Character/Top Cow Productions

Akane Nakiko

Darkminds, Dreamwave

Akane Nakiko is a empathetic, telepathic cyborg created from the memories and looks of a deceased cyclist named Reiko, who is in use as a telepathic cyborg before being put into stasis for instability. When she comes across the abused girl, Debbie Santalesa, bearing the Witchblade, she convinces her to fight against the Witchblade's power, and it falls from her arm, allowing Nakiko to pick it up. The Witchblade bonds with her and she uses it when she is running from the police. She is being accused of a murder she did not commit and she uses the Witchblade to catch the actual murderer.