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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 Japanese computer animated film considered part of the Final Fantasy video game franchise. Director Hironobu Sakaguchi named the character Aki Ross after his late mother, and tried to make her as realistic as possible by rendering and animating 60,000 separate hairs on her head. Square Pictures (production company) had planned for Aki to be the world's first "artificial actress" , with modifications made to her age and appearance for different positions within multiple films. Aki appeared on the cover of Maxim dressed in a bikini, and was ranked by the magazine as one of the sexiest women of 2001, placing at number 87 out of 100 and becoming the first fictional woman to make the list. Livia Monnet (professor of comparative literature) however, argued that Aki represented little more than "an ideal, cinematic female character" and an example of the constantly kidnapped woman in Japanese cinema. At the time