Who is akito

Yuki and Akito. Yuki has a twisted relationship of love and hatred with Akito. In the present time, Akito is a source of fear for Yuki, and he will freeze and sometimes quiver in her presence. Akito Sohma is the current « God » of the Zodiac, while various members of the Sohma family are possessed by the spirits of the animals from the Chinese Zodiac, including the Cat.

Both Ren and Akito thought that Shigure was in love with Ren, but as Shigure tells her, he was attracted to her only because she looked exactly how Akito would have had she been allowed to live as a woman. He gets together with Machi Kuragi, the treasurer of the student council he becomes student council president in his third year. Akito despairs at the chance of having lost her first friend without even being able to hold her hand.

Akito then walks to Shigure's home and finds Tohru alone outside. Unbeknownst to her, Tohru is not exactly in the best emotional state after her last talk with Kyo, where he explained to her how her mother died and the part he had on it, before she told him like she loved him and being refused by him over his guilt.

Akito then comments that Tohru must be happy, because she had "won" and had, in the process, destroyed the only life she had known. Akito then threatens Tohru with a knife; but Tohru, realizing how both she and Akito had been trying to hold onto an "unchanging" reality Akito clinging to the eternal bonds of the Zodiac; Tohru wanting her mother to always be first in her heart , told Akito that she understood how scary it is to be alone, and instead offered her hand in friendship, even introducing herself as if they had never met before.

Akito extended her hand, seemingly to accept the offer, but right before she could the unstable cliff ground collapsed and Tohru fell in the first volume of the series, just after a landslide destroyed Tohru's tent, Shigure warned her that the ground around the area was unstable and due to collapse again one day.

At the sight of her newfound friend falling to what could be her death, rather than gloating or anything similar, Akito screamed to get help for Tohru, ultimately collapsing in tears in Shigure's arms. When the hospitalized Tohru recovered at the hospital and was finally allowed visitors beyond her immediate family, Akito was surprisingly one of the first to visit and even more surprisingly, according to Hatori and Shigure, she went alone and entirely on her own accord.

Fearful that she would be rejected by Tohru and Kureno both of whom she'd hurt, emotionally and physically , Akito was told a comforting story by Momiji, who also offered advice that made it possible for Akito to see Tohru and Kureno for who they really are: People whose kindness for others overrides their ability to be concerned about themselves.

With that in mind, she finally went to see Tohru, who offered her hand despite the fact her arm is injured to Akito in friendship again, which she accepted with a small smile. Akito also visited Kureno in the hospital, whom she had stabbed in the back; [24] Kureno, however, didn't blame Akito for her actions, and forgave her when Akito cried and apologized to him repeatedly for smothering him all of the years she'd kept him close.

From there on out, Akito decided to try to change rather than cling to being "God," and to the memory of her father and what he had wanted her to be. Later, Kureno left to live in the country with Arisa Uotani , a close friend of Tohru's, and the curse was broken, Akito and Shigure finally confessed their true feelings for each other and reconciled. Akito begins living and dressing as a woman, and in her last meeting with all the formerly cursed Sohmas, she wore a furisode female kimono , and donned a flower in her hair, something that shocked the younger Sohmas, who had just learned of Akito's true gender.

Ritsu even was comically shocked over it. In her very last apparition, Akito was with Shigure on a date. Shigure asks Akito if she wasn't going to see Tohru and Kyo off, to whic she replies that she won't. However, Akito explains that she can always visit Tohru anytime, either way. Though Akito tells Shigure he can go if he wants to, he responds by saying that she is a "crafty girl", and they lovingly continue on their date.

Despite the initial complex relationship Akito had with Tohru, she reminisces on the memories she shares with her, which helped her to get where she is today. After the curse was broken, Ayame went to pay his respect for Akito since he was visiting Shigure and Hatori. Ayame thinks that Akito will be envious of him for spending a few hours with her "future spouse", as in Shigure, and tells her that he will be bonded with her for life just like she will with Shigure.

When he then suggested being partners-in-crimes with her, Akito, put off Ayame's flamboyance, awkwardly rejected the idea by claiming she had work to do.

When Saki wanted to call Shigure, she reached out to Akito first and asked her if she could get her into contact with Shigure. Later, Shigure was briefly surprised by the fact that Saki had the direct head-line to Akito, the head of the Sohma family. Eventually, Akito married Shigure, having one son named Shiki Sohma between them.

