Akihiko is a third-year student at Gekkoukan High School, and the captain of its boxing team. He was the second member of S.E.E.S. after having been recruited by Mitsuru Kirijo in junior high school. After losing his parents at a young age, Akihiko and his younger sister Miki were placed in an orphanage, where he met his best friend Shinjiro Aragaki. After an orphanage fire that resulted in Miki's death, Akihiko obsessed with becoming stronger, seeing himself as having been too weak to save her.
Akihiko's extracurricular choice is boxing, a sport he has been participating in since at least his junior high school days, and is undefeated in. He accepted Mitsuru's request to join S.E.E.S. initially as another means of building his strength, however also states that he and Shinjiro's ultimate goal was to destroy the Dark Hour.[4]
Personality-wise, Akihiko comes off as practical and determined, aloof but with a "confident air and ambitious attitude".[5] At times, Akihiko is awkward and oblivious, often blunt. At other times, he is impulsive and reckless, particularly when it comes to battle and arguments.
Like most of the cast, Akihiko wears a modified version of the standard Gekkoukan uniform: a white dress shirt with black slacks and neck-tie, with brown Oxfords and black gloves. He carries his Gekkoukan uniform jacket over his shoulder, electing instead for a red sweater-vest over his shirt, emblazoned with a yellow lower-case "b". Akihiko has short light grey-hair. His eye colour ranges from brown to hazel to muted shades of blue and green, but are most often a darker shade of grey to his hair.
According to character designer Shigenori Soejima, Akihiko's initial design concept was "the cool senior".[6]
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The Journey
The Answer
The Answer presents a flashback to Akihiko's recruitment to S.E.E.S. at the end of the second dungeon, Caina. The memory depicts Akihiko at the end of junior high school, being hounded by fangirls and a boxing scout trying to recruit Akihiko to a rival school. Once alone, Akihiko is then approached by Mitsuru Kirijo, who introduces herself as a fellow third-year, and tells him she has enemies that need defeating. She states that the enemies are "related to what you've recently been experiencing each midnight", and that she experiences the same phenomena as he does. After handing him an Evoker, the flashback ends.
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Social Link
In Persona 3 Portable, Akihiko replaces Mamoru Hayase as the Star Social Link in the female protagonist route. Ranks seven to ten are restricted until after the October Full Moon operation.
He is a romanceable character. If the flags have been met, the romance can be initiated in the final rank of his link.
Akihiko's dance style can best be described as "just boxing" using the footwork associated with boxing. Occasionally Akihiko will adopt the dance style of his partners, but otherwise he tends to dance solo even when he has a partner.
Audio Drama Appearances
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Trivia
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Nomenclature
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Names in Other Languages
Language
Name
Meaning
Japanese
真田 明彦
Sanada Akihiko. The family name means "braid" and originates with the Sanada clan, a ruling clan of what is now Nagano Prefecture.[7] The given name means "bright boy."[8]
↑Persona 3 The Movie 1 & 2 Settei Height Chart [1]
↑"Akihiko Sanada: For me and Shinji, our goal was to get rid of the Dark Hour." Persona 3 Portable (PC). Developed by ATLUS. Published by ATLUS.
↑"Practical and goal-oriented, Akihiko's confident air and ambitious attitude make him an obvious choice for a role model. This admirable front is just that, however, as Akihiko is obsessed with how others see him." "ch. 1: Characters", Persona 3: Official Design Works, Shigenori Soejima. Published by Udon Entertainment. English. p. 30. ISBN-13: 10: 192677843X.
↑Akihiko's design profile in Persona 3: Official Design Works, p. 33
Japanese
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