Akari Akaza (赤座あかり Akaza Akari) is a character in the YuruYuri series who appears as one of the main characters of YuruYuri, MiniYuri, Tensei Shitara Akari dake Slime datta ken and makes a cameo appearance in Reset! and Ōmuro-ke.
Description
A harmony-loving, nice girl, she often stands out far less, in comparison to the other characters, so she is often bantered with her small presence. Her friends often make fun of her character as having the abilities to turn invisible and to fire her Odango like missiles as if they were detachable. Akane is her older sister, Kyōko and Yui are her childhood friends, while Chinatsu, Sakurako, and Himawari are her classmates.
Appearance
Akari is a young girl of average height with chin-length red hair that has two small tight buns (odango) on the sides of her head and an ahoge forming on top, and round purple eyes.
She is usually seen in her school uniform, but when not at school, she usually dresses casually, with light-colored clothes.
When Akari was younger, she had longer hair, extending to the middle of her back.
Personality
Akari has a friendly and nice personality. She can easily make friends, but her small presence makes it easy for her to be forgotten or ignored. Her dream is being the center of attention. She's completely unable of being bad or doing bad things (as shown in the king's game in the season 3 episode 1). She gets easily scared and is prone to fainting when surprised or startled.
Relationships
Kyōko Toshinō
Akari's childhood friend and fellow club member member. Akari tends to be a punchline of Kyōko's jokes and antics. When they were younger, their personalities were switched. Akari was the outspoken one while Kyōko was the shy one.
Yui Funami
Akari's childhood friend and fellow club member. They had similar personalities when they were young. They don't seem to talk to each other too much, but they are still good friends.
Chinatsu Yoshikawa
They have a good relationship and seem to be rather close, possibly due to being on the same school year. Akari, however, is afraid of Chinatsu's art, of Chinatsu's obsessive crush on Yui Funami, Chinatsu's "training" with her.
Akane Akaza
Akane is Akari's older sister who is secretly infatuated with her. This is discovered by Kyōko Toshinō in the first episode when she discovered photos of Akari, an Akari body pillow and various possessions belonging to Akari in Akane's room. Akari, however, shows a sisterly love for her, unaware of her true feelings.
Sakurako Ōmuro
Sakurako is in the same class as Akari. Whenever Sakurako has a problem (scraped knee, lack of chopsticks, button from her uniform falling off) Akari is there to help. Due to this, Sakurako have admiration and respect for Akari.
Himawari Furutani
- "Himawari-chan, they’re huge!"
"They’re not…" - ―Akari Akaza and Himawari Furutani[src]
They aren't shown to be alone together at all, but it can be assumed that they're good friends because they're in the same class. Akari also showed that she is very impressive by the size of Himawari's chest.[3]
Chitose Ikeda
Akari respects Chitose, but she may be curious as to what "being an adult" feels like, as said by Chitose.
Appearances
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Etymology
- The name Akari means "light" (あかり) in Hiragana.
- However, when written in kanji (明里, 朱里 or 朱莉), it could possibly mean:
- 明里 - "bright, light, clear" (明) (aka) and "village" (里) (ri).
- 朱里 - "vermilion red" (朱) (aka) and "village" (里) (ri).
- 朱莉 - "vermilion red" (朱) (aka) and "white jasmine" (莉) (ri).
- However, when written in kanji (明里, 朱里 or 朱莉), it could possibly mean:
- Akari's surname Akaza means "red" (赤) (aka) and "seat, position, place, pedestal, gathering" (座) (za).
Trivia
- At the start of every episode, Akari introduces the episode after her friends shout "Akkari-n~!", she appears and is scheduled to say "Hey! YuruYuri's starting!" but ever since episode 2, it has been a running gag to prevent it from happening smoothly. Starting in season 3, however, the title call was removed completely.
- Additionally, characters who didn't appear in the actual episode would commonly appear in the episode's intro, usually becoming invisible together with Akari.
- Akari used to stand out more than Kyōko Toshinō when they were children.
- Akari keeps an ant farm in her desk at school.