The first few years after Shiki's birth, Akito learned games and bedtime stories for her son's sake, and she would also take him to different places so he could have fun and experience new things.

Ever since she gave birth to Shiki, Akito experienced a different kind of joy and love, and thanks him for giving her the opportunity to experience many things for the first time in connection to becoming his mother. Whenever all the Sohmas got together or there was a long holiday, Akito would always stay away and make sure to leave the main estate and go on a trip or stay at one of the Sohma's villas. But on every New Year's, it is mentioned that Akito spends time Tohru, which she looks forward to.

On the other hand, she would make sure to drop Shiki off with everyone else so he could spend time with them and form his own circle of friends. Shiki mentions that Akito had made up her mind that she would never try to join the Sohma family circle, and that it was a way for her to atone for her sins. She wanted to bear her sins and punishment by herself, and was adamant about never letting Shiki bear her burdens. Despite her efforts, Shiki was targeted by Ren and her maids, and they harassed him and constantly told him that he was a repulsive creature since Akito had given birth to him, that Akito would never be forgiven for her sins, and that she deserved nothing more than being treated like trash.

Ren's hostility extended to Shiki to the point where she once attempted to kill him by stabbing him with a knife. However, Akito protected him and took the blow in his stead, scarring her face. After this incident, Akito made the decision to tell Shiki about her past self, her many mistakes and sins, and how she atoned for them. Shiki was very saddened to hear about this, but to him, she was still his kind and loving mother. Throughout the years, Akito remained a hardworking head of the family and would often work very late.

During this time, she would frequently be berated behind her back by Ren, her side of the family, and maids who barely knew her. Shiki notes that no matter if Akito got involved or if she stayed away, and no matter how she lived her life or how much she tried to make it right, the stigma around her never changed.

Although Akito is fine with it, it greatly upset Shiki and he compares her situation to a "curse of nothing allowed to change". Because of this, Shiki began training to become the next family head after his mother to change the Sohma's ways and help his mother.

While Shigure was over the moon, Akito was on the fence on it. Additionally, Shiki's pent-up anger and frustration regarding the situation with Akito even made him lash out and break a mirror once. According to the author, Natsuki Takaya, the birth of a child possessed of the god-spirit is a rare occurrence. Fearing that Ren would actually abort the baby, Akira agreed to these terms. Even so, in some flashbacks to Akito's childhood, as in chapters and , Akito is depicted wearing a little girl's kimono, and Akira even called Akito a "special girl" within the same scene.

When Akito was born, apparently the most excited one over the birth was Akira. Since Akito was revealed to be possessed by the god-spirit of the Chinese Zodiac Akito uniformly refers to herself as God in the English-language translation; however, a more accurate translation would be Jade Emperor, who is both the leader of the Chinese Zodiac and the primary deity of the Taoist religion , Akira saw this as a sign that his relationship with Ren was "special," and because of Akito's "godliness," he and others in the inner circle lavished Akito with attention.

Ren, however, was not glad over Akito's birth, and according to chapter of the manga, refused to even hold Akito as a baby. In Akito's recollection of childhood, she says of Ren, "Mother was cold-hearted, and her anger was always aimed at me. I hate her. On his death-bed, he told the young Akito not to be afraid, adding that he would always be with her, even if she couldn't physically see him. Akira went onto confess that he had wanted Ren to be the happiest over Akito, because Akito was a "special existence," and therefore she and Ren were special.

After he passed away, when Ren found out that no one had come to get her when Akira had been dying, she yelled at the young Akito that she was an unwanted existence, and that she had only been a little toy to amuse Akira; Ren also added that, because Akira was dead, no one had any more need of her.

Akito countered these statements, telling her hysterical mother that her father had loved her; but because of Akira's parting words, even Akito herself doubted that Akira had loved her the most, fearing that she had "lost" to "that woman" Ren.

One of the elderly maids, wanting to comfort Akito, proceeded to give her an empty box, claiming that Akira's spirit was inside it, and that she had wanted only Akito to receive such a special gift. The same maid later claimed, in chapter , that the box was of course empty, and only given to Akito to help her through such a stressful time, adding that Akito should have well known that her father's spirit wasn't really inside the box.

All of her life, Akito kept this box hidden away in her room; she told Kureno in chapter that part of her didn't believe that anything was inside of the box, yet another part always hoped that maybe there was. After her father's early death, Akito became the head of the Sohma family raised to appear and act as a male , in addition to her role as God of the Zodiac animals.

