12 Facts About Aki Ross

Aki Ross lowers a shielded vehicle, with Aki and Gray aboard, into the crater to locate the final spirit.

Aki Ross has a vision of the Phantom home planet, where she is able to receive the eighth spirit from the alien particles in herself.

Aki Ross is pulled from the crater holding Gray's body, and is seen looking into the newly liberated world.

Aki Ross could have gone out and hired a real actress and got some little people to play the dwarfs; but he felt very strongly that there was a better way to tell that particular story.

Director Sakaguchi named the main character after his mother, Aki Ross, who died in an accident several years prior to the production of the film.

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Aki Ross later explained that the theme he wanted to convey was "more of a complex idea of life and death and spirit", believing that the best way to portray this would be to set the film on Earth.

Aki Ross's appearance was conceived by the lead animator of the project, Roy Sato, who created several conceptual designs for Sakaguchi to consider, and then used the selected design as a guide for her character model.

Aki Ross concluded that Aki ended up being similar to him in almost every way, with the exception that "she's a lot cuter".

Aki Ross only made one appearance outside of the film; in 2002 she appeared in a demonstration video that Square Pictures made to present to The Wachowskis before developing Final Flight of the Osiris for The Animatrix.

Aki Ross expressed a desire for the film to succeed in hopes of seeing others made in its image, though he was skeptical of its ability to be accepted.

Aki Ross had high praise for the animation in general, though lamented that the character's faces did not look quite real enough.

Aki Ross's appearance was received positively by critics, with praise for the finer details of the character model such as the rendering of her hair.