Kyuta Shiba (Mystery Files)
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Kyuta Shiba is Juro Kurabe's childhood friend who's also into sci-fi and special effects films. He's the life of the party, easy to get along with, and is always making jokes. He seems to have a mysterious power.
An artificial personality 48Q that only Kurabe is able to see. Shiba claims that he's Juro Izumi and that his memories are already inside Kurabe's head.
(In Japanese, 48Q is a play on words of Shiba's name. 4 can be read as shi, 8 can be read as hachi, and Q and Kyu sound similar. "Ha" sounds can also be turned into "ba", due to the usage of diacritic marks, called dakuten. With this, shi + ba + Q makes 48Q. QTA_CBA also plays on his name. Q + ta can be read as Kyuta, and C + ta can be read as Seeba. Combining them creates a reading close to his full name.)
His true identity is 426. Due to the incompatibility between the violent memories of Izumi transplanted by Morimura and the gentler personality that Tamao Kurabe created, Juro Kurabe was close to having a breakdown. In order to avoid this, Shiba converted Izumi's violent memories into a medium Kurabe could understand.