Hachijo Akemi

**Hachijou Akemi** (「八城あけみ」, ***Hachijou Akemi***?) is a character from Serenity Pretty Cure season who is one of the four main characters. Akemi's alter-ego is **Cure Radiance** (キュアラディアンス, *Kyua Randiansu*?) and she channels the powers of past Cure Radiance, being her successor.

Her catchphrase is **Let's do it!** (「やっちゃおう」,, *Yacchaou*?).

## History

### Prior to the Series

Akemi was raised more by her mother because her father was always traveling on bussiness. During her younger child days, she was a troublemaker who builded up a reputation of being "a hyperactive little imp" in her school and neighborhood., She also is a friend of Miharu since young days.

## Character

### Appearance

As a civilian, Akemi is a young girl of average height, ivory complexion and slim figure. She has purple eyes, pitch black, shoulder-lengh hair with hot pink stripes on her straight bangs, and with two forelocks framing both sides of her face. Akemi's hair is worn loose. Her casual attire consists of light gray shorttalls with a red belt around her waist, a light purple sweater, thigh-high white socks, and a pair of black ankle boots. As for school, she wears black sockings and red shoes.

As Cure Radiance, her hair grow longer, down to her waist and get slightly spiky on the ends. Her hair now worn in high pigtails held by hot pink ribbons. Her eyes keep the same shade of purple. She wears a white, sleeveless dress with two purple vertical stripes on the chest, and a purple, feather-like bow with a turquoise gem attached to the middle of it. Her skirt is purple and her Totem is attached to a white belt. She also wears shorts in the same color of her skirt. It also includes black, tigh-high sockings, purple boots reaching her knees and purple arm-protectors with white outlines.

### Etymology

Even though Akemi's first name is often writen in hiragana, the official kanji for her name is 明美 which means "beautiful light", a fit for the season's motif. The surname Hachijou (八城) comes from Kazumi Mishima from Tekken series and it means "eight castles". She is the only Cure on her team whose name don't follow the plant pattern.
Akemi's full name is a reference to a discarted plot for the season, it translates to "Beautiful light of Eight Castles".

## Relationships

* **Takeuchi Miharu**: They are best friends and show to have a very close relationship. Their relationship grew even stronger when Akemi became a Pretty Cure, as they both shared insecurities about the relationship with the rest of the team. But thanks to Akemi, Miharu was accepted despite her evil origins and Akemi could overcome her selfishness and understand the importance of peace. Between the two, Miharu seems to be the voice of reason and Akemi, the one who puts things into action.
* **Shimomoto Azusa**: Akemi deeply respects Azusa for her skills and techniques, both as Azusa and as Cure Siberia. In return, Azusa admires Akemi's open-mindedness and strengh.
* **Endou Momiji**:
* **Past Cure Radiance**:

## Cure Radiance

**"Shine on! Oh, enlightened one, Cure Radiance!"**
輝く！目覚めし者を, キュアラディアンス！
*Kagayaku! Mezameshi mono o, kyuaradiansu!*

**Cure Radiance** (キュアラディアンス, *Kyua Radiansu*?) is Akemi's Pretty Cure alter ego. Like her teammates, she has the power of light, but she also has the power of eletrecity.

## Songs

Hachijou Akemi's voice actress, **Akari Kitou,**  has participated in several image songs for the character she plays. Many of these songs includes duet/group songs with **Asami Seto**, Shimomoto Azusa's voice actress, **Ayaka Ohashi**, Endou Momiji's voice actress and **Mai Aizawa**, Takeuchi Miharu's voice actress.
Duets

## Trivia

* Akemi's hairstyle was inspired by Juri Han's from Street Fighter series.
	+ On earlier projects, Cure Radiance's pigtails were held by in two horns, similiar to Juri's hair.
* Unlike past leader Cures, Akemi's theme color is purple.