Akiko Takakura

Akiko Takakura is one of the 5 "subjects" who underwent a clinical trial to cure their neurological disorders. She was a college student that attended Reinan's Senjukuha Program (SP). After graduation she became a doctor and counselor to students in the SP (much like Dr. Yamaguchi).

Appearance
Akiko is a wiry and lean girl standing only at 151cm tall with short black hair, similar to a bob style along with bangs that reached her eyebrows, she wears glasses and has unnaturally intense amber eyes. As the series progressed, Akiko's hair grew longer.

Background
Akiko’s Spiritual Incontinence is the result of a training accident that caused her to achieve Satori. Akiko directly experienced her own higher consciousness, and became directly open to the energy generated by all living things, the sum of all creation and its flow throughout the universe. While the sensation is transitional and usually only lasts for a few minutes for Akiko it was permanent.

Due to her years of seeing through people's heart, 'hearing' what they were thinking and being unable to control it she has a mental focus far beyond anyone else her age since she had to endure constant bombardment of thoughts. To cope with this, Akiko lived in the forest by herself for several years prior to enrolling at Reinan. Akiko is the only one of the five who still has a complete set of parents, though little is known about her personal life before college.

She used to have a teddy-bear called, "No".

Personality
Akiko seemed to be one of the more soft-spoken and eccentric members of the 5 when she first arrived on campus. She quickly proved to be one of the more assertive and crafty members of the group, second only to Yamato in the beginning.

She adopted the role of the group's "mom" because of her fiercely loyal, watchful, and protective behavior regarding her fellow former Incontinents. Was also generally considered to be the most responsible and level-headed among the crew.

Though Akiko did become arrogant and too trusting of her power throughout Year 1 due to how exceptionally powerful she was. Though she did show a shy and timid side around especially around Seiji.

At the outset she was not particularly interested in figuring out what she wanted to do with her life and experienced a severe mental shock after participating in Reinan's Crucible in Year 3.

Abilities
The body is the foundation of the soul, the solid matter of which we are composed, but the soul is the energy that empowers the body, and the mind creates a focused reflective coherence, a pattern of thought, belief and imagination which shapes the energy through the power of our own perception. As a practitioner of Renkan Keikikou Akiko is able to combine these into a unified whole. If she conceives of a thing as real she empowers it with her will and imagination. She can give that thing a life by projecting a portion of her own soul and imagination, and by giving that thing life her life force flows through it, and by the force of her will she extends control that shapes the power as a lense focuses sunlight. After the procedure that cured her she has shown an almost unprecedented skill in her family art.

Akiko’s Advanced Mind is not at all like telepathy, but the ability to perceive through surrendering the ego and opening one's self up to the greater Unity of all. She is able to opened her mind to the those around her causing the contents of their thoughts to spill out into her mind. She is also able to reach into the minds of others, orienting reality to record her impressions within their mind, and all they have to do is listen to that inner voice and grasp what she is saying. It was revealed in Year 2 that Akiko also had the ability to enter, manipulate, view memories in, and communicate with people through their dreams. Over the course of training throughout Year 3 Akiko gained enough skill to achieve her "dream walking" without Kiichi's assistance, even while awake, and could eventually bring multiple people with her into another person's mind.

Trivia
She is a combination of Mary Smith from Super Powereds and Takakura Akiko from Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru.