Yuko Tanabe

Yuko Tanabe is a major character in the second season of The Terror, The Terror: Infamy. She is portrayed by Kiki Sukezane.

Tanabe is a mysterious figure, though her motivations become clear as the series progresses. She is the birth mother of Chester Nakayama, whom she named "Taizo," as well as his twin brother, Jirou Tanabe. She has a distant ancestor named Chiyo.

Unlike the other Japanese characters on the show, Yuko is from Japan, rather than a Japanese-American. She is connected to the spirit world, with "something familiar and alien about her."

She is a Bakemono, or shape-shifter. Among her powers is the ability to slip in and out of bodies undetected, twisting them into horrible, inhuman shapes. She possesses a terrible hunger, an onnen, that leads to both seek revenge and to try to atone for the mistakes she made in life.