She is the main character in the first episode. She goes to an all girls high school and is on the same class with Yuzuki Kanako who she admires. They become friends later. And Kanako says Yoriko is her reincarnation.   ~! At the end, it is revealed that the one who pushed Kanako to the rails was not a man dressed in black with white gloves as Yoriko said. The man dressed in black was a character from Sekiguchi´s novel witch Yoriko read. She lied to the police.   Kyogokudou reveals that Yoriko idealized Kanako and when she saw her crying she felt disappointed and was possessed by a toorimono which made her attempt to kill her friend. But it is shown that she regretted it.  Also she becomes another victim of Kubo when she accepts to pose for him and goes to his house. He dismembered and put her into a box as he did with the other girls he killed.!~

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji. Meanwhile, Tōkyō police detective Shutaro Kiba searches for Kanako, despite Kanagawa police having jurisdiction; and the lawyer for the estate of Kanako's grandfather hires private investigator Reijiro Enokizu to find Kanako, as well. Their investigation uncovers bizarre truths and dark family secrets along the way.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

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Mikako Takahashi is a Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer.  As the Excel Saga character Mikako Hyatt, she forms one half of the voice acting duo The Excel Girls (the other half being Yumiko Kobayashi). She is employed by I'm Enterprise. She is also the best knowing dubbing roles of Korean drama and films, like for Park Shin-hye, Shin So-yul and others. On January 2017, she wrote in her private blog that she has been married since the last day of 2016.

Manga adaptation of the second novel in Kyougoku Natsuhiko's award-winning Kyougokudou Series.
 
Right after the war, Showa era in Japan. Kusumoto Yoriko and Yuzuki Kanako who attend an all girls school plan to take the last train to go to the lake. However, Kanako ends up getting run over by the train. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Detective Kiba who happened to be there when it happened, is asked to watch the confused Yoriko. Kiba goes with the worried Yoriko to the hospital Kanako is taken to, and there Kiba meets a woman who calls herself Kanako's sister; Yuzuki Youko. That happened to be the actress Kiba had been admiring, Minami Kinuko.

Yoriko Kusumoto