Talk:Ikuo Takabayashi/@comment-5534769-20150530201413/@comment-397235-20150530234018

They're buddies in the anime, but just barely knew each other in the novel and manga (one of the few times the manga is more true to source than the anime, actually). It's Yuuya who tells Kouichi Ikup died, but that's about the extent of it. If I recall, Yuuya doesn't even know first hand; he's creepily stalking Reiko at her house and gets a call from Naoya which tells him this.