Shōko Inari is a real estate developer spearheading plans to redevelop the Amamizukan apartment building into a high-rise hotel. She employs manipulation and underhanded tactics, including spiking Shū Koibuchi's drink with sedatives and staging compromising photos to blackmail him into leveraging his political family connections. She attributes her assignment to the project to her reputation for hard-hitting methods. Her professional conduct extends to using seduction, bribery, international travel, and bullying communications to achieve her objectives, with subordinates likening her negotiation style to historical Ginza hostesses known for transactional relationships. Physically, Shōko possesses a slim build, reddish-brown hair reaching her upper back with left-swept bangs, black eyes, and a distinctive mole beside her mouth. Her style aligns with "the Stylish," featuring professional business-casual attire incorporating deliberate sensual elements adjusted for situational impact. She frequents luxury brand stores and embraces retro fashion from Japan's bubble era, though her adherence to such outdated trends once contributed to the closure of a store she managed due to unconventional clientele. Her personality blends cynicism, determination, and a willingness to exploit others, yet she exhibits unexpected vulnerability concerning Shū Koibuchi. After faking a suicide attempt to manipulate him, his intervention and slap in frustration trigger her realization of genuine feelings, complicating her antagonistic role. Despite ruthlessly targeting Tsukimi Kurashita and the Amars with harassment—such as sending fabricated affair photos to undermine Tsukimi—her inability to suppress her attraction to Shū remains a recurring weakness. Her character arc spans multiple adaptations. In the live-action film, she travels extensively to pressure Chieko's mother into selling Amamizukan and intensifies stalking behaviors toward Shū following their fabricated encounter. The narrative frames her as a "female fox," a play on her surname Inari referencing Shinto mythology, emphasizing her cunning and persistence. While her development hints at unresolved emotional conflict, her core role as an adversary to the Amamizukan residents persists through all media, with no redemption depicted. Limited personal background details include her idiosyncratic use of 1980s slang and a birthdate of April 15. Her name combines "soar/glide" (翔) and "child" (子) for Shōko, while Inari (稲荷) signifies "rice plant" and "load/cargo," symbolically reflecting her burdensome and resource-driven actions.