Akira Fudo

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Akira Fudo is a male anime and manga character who features in Devilman.

Biography

Akira Fudo.

Akira Fudo (Japanese: 不動明, Hepburn: Fudō Akira) was a Japanese teenager born the son of Reijiro Fudo and his wife Sumiko Fudo. . Due to his sensitive nature, as a child, he was nicknamed the Fire Alarm of Higashi Elementary for how much he cried. When his parents leave Japan to work abroad, Akira had to transfer to a new school and is sent to live with his father's friend Kozo Makimura. Akira quickly becomes friends with Kozo's daughter Miki and develops a sibling like relationship with her. At some point previously, Akira had met Ryo Asuka and became best friends with him before Ryo moved away. Unknown to anyone, his memories of Ryo were in fact planted in his mind by the devil Psycho Jenny.

Akira was first seen walking home from his first day at his new school with Miki Makimura whose family he had recently moved in with. One the way however they are stopped by Ken, Go and Dosu-Roku three gang member, all of whom were all attracted to Miki and start teasing the two, Miki gets angered by them whilst Akira tries to keep everything cool, Miki slaps Ken and Meriken-Jo but is grabbed by a furious Dosu-Roku starts to try and undress her, whilst Akira is held back by the other two, luckily they are saved by the sudden and mysterious intervention of Ryo Asuka who threatens the gang with a highly illegal sawed-off shotgun. Ryo says that he needs to speak to Akira privately and Miki is forced to walk back by herself. On the way to Ryo's home, he reveals that his father committed suicide after killing his dog John and then attempted to kill Ryo, as they arrive at his home, he tells Akira that his father had been possessed by a Demon. At first Akira didn't believe his friends story but Ryo takes him to an empty room containing only a strange demonic mask. Ryo tells him to put the mask on, he does so, and his mind is suddenly barraged with visions of Demons explaining their origins and powers and how they were escaping from their icy tomb. These images were projected by the demon known as Psycho Jenny but this was unknown to both Akira and Ryo at the time. After removing the mask Ryo says why he brought Akira here, he says that he wants Akira to become a warrior against the Demons to protect the human race. Akira at first thinks Ryo was insane for thinking of such an idea. Ryo tells him to think about it and drives him home. However, on the way they are attacked by the hordes of demons. They are forced to go back to Ryo's house; however, Ryo takes Akira into a hidden basement in his home, and Akira decides that he will become a demon warrior. Ryo then moves through the basement to reveal another hidden room and much to Akira's surprise is holding a massive party. Ryo says that he is planning to perform a Black Sabbath, meaning he would have to cause much carnage within the room to summon the demons. Akira was hesitant to let people die and be overcome by such fearsome creatures in spite of their sinful nature. As Ryo starts stabbing people with a broken wine bottle, the partiers angrily start to beat them both up but unknown to them they were being possessed by demon starting with the she demon Welvath. They continue to transform and kill those who failed to do so, before surrounding Akira. But suddenly Akira blacks out and starts to become overtaken by the demon Amon. Akira's pure heart and soul dominates Amon and gains control of his body, turning into Devilman for the first time. He proceeds to kill every demon in the area. Suddenly remembering Ryo, he tried to find his friend only to see that Ryo had been crushed by a dead demon, and screamed in pain over his friend's supposed death.

A little while later Akira is seen mocking Tare and Miki Makimura commenting on Miki's breasts swelling after having to many baths. She angrily retorts only to then go to pour another bath, Akira then suddenly leaves having sensed some trouble about to start. At the same time the she demon Sirene arrives and lands on top of the Makimura residence and summons her two demon subordinates Ghelmer and Agwel as they attack the Makimura family. Realizing that the battle had begun Akira runs to find the Makimura's but is greeted by Tare who was running in panic after finding his parents embedded in the wall and ceiling. Akira tells Tare to hide and runs to rescue Miki from Ghelmer and Agwel who use all of their abilities to fight and trick Akira, with Ghelmer even using Miki as a puppet. Fortunately, Devilman manages to turn the tables on both demons, killing them. He sets Miki down on bed but still senses another demon. He is then attacked by Sirene who grabs Akira by her talons and flies into the sky. Akira struggles to get himself free as Sirene proceeds to crush him. Akira is saved by a recently awakened Ryo using a sniper rifle with Sirene losing her grip and Akira transforming into his Devilman form. Sirene knocks out Ryo with one of her claws as she grapples with Devilman. The two battles in mid-air before landing on the ground, Sirene's telekinesis proved to be a problem as she uses it attack Akira with trees and her detached arm that she uses it to cut through Akira's right arm and then impales it into his chest. Akira figures out that it was her antenna that were controlling the arm and uses his own antenna to fry the receptors in hers causing the arm to go out of control and impale her in her stomach, Akira then rips off her right wing grounding the demon. Sirene however is helped by other demons including her companion Kaim. Akira takes out the other demons but now has to deal with Sirene's gestalt with Kaim. Badly wounded, Akira finally admits defeat and falls unconscious. Waking up in the morning however, he finds out that Sirene didn't take the final strike as she died from her wounds. Ryo had patched up Akira's wounds and reattached his arm. Akira then sees Sirene's frozen body in the sunlight, noticing that she died with a smile of victory upon her face, something which Akira remarks as being beautiful.

