Aru Akise is one of Yukiteru Amano's friends, and the secondary male protagonist of the series Mirai Nikki. Akise is very intelligent and dreams to be a world famous detective when he gets older. Investigating the connections between Yuki and the diary owners, Akise becomes a close ally to Yuki, but an enemy and rival to Yuno Gasai. Akise quickly falls in love with Yukiteru, and wishes for him to become the next God. He is voiced by Akira Ishida in the Japanese version of the anime and Todd Haberkorn in the English version.