Akira Fudo

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 slapped Ken and Meriken-Jo but was grabbed by a furious Dosu-Roku who starts to try and undress her, whilst Akira was held back by the other two. Luckily, they were 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 was seen mocking Tare and Miki Makimura commenting on Miki's breasts swelling after having to many baths. She angrily retorted 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 arrived and landed on top of the Makimura residence and summoned her two demon subordinates Ghelmer and Agwel who then attacked 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 was 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.

Akira realizes Zennon was the demon Amon had nightmares about previously. When he tells the Makimura's to go hold up in their home, he notices a collection of military vehicles go past. He runs inside the house to find Ryo. Ryo tells him that he shouldn't go out to right now, telling Akira to wait for a later fight. To demonstrate, Ryo opens the window to see a massive armada of flying demons across the Tokyo sky. Akira watches the carnage of the demons and decides to leave, Ryo tries to stop him, but Akira slaps him and leaves. Akira goes on a rampage and kills many demons; however, he eventually comes face to face with a demoness named Psycho Jenny who uses her powers and knocks Akira unconscious. Suddenly a swarms of demons surround him, Jenny disappears, and the demons move in for the kill. But Akira is saved when the demon General Zann comes flying down and forbids them from killing him after receiving orders from his master, which to everyone's surprise was someone higher than even Zennon. Later Akira later awakes to find himself in a bed bandaged with Ryo looking over him, Ryo turns on the TV and shows Kyoto burning in flames. Ryo berates him about having gone outside and tells him that humanity had no chance to destroy the Demons. Akira reveals to Ryo about the other Devilmen and about Satan being the true leader of the demons. The TV then suddenly switches showing the entirety of Russia absorbed in a blinding white light, as soon as Ryo sees this, as he screams in terror with Akira stunned by what just happened. Later that night Akira returns to the Makimura home and is glad to see it mostly undamaged. However, when inside, he sees several dead snakes around the home. Miki tells him they were attacked by a demon named Rosushido, however they were saved by the sudden arrival of Meriken-Jo and Dosu-Roku who kill the demon. Akiko comes through and tells them to watch the television saying that the government had discovered a way to defeat the demons, and the newly designed Demon Busters were shown off to the world.

Later after Akira had managed to gather together a small group of Devilman, Dosu-Roku comes running to him telling him about a young kid who they suspected to be a Devilman. After Dosu-Roku leaves Akira and the other Devilman join hands and attempt to psychically contact other Devilmen. Unfortunately, they are unsuccessful. They are suddenly mocked by a loud laughter who reveal themselves as the Bonds of Hinduism, they tell them that they would help them and use their psychic abilities to contact the Devilman across the entire world. Akira was later seen lurking around the anti-demon labs where he grabs Dr. Rainuma the man behind the Anti-Demon Special Corps, he demands to know where his fellow Devilman were. He takes him to Mikiko the girl Akira had earlier read about in the newspaper; he breaks her containment tube and tells her what she was before picking her up and flying her away to safety.

A little while later Akira arrives at the Makimura home, where the family was waiting along with Dosu-Roku and Masa. Akira, who had had been searching for Ryo, arrives home after having searched for him for a long time. Miki tries to cheer him up and turns on the TV. It goes to the news, and it says that they were holding an interview with Ryo, who had something to share with the world. initially Akira thought that Ryo was going to prove Dr. Rainuma's theories false and explain the Devilman, however instead Ryo shows a videotape. The tape showed Akira's first transformation into Devilman, and at that the others run in fear, Kozo pulls a gun on him, and Miki runs in fear. He grabs ahold of Miki but is warded off by Kozo who tells him to get out, Akira tries to explain but starts to doubt even himself and begins to panic. However, he regains his senses and explains that he was Devilman and he retained his human heart and soul. After that, Kozo advises that he still leave as the Demon Busters would arrive soon, he thanks them before saying he would see Miki again soon before leaving. Unbeknownst to him, Kozo and Akiko are taken in his place by the Demon Busters for having harbored a demon.