After the battle with Sirene, Akira overhears his classmates talk about disappearances around Japan, Akira knowing that demons were the cause of it. At the top of the school's roof, Dosu-Roku's gang challenge him to a fight however in a matter of minutes they are all defeated by Akira and sprawled out across the roof. Later at the end of school Miki comes to find Akira only for the two to be cornered by Masa and his gang. However, Akira realizes that they had been possessed and hadn't merged with them, so he took care not to kill them. He crushes the spiders on the groups head freeing them from their possession. They thank him and agree to join him in his battle against the Demon race. However as soon as they get outside, they are surrounded by many of the school's more physical and strong students had also been possessed by the Spider Demons and start to attack them. Akira tells the gang to protect Miki while he goes to find the spider's control. The demon Rasber however used a perfect copy of himself, he mocks Akira as he forms an image in the sky as Zann the demon general of the Army of 100 Demons issues his commands and taunts everyone. Rasber laughs at Akira and the others and retracts the Demon Spiders. He then attacks and wraps up Miki and the gang in his webbing, Akira battles Rasber and kills him quickly allowing the others to escape.

After departing from the gang, Miki and Akira go back to the Makimura Residence where they encounter a small girl trying to reach for the doorbell. The girl's name was Sachiko and she was a friend of Akira's before he moved away to live with the Makimura's, Akira invites her inside although Miki and Sachiko immediately start to agitate each other. Akira later takes Sachiko to the train station and put her on the 16:10 Shinkansen and tells her not to make such long journeys on her own anymore, she agrees and the two depart. However later that night, news of the 16:10 Shinkansen's disappearance is announced and almost as soon as Akira learns about this, he gets a mysterious phone call telling him to meet him at a local park and then tells him that his little friend was delicious and reveals himself as Jinmen of Zann's troops. Akira barely retaining his anger flees the Makimura home and goes to a park that Jinmen told him to meet. After waiting around the park's playground a while, he sees the face of Sachiko. He calls out to her, she replies by saying "I didn't want to die, I'm so young" afterwards more screaming faces appear around her before a laugh is heard and the demon Jinmen reveals himself to Akira. After some brief dialogue the two battle one another but it is not long before that he damages one of the faces on Jinmen's back, shocked by its screams Akira freezes in his tracks. Jinmen then tells him that the faces upon his back are still alive as when he ate a living creature it would become one with his shell never dying. They continue to battle, but Jinmen gets the upper hand as Akira constantly misses trying not to hit the faces. However, Sachiko screams out to Akira and tells him to smash through her and destroy Jinmen. Begrudgingly he does so and smashes through Sachiko's eye and through Jinmen's chest. Jinmen starts to stumble around before Akira grabs him and rips off his shell, killing Jinmen, the faces on his back, and what was left of Sachiko.

