Talk:Kouichi Sakakibara/@comment-50.164.147.226-20150218163407/@comment-6052796-20150218163845

There was a killer in Japan who went by the name Sakakibara. He was 14 years old and targeted Children. Ever since that incident Kouichi often got teased by his peers for sharing the same name. The entire incident was still fresh in the minds of the characters in the Novel and Anime because the incident took place in 1997. A year before the book takes place.