Nurse at Ozaki Clinic. She has a dog named Taro. Tohru has a crush on her.   She used to have a boyfriend, who disliked the isolated Sotoba village, and offered to marry her and bring her to the city. Ritsuko refused, as she couldn't leave the place where she grew up and her family.   ~! Later, she also gets bitten, dies, then revives as a Shiki. However, she refuses to drink human's blood to live. For that, she slowly starts dying, while Tatsumi puts her in a cell with her best friend. Tohru begs her to bite her friend and survive, and seeing that Ritsuko refuses to kill her friend and prefers to die, he threatens her.  !~

During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her. 

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Birth name: Nozomi (望) Sasaki (佐々木)     About:  Changed her name to all-hiragana form because the kanji of her birth name was exactly the same as voice actor Nozomu Sasaki's (望 can be pronounced either as "Nozomu" or "Nozomi").

The story takes place in a particularly hot summer in the nineties, in a small quiet village called Sotoba. A series of mysterious deaths begin to spread in the village, at the same time when a strange family moves into the long abandoned Kanemasa mansion. Toshio Ozaki, dean of the only hospital in Sotoba, initially suspects an epidemic. But as investigations continue and the deaths begin to pile up, he becomes convinced that they are the work of the undead plaguing the village. A young man named Natsuno Yuuki, who hates living in the village, begins to be pursued and surrounded by death.<br><br>
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The official website of the Shiki television anime series confirmed on Saturday that the anime's eighth and ninth Blu-ray Disc/DVD volumes will each include an unaired episode. The eighth volume will ship with Episode 21 and the unaired episode "Dai Futat&#333; to Han wa" (a wordplay for "Episode 20.5") on May 25, 2011, while the ninth volume will ship with Episode 22 and the unaired episode "Dai Futat&#333;-ichi to Han wa" ("Episode 21.5") on June 22.
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