Onoyako

* Anime
* Manga

**Onoyako** (おのやこ, *Onoyako*) is the host of the TV show Lie or Truth? ESP!!.

## Biography

### Live Broadcast Murder

Onoyako hosts the latest episode of the show "Lie or Truth? ESP!!" in which neurosurgeon Mofu Usaki faces off against psychic Dankichi Torage. She introduces both participants and is astonished by Mofu's clumsiness. She then asks Torage what kind of ESP he will show today, and Torage replies that he will control someone's brain using only writing. To demonstrate his ability, he picks a volunteer from the audience, and Onoyako puts noise-cancelling headphones on him. Then, Torage shows the man a card on which he has written a word, and the man does what is written on the card. Onoyako describes and comments on everything that happens. Mofu objects to this "mockery of neurology" and questions whether the test subject was actually randomly chosen. She analyzes the man's movements and proves that he was the chosen test subject last time as well.

Torage says that this is only a false accusation. To show that he can truly control people using only writing, Torage writes "death" on a card. When he shows it to the test subject, he collapses instantaneously. Torage checks the man's pulse and declares him dead. Filming is then stopped and an ambulance called.

Later, Onoyako is present when Totomaru Isshiki gathers everyone at Donut Television to solve the case. He wants to re-enact the incident and requests Mofu to be his test subject. Toto himself would play Torage's part. He then asks Torage to give him the marker he used during the show, but when Torage refuses to hand it over, Mofu approaches him and stumbles over her own shoelaces. She knocks Torage down, takes the marker, and gives it to Totomaru. Mofu puts on the headphones, and they start the re-enactment. Totomaru writes down the same words as Torage, and Mofu jumps and runs on command. Onoyako is baffled by Totomaru's re-enactment as it is obvious that Mofu would move in accordance to what is written on the cards.

When Toto shows Mofu the final word, she, to everyone's shock, collapses like the volunteer did. Toto tells everyone to stay calm as Mofu is not dead, and Onoyako asks him what he did. He explains that he showed Mofu the "death" card upside down: To her, the card said "sleep," and upon reading it, she fell down to sleep. The dead man did the same, and when Torage went to check his pulse, he injected the poison into the back of his neck with a needle he hid in his marker. The man groaned while Mofu gave him the heart message because the poison was slow in starting to spread.

Torage insists once more that he has ESP powers before he admits that he is a liar and that he killed the man because he was his accomplice and threatened to reveal Torage's secrets if he did not give him 90% of his profits. Then, Toto's partner Ron Kamonohashi pressures Torage to kill himself with the marker, and Totomaru gets stabbed with it when he tries to save Torage. Luckily, when Mofu collided with Torage to get the marker, she grabbed the wrong one, and Toto was only marked, not poisoned.

## References

1. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 7, pages 4-16
2. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 8, pages 7-25