| Akane Serizawa | |
|---|---|
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| Information | |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Japanese Seiyū | Miyuki Sawashiro |
| English Voice Actor | Luci Christian |
Akane Serizawa (芹沢 茜 Serizawa Akane) is an enthused student who likes to over-dramatize things. She is a member of the drama club and enjoys donning costumes and tricking her more slow-witted schoolmates, such as Himeko Katagiri. The sharper characters, usually Rei Tachibana or Miyako Uehara, see through her schemes easily but usually allow her to continue for a while for entertainment. She is notable for her nekomimi (cat ear) hair (she has a normal set of ears hidden under her hair) and her vicious humor — she frequently imitates Jason Voorhees and wears a hand puppet of him to scare the others. The costume of hers that reoccurs the most in the anime is a robot named Roboko, literally meaning "Robot girl".
One notable episode shows her in a dramatic fight against Yuzuko Kurusu of the Movie Club as Godzilla VS. Robot. Akane and Yuzuko are a canon "yuri" pair in the manga, and the anime gives a small indication of their developing relationship. Serizawa is also considered a pseudo-main character; she has so much interaction with the main cast from class 1-C that she often appears with them or being included in the production of official merchandise such as figurines that don't include the other main characters.
The students of class 1-C (Rei in particular) tend to utilize Serizawa's acting talent on occasion, such as trying to provide a distraction for the bull man by first dressing up as a heifer, and then as Suzune Shiratori, resulting in being attacked with a bazooka both times. She was also used in the PTA episode as a stand in for Becky (Successfully in this case.) Her disguises are always obvious to the viewer of course, as her neko-mimi hair always stands out.
Trivia[]
- The name Akane means "deep red, dye from the rubia plant" (茜).
- Akane's surname Serizawa means "celery" (芹) (seri) and "swamp" (沢) (zawa).
- Miyuki Sawashiro (Akane's Japanese voice actress) plays another blue-haired, four-eared and costume-loving girl with a wicked sense of humor in the Galaxy Angel series as Mint Blancmanche.