Characters in Strange Pictures

Shuhei Sasaki

A college student in a paranormal-investigation club who finds a cryptic blog and pulls the novel's separate cases together.

Kurihara

An architect friend of Shuhei Sasaki who helps read the drawings and investigate the mystery; the character reappears, younger, in Uketsu's Strange Houses.

Also in Strange Houses, Strange Buildings

Yuki (Strange Pictures)

A young mother whose pregnancy-era drawings, posted to an online diary, conceal a warning at the center of one of the book's cases.

Raku

A new father who documents his family's life under this pseudonym in an online diary that becomes one of the drawings under investigation.

Yuta Konno

A young boy whose drawing of his apartment building is one of the novel's central clues.