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Akimi Sakurai
Akimi Sakurai Color
Name in Japanese 櫻井秋美
Romaji Translation Sakurai Akimi
Debut (Light Novel) Volume 11
Appears in Light Novels, Oreimo 2 Vol.8 special
Voice Actor (Japanese) Ayane Sakura
Personal Info
Gender Female
Age 17-18
Weight 41kg[1]
Occupation Student

Akimi Sakurai (櫻井秋美, Sakurai Akimi) is Kyousuke and Manami's classmate during their middle school days. She is the main protagonist in "The Sakurai Incident", the main event that changed Kyousuke's personality from a hot-blooded student to the "normal" person he is at the start of the series. She comes from a wealthy family and has sworn to herself that she'll never work a single day in her life. Despite her lazy personality, she is very smart.

The events around her happen in Volume 11, which wasn't adapted into the anime, but still somehow represented in S02E13 where we see "Kirino's side of the story" where she tells about his brother's sudden change and the beginning of their cold relationship.

Appearance[]

Akimi Appearance

Akimi's outfits in the DVD/BD specials

Akimi has purple colored hair styled in a bobcut and violet eyes. In middle, school her fashion statement is inspired by clothing an idol usually wears, since she believes it makes her look more adult-like, and includes a sleeveless blouse, a short necktie, a checkered skirt and dark-colored kneehigh socks. She also wears a small flat red ribbon on her hair. She often wears breast pads to hide her flat chest. In highschool, she wears an outfit that Kyousuke described as looking like pajamas, with the upper part looking like a bear costume hood, because now she prefers comfortable clothes over fashion trends.

Personality[]

At first, when Kyousuke talks about her in his flashback, she is a hikikomori  who is too lazy to go to school. She was shown to be smart, getting good grades even when not attending school. She liked playing games and making fun of Kyousuke. Eventually she became more outgoing and was more open to hanging out with people and made friends. Three years later, when Kyousuke met her again, she didn't seem to change much, and was still in love with him and regretted not apologizing to him during all the years they were apart. When she found out that Kyousuke was dating his little sister, she at first got jealous and wanted to take Kyousuke for herself, though when she realized that Kyousuke chose Kirino over her, she was willing to accept it and was willing to get along with Kyousuke.

She believes that her sense of style is good and she also wears breast pads and is easily embarrassed when Kyousuke found out it was fake.

She was noted by Kyousuke and Kirino to be a strange girl, but she was popular in her class.

Relationships[]

Kousaka Kyousuke[]

Originally, Kyousuke wanted to bring her back to school because she was never at class. When they met, she first found Kyousuke annoying, but he bothered her enough and completed enough of her tasks that she eventually went to school. She fell for Kyousuke and impacted him to the point that he became who he was at Volume 1. She was shocked at how different Kyousuke was when she met him again after around 3 years. In Volume 11 and Volume 12, she was shown to still be in love with Kyousuke and was jealous of Kirino.

Trivia[]

  • It was stated By Kyousuke, that during Middle School, she was the "big sister type", but after Middle School, her appearance didn't change and she became the "Little Sister Type".
  • Despite being one of the main reasons behind Kyousuke's sudden personality shift in the past, Akimi was neither shown nor mentioned in the series' anime adaptation. She only appears in the BD specials in Vol. 8.

References[]

  1. Source: From Light Novels Volume 11, Chapter 3.
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