kunihiro ritsuko

Nurse at Ozaki Clinic. She has a dog named Taro. Tohru has a crush on her. She once had a boyfriend who disliked the isolated Sotoba village and proposed to marry her, offering to take her to the city. Ritsuko declined, unable to leave the place where she grew up and her family. Later, she gets bitten, dies, and then revives as a Shiki. However, she refuses to drink human blood to survive. As a result, she slowly starts dying, while Tatsumi confines her in a cell with her best friend. Tohru pleads with her to bite her friend and survive, and seeing that Ritsuko would rather die than kill her friend, he threatens her.