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NO.320ANIMEANIME OOTD / CHARACTER ARCHIVE
Akira Akao
SAKAMOTO DAYS ↗ / 2022
JCC applicant searching for Rion Akao
AI-assisted illustrations · Not official anime stills








Akira first appears in manga chapter 56, published in 2022 and collected in volume 7. Yuto Suzuki’s SAKAMOTO DAYS began in 2020. She enters the story as a JCC transfer-exam candidate, hoping the assassin training institution can lead her to Rion Akao.
She is uneasy with weapons and hesitant around opponents. Yet she can perceive paths for bringing an opponent down. That contrast gives Akira her tension: possessing an assassin’s potential does not mean that she feels at home in an assassin’s world.
[Transfer-exam spoilers] An explosion throws Akira and the others out of their exam flight. She improvises a parachute with her sewing skills, helping save her companions. The rescue is also depicted in anime episode 18. A seemingly ordinary practical skill becomes essential in an extraordinary emergency.
Rion is Akira’s aunt and one of her most important family ties. Rion studied at JCC alongside Sakamoto and Nagumo; Akira comes to the institution to search for her. That personal search connects Akira to an older generation’s history, rather than simply to a career in killing.
The selected look follows the volume 8 manga cover: cyan-blue hair with violet tips, golden eyes and a dark jacket, framed as portraits and upper-body views. M・A・O voices her in the anime, whose design is documented separately. Site illustrations are AI-generated unofficial fan art, not original manga art, anime stills or photographs of an actor.
[Fan interpretation] Akira can be read as someone whose abilities have not yet settled what kind of person she wants to become. Her combat potential and life-saving sewing suggest different uses for talent. Her timidity may therefore signal values beyond the assassin world’s standards. This is a reading of the character, not an author-declared conclusion.