Maki Aikawa

	“	Don't you feel like a daily life with no adrenaline or anxiousness will make you slowly melt away into nothing? It doesn't matter what it is... But if you don't take action then you'll always keep being weak and never able to advance to the next stage. It's your choice what you decide on... But a life without change will make you slowly become less and less human... In a way that rots your head bit by bit... Do you get it?	„
		~ Maki's philosophy

“	By day, highschool girl Aikawa Maki is a normal girl who has fun with her classmates Yuu, Michiru, Renge and Mina. By night, however, where streetfights take place, she becomes an unrivaled lethal airborne attacks user with a succession of victories: Airmaster. Various strong people, fascinated by this girl's strength, will come to challenge her in battle... this vivid street-fighting comic starts here!!!	„
	~ Intro to Air Master Manga

Background

Maki Aikawa is the main protagonist of fighting anime/manga Air Master.

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Formerly a gymnast who trained under her now-deceased mother, Maki uses her acrobatic skill in her fighting style to increase freedom of movement. Her attacks combine vertiginous leaps and summersaults with the fearsome, furious power of her kicks and throws. Maki has the ability to replicate most nearly any move she gets hit with or sees, and when in combat possesses an awe-inspiring resilience, presence, and strength of will. Since her relationship with her father is conflicted, she lives alone. Maki seems to enjoy street fighting for the 'rush' rather than any sense of revenge or honor. When not fighting, Maki tends to stick out in a crowd due to her unusual height (6 feet, which is very tall for a teen Japanese girl) and appearance, preferring to follow her quartet of friends quietly. Her younger sister comments that Maki is somewhat simple minded. Maki is reluctant to deal with several people obsessed with her. She becomes vulnerable to attack, for a moment, when she gets approached in any romantic way, especially with Julietta Sakamoto. Her signature moves are the "Air Spin Driver" and the " Air Cutter"; she is later shown to master the art of Air Flow.

General Information

Name: Maki Aikawa

Nicknames: "The Air Master"

Origin: Air Master

First Appearance: Chapter 1

Company: Hakusensha's seinen manga

Creator: Yokusaru Shibata

Sex: Female

Sexuality: Bi-Sexual (Maki has shown to bisexual as she likes both women and men)

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 16 (Noted to be a first year where a first year in high school starts at 16 years old)

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Tokyo, Japan

Story Role: Main Protagonist, Fighter

Classification: Street Fighter, Student, The Ex-International Japanese Queen of Gymnastics

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

Occupation: Former Gymnast

Affiliations: Mina Nakanotani (Friend and love interest), Yuu Takigawa (Friend), Michiru Kawamoto (Friend), Renge Inui (Friend), Shiro Saeki (Father), Miori Saeki (Half-Sister)

Enemies: Kaori Sakiyama (One-sided rival), Julietta Sakamoto

Height: 6 feet

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Maki has shown to help her friends out when they're being attacked by random men, along with going out of her way to help someone struggling in a crane game, though she has participated in illegal street fights, which she notes her motivation for this is to find a strong enough person to get a strong feeling of excitement from)

Protection Level: Street Protector (Protects her friends and others from local thugs and random men trying to attack)

Codex Statistics

Tier: 9-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Wall level (Crashed through a roof and left a crater in concrete. Superior to Kaori Sakiyama, who can casually destroy part of a billboard falling on her. Threw Tsukio hard enough into the wall to the point that she made a hole in the wall. Noted by Tsukio that her strength was the real deal and beyond one's ability to measure)

Durability: Wall level (Could land on the ground at fast speeds without taking any damage)

Striking Strength: Wall Class

Lifting Strength: At least Peak Human (Can casually lift, throw, and slam a fully grown human like Tsukio)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Moved so fast that no one saw her move up into the air. Could easily outspeed skilled swimmers. Noted that she's the fastest high school girl in all of Japan and might even be the fastest in the world)

Attack Speed: Superhuman (Moved so fast that her father couldn't see her jump into the air and kick him. Noted to be very fast in combat by onlookers. Able to spin herself so fast on the ground that her legs can damage her opponent with multiple strikes. Can move so fast that she made Tsukio view from his perspective the background move at "ultra-high speeds")

Reaction Speed: Superhuman (Can dodge an attack that gives off the illusion of one hundred punches coming out at once)

Stamina: Superhuman (Fought in 36 matches back to back without showing any signs of tiring)

