Aru Akise
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Aru Akise | |
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Aru Akise (秋瀬 或, Akise Aru) | |
| Diary |
Detective Diary |
| Gender |
Male |
A classmate in Yukiteru's school, Aru Akise (秋瀬 或, Akise Aru) dreams of one day becoming the world's greatest detective. The student detective is able to correctly deduce the culprit behind the serial dog murders even before the police. He is mistaken for being a future diary holder due to his quick wits and superior deduction abilities. An additional evidence of his supernatural intelligence is shown through few arcs, where only Akise is able to compete against Yuno's analytical, deceptive mind. His physical prowess is nothing to scoff at either as he is able to overpower and out maneuver a psychotic Yuno in two encounters. His reason for involving himself with Yukiteru and the Diary affair is left vague at first. But as he participated in the investigation of the Diary Holders and worked with Masumi and Minene, and after revealing himself to be apart of Nishijima's plan to eliminate the 11th, Akise calls a meeting at his house and reveals his intentions of wanting Yukiteru to become god, yet stating his deep distrust of the 2nd, Yuno. Currently, he is speaking with Deus in order to bring to light the 2nd's intentions. It is revealed that Akise is just a character that Deus created to keep tabs on the Diary Holders. When Deus decides to 'dismantle' Akise and return his soul to the heavens, Akise activates his "Detective Diary" which allows him to remain as a human. Now he is facing Yukiteru and Yuno in a final showdown. He was able to figure out Yuno and the Fake Yuno's secret, but couldn't tell Yuki due to Yuno cutting his throat. He managed to give him the message through his cellphone even after Yuno decapitated him. It is later revealed by Yukiteru that the truth he discovered was that the Yuno all know, is a Yuno from a parallel world that was already destroyed, and that Yuno won the survival game in that world. Using her powers, leap through time and space and got to that world. This truth helps Yukiteru to reveal Yuno's true colors.
He is the main character in a spin off series — Mirai Nikki: Paradox — where Muru Muru accidentally destroyed Yuno from existence, meaning Yukiteru is still vulnerable from the Third. So until the damage is fixed, Aru collaborates with Muru Muru and together, take the place of the First and Second. When Akise sees Yukiteru for the first time, his heart thumps, causing him to wonder out loud "Is this love?" leading to confusion on Muru Muru's part. He also states that his reward for killing the Third is for Muru Muru to save Yukiteru. By the end of second chapter of "Paradox", Muru Muru suspects he is gay because of his strange actions around a recovering Yukiteru; refusing to leave his side because Yukiteru's just too cute, stating how he could kill all the diary users to make Yukiteru 'God', and so on.
In chapter 17 of Future Diary, Akise admits in secret to Yuno that he likes Yukiteru beyond friendship, leading her to panic momentarily when he purposely wraps his arm around Yukiteru's waist to aggravate her. This might be one of the reason why Yuno is so anxious and aggravated whenever Akise is appears in front of Yukiteru. Finally, in chapter 48, Akise admits to Deus that he is in love with Yukiteru, however Deus revealed that he only made him believe he did. Akise, desperate to prove his independence from Deus' will, claims a future diary and returns, attempting to convince Yuki that Yuno is using him. Yuno tries to silence him by silting his throat and ultimately, beheads him. Leading to his revelation that Yuno is, in fact, a "former Yuno" who traveled through time, upon realization that she could not bring Yukiteru back to life after she had become the God of Time and Space.
Akise shares many specific similarities with the Neon Genesis Evangelion character Kaworu Nagisa, going far beyond obvious physical ones such as red eyes and silver hair: both are in love with the main character; both were used as tools and refused that condition on their own will; both were innitially secondary characters who played an important role in the end; both died decapitated. In addition, their japanese voice actor is also the same, Akira Ishida. Considering Neon Genesis Evangelion release date being in 1995 and Future Diary in 2011, it is very likely that Akise is a tribute/reference to Kaworu.
