1173:. She is twenty four years old high school teacher and is pregnant with his child. Akane came from a lower-class background, having been raised in an orphanage after her mother's death, and sometimes feels that she is unworthy of a man of Takanori's status. After Takanori receives a USB file containing the suicide video of Seiji Kashiwada, she becomes drawn by a force to watch it. In addition to this, Akane also feels stalked by a figure, whom she deduces is Seiji, a serial killer who nearly killed her ten years ago. It is eventually revealed that her stalker is actually named Hiroyuki Niimura, a former student of Ryuji Takayama. Ryuji had impersonated the real Seiji to protect the world's last Sadako clones, but he failed in saving all of them. However, he managed to save Akane when she became Hiroyuki's target, but ended up leading the real Seiji to be wrongfully executed. Ryuji then reveals that he is Akane's biological father, fathering her with a Sadako clone named Masako Maruyama. At the end of the novel, Akane marries Takanori, allowing her to publicize her pregnancy to everyone.
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638:. A forensics doctor and autopsy surgeon, Ando was friends with Ryuji Takayama in medical school before he turned to mathematics and has to perform an autopsy on his body. His young son, Takanori, drowned while swimming with him and his wife filed for divorce afterward. Ando and Ryuji's student Mai Takano destroy the original tape after he watches it to end Sadako's curse for good. It is later revealed that both are manipulated by Ryuji, who is working with Sadako to ensure his survival; in return, he will help resurrect her. Ando is forced to agree to spread the curse as he already has sex with Sadako, causing the dormant Ring virus to infect his body; in exchange, Sadako will resurrect Ando's son. Disgusted at Ryuji, who ostensibly worked with Sadako, Ando keeps a distance from both and does not participate in the search for the cure to the virus, electing to live a quiet life with his family. He reconciles with his wife and conceives a daughter, Takanori's younger sister. Ando has a small supporting role in
695:. Takanori once died drowned that led to Mitsuo becoming almost suicidal. As part of the agreement to help Sadako spread the Ring virus, she promises Mitsuo that she will resurrect Takanori through her womb. Fast forward to twenty five years later, the 28-year-old Takanori is now an image processing specialist who works at a CG company. He is also in a relationship with Akane Maruyama, who is pregnant with his child. After being handed a USB drive by his boss, he notices a video of a man named Seiji Kashiwada who killed himself. His investigations suck him into the cases that his father once delved into, revolving around the ring virus and Sadako Yamamura, the person responsible for his means to live. Takanori also finds out that Akane is related to the case as much as he is, being the daughter of Ryuji Takayama and a Sadako clone. Eventually, regardless of the situations they went through, the couple make up their minds to continue living together.
1103:, Yoichi grew up and graduated from university with a degree in marine biology, eventually becoming a professor there. When two of his students disappear in Izu Ōshima, Yoichi is reminded of his past. This leads him to obsessively expand his field of research into paranormal activity, resulting in Yoichi being ostracized by his peers and termination from his position at the university. Yoichi was undeterred, and with guidance from Ryuji, would come across a case at a lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland similar to the disappearance of his students. On his way to the lighthouse, the boat is damaged and Yoichi barely makes it to shore, where he enters the lighthouse and eventually disappearing into a black fog. Yoichi then participates in the normal gameplay of Dead by Daylight, an endless trial in a strange dimension where he must work with other survivors to escape various killers.
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1086:. In the television series Yoichi is a toddler instead of a seven-year-old. As for Shizuka, she is usually excised in the adaptations which change Kazuyuki's gender; her counterpart is not present in the Japanese, Korean, and American theatrical films.
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780:. As a teenager, she moved to the mainland to become an actress, but her hopes were dashed when she was implicated in the death of her theater director, forcing her to become a recluse caring for her ill father in a TB ward in the
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1434:. In it, she helps Ando to solve Ryuji's case and makes plans to date him. When she accidentally stumbles upon the cursed tape in Ryuji's bedroom, she feels the urge to watch it, after which she experiences
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