Erika Karisawa

**Erika Karisawa** is a manga reader and a *fujoshi*, a fan of romantic male relationships in manga and novels in the light novel series, *Durarara*, and the Wonderland series. She is in the Dollars and can usually be seen driving around the city with her friends Walker Yumasaki, Saburo Togusa, and Kyohei Kadota. She and Walker are incredibly close due to their both being *otaku*, people obsessed with anime and manga.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Erika has brown eyes and brown hair. Her hair is typically worn a braid along the back of her head, with two pieces of her hair hanging freely in front of her ears. She wears a black newsboy cap and a long-sleeved, black cheongsam with black ankle boots. She also carries a small, silver slash bag.

### Personality

Erika is an anime and manga fanatic, becoming extremely enthusiastic about anything anime or manga related. She is a yaoi fan, and is convinced that Shizuo Heiwajima and Izaya Orihara are lovers, despite (or because of) their constant fighting. Her personality can come off as being hyper and strange, but she proves in episode 20 that she can be calm and can reason with people, although she goes right back to being her normal otaku self immediately after the topic changes. In the manga, Masaomi explains to Mikado that she and Walker are a bit peculiar, but good people. Like Izaya, she calls Kadota "Dotachin" as a playful nickname.

Erika and Walker have darker sides of their personalities as they are skilled in both mental and physical torture, displayed whenever the two need to extract information from someone. During interrogation, the torture they conduct is usually based on themes from a manga or anime series of the victim's choosing. Both Erika and Walker share the mentality that they were twisted from birth and that their affinity for torture would persist even if anime didn't exist. Despite her sadistic tendencies, Erika still values her friends and companions deeply and will do whatever she can to protect them.

## Back Story

Very little is known about Erika and Walker's background before the start of the series. It is implied by Kyohei that he met them when they were still involved with other criminal organizations and acted as interrogators. Kyohei somehow managed to turn them away from a life of crime and helped them (mostly) re-adapt back into normal society. The two of them developed such a strong connection to Kyohei that they were ready to quit the Blue Squares in a moment's notice when Kyohei grew sick of the group despite the risk of retaliation. Not long after, they followed Kyohei in joining the Dollars.

## Storyline History

### Waking Up in Wonderland

Erika is is seen with the rest of the van gang as they watch the crime scene of Shimamoto-sensei. She and Walker discuss theories about what happened to him.

### Distorted Wonderland

Erika and the rest of the van gang watch as Mariko's body is taken away by the police in a body bag. She explains that the nurse was the one who found another shrink's body. The otaku goes on to explain how a steward found Mariko's body nailed to the ceiling on a cross in her kitchen. Erika and Walker think it's the curse while Kadota thinks they are being ridiculous. He doesn't sound too convinced however.

### Caged Wonderland

Erika helps everyone look for Seiji when he goes missing.

## Source

* https://durarara.fandom.com/wiki/Erika\_Karisawa