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Akari Sakura

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Akari Sakura (桜 あかり Sakura Akari?) is the main protagonist of Jewelpet Twinkle☆ and the human partner of Ruby and Labra. She is a normal middle school student who has an inferiority complex towards her older sister, Monica Sakura. After she met Ruby, Akari became a full-fledged magician and student of the Magic Academy and eventually became the current holder of the title "Jewel Star" at the end of the series.

Personality[]

Akari is a sweet girl who wants everyone to have peace and love for one another. She greatly treasures her family, but she holds her friends the closest to her heart. She does not express negative connotations with anyone, even if they engage in conflict. Like most people in the human world, Akari is just a normal person with many dreams, but she only chooses what is best for her family and friends, showing that she deeply cares about those around her. She never gives up, and always uses her wisdom in fighting to reach her goal. Akari's favorite foods are ice cream, cake and sushi, but she dislikes carrots, however. She has a romantic interest in Yuuma Jinnai.

Skills[]

Appearance[]

Akari is a tween girl with brown hair tied up in a pigtail on the left side with a pink hair tie added with a cherry blossom and strands hanging down. She wears a pink long sleeved jacket and a very light pink top with a thin sash that holds Ruby's Jewel Charm on the left. She also wears a light blue skirt with white ruffled layer underneath and white crew socks with white high-tops with pink shoelaces and pink sole.

History[]

Early childhood[]

Akari was born as the second child of the Sakura family. She often played with her older sister, Monica. When she lost her balloon and it got caught up in a tree, her mother climbed it and got it back for her.

She started crushing on Yuma Jinnai on a day when she couldn't jump rope. When she lost hope, she watched Yuma from afar who was trying to do a long shot, and succeeded after countless tries, giving her inspiration to try harder jump roping. At that time, she saw a rainbow appear in the sky.

For the rest of her childhood, Monica's status as the student council president and teen actress led to Akari living under her shadow. Because she was always compared to her sister, Akari could never get the courage to speak to her classmates and she decided to grow distant from her sister.

Meeting Ruby and becoming a magician[]

On her first day of being a sixth grader, Akari was waiting at a bus stop near a beach until she saw a pink light drifting towards the shore. Akari went down and met the white talking rabbit, Ruby, being convinced that she was in a dream. When she misses the bus after being distracted, Ruby uses magic to fly her to the school, but fails and instead takes her bag flying towards the opposite direction. The two successfully catch her bag, but they both fall off a balcony into the water. After changing clothes and drying her hair, Akari became late and frustrated at Ruby.

When she arrived at school, Ruby continued to follow her, but Akari told her to go away. When the teacher finds Akari, and she is forced to introduce herself in front of the entire class. After bringing up her courage to say her name, the topic immediately turns into a class conversation about her sister Monica. She is then told to take a seat next to her crush, Yuma Jinnai, but cannot gather the courage to talk to him. Back at her home, Akari redoes her introduction to her class in the way she wanted it to be, and spoke her heart out. Immediately after her introduction, Ruby appears and apologizes for not understanding Akari, and she forgives her, but is still depressed. At that moment, Ruby uses magic to move one of her plush toys, and performs a dance with it to cheer Akari up. Ruby tells her that she is a Jewelpet, from a magical world called Jewelland, where everyone can use magic and alchemy. Akari wishes that she could use magic to make her life better, and Ruby answers that if she could use better magic, all her dreams could come true at that very moment. After that, Ruby uses magic to create a flower for Akari's hair that matched her own and Akari starts laughing, telling Ruby that she is glad to have met her. She embraces Ruby and thanks her.

Mysteries behind Alma Jinnai[]

For the first 22 episodes, Alma (In a Boy Form), along with her Jewelpet partner Diana, spent most of the time spying on Akari throughout Jewelland up until episode 23 where she revealed herself with Diana, freezing the main cast aside from Ruby and Akari whom she fought. Alma ends up losing the fight and retreating, but Akari couldn't get over what just happened, so she decided to ask Yuuma if he knew anything about a boy named Alma or at least has a relative that looked a lot like him. however, Yuuma denied knowing anyone with that name or having a family member that looked like him, but what he did say was that he remembers having another kid around him when he was a child.

When Akari went back to Jewelland, her friends and teachers were proud and praised her for holding her ground during the fight between her and Alma, though Akari is still occupied by the thought that Alma and Yuuma look very similar.