Range: Standard Melee

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius Intelligence (Fought and defeated street fighters in combat through incorporating the gymnastics she learned as a kid into her fighting style, granting her the title of "Airmaster". Even in closed spaces where she cannot flip around as much she has techniques in her arsenal to work around this. Easily defeated a group of street fighters with her technique. Has been training since she was five years old. Fought and defeated Shinnosuke, a martial artist whose been training and honing his art since he was five years old, and noted he's been practicing martial arts for 10 years. Maki trained in her gymnastics as a ""precision instrument", an instrument that does not make useless movements and does not think about unnecessary things, allowing her to instantaneously see through attacks, being noted that it isn't "on the level of reflexes", effectively allowing her to avoid any attack and attack at the same time without requiring much thought process. Created her own air spin driver technique through watching pro wrestlers do it on television, with her dad noting she's a genius child. Able to repeatedly bounce off and run up walls while fighting against opponents. Maki is able to change her fall in mid-air and change her direction while in mid air giving off the illusion like she's flying. Noted to be a fighting prodigy. Able to absorb the impact of strikes and redirect it against opponents. This is explained that she does the attack through a spin and takes the momentum of their strike into her own kick, absorbing and using the power they attacked with in the first place)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Human Achievements (Maki is extremely skilled at the crane game called UFO Catcher. Her gymnastics skills were so good she was the international Japanese queen of gymnastics), Acrobatics (Maki is able to flip and spin in the air while attacking her opponents. Shown in her dreams to have trained in gymnastics since she was a young kid. Her gymnastics skills were so good she was the international Japanese queen of gymnastics. Able to repeatedly bounce off and run up walls while fighting against opponents), Martial Arts (The gymnastics she trained in since she was a young kid, she has incorporated into her modern fighting style, granting her the title of "Airmaster". Even in closed spaces where she cannot flip around as much she has techniques in her arsenal to work around this. Able to maneuver her body around her opponent, to forcibly have them redirect their attacks and control them. Able to put opponents into submission holds. Created her own air spin driver technique through watching pro wrestlers do it on television, with her dad noting she's a genius child. Able to repeatedly bounce off and run up walls while fighting against opponents, along with doing various arm locks. Her strikes are powerful enough to where one that controls their adrenaline and endorphins to make most pain they feel disappear still feels damage from her kicks. Able to absorb the imapct of strikes and redirect it against opponents. This is explained she does the attack the attack through a spin and takes the momentum of their strike into her own kick, absorbing and using the power they attacked with in the first place), Intimidation (Maki exudes killing intent that can cause one to feel scared), Auto-Pilot (Maki trained in her gymnastics as a ""precision instrument", an instrument that does not make useless movements and does not think about unnecessary things, allowing her to instantaneously see through attacks, being noted that it isn't "on the level of reflexes", effectively allowing her to avoid any attack and attack at the same time without requiring much thought process. This also enables her to instinctively avoid attacks such as kicks by standing on the opponents legs. Noted by Maki that her body moves on her own, having her squeeze and slip around opponents), Surface Scaling (Maki is able to run up and climb walls), Accelerated Development (Battle; Skill; After being hit for once from an attack, it sent her into a temporary shock, remembering the death of her mother but ultimately remembering her words of wisdom, she came back into the fight being noted to be a different person and dodging all attacks. Physical Stats; Noted to have gotten stronger. Maki's power fuels to grow stronger then she fights strong opponents. Noted to have been stronger since she last fought Kaori Sakiyama), Extrasensory Perception (Maki was able to detect the presence of a ghost), Precognition (Analytical Prediction; Due to Maki's training in gymnastics making her a "precision instrument", she is able to see through attacks and easily predict and dodge them including surprise attacks. Maki is noted to have the resolution to judge in a moment and the ability to move to handle it perfectly when she jumps off the 3rd floor of a school building to save a cat and absorbs the landing to the ground floor lightly. Able to manuver her body around her opponent, to forcibly have them redirect their attacks and control them), Pseudo-Flight (Maki is able to change her fall in mid-air and change her direction while in mid air giving off the illusion like she's flying), Momentum Reflection (Able to absorb the imapct of strikes and redirect it against opponents. This is explained she does the attack the attack through a spin and takes the momentum of their strike into her own kick, absorbing and using the power they attacked with in the first place), Mimicry (Technique Mimicry; Created her own air spin driver technique through watching pro wrestlers do it on television, with her dad noting she's a genius child. Copied and used a technique that Lucha Master used against her. Copied the arm lock her father used on her. Copied her younger sister's arm lock), Non-Standard Interaction (Fought and defeated a ghost).

Resistance to BFR (Forced Teleportation; Maki was the only one that did not see an art room and merely saw a regular class while the others were in the art room, with Maki defeating the ghost taking them out of the art room and back into the regular classroom)

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Equipment

Nothing notable.

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Notable Techniques

• Gymnastics: Maki's fighting style is greatly based around her gymnastic abilities. These abilities allow her to control the flow of battle through fighting mostly in the air and flipping around, granting her the title "Air Master", though she has shown that her style can work even indoors where she can't jump around in as she's able to use her flexibility and control of the air to spin around fast enough to make her own feet a deadly force of repeated attacks.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Maki Aikawa uses her gymnastics style in combat, constantly using the current of the air and making herself a "precision instrument" to avoid and attack opponents. Constantly using her acrobatics along with redirecting the opponents own attacks against themselves.

Weaknesses: Nothing notable.

Note: While the manga somewhat diverges from the anime in plot, the anime is treated as a secondary canon.

Note 2: The Air Master manga has not been completed in English and it seems the scanlation team has stopped updating it, thus until any further updates, this profile deals with all the events up to Volume 5, Chapter 38.

Battle Records

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