together and eat them to get stronger by absorbing their abilities, aiming to eventually kill them all. She is adept at detecting phantoms and can insert any image she wants into someone else's mind, a sort of hallucination, although she can physically hold her own. Yukino Shiraishi She is accidentally saved from committing suicide by Itsuko and Mayu. After deducing she was being controlled by a phantom, the two learn students have been going missing at the university she works at and that there are rumors of "demons". It all started when Yukino discovered and took back the university what was in fact a Phantom hand from Machida. Her father began experimenting and learned humans can become a hybrid of human and phantom by eating them and began to turn the students as well, with some willingly agreeing. He planted a larva in Yukino to make her commit suicide when she walked in on him trying to force her mother to eat phantom and killed her when she refused. In the anime her character is different, she is often referred to as the "hottie from the crime lab" by Ranmaru's colleagues. Her mother died prior to the Machida incident, with her father becoming obsessed with his research soon after. Saya set her and Ranmaru up on a blind date that ended up in them finding out more about the phantoms. Later on, on a second date they were attacked by Yukino's father after he turned himself into a phantom/human hybrid. Leaving her job awhile after, Yukino gives Ranmaru the info behind the murderer of her mother who caused the Machida incident. Mikae She is Saya's colleague whom Saya tries to pair up with Ranmaru. In the anime, she later develops a crush on him. Ogata An anime only character, having the rank of Councilor, he is the main link of Tokko and the government in battling the Phantom demons. Media Manga Written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa, Tokko was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon in 2003 and collected into 3 tankōbon volumes from February 25, 2004 to April 25, 2004. The third volume, titled Phantom Hunter, is a side story detailing two siblings (male and female), who happen to be survivors of the Machida massacre. The manga was licensed and released in North America by Tokyopop, releasing the three volumes from July 15, 2008 to February 3, 2009. It was also