Amane

""My, it's unusual to see a boy your age here. Are you a customer?""

- Amane Misaki

Amane (天音, Amane) is Yukiyo Misaki's mother and the maternal grandmother of Mei Misaki and Misaki Fujioka. She is the receptionist of the doll shop owned by her daughter, Yukiyo, named Misaki M. Studio.

Appearance
Amane has gray shoulder-length hair and gray eyes. She wears glasses with round lenses and dark purple clothes. In the manga, she has white, shoulder length hair and wears black clothes. Also, her glasses are black with squared lenses. Amane looks older in the manga than in the anime.

Personality
Amane appears to suffer from some form of dementia. She never seems to move from her seat at the front of the store and doesn't remember Kouichi, even though he constantly visits her shop, as she repeats the same questions every time he enters.

Plot
Amane made her debut in "Blueprint" when she welcomes Kouichi Sakakibara after he tried to follow Mei and discovered the doll shop. Every time she sees him, Amane repeats the same phrases. She is always shown sitting at the reception desk of the doll shop when Kouichi visits Mei. Later, Kouichi finds out that Amane is Mei's grandmother.

Etymology

 * The name Amane means "heavens, imperial" (天) (ama), and "sound, noise" (音) (ne)

Trivia

 * Her name is not a common name in real life, but often appears in Japanese fiction.
 * Amane accidentally let it slip that Mei is actually Mitsuyo's daughter when she was in the fifth year of elementary school.