Ikuo Takabayashi

Ikuo Takabayashi is a student from class 3-3, at Yomiyama North Middle School. His grandparents, Kensaku and Keiko, own Sakitani Kinenkan. In the manga he is only mentioned.

Personality
Probably due to his poor heart condition, Ikuo is very quiet, but he seems to get along with the rest of the class. He reveals in Episode 1 that he wishes to run, but because of his medical condition he can't. He also shows great courage when he offers himself to tell Kouichi Sakakibara the truth to, probably knowing what was going to happen to him. While he is very quiet he talked to Kouichi during gym class and spoke to Yuuya.

Appearance
He has greenish, short hair and same coloured eyes, and also freckles in the anime. He never appeared in the manga, and his name is only mentioned once. For his school uniform, he wears a white shirt and a blue vest instead of a blazer.

Plot
His roles are reversed. While in the Manga he never appeared, in the Anime he was a friend to Kouichi. He has a poor heart condition since birth. So he is always absent from school. In Episode 5, when Kouichi asked him and Mochizuki to walk home together, he is willing to tell the truth to Kouichi stating he did not like how Izumi Akazawa was doing things, but suddenly he has a heart attack and immediately dies.

He is one of the "Deaths of June". Ikou later appears in episode 9, in Kouichi's nightmare as a ghost, claiming that it is Kouichi's fault. His appearance is recorded before his death; his is drooling and is covering his heart/chest and neck.

In the Manga his death is off-screen and is only mentioned by Yuuya.

Gallery
Main article:Ikuo Takabayashi/Image Gallery 

Trivia

 * He is ranked C in Another characters ranking.
 * His home address is 7-10 Tobiicho Yomiyama City.
 * His first name, Ikuo, means "fragrant man".
 * He and Yuuya Mochizuki were shown as being friends.
 * Ikuo died on June 6th.
 * He does not appear in the manga but is mentioned.
 * In Chapter 8 Page 1 Kouichi refers to Takabayashi as "Her"