Sou Shimada
One of the protagonists in Animal Sense manga, and a childhood friend of Hozhino Fuzuki. He's a newly graduated freelance dog trainer currently training a police dog called "Will". Being Fuzuki's first childhood friend, he's the one whom Fuzuki tells her power to for the first time since he's the only one who didn't laugh when Fuzuki told everyone the first time she experienced her power, and possibly the only one who knows about her power. He later helps Fuzuki when she's kidnapped.