Akari Nitta (
Appearance
Akari is a fair-skinned young woman of average height. She has pale blue eyes that are framed by light-colored triangle eyebrows. She has messy, neck-length light-colored yellow hair with asymmetrically split bangs. At the top, she has dark roots of black that is swept across the left side of her head. During the Shibuya Incident, Her hair is styled more neatly, her unruly messy strands are now trimmed more evenly at the ends, only a few strands of hair poking out every now and then, she also wears a blue earring, with two circles and three small rods piercing the bigger one.
Serving as one of jujutsu high's managers, she wears a jet-black long-sleeved vest, with three buttons and two pockets on the lower sides, under this, she wears a visibly long-sleeved white shirt and a red tie, she wears greyish-black pants and black heels (brown in the anime).
Personality
Akari is a kind and caring person but is quite serious when it comes to working. However, she does have limits to her tolerance as shown when she grew rather short-tempered when the First Years didn't answer their phones when she tried calling them. However, she does tend to show concern for others, such as when she made a cover-up about Yasohachi Bridge so that the female civilian who had its curse wouldn't panic.[1] She also didn't want Maki Zenin and Nobara Kugisaki to head off to break the veil right away, despite being accompanied by a Special Grade 1 Naobito.[2] Even though Haruta was after her, she asked Kugisaki to not push herself. Once she was rescued from the former by Nanami Even though she was badly injured, she made sure to ask him if Ijichi was still alive.[3]
She is also shown to be quite efficient at her job, during their investigation about the curse of Yasohachi Bridge, Nitta came up with the perfect alibi when a civilian she and the first years, were questioning started to suspect that they were talking about the curse.[4] Even after she was kicked in the sternum and stabbed by Shigemo multiple times, she prioritized in crawling into a nearby escalator, while a weakened Nobara bought her time, which proved to be the right call, since Haruta would've held her hostage when Nanami arrived.[5]
Trivia
- Akari's surname contains the kanji for "fresh, new" (新 ni?) and "field, rice field/rice paddy" (田 ta?), and her first name contains "bright, light, clear" (明 akari?).
- Akari's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
- Akari ranked 38th in the first Popularity Poll with 242 votes.
- Akari ranked 46th in the second Popularity Poll with 31 votes.
- Akari ranked 57th in the third Popularity Poll with 13 votes.
- According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook[6]:
- She likes modifying cars (custom cars).
- Her favorite dish is fried yakisoba covered in a thick salty sauce (tons of mustard).
- She hates monkfish livers.
- Her source of stress comes from when her little brother doesn't listen to her.
- Akari only recently started to be head of assistants.
- Gege Akutami revealed that for her character design, he wanted a simple character.
- Akari aspired to be an assistant from high school. It was to keep an eye on her little brother. She supposedly graduated from Kyoto School.
- She is an ex-delinquent.
- In the English dub, Akari, Ui Ui, and Mimiko Hasaba are portrayed by Sarah Anne Williams.
References
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 55 and Episode 22.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 83 and Episode 31.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 99 and Episode 36.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 55 and Episode 22.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 100 and Episode 36.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook: (p. 56).