Akiyuki Aretukasu

Akiyuki Aretukasu (Japanese: アキユキ アレックス Akiyuki Aretukasu), also known as KougaWolf, Kj'kun Neko, Nekoban Ryo, and Karite-Kita-Neko, is a member of the Pokémon Acanthite Forums. Online, many affectionately refer to him as "Aki". His real name is Alex.

Acanthite History
Akiyuki joined the Pokémon Acanthite Forums in April 2007 as "KougaWolf". In March 2008, Aki disappeared from the forums. He finally returned that August, claiming to have "forgotten his password".

Interests
Aki's favorite activities include drawing, playing video games, watching anime, and reading manga. His favorite video games include those from the Pokémon and Legend of Zelda series, especially Pokémon Silver Version and Ocarina of Time. His favorite anime include Shugo Chara!, Fruits Basket, InuYasha, Minami-ke, Naruto Shippuden, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (he has actually cosplayed as Yami Bakura IRL), and the various Tenchi series. His favorite manga is Pokémon Adventures/Special.

Akiyuki Aretukasu is asexual.

Life as Pokémon Trainer
Akiyuki Aretukasu (lit. Alex Snowfall) began his Pokémon journey at the age of 10. He received his first Pokémon, Chikorita, from Prof. Elm in Johto. The first Pokémon he caught was Sentret.

Over the years, Akiyuki has developed a preference for Ice-type Pokémon, even though his favorite Pokémon is Dunsparce. His most-prized Pokémon is his shiny Dunsparce, Noko.

Aki runs an off-site (unofficial) Ice-type Gym.

Artwork
Akiyuki was inspired to become an artist in 1999 after watching an anime film in class (Pokémon: The First Movie). Since then, he has mostly focused on producing anime and manga-style artwork, creating many original characters and creatures. Aki's dream jobs include becoming a concept artist for cartoons, video games, or graphic novels as well as becoming an art teacher.

Aki started college in Fall 2008. In Spring 2009, he transferred to a university where he took several traditional art classes. In Fall 2009, Aki began taking Graphic Design classes. He is set to graduate in December 2011, but plans to make a return for his Education classes.

He has a versatile set of skills. His talent to be able to use even the stupidest art application to make beautiful art gives him a variety of tools, including (But DEFINITELY not limited to!) GIMP, Inkscape and MS Publisher. He's an amazing fake card maker. A list of his amazing art can be found here.

However, he cannot draw females and has difficulty drawing clothing, resulting in most of his more humanoid characters being shirtless males. This has led to some speculation. (His interest in shoujo anime, pink Dunsparce, flirting with Flame//Driving Rain [bow chicka wow wow], and crossing his legs in public hasn't helped these matters any.)

Akiyuki is responsible for exposing Microsoft PowerPoint as card-faking software.