Teruko Amano is a 33-year-old shaman who works as a miko/voodoo witch, with light grayish hair and a headband bearing two lit tapers. She wears simple white robes and always carries straw dolls, nails, and wooden stakes. Not beautiful, her presence, black eyes, and dark, shaven brows, make others uneasy. Years of heartbreak drove her close to death, yet these ordeals awakened her powers. In one attempt, a girl known as The Loafers died instead and watches over Teruko as her kind Guardian Ghost.