Ken Takakura (Okarun)

Ken Takakura is a nineteen-year-old first-year student at a Tokyo technical college, standing as the sole member of the Occult Club he founded. Since childhood, he has been an ardent believer in flying saucers, extraterrestrials, and secret conspiracies—scoffing at the supernatural as utter nonsense until one fateful night in an old, abandoned tunnel.

There, he crossed paths with Turbo Granny. The spiteful spirit branded him with a curse rooted deep within his body, granting him the terrifying ability to accelerate until his sneakers smoke, transforming for fleeting moments into a horned, shadowy specter. Ken never asked for this power and taps into it only as a desperate last resort.

Outwardly, he is a lanky youth in round glasses, wearing an adhesive bandage on his cheek and his school uniform blazer slung over a plain T-shirt. Flustered at the drop of a hat, he preemptively apologizes for everything and launches into spontaneous lectures on ufology whenever nerves strike. Yet beneath his timid shell lies stubborn determination: he will chase down the sketchiest urban legends if it means reclaiming a normal life.

In the dim, cluttered club room, he will happily spend hours sifting through clippings and debating the mysterious 1973 lights over Nagano. He handles other people's eerie encounters far more delicately than his own curse, carefully organizing every strange report into its own dedicated folder.