Izumi Rio

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Izumi is a cold and distant shinigami assigned the Pediatrics Ward. He can transform into an anthropomorphic dog plushie, but rarely does so because it takes a lot of energy. He likes to call other characters by nicknames. In the manga, he first appears in Chapter 5; in the anime, he appears later, roughly halfway through the series. In the manga, he is a tragic figure: in his human life, he was a six-year-old boy named Lio Izumi (泉利緒, Izumi Lio?) whose mother beat him because he looked like his dead father. To make his mother happy for once, he threw himself in front of a train, and while he saw his mother smile as he was hit, it did not satisfy him. Eventually, Mitsuki's gentleness makes Izumi realize that he had wanted his mother to call him back from the tracks. At the end of the manga, he and Meroko team up again as angels. In the anime, Izumi's background is not mentioned and he is portrayed as a cold-hearted antagonist. He makes several attempts to steal Mitsuki's soul, and although he claims to love Meroko, as Takuto points out, he only seems to do things that cause her pain. He is responsible for Takuto and Meroko being assigned to Mitsuki, to get Takuto to remember his past life as a human by taking the soul of his former friend's daughter.