- In YuruYuri Episode 12, Akari is good at playing Othello, proved where she beats Sakurako Ōmuro in a set of the game.
- It is revealed a little later she used her lack of presence to hide some of her moves, and as a result, confusing her opponent.
- Akari is also good at drawing, as shown in season 3 episode 3, and at making apple rabbits, as shown in season 3 episode 6, where she also shows skills in making pancakes with different shapes.
- Akari likes lightly salted potato chips.
- Akari was once unwillingly kissed by Chinatsu.
- Coincidentally, Shiori Mikami (Akari's voice actress) voices Krista Lenz from Attack on Titan, while Saki Fujita (Ayano Sugiura's voice actress) voices Ymir from the same series.
- Akari always goes to sleep at 9 pm.
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References
- ↑ Used by the Amusement Club girls as a joke. Also often used as a sound effect and written with half-width katakana characters: ＼ｱｯｶﾘ～ﾝ／
- ↑ Despite her anniversary in the YuruYuri、 ending, it is stated that she is still 13-years old in Tensei Shitara Akari dake Slime datta ken, reinforcing the fact that the series is set in a floating timeline, as Namori confirmed before.
- ↑ YuruYuri Episode 04
| YuruYuri characters | |
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| Amusement Club | Akari Akaza • Kyōko Toshinō • Yui Funami • Chinatsu Yoshikawa |
| Student Council | Ayano Sugiura • Chitose Ikeda • Sakurako Ōmuro • Himawari Furutani • Rise Matsumoto |
| Teachers | Nana Nishigaki • Hatsumi Kitamiya • Shihoko Azuma • Tsubasa Minamino |
| Relatives | Akane Akaza • Tomoko Yoshikawa • Chizuru Ikeda • Mari Funami • Kaede Furutani • Nadeshiko Ōmuro • Hanako Ōmuro |
| Majokko Mirakurun | Mirakurun/Kurumi • Rivarun/Raika • Ganbō |
| Minor characters | Haruka Koyama • Takane Dezaki • Hiro Takaoka |
| Cameo appearances | Aoi Isurugi • Mirai Sōma • Kokoro Ogawa • Misaki Takasaki • Ai Miwa • Megumi Sonokawa • Miho Yaeno |
| MiniYuri characters | |
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| Amusement Club | Akari Akaza • Kyōko Toshinō • Yui Funami • Chinatsu Yoshikawa |
| Student Council | Ayano Sugiura • Chitose Ikeda • Sakurako Ōmuro • Himawari Furutani • Rise Matsumoto |
| Teachers | Nana Nishigaki • Shihoko Azuma |
| Other characters | Chizuru Ikeda • Mirakurun/Kurumi |
| Reset! characters | |
|---|---|
| Main characters | Hiro Takaoka • Aoi Isurugi |
| Supporting characters | Kumako Gondagawa • Kyōko Toshinō • Yui Funami • Chinatsu Yoshikawa |
| Minor characters | Chitose Ikeda • Ayano Sugiura • Sakurako Ōmuro • Akari Akaza |
| Other characters | Mirakurun/Kurumi |
| Ōmuro-ke characters | |
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| Ōmuro family | Sakurako Ōmuro • Hanako Ōmuro • Nadeshiko Ōmuro |
| Supporting characters | Himawari Furutani • Kaede Furutani • Mirai Sōma • Kokoro Ogawa • Misaki Takasaki • Ai Miwa • Megumi Sonokawa • Miho Yaeno |
| Minor characters | Chinatsu Yoshikawa • Yui Funami • Akari Akaza |
| Tensei Shitara Akari dake Slime datta ken characters | |
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| Main characters | Akari Akaza • Kyōko Toshinō • Yui Funami • Chinatsu Yoshikawa |
| Supporting characters | Anna • Ciel • Ayano Sugiura • Chitose Ikeda • Himawari Furutani • Nadeshiko Ōmuro • Hanako Ōmuro • Nana Nishigaki • Rise Matsumoto • Mari Funami • Tomoko Yoshikawa |
