Shino Takase is a 34-year-old housewife with a slim build and a youthful appearance. She has brown or maroon hair, often styled in a ponytail with side strands, blue eyes, and typically wears dresses, cardigans, and a ribbon hair tie. Her cheerful and kind personality contrasts with her serious older sister, Sawa Sakurai. Shino operates a piano tutoring service from her relatively affluent home, which includes a dedicated lesson room where she teaches neighborhood children and her own daughter, Noriko Takase, who shares her cheerful disposition. Family-oriented, Shino warmly invites her nephew, Susumu Sakurai, to dinner frequently, offering emotional support due to sympathy for his strained home life and frequent solitude, maintaining regular contact with her sister's household. Within the narrative, Shino's trusting relationship with Susumu makes her vulnerable when he acquires hypnotic abilities. She becomes a primary subject of his hypnosis, positioned as an early target for manipulation used to fulfill inappropriate desires as part of the central plot involving non-consensual control. Her awareness of the hypnosis, subsequent development, or the resolution of her circumstances is not explored in the documented media.