi**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).
* Shino's surname **Akishima** means "autumn" (秋) (**aki**) and "island" (島) (**shima**).

## Trivia

* In episode 6, its unknown as to which of the two footwears are Aki's when wearing her third outfit.