Akemi

Akemi is a minor character in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. She is a Level 0 student of Academy City and is a user of the Level Upper.

Background
She is currently enrolled in Sakugawa Middle School and is a classmate of Saten Ruiko and Uiharu Kazari. She is usually seen with her friends Mako and Muu, both of whom are also in the same class as her.

Appearance
She has dark brown hair with her fringes combed to the side, and the fringes on the right are kept together with two hairclips. She is the tallest of her friends and is called as an old lady by Ruiko.

Ability
After using the Level Upper, she displays the ability to levitate people, as shown when she used her power on Mako (in the anime adaptation, she could also levitate objects such as cleaning robots). She says that she previously could only levitate a paper clip barely.

The Level Upper Incidents
In the anime, she first appears in class, listening to a lecture about Personal Reality. She later appears alongside Mako and Muu, wondering about the Level Upper. They then run into Saten Ruiko, who has the Level Upper and shares it with them. She then uses the Level Upper, allowing her to improve her abilities. Her next appearance is in a park, practicing her abilities on Mako. Forgetting that she was using her abilities on Mako, Akemi drops her on the ground, which makes Mako mount Akemi's back as revenge. In the anime, she continues to practice her powers on cleaning robots. She eventually collapses as a result of using the Level Upper and is sent to a hospital.

She reappears in the anime alongside her friends in a special class for users of the Level Upper. After a lesson by Tsukuyomi Komoe, she gets tired and asks Mako to massage her, to which Ruiko replies that she is an old granny. Later, she joins the rest of the students in running laps around the track as part of training under Yomikawa Aiho. During Ruiko's confrontation with Elder Sister, Akemi is concerned for Ruiko's well-being but simply observes her. After Elder Sister leaves, Akemi smiles and agrees with Ruiko's statement about the use of the Level Upper being cheating. When the special class ends, she joins Mako and Muu for a party to celebrate.

The Poltergeist Incidents
She, alongside Mako and Muu, appear briefly in a flashback where they celebrate Kazari's induction into Judgment. Her final appearance in the anime is in a park somewhere alongside Mako and Muu, looking at Kiyama Harumi's birthday present that was prepared by her students.

Trivia

 * She does not refer to Ruiko by her family name, instead using her given name; this indicates that she is very close to her.