Saikechi

AkeSai is the slash ship between Akechi Touma and Saiki Kusuo from the The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. fandom.

Canon
The relationship Saiki and Akechi is quite unique compared to the other relationships in the show: they have been somewhat close since they were children. It all started when Akechi introduced himself when both were in primary school. Soon after meeting, Saiki witnesses Akechi being beat up by bullies. After the bullies are done beating him up, Saiki goes towards him and heals his wounds. Because of this, Akechi suspects Saiki has some sort of magical abilities. Later in the series, Akechi does indeed find out about Saiki’s physic powers. Despite Akechi's constant thoughts annoying Saiki, he considers him a close friend nonetheless.

An important part in the Akechi introduction, is the “accident” Saiki had caused because of Akechi being bullied. In episode 18 (in the Netflix version), when Akechi is introduced, Saiki is aware of the fact Akechi is very suspicious of Saiki’s powers. Saiki ends up turning Akechi into stone to figure out a way to erase all prior memories of powers. Specifically, the memory where he ends up destroying a whole school classroom due to seeing Akechi being harassed. However, he gives up after multiple failed attempts. Since Saiki failed to get rid of these memories, Akechi finds out that Saiki does have psychic powers.

Not only did Akechi found out about his powers by stalking him, but Akechi is the only the character to have made Saiki lose to a bet. This bet was based on which horse would win in a race. The thing they were betting on was a piece of cake. After the both of them placed their bets, Akechi's horse had won Akechi his cake. Despite winning this cake, Akechi shares it with Saiki.

Fanon
Fans started shipping the two because of their childhood-friend dynamic. Many of the fans also like how Saiki deeply cares for Akechi in their backstory. However, this is considered a rare pair in the fandom compared to other ships such as SaiTeru and Saiai. Despite the lack of content, there still is a cult following. The ship only has around 60+ fan-made fictions on AO3. AkeSai has considerably more fan art than fictions.

Fandom
FAN FICTION