In the manga, Mei's past is more detailed. Mei said that when she was a child, she caught her "mother" crying, asking why. Also, she wanted to donate one of her kidney to Misaki, but she couldn't because the rules said that children below 15 years of age are not allowed to, so instead the donor was Mitsuyo. This information was never revealed in the anime.

Episode 11 confirms that she's been emotionally unstable since the beach trip, explaining her Axe-Crazy behavior in trying to kill Mei. Haunted House Historian: He has the most information about the Calamity and keeps records of the casualties caused by the curse. Death by Adaptation: He is killed in the 2012 live-action film after becoming entangled in electrical cables and electrocuted. She dies in Episode 1 from the 9th gradC class 3-3 curse, being "the death of April", the first one who died because of the curse. Mei was delivering a present at the Yomiyama Hospital's morgue, a doll, Mei referred to her as "her other half" during her first meeting with Kouichi Sakakibara and later as her twin sister. Ascended Extra: She's a very minor character in the original novel, but is given a larger role in the manga and anime.Cannot Spit It Out: Implied to have a crush on Kouichi and she does a pretty rough job at actually conveying her feelings. O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Takako is reasonably soft-spoken throughout most of the series, and she's genuinely compassionate toward her friends. After surviving a murder attempt at the hands of the innkeeper her tone becomes completely flat and lifeless, and in the end, she's screaming and laughing. This is to drive home the fact she's not herself... not that anyone else especially noticed or seemed to care, and she's easily one of the most hated characters in the series because of it.

In Episode 11, it is revealed that she attended the same elementary school as Takako. Takako remembered a "Misaki," though she was confused and thought the girl was Mei, and not her twin sister. This led Takako to suspect Mei was the other, as when they were younger, she remembered Misaki having both eyes. Mark of the Supernatural: Her Doll's eye is green, in contrast to her red right eye. Said Doll's eye can see the color of death. Replacement Goldfish: Yukiyo made a doll which resembles Mei to create a duplicate of the child Yukiyo lost during her pregnancy. In Episode 9, he broke the tape that was supposed to help them stop the curse. Subverted since they were able to fix it later and hear it in full.Sexy Flaw: Mei has a doll's eye to make up for the one she lost to cancer as a child. She usually keeps it hidden with an eyepatch, but Kouichi and Misaki have told Mei she should go without the eyepatch more often because her doll's eye is oddly beautiful. Tachibana - A 16 years old girl who was in 9 th grade class 3 in 1997. Also, the art club senpai, Tachibana gives Mei details about their non-existent student. Stoic Spectacles: In the manga, she wears glasses during work and her behavior at work is more professional and serious than her outgoing personality outside of work. A quiet, shy boy who befriends Kouichi in class. He is a talented painter, being a member of the school art club, and has a crush on Ms. Mikami. Outliving One's Offspring: Averted. Both of Aya’s parents died in the car crash alongside their daughter.

On June 12, 2015, the now-defunct Chinese Ministry of Culture listed Another among 38 anime and manga titles banned in China. [44] Editions [ edit ] Dolls are hollow, you see? Completely hollow in body and soul. That void connects them with death. But hollow things seek to fill their emptiness.” A sequel, [29] titled Another 2001, was serialized in Yasei Jidai magazine from the November 2014 issue [30] to the February 2020 issue, [31] and as its name implies, takes place in 2001. A compiled volume was released on September 30, 2020. Yen Press also licensed the sequel novel and released it on December 13, 2022, translated by Nicole Wilder. [32] [33] Manga [ edit ] Mateo, Alex (September 24, 2021). "Yen Press Licenses If You Could See Love, In the Land of Leadale Manga, 4 Novels". Anime News Network . Retrieved September 24, 2021. Live-Action Film Teaser of Horror Novel 'Another' Posted". Anime News Network. March 2, 2012 . Retrieved March 2, 2012.Despair Event Horizon: The turning moment for Yumi is her brother Atsushi's death, thanks to the Calamity. Satellite Character: Her only traits are being Reiko's friend and telling her about the curse of their class. In the OVA, she's first seen joking around a random boy about her doppelganger until Mei arrives. She is fun-loving, cheerful, outgoing and caring against Mei. She also stated that she likes cute things like the dolls in Studio M, just like Mei, thus making this one of their similarities. Her definition of cute is "A little off base" according to Mei. Misaki told Mei that she found out they were twin sisters before Amane (their grandmother) let it slip, because they looked alike.

In the live action film, the two are much closer (as Kouichi isn't friends with Naoya, Yuuya, Tomohiko, or Izumi in this adaption). It is only Mei and Kouichi who find Matsunaga's tape, and later the two go speak to him directly to learn about the curse. When the class starts ignoring both of them, they often cut class together, running through the halls or wandering around town. Kouichi defends Mei at the inn from Izumi and Takako, which causes his bad lung to flare again, though Mei takes care of him. That night, Mei got a call from Kirika, who'd already discouraged her from hanging around "that boy" as she didn't need anyone else. Kirika insisted she was the only person who could protect Mei, but her daughter refused to accept this, telling her she'd met someone else who cared for her and neither needed nor particularly wanted Kirika's protection anymore. Named After Somebody Famous: His last name "Sakakibara" is the same as a real-life middle school murderer from Kobe . He was bullied because of this in the original novel.Summary: In the whole world there lay twelve paths to climb the Tower of God, and in legends these twelve pat... Unfortunately, Another just happens to fall way outside my definition of horror, and seems to fit very nicely within comedy. Quiet and more than a little mysterious, Mei is the strange girl that Kouichi meets one late night at the hospital. This encounter, as well as the strange circumstances surrounding her while at school, prompts Kouichi to try to get to know her. In the process, this gets him involved in uncovering the truth behind class 3-3's dark secret. Summary: An old MMORPG called Live Dungeon. Before the service was terminated, Kyotani Tsutomu made full use ... Brutal Honesty: Even though Izumi is dying in front of him and asks if he remembers their first meeting, instead of lying and letting her die happy, Kouichi just says 'no'. Izumi even lampshades this trope before she dies.