Sayoko Kuroki

黒木小夜子

One of Yusaku's college classmates. Sayako recruits him to join the schools puppet theater club. Sayako becomes more important later in the series when she helps Yuusaku get a part-time job at the pre-school she works at, setting him toward his final career goal. (In the anime, it is Kozue who gets Yuusaku the pre-school job.)