Akane Tachibana

Akane Tachibana
Data
Type	Civilian Villain (Unwilling)
Gender	Female
Age	Unknown, estimated 7-12 years old
Family	Unnamed mother
Affiliation	Chaos Header Jirak
First Appearance	Ultraman Cosmos episode 16 "The Flying Whale"
Latest Appearance	None
Portrayed by	Kasumi Takabatake

Akane Tachibana is a guest character from episode 16 of Ultraman Cosmos.

History

Ultraman Cosmos

One day while returning from school, her classmates decided to voice their dreams. Akane expressed her amazement for whales and wish to swim with them. This was met with criticism, especially from Kota as it forced her to return home quickly. Because of this, Akane turned into a recluse and refuse to go to school out of depression.

While sulking in her bedroom at night, Chaos Header took interest in her growth of negative emotions and materialize it in the form of the illusory whale as she named it Jirak. As she continuously staring at the whale, Akane's negative emotion became intense, so much so that she exhibits ESP abilities. Musashi tried to reason with her but by that point, Chaos Header's influence resulted with both the human and the illusory whale fused into Chaos Jirak. As Cosmos was struggling with the Chaos monster, Kota apologized for his earlier insults and promised to help Akane in achieving her dream. This caused the light virus to lose grasp of her and dissolving Chaos Jirak.

The next day, Kota lead his classmates to provide their support for her recovery while each bringing their whale-related gifts for Akane who had no memory of what happened.

Powers and Weapons

• ESP: As a result of Chaos Header's influence, Akane develops the ability to unleash a psychic wave from her mind to repel others.

ESP

Trivia

• As a result of Akane, Chaos Header started to harvest negative emotions, which lead to the formation of Chaos Header Iblis and eventually Chaos Darkness through their mutual hatred for Cosmos.
• She is modeled by the episode's writer Keiichi Hasegawa as a resemblance to Yapool's human victims of his Terrible-Monster experimentations from Ultraman Ace. Examples include Garan with Mushitaro Kuri, Takai with Cowra and Yoshiko with Mazarius to name a few.
  • Hasegawa would later write for the 2018 Tsuburaya and Trigger collaboration anime SSSS.GRIDMAN, which featured Akane Shinjo as a secondary antagonist. Like Tachibana, Shinjo is implied to be a recluse who has troubles with real life and finds solace in otherworldly beings whose interest was to harvest the girls' negative energies to empower themselves. As with Jirak/Chaos Jirak, monsters crafted by Akane Shinjo are also driven by her negative emotions.