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Kazuko Suema
Kanji	末真 和子
Kana	すえま かずこ
Rōmaji	Suema Kazuko
General Information
Epithet	Doctor Death
Ability	Moon River
Species	Human MPLS (later)
Gender	Female
Age	17-18
Status	Alive
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Brown
Personal and Professional Status
Affiliation	Shinyo Academy Towa Organization
Occupation	Student New Axis
Media
Novel Debut	Boogiepop and Others
Anime Debut	Boogiepop and Others, Episode 1: Boogiepop and Others 1 Boogiepop Phantom, Episode 5: Interlude
Japanese Voice	Reina Kondō (Anime) Mami Shimizu (Film) Kyou Nagasawa (Phantom)
English Voice	Natalie Hoover (Anime) Anne Benkovitz (Phantom)

Kazuko Suema (末真 和子, Suema Kazuko) is the tritagonist of the Boogiepop Series. She is a student of Shinyo Academy with a secret interest in criminal psychology and a friend of Touka Miyashita and Nagi Kirima.

Personality

To her classmates, Kazuko appears as a normal girl with an abundant amount of knowledge about very obscure subjects. However, in reality, Kazuko has a secret obsession with criminal psychology, born from the time she was almost chosen as the next victim in the serial killer incident. Ever since then, she has studied the mind of these kinds of individuals. As a result, she has naturally come into contact with Seiichi Kirima's books, who became Kazuko's favorite writer, despite her having never read any of his stories, only reading his non-fiction works. Kazuko keeps this hobby of hers a secret from her classmates because she knows that she would be ostracized for having such a "weird" hobby.

Kazuko has an admiration for Nagi Kirima after learning of her occupation, as she doesn't want to believe that someone can die or get hurt purely because of the whims of some evil individual, like the serial killer who planned to attack her years ago. And so, once she found out about Nagi's messiah complex, she found it inspiring that there is someone who can help victims like she almost was. Unlike the other girls in her school, Kazuko doesn't believe in the rumors about Boogiepop at first, being the type of person that only truly believes in things she can see with her own eyes.

Despite having such grim hobbies, Kazuko is a nice person at heart, proven by when she encouraged Aya Orihata to keep living when she mistook her for trying to jump off the roof of the school. Even though she didn't believe her own advice to be anything special, her kindness actually encouraged Aya to survive. Kazuko is also a good friend of Touka Miyashita, who she often helps with studying for exams, as her grades are far superior to her friend's. Kazuko has shown to put a lot of trust in Touka, even confiding in her with her secret hobby, something she usually keeps hidden from anyone else. Because of the abundant amount of time the two spend together, Kazuko has met Boogiepop several times, and although she never recognizes him, she can tell that there is something different about Touka at these times.

Appearance

Kazuko is a beautiful young girl with long black hair tied in braids, brown eyes and black square-rimmed glasses. She is mostly seen wearing the Shinyo Academy white female sailor uniform and a dark blue short skirt.

In the anime, Kazuko has long, straight black hair that has bangs hanging on the right side and black eyes.

She wears the Shinyo Academy female school uniform, consisting of a white shirt with a red tie around the collar, over which she wears a blue blazer, a pale white short skirt and knee-high white socks.

Background

Kazuko had her first encounter with the abnormal when she was the last target of the vicious serial killer Fear Ghoul, who killed many girls in Kazuko's town, framing the Towa Organization assassin Mo Murder. It was the killer's plan to target Kazuko next, but she was saved by Boogiepop and Nagi Kirima, who defeated Fear Ghoul before she could have a chance to target Kazuko. The story was covered up by the Towa Organization, who made it seem as if the killed hung himself before the police could catch him.

Kazuko later breaks through, becoming an MPLS with the ability Moon River (ムーン・リヴァー Mūn Ribā). After meeting Oxygen, she becomes the new Axis of the Towa Organization.

Abilities

Moon River (ムーン・リヴァー, Mūn Ribā)
Debut:	No Oxygen, Not To Be Mirrored
Type:	MPLS Ability
Effect:	'Hiding'

Kazuko's MPLS ability. Details are unknown, but it appears to be capable of 'hiding' both herself and others. It is described as an unreasonable ability, theorized to be capable of 'invalidating reality'.

Story

See: Kazuko Suema/Story

Trivia

• The name Kazuko is written with the characters for 'harmony, peace' and 'child'.
• Kazuko's surname Suema is written with the characters for 'end, powder' and 'real, genuine'.
• The name of Kazuko's ability, Moon River, is a reference to the 1961 song of the same name by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, famously performed by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Gallery

See: Kazuko Suema/Gallery