Character Profile: Tsukiko Sagi

Tsukiko Sagi is the shy, introverted creator of the wildly popular Maromi. She is the first to get attacked my Lil' Slugger, and when she is questioned by Ikari and Maniwa, the two detectives, she draws them a strange picture of an elementary school kid holding a bat, all shadowed and eerie looking.

Her only friend is Maromi, since all of her co-workers dislike her and are jealous of her success.

Ten years ago, when Sagi was in the 6th grade, she supposedly got hit over the head by a street attacker. What really happened, however, was that she got distracted and let her puppy wander into the street, where he got hit by a car. Too scared to tell her strict father the truth, she made up the story about the street attacker.

When she was 'hit' again, it was actually her hitting herself over the head because she was under too much pressure to make a new character for the company she worked at.

At the end of the series, she faces that it was her fault her puppy was killed, which was named Maromi.