Erika Karisawa

Erika Karisawa is a member of the Dollars and can usually be seen driving around the city with her friends Walker Yumasaki, Saburo Togusa, and Kyouhei Kadota. She and Walker are incredibly close due to their both being otaku, people obsessed with anime and manga. Erika is also a cosplayer and a fujoshi, a fan of romantic male relationships in manga and novels. Erika has brown eyes and brown hair. Her hair is typically worn in a braid along the back of her head, with two pieces of her hair hanging freely in front of her ears. She wears a black newsboy cap and a long-sleeved, black Chinese cheongsam with black ankle boots. She also carries a small, silver slash bag. Erika is an anime and manga fanatic, becoming extremely enthusiastic about anything anime or manga related. She is a yaoi fan, and is convinced that Shizuo Heiwajima and Izaya Orihara are lovers, despite (or because of) their constant fighting. Her personality can come off as being hyper and strange, but she proves in episode 20 that she can be calm and can reason with people, although she goes right back to being her normal otaku self immediately after the topic changes. In the manga, Masaomi explains to Mikado that she and Walker are a bit peculiar, but good people. Like Izaya, she calls Kadota "Dotachin" as a playful nickname. Erika and Walker have darker sides of their personalities as they are skilled in both mental and physical torture, displayed whenever the two need to extract information from someone. During interrogation, the torture they conduct is usually based on themes from a manga or anime series of the victim's choosing. Both Erika and Walker share the mentality that they were twisted from birth and that their affinity for torture would persist even if anime didn't exist. Despite her sadistic tendencies, Erika still values her friends and companions deeply and will do whatever she can to protect them.