Iko Koishikawa

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## Iko Koishikawa

* Anime
* Manga

* Bio
* Status

## First Appearance

### Family

Unnamed parents (deceased)
Daigo Koishikawa

### Affiliations

Tanpopo Middle School
Karen Private Middle School (formerly)

### Occupations

Student

**Iko Koishikawa** (小 (こ) 石 (いし) 川 (かわ) 惟 (い) 子 (こ)  *Koishikawa Iko*?) was saved by Shy during an incident in Himawari Land amusement park alongside her younger brother and some other people. She later transfers to Teru's school since it was closer to her house (as such, easier for her to go due to her injured leg at the time) and became close friends with her.

## Appearance

Iko is a beautiful young girl with light complexion and wavy medium-length, blond hair with bright, yellow eyes. She is always wearing a tiara with a crescent moon on the right side. After the incident with the rollercoaster, her right leg was injured, so she had to use a black brace on her right knee and crutches to walk properly. She used to wear her old school uniform: a shirt buttoned with a bow, blazer, skirt, black socks on her calves and Mary Jane shoes. After receiving it, she started using Tanpopo Middle School's uniform.

## Personality

Iko is a very friendly and outgoing girl who can make friends easily. Unlike Teru, she doesn't have any problems to talk to people and is, actually, very charismatic, drawing attention to herself frequently. She is usually the one who makes Teru hang out with her, in addition to encouraging her in her decisions. Iko also tends to show a lot of concern for everyone except herself as when she tells Shy to save the other before saving herself, resulting in the accident which injured her legs.

It is revealed that, instead of hating Shy for her condition, she hated herself but for other personal motives: these were her parents' deaths, as she couldn't save them. She also didn't feel like she was a good sister to her brother without them. Stigma used his ring to create her corrupted form, outcropping her bad feelings from her Heart. After being saved by Shy, however, she seems to have improved a lot psychologically and is much happier currently, including she could be friends with Teru and is the only one who knows her Hero identity.

She develops a strong sense of justice and is always trying to help Shy even though she herself is not a Hero and doesn't have any special ability like her and her fellows Heroes. Iko feels useless if she is unable to help them in someway, be it with information about the Amalareiks or trying to cheer Shy on.

Since her parents died, Iko has taken care of her brother alone. Due to that, she is very good at take care of children, shown when she was able to calm a lost child at the mall while hanging out with Teru one time, helping him find his parents. Just like her brother, she is also very obsessed with superheroes, easily getting excited when talking about Teru's heroic identity, Shy, as well as other Heroes like Stardust and Spirits.

Iko presents herself as quite perverted at times as she asked Teru if she ever gets naked when transforming with her Heart Conversion Bracelets and voluntereed to record it even if Teru was embarrassed.

## Abilities

**Efficient Children Care**: Because she had to raise her brother alone, Iko grow up to be really good with children. She could easily calm down a boy who was lost and find his parents quickly, at the same time, teaching him an important life lesson.

## Former Abilities

**Corrupted Form**: Using her hartred for herself, Stigma put one of his rings in her finger to turn her into a monster. The ring syncronized Iko's Heart power and Stigma's own Heart. In this form, her hair turns dark and her right arm and leg have a crystallized appearance, five clawed fingers and a birdlike foot with three sharp toes. Her left hand and thigh and right cheek had crystallized fragments. The sclera of her eyes became black and appeared to be bleeding, while a single horn protruded from the left side of her forehead.

In that form, Iko had immense strenght, physical durability, aprimored speed and agility. She could manifest her Heart through crystal-like weapons and attack her enemies with them.

## Former Equipment

**Stigma's ring**: She was forcefully transformed into a monster by Stigma, who put a Heart conversion ring on her left index finger. It had a part of Stigma's own Heart and released Iko's hatred for herself in the form of black crystals made by her own Heart. It allowed Iko to see Stigma's Heart and help the organization of Heroes to think about a way to deal with him and his group.

## Quotes

* (To Teru Momijiyama) "*Why would anyone be angry at someone who had done their best to save them? Shy did her best to save me, and she did... Just like you just did, Momijiyama.*"

## Trivia

* Her name has the kanji for "little" (小 ***"little"***?), "stone" (石 ***"stone"***?), "river" (川 ***"river"***?), "consider", "reflect", "think" (惟 ***"consider", "reflect", "think"***?) and "child" (子 ***"child"***?). 子 is a common girls' names suffix, and Koishikawa is also a district of Bunkyo, Tokyo.
* Iko likes superheroes (influenced by her little brother) and kinakomochi, a type of mochi stuffed with anko and topped with kinako.
* She is at class 3-4 with Teru.
* Iko was a member of the rhythimic gymanistics at her former school.
* In regards to her character, Nao Toyama commented:

*"*SHY*" is a passionate hero story that deals with the heart. This is a work that will make you feel some important feelings, whether you're touched by the honest words of the main character, Shy, or surprised by the backbone of the characters.*
*The character I play, Iko, is a bright and nice girl who can help others without hesitation. But not a hero! Iko is an ordinary girl, and she is a dear friend to Shy. They have such a wholesome relationship that makes me think it would be really wonderful if we all could think of one another like this.*
*Iko also has an unexpected darkness in her heart...*
*Please look forward to the anime broadcast! Thank you for your continued support!!''*

## References

1. ↑ TVアニメ「SHY」キービジュ＆本PV公開！キャストに東山奈央、杉田智和、能登麻美子ら（動画あり / コメントあり）
2. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 1, page 19.
3. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 5, page 11.
4. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 5, page 11, 12 and 13.
5. ↑ *SHY* Manga: Chapter 2, page 22.
6. ↑ STAFF&CAST.