| Yako Katsuragi | |
|---|---|
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| Name | Katsuragi Yako
桂木 弥子 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1
Episode 1 |
| Age | 16 |
| Birthdate | March 10 |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 159cm |
| Weight | 43kg |
| Seiyū | Kana Ueda |
| Status | Highschool Student
"Professional" Detective Neuro's first slave |
| Family | Katsuragi Haruka (mother)
Katsuragi Seiichi (father) |
Overview
Yako Katsuragi (桂木 弥子 Katsuragi Yako) is a 16-year-old high school girl and the very first character introduced in the manga. She meets Neuro when he appears and desecrates her father's shrine while promising to help solve the mystery of her father's death. This meeting quickly leads to a partnership: Yako becomes Neuro's cover, pretending to be an investigator while Neuro acts as her assistant.
Personality
Yako has an insatiable appetite -with a cast iron stomach to match-, and a knack for understanding human psychology that occasionally provides Neuro with information he is unable to obtain, due to his unfamiliarity with how humans operate. Yako is even able to understand Neuro, to a degree, thanks to an amalgamation between the two aforementioned traits; she compares Neuro's opinion of food over that for oxygen to an experience that she had hunting for oysters under water.
Neuro enjoys abusing her and, as she has stated many times before, has forced her to go through a lot of humiliation and torture; but despite their sadistic-masochist relationship, Yako displays true affection and concern for Neuro, considering him to be one of the most important people close to her.
Although it is unknown if Neuro values Yako as much as she values him, he compliments her at times of success, albeit through a patronizing tone.
Abilities
Despite all that Yako goes through on a daily basis, she is relatively calm during high-stress situations, such as being kidnapped by Sai. While her time with Neuro has definitely been a factor in this, it is left to question if Yako had this trait before she became Neuro's front. It is also notable that Yako's abilities, and potential, as an actual detective is shown to be growing over the series, starting with the Aya Asia case, albiet slightly differently between both the anime and the manga.