while in the Korean version, her counterpart is Park Eun-Suh, played by actress Bae Doona. Supporting characters Toru Amano is a microbiologist who worked for the Loop project before it was ultimately scrapped because of the mutation of the MHC virus. In Loop, he explains to Kaoru Futami the origins of the Loop project and helps him find a cure for the virus. Shizuka and Yoko Asakawa and are Kazuyuki Asakawa's wife and daughter, respectively. Yoko is one and a half year old as of the events of Ring. Shizuka's maiden name is and she is the one of the three daughters born to and , who live in Ashikaga. Her sisters are , who has a daughter named Tomoko, and , who has a son named Kenichi. Tomoko is one of the first victims of the cursed tape and the similarity of her case with three other people piques Kazuyuki's interest into the case. Shizuka and Yoko become directly involved when they watch the cursed tape that Kazuyuki carelessly left in their apartment. Despite Kazuyuki managing to save himself, Shizuka and Yoko still end up dying from the curse despite having copied and showed the tapes to Toru and Setsuko. It is later revealed that the two die because the virus had mutated into a far more dangerous form by the time they watched it, meaning they were doomed from the start no matter what they did. In the film series as well as television series, Yoko's character is played by , portrayed by Rikiya Otaka and Yûta Fukagawa respectively. Unlike in the novel, Yoichi in the film is about seven years old and has much more involvement in the story as he is revealed to possess ESP powers from his father, Ryuji, and Sadako's possession of him becomes a major plot point in Ring 2. 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. Yoichi appears in Dead by Daylight, voiced by Mirai Kawashima. Following the events of Ring 2, 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