Akatsuki

Akatsuki is one of the two titular protagonists of the series. He is the original protagonist of his titular games (Akatsuki Prototyp Nr. 1 and its retitle/update Akatsuki Blitzkampf (Ausf. Achse)), and one of the first five characters made for the series. He is the Imperial Japan’s super soldier of Agarthan descent, and a former Gesellschaft member.

Appearance
Akatsuki is a well built man with short indigo hair and black eyes. Due to being powered by Blitz Motor, Akatsuki would glow red pupils when one of his eyes shrouded completely by shadows.

His attire is a traditional Japanese military outfit that consists of a white, long sleeved buttoned coat, black pants, and black leather shoes with black gloves. Underneath this, Akatsuki wears a full body rubber suit known as Taktischeblitzanzug. He can sometimes be seen wearing a long black cloak, discarding it before entering battle.

Personality
Akatsuki is a calm and stoic young man who prioritizes his mission above anything else. He is serious most of the time and will not hold back whenever someone stands in his way, regardless of age or sex. But despite that, he respects his foes enough to wish that they may cross paths on friendly terms should they meet again. Akatsuki likes training, and as such prepares himself for whatever dangers may come his way.

He likes classic Japanese culture, and also speaks in a very old fashioned way via his pronoun usage.

Past
Akatsuki was once an ally to Akatsuki Zero, Dr. Fritz, Adler and Dr. Mycale during World War II, discovering the Agarthan civilization and led to the creation of a powerful engine known as the Blitz Motor. He volunteered for the super soldier program, which would combine the Blitz Motor and his suit Taktischeblitzanzug, becoming a high class technical officer. Akatsuki's successful transformation into a super soldier confirms he's a descendant the Agarthan civilization. With his four allies, they formed an organization called Gesellschaft. Even after the war ended at 1945, Gesellschaft remain active secretly, and Akatsuki was tasked for other important engineering tasks for the organization.

His last mission was to transport the Blitz Motor to allied nations at 195X AD. In case the Blitz Motor fell into enemies’ hands, Akatsuki was tasked with destroying the mass produced motors with no traces left behind of their existence. However, his submarine ship was sabotaged from the beginning, supposedly killing Akatsuki in the Arctic Ocean. In reality, Akatsuki survived by using a Hibernation Control Unit to froze himself and save his life from explosions for the next fifty years.

The one who sabotaged his ship was none other than Akatsuki Zero, out of fear of Akatsuki's power and ancestry will surpass those of gods.

Akatsuki Prototyp Nr. 1/Blitzkampf (Ausf. Achse)
Fifty years later in 266X BC/200X AD, Akatsuki awoke from his hibernation, having seemingly not aged a day. After his awakening, he returned to his homeland to discover the scenery had become all too unfamiliar. Realizing the eight known Blitz Motor had indeed fallen into enemies’ hands (the now compromised Gessellschaft) and still exist in the new world he now inhabited, he begins to carry out his last mission to destroy them.

Arcade Story
Ending Description: Having had learnt the experiences from his fighting against Adler and his Elektrosoldats, Akatsuki explains the side-effects of a Model 6X Blitz Motor to a dying Murakumo, such as the white hair is the sign of the lifespan’s side-effects. Akatsuki rejects Murakumo’s hypocrisy about humans being either machines or gods. Before he left without any traces, it is possible that he’s the one who unknowingly freed En-Eins. As Gesellschaft base collapsed after Akatsuki’s departure, the world’s government research teams were dispatched to investigate, they couldn't find anything about what happened.

En-Eins Perfektewelt
Unbeknownst to Akatsuki, nor his remaining allies and the governments, Gesellschaft’s true originator, New Orders of Knights Templar, led by Mycale (now possessing the body of Anonym Merel Lambuth and in her "true" Perfecti "form") obtain all its remaining assets before the said Tibetan base was collapsed and preparing to initiate a war on humanity for several years later in 20XX AD. Once the New Orders publicly declare a war several months later during 20XX AD, Akatsuki joins the opposing force against the terrorist while he was on the mission. Due to being a descendant of the Agarthan civilization, Akatsuki is one of the terrorist's priority targets. Using an opportunity as a main target of the terrorist organization, Akatsuki is close to re-uncover the source of Blitz technology power source and permanently destroy it from having Blitz Motor productions mass produced.

Arcade Story
Ending Description: After defeating both Mycale and Valkyria, Akatsuki prepare to destroy the pre-historic sources behind cloning and the Blitz Motor, the traces of Agarthan civilizations. Once the task is complete, he vanish somewhere once again, as the bursting magma rose turning the sky red.

Gameplay
See: Akatsuki/Gameplay

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late ([st]/[cl-r])
See his guest appearance's page

Akatsuki is a playable guest character, appearing in Under Night In-Birth starting from the Exe:Late update.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
See his crossover appearance's page

Akatsuki is one of the first characters representing his home series to appear in the crossover BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle alongside Blitztank, starting from the 2.0 update.

Trivia

 * Akatsuki, Da Wei Ye Lue and Murakumo all share the same voice actor in Japanese, Shinobu Matsumoto.
 * He is one of the two characters to retain their original costume colors in all appearances, the other one being Wei.
 * Akatsuki himself is heavily inspired from the biggest three superheroes of Marvel Comics’ Avengers: Captain America (frozen on ice, and being a Weapon I super soldier), Iron Man (Blitz Motor tech usage), and Thor Odinson (God of Thunder moniker, and ironically, his Cross Tag Battle super move (also his EN1PW’s 5CC move) Thunderbolt).
 * He has the color palettes of Murakumo's Akatsuki Blitzkampf color (Living God) and En-Eins' color (Neve Tempo) in Under Night In-Birth.
 * In BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, he has the color palette of Faust's classic look from the Guilty Gear series (from X - Xrd) as a reference to Akatsuki's English voice actor, who had voiced Faust in Xrd.