

In episode 4, we learn that Akiko is the Armed Detective Agency's doctor, when
she's healing Junichirou Tanizaki.

Just when she's about to start healing him, she starts taking off her shirt,
and though Tanizaki appears to be dreading what's about to go down, she has a
grin on her face:

[![Akiko
grinning](https://i.stack.imgur.com/imWeA.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/imWeA.jpg)

That suggested, to me, that she was about to take some sort of sexual pleasure
from what's about to go down.

Then the scene switches to the next room, where Atsushi and Kunikida are, and
it sounds like Tanizaki is not really enjoying himself:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZxT1.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZxT1.jpg)

But then the noise subsides, and he sighs in what seems like a pleasurable
way:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zAnnB.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zAnnB.jpg)

So it made it look like, to me, he was suffering for a while, but ends up
taking some kind of pleasure from the process too, like Akiko appeared to be
about to take herself.

[This section](http://bungostraydogs.wikia.com/wiki/Akiko_Yosano#Trivia) from
Akiko's page on the anime's Wikia says:

> Akiko is named after a feminist pacifist poet whose work was considered
> controversial in her time for portraying and encouraging female sexuality.

So, basically, **how exactly does Akiko's ability work?** What does she
actually do to heal someone?  
It does have some sort of sexual connotation, given the trivia in the Wikia
page, right?

Has the manga shed some more light on her ability? Or has maybe the author
revealed anything in any other way?


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How exactly does Akiko's healing ability work?


Akiko explain's her own ability when she is on the train with the bomber in
episode 8 at 16:45.

> "My ability, Thou Shalt Not Die, can cure any wounds. Even my own injuries
> as you can see. But the necessary conditions are harsh. It can only cure
> lethal injuries. What an inconvenient ability. If I want to cure moderate
> injuries, I have to half kill my patient first." - Akiko Yosano

From the [wiki](http://bungostraydogs.wikia.com/wiki/Akiko_Yosano#Ability):

> Akiko has a rare ability among ability users, Thou Shalt Not Die (君死給勿, Kimi
> Shinitamō Koto Nakare?), which allows her to heal external wounds. However,
> to heal someone they must first be "half-dead"; meaning they must have
> fatally serious injuries before she can use her ability. Due to this, her
> ability is inconvenient for healing minimal wounds since she needs to
> fatally injure that person first.

As for Akiko's name. She was named after the feminist poet Yosano Akiko.
Yosano Akiko's poems were written during the [Russo-Japanese
war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War) which was around 1945
when feminism [wasn't highly thought
of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Japan). The early-to-
mid 19000s in Japan was a time when women were slowly gaining new rights,
during this time feminism was a huge thing for women, but controversial
overall.

You could say that Akiko's nature and appearance embody this ideal.


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