According to an interview with Natsuki Takaya, Akito was enrolled in "better" and "more expensive" schools than everyone else in the Zodiac, though she completed all of his schooling including high school by correspondence For the first two volumes of the series, Akito is only mentioned in conversations by the Sohma family, or in brief flashbacks, all of which give a vague, foreboding image of the mysterious "head of the family.

Also mentioned several times in the first two volumes is that no one in the Sohma family—specifically, the Juunishi—can go against any of Akito's orders.

It is later revealed in volume 11 that Akito is possessed of the Zodiac's god-spirit, and therefore, all the cursed Sohmas have to obey her every word, no matter what. Ever since chapter two, it had been hinted at that both Akito and Shigure were scheming something that involved Tohru, which was why she was allowed to keep her memories and live with the Sohmas. While it was eventually revealed that Akito and Shigure had different, separate reasons for allowing Tohru to grow closer to the Sohmas, Akito's own motive was fully explained in chapter A while before the beginning of the manga's time-line, Yuki had left the Main House to live with Shigure.

At that time, Akito's mother, Ren, commented that it seemed as if everyone was abandoning her, just like she had always predicted they would. Akito denied this, arguing that the Juunishi would come back to her in the end, since they were all connected by the inseparable Zodiac bonds. Ren, however, challenged Akito to prove this, saying that if Akito allowed the Juunishi to stray and to form other bonds with "outsiders," and they abandoned her, then Akito would have to bow down before Ren and leave the Sohmas forever; on the other hand, if the Juunishi still returned to Akito's side after going out into the world, then Akito would win.

Soon after this bet was made, Shigure approached Akito about allowing Tohru stay with him, Yuki, and Kyo. Akito, confident that she would win against Ren, consented to this. Since Akito believed that the world was a cruel, bleak place in which unconditional love did not exist outside of the Zodiac bonds, she also believed that Tohru would eventually end up rejecting the Juunishi; thus, she was certain that Yuki and the others would end up heart-broken by the world, and would return to her side forever.

In chapter 10, when Tohru visits the Sohma estate for the first time, she learned from Momiji that Hatori was nearly blind in his left eye, because years before, he had asked Akito permission to marry a woman he loved, Kana; Akito had flown into a frenzy of rage, accidentally injuring Hatori's eye, and blaming it on Kana, who never recovered from the shock of the accident; instead, Kana accepted Akito's blame and guiltily agonized over the incident, growing ill, until Akito convinced Hatori to erase Kana's memories of her love for him.

Since that day, Akito—fearing that allowing any of the Juunishi to form "other bonds" with outsiders would break the rest of the curse and bonds—kept the Juunishi on a tight leash, and instilled in them doubt and self-hatred to make certain that they would never leave her. In one of Yuki's childhood flashbacks in chapter 84, he remembered the day when Akito first "snapped," painted the walls of his room black, and locked Yuki away in a dark room.

It is assumed, from further flashbacks of Kureno's in chapter 97, that Akito's mini-mental breakdown was a result of his curse breaking around the same time.

Tohru first caught a glimpse of Akito watching her from a window in chapter 10; however, it is not until chapter 20 that Akito first made her official debut in the manga. Akito visited Tohru, Kyo, and Yuki's school for the day, and approached Tohru alone; she called Tohru "a cute girl" and kindly asked her to take good care of her family. At first, Tohru was shocked at Akito's friendly attitude and sunny smile, wondering if she was meeting the same person who'd almost blinded Hatori.

However, Tohru soon realized that Akito's polite air was an act, as Akito's eyes belied her. When Yuki later appeared, Akito chastised him for skipping the family's New Years banquet, and threatened to lock Yuki away in the dark room of his childhood again to teach him a lesson.

Tohru, sensing Yuki's fear, physically pushed Akito away, who, although quite shocked, left soon after without much of a fuss.

As Shigure later relayed to Hatori that, on the car ride home, Akito spoke of how "ugly" and less-than-clever Tohru was, boasting that Yuki would surely come back to her in the end. In chapter , it was revealed that Akito had always been lonely and afraid of change. What is wrong with Akito?

Akito is depicted as short-tempered and abusive, and has physically and emotionally scarred many Sohmas. What animal is Akito Sohma? Why is Akito obsessed with Yuki?