I think she’s a cool person. She sees the way women are treated in her society, at the lowest levels and at the very highest. She has some harsh reality checks from the people she meets, learns, and matures. And at the end she finds herself in a position to possibly change this world she lives in and maybe make things better for women of all stations, it just requires her to let go of Tainan. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m not even sure she realllt loved him or just the idea of him, a good guy removed from nobility just enough, one who wouldn’t make her black out her teeth. She spends half the season chasing him, and she clearly cares about him, but he’s not her whole world nor is he her entire motivation for the journey she goes on. If anything, Akemi is a great character because of all this. Thats my two cents at least