Akari decides to go looking for Alma again but she ends up running into Miria and the two of them get suddenly transported back to old school building by Diana to face off against Alma again, who is curious about Akari's powers. Akari took on the opponent's role while Miria stayed on the sidelines and supported Akari by throwing some magical potions. However, it didn't go as planned and the magic backfired so Alma had to step in to save them, using too much magic in the process and straining herself and needing to retreat. Alma's other partner named Opal appears and tells them that Alma was quite lonely and is in need of friends, showing them where Alma retreated in the mirror and exposing the fact that she was a girl. So Opal takes Akari and Miria to where Alma is.

The teachers also join them and Akari requests to stay with Alma until she wakes up, despite Diana's protests at having Ruby stay. Later, when Alma wakes up, she's hesitant at first, but she ends up taking Akari to the roof where the latter tells her that there's a boy in her school named Yuuma who looks exactly like her. Alma immediately asks Akari to see her memories and confirms that it is indeed her twin brother before saying that Jewelina separated them and showing Akari the seal on her forearm, promising to find the battest and defeat Jewelina so she can reunite with her brother and their mom, before leaving.

Jewel Star Grand Prix[]

Other Appearances[]

A character resembling her appeared in episode 7 of Jewelpet Sunshine, where she and Yuuma are shown recolored in the cover of the comic book while Ruby sleeps. In episode 38a, Akari's room is shown when Ruby and Sakuran are delivering presents.

In episode 21b of Jewelpet Magical Change, Akari herself makes a cameo appearance in one of Ruby's recorded videos, along with the previous human protagonists of the entire anime series.


In Jewelpet the Movie: Sweets Dance Princess Akari along with Yuuma and Jolly and Merry made a cameo when she was a bunch of Jewelpets how to dance though it is a alternative version of her since Rinko, Aoi and Minami from Jewelpet as well as Kanon from Jewelpet Sunshine appeared in the movie as well despite them from being different continuities/series.

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).
  • Akari's surname Sakura means "cherry blossom" (桜).

Trivia[]

  • At 11-12 years old, Akari is the youngest protagonist in the anime series.
  • Akari's background is similar to Kirara Hoshizuki from Onegai My Melody Kirara, where both girls were having personal problems towards someone. Respectively, Kirara has a problem confessing to her crush while Akari has inferiority issues with her older sister.
  • Akari is the only Jewelpet heroine to rank (number 6) in Megahouse's Excellent Model Series 10th Anniversary Poll.
  • Akari is Natsumi Takamori's second voice role in an anime series, and this is her first-ever main role. She would go on to voice famous characters like Mei Misaki from Another and even minor characters like Kid Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.
    • This is the first time a voice actress gets her first-ever main role in the Jewelpet anime series; the second is Keiko Kobayashi as Momona in Lady Jewelpet.
  • In the Spanish dub, the voice actress Pilar Morales voiced both Akari in Twinkle and Rinko Kougyoku in the first season.
  • In the French dub, the voice actress Marie Nonnenmacher also voiced both Akari and Rinko.
  • Akari's European Portuguese voice actress, Solange Santos, has voiced all human Jewelpet heroines. She also voiced Sunshine's Jewelina; additionally, Peridot and Diana are some of her constant roles.
  • In the Arabic dub, Akari never had a crush on Yuma. Some scenes and dialogues were edited or deleted to show that they were just friends.
    • In Episode 33, Akari was jealous because both Yuma and her sister were going to receive a prize for their good grades. And in the confession scene Akari told Yuma that she would work hard to get that prize too.
    • In episode 45, Instead of Valentine's day it was a sweets competition and Akari wanted Yuma's opinion on her chocolate. The love potion was a potion to make sweets taste better, and the boys that had crush on Akari just wanted more chocolate because it was tasty.
  • According to the opening, and Akari herself, her best friends at school are Mii-chan, Kana and Yoko. All three of which have never showed up in the anime, or ever mentioned again after the first episode.
  • She wishes to have a dog.
  • Her last name was initially going to be "Hanasaki", but it was later changed to Sakura.

Gallery[]

Main article: Akari Sakura/Image Gallery

References[]

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/tenshi20012001/status/58191243276075008
  2. ↑ Unmarked fandisk
  3. ↑ てぃんくる☆ (2018, Jul 21). こんばんは！本日7/22ジュエルペットてぃんくる☆ファンデ... Twitter. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
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