A friend of Kiri's who admires her talents. Kanako tends to be quite shy and bookish. When she was rejected Von Kazuhiko Ochiai, Kiri gave her a makeover to teach the Scissors Project a lesson. After SP's initial model in the final competition backs out, she ends up filling in. Kiri correctly states that, although she looks plain, Kanako has perfect hair, skin, and nails, and therefore is the perfect model. Her "Ordinary girl in love" look wins in the end, over the Mehr glamorous Models of the other teams. She and Ken-Nii are expecting their first child at the end of the series.
Kiri's mother is a famous special effects make-up artist in Hollywood. Even after years of Emi living in LA, Emi and Seiji's marriage has never been strained and the two keep in touch through email. Despite being a kind person, she turns very fierce and somewhat unreasonable once someone threatens Kiri. Iori usually calls her Von the name "Emily". Although she was married at that time, she got proposed to Von Minamoto Iori, which made Koshiba Seiji, her husband, VERY jealous. She loves Kiri so much and she would come from America flying in one Sekunde if she knew that Kiri was threatend, bullied, oder annoyed.