Akane
{{#invoke:Hatnote|hatnote}} Template:Infobox given name2 Akane ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) is the Japanese word for 'deep red' ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, Akane, Rubia cordifolia) and is associated with red<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (from the red dye made from its roots) and brilliant red.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Akane (written in a variety of forms) is both a female Japanese given name, ranked #9 of names to give girls in Japan,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as a surname. In fiction, the name Akane has been used for various characters in anime, manga, games, books, and comics. Notable people with the name include:
Given nameEdit
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese badminton player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese writer
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional wrestler
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
- Template:Nihongo, member of the Japanese rock band Band-Maid
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress, model and tarento
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress and singer
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese Olympic dressage rider
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese voice actress
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese idol and model
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese goalball player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese professional footballer
- Akane Ogura ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Japanese manga artist
- Akane Omae ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, born 1982), Japanese voice actress
- Akane Osawa ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), member of the Japanese pop music duet Tomboy
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese women's footballer
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese actress
- Akane Shibata ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Japanese field hockey player
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese ice hockey player
- Akane Sugazaki ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, born 1989), Japanese pop singer and songwriter
- Akane Takayanagi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), member of the Japanese girl idol group SKE48
- Akane Tomonaga ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Japanese voice actress
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese badminton player
- Akane Yamaguchi ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Japanese badminton player who competed in the 2012 Japan Super Series
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese competitor in synchronized swimming
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
- Akane Yoshida (born 1994), Japanese weightlifter
SurnameEdit
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese model and AV actress
- Template:Nihongo, Japanese anime director
Fictional charactersEdit
- Akane, the main heroine from the video game Akane the Kunoichi
- Akane, senior geisha in the Westworld series
- Akane, Hikaru's younger sister in Parodius
- Akane, the fox and guardian angel from Angel Tales (Tenshi no Shippo)
- Akane, the Japanese name of Whitney, a character in Pokémon
- Akane Aizawa, in Dai Sentai Goggle-V
- Akane Aoi, a character in the manga and anime series Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
- Akane Aki, a character in the manga series Dash Kappei
- Akane Asahina a classmate from the series Kanokon
- Akane Fujita, Takoyaki shop owner from the series Pretty Cure (2004 TV series)
- Akane Higurashi, from the anime and manga series My-HiME
- Akane Hino, one of the main characters of the series Smile PreCure!
- Akane Hino, a character in the 2011 mobile game The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
- Akane Hououji, a character in the manga series The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses
- Akane Inuwaka, a character in the video game series Arcana Heart
- Akane Isshiki, a main character in the anime series Vividred Operation
- Akane Kimidori, in manga and anime series Dr. Slump
- Akane Kino, the younger sister of the main character in the manga series Voice Over! Seiyu Academy
- Akane Kiryu of Fatal Frame II
- Akane Kishida from Kitchen Princess
- Akane Kobayashi, a character in Doki Doki School Hours
- Akane Kurashiki, a major character from the video game series Zero Escape
- Akane Kurokawa, an character in the manga and anime series Oshi no Ko
- Akane Mishima, one of the main characters of Kampfer
- Akane Mizuhara, a main character in the visual novel Final Approach
- Akane Motomiya, a main character in the video game, anime and manga series Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time
- Akane Nakiko, a comic book character from Witchblade
- Akane Narita, in Hot Gimmick
- Akane Osaki, the main character of the manga series Akane-banashi
- Akane Owari, a character from the Danganronpa series
- Akane Ryuuku, a roleplay character of Gumball Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball
- Akane Ryuzoji, a character in the manga series World's End Harem
- Akane Sakurada, the main character of the anime and manga series Castle Town Dandelion
- Akane Sakuramori, a character of the light novel series I Got Married to the Girl I Hate Most in Class
- Akane Sano, a main character in the manga series Black God
- Akane Satomura, a main character in the visual novel One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e
- Template:Nihongo, a character in the Chainsaw Man anime and manga series
- Akane Serizawa, a minor character in the anime and manga series Pani Poni
- Template:Nihongo, a character in the anime series SSSS.Gridman
- Akane Shinonome, a character in the anime series Little Battlers Experience WARS
- Akane Soir, a character in the anime and manga series My-Otome
- Akane Sonozaki, in the anime, manga, and visual novel series Higurashi When They Cry
- Akane Suzumiya, a character in Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and Akane Maniax
- Akane Takigawa, in the manga and anime series Cross Game
- Akane Tachibana, lead character in basketball manga series I'll
- Akane Tendo, in manga and anime series Ranma ½
- Akane Toriyasu, a character in the video game Yandere Simulator
- Akane Carver, a British school girl OC from London, UK
- Akane Tsunemori, a character in the anime Psycho-Pass
- Akane Yagyu, ("Jubei") from the video game, Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
- Akane Yamano, a character in Dual!
- Template:Nihongo, a character in the manga series Haikyū!!
- Akane Yanagi, a character in the manga and anime series Hori-san to Miyamura-kun
- Akane Yashiro, a character in the film Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
- Lady Akane, a concubine in the Tales of the Otori