Aibou TV Season 7 Episode 5 - The Faceless Goddess(顔のない女神)

Subtitle: The Faceless Goddess(顔のない女神)

 A crazed fan stabs Haruka Nishida(西田 春香), a popular radio DJ at TP Station 80.8 MHz, to death just outside the station. Haruka was going to take over the time slot held by station's current flagship program "Never End" hosted by another popular DJ Laura Izawa(伊沢 ローラ) who just aired her last program. The case seems to end with the fan's suicide, but the Tokumeigakari pair suspect that there is more to the popular DJ's murder.

Characters appearing/mentioned in the story

Laura Izawa(伊沢 ローラ) - Popular radio DJ and 10 year host for the Saturday afternoon program Never End at TP Station 80.8 MHz. She is famous for never having revealed her face to the public before. Her real name is Kinue Izawa(伊沢 絹江).

She airs her last show at the start of the episode. On the show, she starts out by playing the third movement of Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony(6 min 18 sec), then aired the second movement of Mozart's first flute concerto. During her show, she mentions that though she has a black scarf on, it's become warmer and she had removed her jacket. She also warns her listeners to be extra careful when eating mushrooms because someone recently mistook a poisonous toadstool for a delicious shi'itake. She later recalls that she left her seat while Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony was playing to use the restroom. Even though this was her last show, she still asked the staff to stay afterwards for an evaluation meeting.

One of the reasons she supposedly was being taken off the air was because she didn't always play the songs the station wanted her to play, saying that those songs didn't fit well into her program, a rarity for a DJ nowadays.  She declined to continue her show after Haruka was killed saying that she plans to retire from DJing altogether.

Haruka Nishida(西田 春香) - Popular radio DJ stabbed to death just outside the station by Hajime Kinoshita(木下 肇). She often had fans waiting for her outside the radio station. She was going to inherit the time slot for the station's long running flagship program from Laura Izawa(伊沢 ローラ) and start her own show called "Haruka Nishida's Happy Time(西田春香の Happy Time)."

Her shows are broadcast live on weekdays, but for some reason, she came to the station on this particular Saturday. Furthermore, she usually used the private entrance (out of the two station entrances) but on that day, she was forced to use the front public entrance to leave the station because a notice was sent out that that day to the station personnel that the private entrance would be closed after 6 PM because its automatic doors had malfunctioned. So it was amazing that her killer waited over an hour for her on the day she normally doesn't work outside the door she normally doesn't use. This leads the Tokumeigakari pair to suspect that the killer may have had help from someone working at the radio station.

Shimako Jinno(神野 志麻子) - Producer for the show Never End who discovered Laura and Haruka, then raised both of them into popular DJs. She was engaged to fellow producer Sakuma(佐久間) at one time, but he called off the engagement and started to go out with Nishida, Recently, she had been trying to rekindle her relationship with Sakuma. A station cleaning staff member saw her arguing with Nishida. Nishida declared that she was going to kick Shimako off the show and have Sakuma produce the show instead.

Although Laura told everyone else on the staff to attend the evaluation meeting, she told Jinno that the two of them could go to a celebratory party after the final show aired. She claims that she left her seat during the show because someone called her. She also took off her jacket that day because she accidentally spilled coffee on it.

Hajime Kinoshita(木下 肇) - Laura's fan who killed Haruka Nishida(西田 春香) with a knife, then committed suicide back in his room by ingesting (poisonous) toadstool. 10 years ago when the showed first aired, he was contemplating commit suicide , but listening to her show made him decide to live another day. He eventually became a huge fan of Laura and her show. Over the years, he sent many postcards to the station and even started a website dedicated to her. However, the ending of the show had sent him into depression yet again, and he even wrote on the website that he felt like committing suicide. During Never End's final show, he receives a phone call made from a public phone in the radio station at 2:06 PM, while Tchiaikovsky's fifth symphony played.

Ryūzaki(竜崎) - Director at the station. He tells the Tokumeigakari pair that Laura told the staff members including him that they were still going to hold an evaluation meeting even though this was her final show. He recalls that during the final show bot Shimako and Laura left their seats, Shimako first, then Laura.

Sakuma(佐久間) - Producer for Haruka Nishida(西田 春香)'s program and Haruka's lover. He was engaged to Shimako some time in the past before calling it off.

He was scheduled to do a public service radio segment with Superintendent Kakuta to warn the listeners about poisonous mushrooms, that ingesting them is not a painless way to commit suicide and that they are similar in appearance to edible mushrooms.