Akane Taira

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## Akane Taira

* Splash Art
* Halfbody Sprite

## Characteristics

### Likes

* Antiques
* Cleaning

## Fangan Info

### Origin

Danganronpa Another~ Another Despair Academy~

### Artists

LINUJ

**Akane Taira** (타이라 아카네 *Taira Akane*) is a main character featured in the Korean fangame Danganronpa Another~ Another Despair Academy~, created by Korean game-developer LINUJ. She is known as the **Super High School Level Maid** (초고교급 메이드).

## Galleries

> 📷 For official artwork of Akane, see Akane Taira/Image Gallery
> 📷 For sprites of Akane, see Akane Taira/Sprite Gallery
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## Appearance

Akane is a short highschool student, standing at around 166CM, with pale skin, brown eyes, and brown hair tied up into a single ponytail, which is held up by a black scrunchie.

Akane's attire is a standard Maid's dress; which consists of a standard black dress worn overtop a short-sleeved white shirt, a large white bow at the back, a frilly white apron, a frilly headpiece, a pair of a thigh-high white socks, and a pair of black shoes with large red bows. In addition to this Akane wears a pair of black bracelets on both of her wrists, as well as a light grey choker with white frills. After her reveal as a member of the Super High School Level Despair Akane wears her hair down, and removes several pieces of her outfit; including her bow, choker, and apron.

Akane's ballroom outfit consists of a one-piece black dress with a golden-yellow belt, a pair of long black gloves, and a red bow holding up her hair into a ponytail. She also wears a black choker with a golden necklace attached.

If she survived long enough to join the Kisaragi Foundation, she would have continued to wear her maid's uniform. Some adjustments are made however including; an apron she wears over top of it, longer sleeves, and the organizations badge. She also would have worn her hair down, rather than in a ponytail.

As a child Akane wore a white dress.

After being blessed with fortune and managing to escape her fate, Akane was rendered brain dead. When her body is recovered by Mikado for the creation of Sora, an AI based on Akane, she wore a long black dress, had paler skin, and her hair turned gray. Her hair grew to be much longer, reaching waist-length.

## Talent and Abilities

### Heavenly Luck

During Utsuro's final moments alive he transferred his heavenly luck to Akane. This allowed her to initially survive drowning, and later transported her back to land. However, Akane eventually fell into a vegetative state even with heavenly luck. After the events of the virtual world take place, heavenly luck is then passed on to Yuki Maeda who took control of her body.

## Creation and Development

### Creator's Notes

Untranslated Info*The information below is currently untranslated. It will be re-written in more detail when more information is available.*Little is currently known about how Akane was created or her development. On May 7, 2014, LINUJ shared a set of character illustrations for the entire cast, after previously sharing the sketches on June 30, 2013.

### Alternate Fates

Untranslated Info*The information below is currently untranslated. It will be re-written in more detail when more information is available.*
**타이라 아카네 처형 도안**

**처형명 "주문은 스마일로 부탁합니다"**

**장소는 메이드 카페. 사지에 연결된 사슬이 타이라를 멋대로 움직인다. 손님으로 보이는 모노쿠마들이 연달아 주문을 시작하고, 사슬이 신체구조상 불가능한 방향으로 몸을 마구 비틀며 모노쿠마들에게 식사를 가져다준다. 마지막으로 등장한 모노쿠마 손님이 타이라에게 미소를 주문하고, 온몸의 관절이 부숴진 타이라는 억지 웃음을 지은 뒤 사슬에 휘감겨 사망한다.**

In Danganronpa EX, Tsurugi discovers an escape route and leads his classmates through it. Utsuro confronts the group and is nearly shot by Tsurugi, but is saved at the last minute by Akane, who takes the bullet. She is assumed to have survived this.

## Trivia

* Akane ranked fourth in the official popularity poll.
* Akane is one of two Danganronpa Another characters to physically appear in Super Danganronpa Another 2, alongside Utsuro.
	+ This is unique as, while every participant is referenced throughout the game, only two actually appear.
	+ Due to her frequent appearances, she also has the most CG's in the second game, appearing thirteen times through in-game artwork, versus Utsuro's seven appearances.
* After her true self is revealed Akane began to move in an extremely strange way, quickly hopping from place to place.

## References

1. ↑ **IF Illustration:**https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/IF%E2%80%A6-%EA%B7%BC%ED%99%A9
2. ↑ **SDRA2, Chapter 6**
3. ↑ **Early Splash Art**
4. ↑ **Early Splash Art Sketches**
5. ↑ https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/%EB%8B%A8%EA%B0%84%EB%A1%A0%ED%8C%8C-%EC%96%B4%EB%82%98%EB%8D%94-%EC%9D%B8%EA%B8%B0%ED%88%AC%ED%91%9C-%EA%B2%B0%EA%B3%BC-%EB%B0%9C%ED%91%9C?category=412177