Takeshi Iguchi

Black hair that rises into a sharp point near the crown of his head marks this rather tall teen, who keeps his eyes shut most of the time. Thick brows, drawn-out sideburns, and broad lips round out his features. Day to day, Takeshi pairs a dark gakuran with white shoes, the standard look for his school. His later hospital stay finds him in striped patient garb with his head wrapped in bandages.

Easygoing where his friend Setsuko is excitable, Takeshi reads as an ordinary teenager who simply wants to have a good time alongside his clubmates. He shares Yuji and Sasaki's fascination with ghosts and the strange, and he tends to keep tabs on whatever rumors are circulating through the halls.

During a club meeting, a game of Kokkuri is cut short when the student council president announces the room will be reclaimed for lack of paperwork. Setsuko offers up the club's pet theory that a vanished man from decades ago haunts the closed rugby field, only for the president to credit ticks instead, then point out that Yuji is not even a registered member. After sorting matters out with the staff, Yuji confesses he enjoys the club and means to stay, which delights his embarrassed friends.

That same night, Takeshi and Setsuko slip back into the school and unseal the cursed charm they had found, uncovering a severed finger before curses descend on them. Separated during the escape, Takeshi ends up with a curse latched onto his head, and both teens fall unconscious as it tries to devour them until Yuji and Megumi arrive to rescue them. The next day Setsuko keeps a guilty vigil at his bedside while Yuji insists help is coming. Much later, during the Culling Game, Takeshi is among the civilians Kenjaku relocates outside the Sendai Colony's barrier, where he wakes Setsuko and the pair puzzle over the looming black wall and its ties to the occult.