Yamana Akane

Yamana Akane (山菜 茜) is one of the new managers for Raimon (GO) and Raimon (Chrono Stone).

Appearance
Akane is a second-year student who has lavender-coloured eyes and long chestnut hair, tied into two plaits. She wears a longer skirt that reaches below the knees, though of the same color as that of Sorano Aoi's. In addition, she also wears a pair of purple pantyhose and default brown-black school shoes. She wears a sky-blue ribbon which denotes that she's a second-year student. Meanwhile, her school's sweatshirt is sky-blue in color and looks similar to Haruna's sweatshirt. She is usually seen holding a pink camera.

Personality
She is a kind, friendly, and peaceful person. She is also mostly seen to be happy. She also has a habit for taking lots of pictures, especially snaps of Shindou. Not only that she has a soft voice, she doesn't talk really often too. She usually says words of wisdom. Akane is a huge "fan" of Shindou Takuto too. The point of adding "-sama" at the back of his name which means 'the great'.

Plot (GO)
Akane is one of three new managers of Raimon. She first appeared in Episode 2, watching the match between Raimon and Kuro no Kishidan along with Sorano Aoi and Seto Midori. After the match, she became a new manager of Raimon along with the two of them. In the game, right after Aoi introduces herself as the new manager, she and Midori came into the room and she is heard saying "Shin-sama". She is a huge fan of Raimon's captain Shindou Takuto and calls him "Shin-sama". As the story progresses, she becomes a helpful manager for Raimon, and gets along well with Tenma and the others.

In Episode 8, Akane is shown to be sad because Shindou wanted to quit. She's shown to be a person who is gentle and dislikes violence when she tried to stop Midori from punching Hayami.

During Episode 18, Sakuma forbids anyone from Raimon to bring "evidence object" and he added that a camera is also one of them which made Akane sigh in frustration.

By the end of Episode 21, she showed Shinsuke a nice picture of him taken when he was scoring his goal. gave her a complement. Hamano approaches to ask whether Akane managed to take any nice picture of him during his cool moment but Akane replied that his shoot was blocked, so Akane deleted it, which made Hamano feel depressed.

In Episode 25, she is seen laughing when Kariya gave a name to the new hissatsu tactic. Unlike the other managers, she laughed soft and politely.

She appears along with the other managers in Episode 32 to accompany Tenma and Shinsuke's soccer practicing. She talks more than usual in this episode.

In Episode 34, Kidou told her to take a video of Pinball Stadium so he can find a way to break through it and tell Raimon.

In Episode 35, Haruna congratulates her by helping the team during the game, which made Akane blush.

In Episode 37, she commented that Tenma is not energetic at that time. Then when Shinsuke came, she said that Shinsuke is energetic at that time.

In Episode 40, she seen worried about Shindou's injury, and hug her camera in the hospital.

In Episode 38, she was seen to be happy after Shindou made a goal with Harmonics and said "Shin-sama" again.

In Episode 45, she was lauged because Midori. Later, when Shindou come back, she seen happy, and later she seen taking pictures of Shindou and the other.

In Episode 46, she sat beside Midori when Raimon watching the television. She was seen happy when Jun said Shindou is cool and awesome. Then she, along with Aoi and Midori appear in television as Raimon's managers.

Plot (Chrono Stone)
She first appearance in Episode 3 along with other Raimon members. It is revealed that she likes science fiction, she was the only member of the Raimon soccer club that understood the explanation about time traveling and parallel worlds done by Clark Wonderbot in the episode 3.

In Episode 5, she is seen excited when meet Dr. Arno Crossword, because he's scientist from the future. When Crossword explaining about parrarel world, Akane simplified the explanation. Crossword praised her as pretty smart girl. Later, she along with Raimon go to time jump to change the history. She seen very excited and impressed when was in time jump. But she became depressed because her camera didn't work in time jump. In Episode 8, she seen joining Shuu's lesson about Keshin Armed.



In Episode 12, she is seen to be jealous when Okatsu gives Shindou a lunch box.

In Episode 13, Okatsu visits Shindou at night when he is practicing and encourages him at the same time, she blushes, but then Akane appears who was actually eavesdropping in between the two and both Shindou and Okatsu are shocked to see her.

In Episode 14, Okatsu teaching her about "Bon Dance". After practicing, she want visits Shindou, who is practicing in field. But Midori banning her because of Akane haven't remembered all the steps of dance yet.

In Episode 26, after Daisuke told Raimon that they woud look for the genius swordsman, Okita Souji, she quickly made a relation with Tsurugi, since the "Tsu" in his name can be read as "Ken", which means Sword and the "Kyo" can mean Imperial City.

Inazuma Eleven GO the Movie: The Ultimate Bonds Gryphon
Akane appeared in the GO movie with the rest of Raimon team,but she was imprisoned along with Kidou, Midori, Aoi, and Haruna in God Eden. Later thanks to her camera they managed to escape but sadly her camera fell to the floor. She wanted to take her camera back but Haruna told her that they had to run away without her camera as it was too late to turn back.They run away leaving Akane's camera. But Aoi ran back and took Akane's camera, then tossed it to her from the floor. Aoi is captured back and Haruna and Kidou can't save her because the wall falls and separates them. After they ran away, Akane and the others watched the match of Raimon against Team Zero.

Inazuma Eleven GO

 *  [OF] Presto Turn
 *  [OF] Olympus Harmony
 *  [SK] Assist!
 *  [SK] Dribble Plus 20

Trivia

 * The three manager girls' name is associated with colours. As for her name, 'Aka' in Akane means red.
 * The reason and since when did she start liking Shindou is unknown.
 * She always takes lots of pictures of Shindou, but he doesn't seem to notice it.
 * It is noted that she never called Shindou's name in front of him.
 * Her name "Akane" (茜) means "madder", a red-rooted plant used to make dyes.
 * Small orange/yellow flowers appears around her when she is in a good mood. This is the most notable when she is taking pictures.
 * She calls all of Raimon's member with "-kun" at the end (except for Shindou). Like Aki, Hiroto, Fubuki, Natsumi, and Hayami.