Talk:Akitsu Maru/@comment-26193235-20150414020222/@comment-24.218.138.47-20150502235356

As with her costume, her paleness is a reference to the Japanese literary character "Yasunori Kato" from "Legend of the Capital" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teito_Monogatari

Kato is a Majin (Demon God) so he's always portrayed as looking sort of like Japanese Dracula. Akitsu Maru is an homage to Kato. There is a lot of fan art of her wearing Kato's Goubousei-adorned gloves, as well.