Sayoko Kuroki黒木小夜子

Biography

One of Yusaku's college classmates. Sayako recruits him to join the schools puppet theater club. Sayako becomes more important later in the series when she helps Yuusaku get a part-time job at the pre-school she works at, setting him toward his final career goal. (In the anime, it is Kozue who gets Yuusaku the pre-school job.) Sayako eventually marries the former president of the puppet theater club, Saotome, who she was involved with for a long time, although it is never mentioned until she becomes engaged.