The next time Akira is seen, he breaks the fourth wall and addresses the reader. He tells them that this would no longer be his own drama but the whole world's, including the reader. He then fades away, and not much later the demon's start to go a suicide march merging into people's bodies at random causing many people to die or turn into demons. During the panic Ryo finds Akira, Ryo explains to him what the more intelligent demons were doing by sending the lesser demons to merge with perfectly lucid or normal people meaning they would die in the process. However, he also says that a few of the mergings would work but not many. Ryo panics at several thoughts including how humanity will wreak havoc about this. Akira doubts this saying humanity would not be so weak as they had courage that would conquer fear. However, he is sadly proved wrong when a news report showed the destruction of the city of Tsuringrad which had just been obliterated with a hydrogen bomb, having been fired by the Soviet Union. The report goes on to say that it was necessary to stop the demons. A few days later Akira reads in a paper about a girl who accidentally killed her two friends with acids ejected from her body, the girls name was Mikiko Kawamoto. He starts to realize that there would be others like him and that he should form together an army of Devilmen to defeat the demons. Immediately after, he gets a phone call from Ryo telling him to look outside. He rushes out to see a gigantic four headed demon, the Demon King Zennon. Zennon announces himself across the world telling humanity that the demons were coming to retake the Earth and eradicate humanity just like they did the dinosaurs. He then announces that the attack will take place in five minutes before teleporting away.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Akira Fudo was a Japanese male teenager of average height and weight where he had short black hair that was combed forward and black eyes.

Originally, he was noted for being a kind and sweet person though tended to be cowardly and highly emotional at the same time.

He cared deeply for his adoptive family who took him in after his parents were too busy to care for him. Before his transformation, Miki was often the only friend Akira ever had and despite being talked down by her for not standing up for himself, Akira genuinely cared about Miki enough for romantic love. Miki was also the biggest hope Akira had for humanity and it was her death that made Akira lose faith in it altogether. This made Akira put all his faith into Devilman because of their pure hearts, but some outer media brought out different paths including his memories of Miki keeping Akira from losing his own humanity to Amon.

He was the son of Reijiro Fudo (不動玲二郎, Fudō Reijirō?) and his wife Sumiko Fudo.

For some time, he came to believe that Ryo Asuka was one of his closest friends and had been since childhood. As such, he was very protective of him and trusted him. However, it was later revealed that these memories were false ones that had been implanted in his mind by Psycho Jenny.

Powers and abilities

As a student, he had the best grades in class due to his impressive intellect and the amount of time he spent reading. Despite his well-built physique, he had a dislike of sport even though he was capable and never joined any school activities.

Due to Ryo Asuka's manipulations, Akira was bonded to the powerful demon named Amon who was the Lord of War and called the Beast of Hell. This allowed him to transform into a demonic form that was a variation of Amon with this being known as Devilman. Upon transforming, he gained super strength, the power to fire energy blasts and enhanced senses whereby he could see through illusions. After his first transformation into his Devilman, he became much more physically powerful; having greater strength, speed, reflexes, and combat skills. His ferocious strength allows him to lift heavy objects, tear demons apart with his bare hands, break through barriers, and leap over buildings effortlessly. When Devilman grows his wings, he was able to fly. From various distances, he could shoot beams from the antenna on his forehead.

In a few short instances, Devilman shows different powers that fit certain situations. One was shown when he was battling Ghelmer, shooting two beams of rays of intense heat from his palm of his hands. He can also release energy from his antenna but in a less focused way than his normal Devil Beam. These same antennae can create signals similar to those used by Sirene to control her fileable arms and used this technique to direct the arm into Sirene's stomach. He has the ability to teleport as shown when he rescued Miko. When Miki's parents are killed, Devilman breathed flames from his mouth on the killers with enough heat and force to burn them to ash in seconds. Another less seen ability is his power to phase through solid objects even through inches of hard steel. He is able to grow to great size which gives him an advantage when fighting smaller demons.

Notes

• Akira Fudo was created by Go Nagai where he featured in the setting of the Devilman universe.

In other media

Television

• In Devilman Crybaby, Akira Fudo appeared in the setting of the 2018 Japanese original net animation series where he was voiced by Japanese actor Kōki Uchiyama and by English actor Griffin Burns. Akira was born to the doctors Reijiro and Kaori Fudo. He lived a sad but decent childhood. When his parents left him for work, Akira was left in the care of Kaori's friends, the Makimura family. With them, Akira often acted as a member of the family, especially a big brother figure towards Taro. Akira would eventually enroll in Kamigaku's track team with Miki, becoming the slowest member but never departing from the team. At some point, he would meet the young Ryo Asuka and become his best friend in spite of Ryo's coldness towards life. The two would remain friends until their eventual departure once Ryo was taken under the custody of Psycho Jenny. The remainder of Akira's childhood is vague and left untouched upon in the series, aside from events concerning his relationship with Ryo and the Makimuras.

Films

Appearances

• Devilman:

External Links

• Devilman Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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