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You are not ready for this, Child of the Sun! Resist if you like, but darkness will consume the world all the same. Everything that I see will become part of the darkness!
~ Akuro

Akuro is the overarching antagonist of the Ōkami game series.

He is a spirit of darkness that wishes to find a vessel that can help it become powerful enough in order to cover the entire world with his dark magic. He originally partnered with Orochi and Yami, being the primary source of the Emperor of Darkness' power. Following the defeat of Yami at the hands of Amaterasu, Akuro's dark spirit is split into several pieces that spread out across the land of Nippon in search of a new host that can return it to its full power.

Overview[]

Akuro is a horrifying demonic creature made of darkness itself, with his physical form being a spherical mass of dark matter with several tendrils swirling around the center of his being. His center is comprised of a mouth with a row of teeth, covering up a singular red eye in the very center. At his full power, Akuro has two mechanical hands that appear to be either based off of or the inspiration of Yami's mechanical hand in his final form. Akuro is shown to be a sadistic entity, gleefully telling Chibiterasu of his plans to cover Nippon in darkness, and through his partnership with Orochi and Yami he was responsible for almost all of the pain and suffering caused throughout both Ōkami and Ōkamiden. He was extremely persistent, as even after losing Kuni who he considered to be the ideal vessel, he was willing to take Kurow in his place as Akuro believed that any vessel was better than none.

Biography[]

Partnership with Yami[]

Long ago at an unknown point in time, Akuro crossed paths with Yami, a powerful demon. Akuro, a spirit of pure darkness, wished to find a vessel to contain his immense power and shroud the world in darkness. Akuro and Yami joined their power and took over the Ark of Yamato, where they amassed and army of demons, including Orochi, with the goal of attacking the Celestial Plane. After an unknown event possibly caused by Akuro and Yami led to the destruction of the Moon Tribe, a member of the tribe named Waka fled the moon on the Ark of Yamato and traveled to the Celestial Plane. With the Ark of Yamato now on the plane, Orochi proceeded to attack the Celestials, prompting them to flee onto the Ark of Yamato in order to escape his wrath. On board the Ark of Yamato, Akuro and Yami proceeded to use their army of demons to slaughter all of the Celestials until there was nothing left. The Ark of Yamato then crashed into the frozen waters of Laochi Lake, where the two demons remained dormant for centuries. Hundreds of years later, the Ark of Yamato emerged from the ice it crashed into, and could be accessed once again. Waka and the Goddess of the Sun Amaterasu boarded the spacecraft to face the lord of darkness, with them both being unaware of Akuro's existence, only believing they would be facing Yami. Through a long and perilous battle, Amaterasu eventually bested the great demon and destroyed Yami for good, with her and Waka using the Ark of Yamato to travel back to the Celestial Plane. What the two of them were unaware of was that the death of Yami released Akuro from his vessel, and split him into pieces that scattered across the land of Nippon.

Battle against Chibiterasu[]

With Amaterasu gone from the land of Nippon, Akuro's pieces latch onto various demons and monsters across the world and began reeking havoc once again. The wood spirit Sakuya attempts to call Amaterasu to Nippon just as she had to deal with the threat of Yami, but instead Chibiterasu, the child of Amaterasu, is summoned in his mother's place. Chibiterasu embarks on a quest to defeat the various enemies that are attacking Nippon, but he is initially unaware of Akuro's existence. After the defeat of King Fury, Akuro finally emerges before Chibiterasu before destroying the underground ruins and the Daidarabotchi. Akuro then proceeds to taunt Chibiterasu and delcares their intent to destroy Nippon, explaining that he was going to travel back in time in order to bathe in the blood of Orochi in order to restore his power. Chibiterasu and his partner Kurow travel back in time to Orochi's death nine months prior to stop Akuro, and while they are successful, Akuro proceeds to travel even further into the past to one-hundred years prior when Orochi was originally defeated prior to its resurrection. Akuro then successfully bathes in the blood of True Orochi, restoring his dark power. The demon then attempts to kill the heroes by launching an attack towards them, but Chibiterasu and Kurow are saved by the Amaterasu of the past, who sacrifices herself to allow them to escape. Akuro then flees into the Dark Realm in order to destroy Nippon.

Chibiterasu and another partner of theirs named Ishaku travel to the Dark Realm, and discover that Kurow had seemingly joined Akuro and betrayed them. Another one of Chibiterasu's allies by the name of Kuni has been kidnapped by Akuro, who proclaims his intent to use the boy as his new vessel now that his power has been restored. To destroy Chibiterasu, Akuro summons the different bosses that Chibiterasu has faced on his journey, including Master Anura, Bullhead, Renjishi, and King Fury. To counteract this, Ishaku summons Manpuku, Nanami, and Kagu, the three remaining partners of Chibiterasu that he had met on his adventure. After a long battle, Chibiterasu finally triumphed over his past enemies, and prepared to face Akuro himself. Akuro then kidnaps Chibiterasu's partners and attacks him, but ultimately fails. Angry at being unable to defeat Chibiterasu, Akuro then transforms himself into Dark Chibiterasu, an evil version of the wolf pup that has the brainwashed Kuni as his partner. Together, Chibiterasu and Ishaku triumph over Dark Chibiterasu and thus free Kuni from Akuro's control. Seemingly undeterred, Kurow then offers himself as a vessel for Akuro, which the demon accepts now that it has lost Kuni. However, upon entering Kurow's body, Akuro finds that he can't control the boy. It is at this point that Kurow explains that he is a living doll that was created by Waka to trap Akuro during the final battle, and at that point a saddened Chibiterasu and Kuni slay Kurow, killing the boy and final destroying Akuro for good.

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