Akira later finds Ryo waiting for him as the sun was rising in some rubble. Ryo tells Akira that he should let him do what he wants. Akira, angry at Ryo's betrayal shouts at Ryo, but Ryo remains calm and tells him that a new age was coming soon. Akira calmly asks what he meant by this and decided whether or not he should kill him. Ryo tells him that the demons were no longer attacking and were taking a backseat as they watched humanity slowly crumble, continuing his new age. Akira then starts to realize something, not only was Ryo in league with the demons, but he was also the one masterminding things from the shadows, revealing that Ryo's deep and almost intimate knowledge about the demon race was because he had already witnessed firsthand what demon-kind was capable of before their hibernation. Ryo then tells him that he had Akira merge with Amon not to save the human race, but simply because he didn't want to see Akira disappear alongside the rest of humanity. He finishes by saying that he didn't want to fight the Devilman army and starts to walk away. Ryo says that he wants the Devilman to come with him into the new era, and with that, he turns and walks off into the sunrise. Akira now realizing who Ryo really was, calls out his true name. He turns and briefly looks over before continuing on. Soon Afterwards, he is joined by Massami Izumi better known as the Devilman Puffurle, He asks her about Satan being as beautiful as an Angel. She tells him about how Satan was an angel who had dared to defy God and was banished from Heaven to earth. She jokes saying that maybe he has seen Satan, he flatly replies saying he had. She turns to ask what he meant but decides against it. Akira had fully realized that his longtime friend and companion was in fact Satan, the fallen angel and "God of Demon kind".

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. He later underwent a drastic physical transformation from a timid teenager into a imposing, demonic hybrid. In his altered human state following his possession, his once-slender frame became tall, athletic, and heavily muscled, complemented by a hardened facial structure with sharp eyes and unruly, wing-like sideburns. Upon transforming into Devilman, his body shifted into a hulking, anthropomorphic demon covered in dark green or charcoal-toned skin. His face became a monstrous visage featuring pupilless red eyes, a fanged mouth, and a black, horned brow line that framed his skull. Extending from the sides of his head were massive, bat-like sensory wings that replaced his ears and flared outward during combat. He possessed a long, prehensile reptilian tail that whipped behind him, while his hands and feet terminated in sharp, rending claws. His lower legs resembled the digitigrade limbs of a beast, and a pair of massive, leathery red wings could burst from his shoulders, completing a terrifying silhouette that wore no clothing or armor. After bonding with Amon, Akira became Devilman (デビルマン, Debiruman?) who was a towering, grotesque fusion of demonic ferocity and human musculature that radiated an aura of primal dread. His skin was a deep, mottled shade of obsidian or teal, possessing a leathery texture.

Originally, he was noted for being a kind and sweet person though tended to be cowardly and highly emotional at the same time. He was characterized as a 'shrinking violet' where he was a timid and scrawny teenager who often lacked the confidence to stand up for himself, frequently requiring his friend Miki Makimura to defend him from local bullies. This perceived weakness was rooted in an intense, almost overwhelming empathy; as a child, he had been nicknamed the Fire Alarm because he wept so easily, often crying on behalf of others or even for the suffering of animals. Despite his outward cowardice and shy demeanor, he possessed a 'pure heart' and a quiet, selfless loyalty that allowed him to value the lives of others above his own safety. It was this specific combination of extreme sensitivity and an unwavering moral compass that ultimately provided the spiritual anchor necessary to suppress the demon Amon’s bloodlust, allowing him to retain his human soul even as his personality shifted toward the brash and cocky persona he assumed after the transformation.

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

Akira Fudo was born as an ordinary human with no innate supernatural powers or physical advantages. He was depicted as a scrawny, weak teenager of average build who lacked any athletic inclination, often being described as the slowest member of his school’s track team. His childhood was defined by a sensitive nature rather than physical prowess.

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.

Fudo demonstrated a range of cataclysmic physical powers and mystical traits that were equivalent to those of a primeval demon lord controlled by a human heart. He exhibited immense super strength, which he used to rip giant demons in half, shatter solid stone structures, and crush steel weapons with his bare hands. He possessed a near-limitless degree of physical durability and a rapid cellular healing factor, enabling him to withstand being impaled, crushed, or lacerated by demonic claws without succumbing to his wounds. His primary aerial trait was a pair of massive leathery wings that granted him high-speed supersonic flight and the agility to outmaneuver airborne predators. He displayed advanced elemental manipulation skills, utilizing his demonic energy to generate scorching streams of fire from his mouth, shoot bolts of electricity from his horns, and unleash devastating shockwaves through acoustic screams. Additionally, he showed proficiency in physical adaptation, using a prehensile tail to bind enemies and expanding his physical mass to match the size of giant monsters. He also exhibited absolute mental resistance against dark corruption, allowing his human consciousness to entirely suppress the murderous instincts of the ancient war champion Amon.

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.
• The characters full name comes from the Japanese name of Acala, Fudō-Myōō (不動明王) one of the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm in Buddhism. Acala is known for being a powerful and intimidating figure who protects mortals from impediments to achieve enlightenment, this is similar to how Devilman protects humanity from the manipulations of the demons.
• In Violence Jack, Jack was revealed to be Akira Fudo, having been revived, split into three different Jacks (Jack, Female Jack, and Child Jack) and dubbed the Human Avatar of Destruction. Each of the three Jacks merge together at the Manga's conclusion to become Devilman once more.

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 enrol 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.

Appearances

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External Links

• Devilman Wiki Entry
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