Naoya Teshigawara

'''"Give me a break...." '''

-Naoya Teshigawara

Naoya Teshigawara is a student of Class 3-3 in 1998. He is the class mood maker.

Personality
Teshigawara is usually superficial in nature. He is shown to have a sympathetic side, since he was the first one to talk to Kouichi, who was still not used to his surroundings. Also he seems to have a crush on Izumi Akazawa. Naoya is very sociable, cheerful, and is a sports lover. Teshigawara is a childhood friend of Kazami and a good friend of Yuuya, and in good terms with Kouichi. He cares about his friends. Naoya doesn't learn much at school, claiming that he doesn't know how he reached the 9th grade.

Appearance
A young boy with light brown hair and brown eyes, Teshigawara shows a cheerful expression most of the time. He wears a blue sweater and a white T-shirt, unlike the others who wear their school's uniform. He usually wears a flowerish shirt for his casual clothes, which Kouichi considered too attractive and embarassing. In the manga, he has brown hair. In episode 8, when he, Kouichi, Reiko, Izumi, Takako and Yuuya were going to meet Matsunaga he wears a white with purple blouse and a yellow cap.

Story
Teshigawara was the first one to talk to Kouichi on his first day of school, and became his friend soon after. He, along with the rest of the class, are all hesitant on telling Kouichi about the class' curse. Naoya promised Kouichi to explain everything next month. In Episode 4, Teshigawara is scolded by Izumi as he said unnecessary things to Kouichi, and both of them argue when Sanae called Kouichi, who later on, was crushed to death by the elevator. Teshigawara and Izumi hear sounds of something crashing through the Kouichi's cell phone.

In Episode 7, after witnessing Kubodera-Sensei's death, he called Kouichi, Mochizuki and Izumi to meet for further discussion of the class 3 calamity. After they acquired information on Katsumi Matsunaga, they set off in Episode 8 to look for him, about the solution to stop the calamity. During this time, they had fun at the beach while waiting for Matsunaga's return. Naoya organisated a contest; to fishing for lunch ingredients. He also made the teams and bring to beach all is needed (excepting the ingredients) to cook the dinner. At the end of episode, they witness Junta Nakao's death on shore. In episode 9 Naoya appears in Kouichi's guilt driven dream. Later, Teshigawara met up with Kouichi and Mochizuki to look for the item that Matsunaga left in the old classroom. They found a recording tape and began to listen to it. However, they heard a teacher coming and ran to hide, breaking the tape in the process. Mochizuki offered to help fix it, but says it might take a while.

In Episode 10, the class went on to the class trip. Teshigawara, Mochizuki, and Kouichi listen to the repaired tape, and they heard the important part of the recording, which is the solution to free the class. Naoya took Mei's side when Izumi blamed her for the deaths. In the end of the episode, Teshigawara barged in Mei's room looking terrified and saying he has done something terrible. Also, in this episode Naoya is very unlike himself, more serious than usual, despite his cheerful and funny personality. His voice is also more mature and thick. In episode 11, he confessed that he thought Kazami was the dead student. He was absolutely sure about this and started to interrogate him to catch him. When Tomohiko didn't remember the things they used to do in their childhood, Naoya tells him that he is the dead student and they start to fight. Naoya accidentally pushed Tomohiko he fell from the 2nd story. He is devastated and Kouichi tells him that he should be alive, because a fall from that high shouldn't kill him. They went to check this out. Naoya discovers that Tomohiko is gone. He later met with Yuuya and started to look for Tomohiko urging everyone to evacuate the building because of a fire. They met Keiko - who stabbed Manabu - when they went looking for Mikami, and she tries to kill them. She stabs Naoya in his leg and they ran away from her, with Mochizuki being forced to drag Naoya to safety because of his injury. After Mochizuki and Naoya escapes from Keiko, he opens an emergency door and Keiko was inside waiting to kill them. In Episode 12, Naoya is pushed out of a window by Mochizuki as Keiko continued to chase them. Mochizuki tries to jump out as well but he's grabbed by Keiko, who tries to pull him back in. Naoya jumps up and tugs back, sending all 3 crashing to the ground. Keiko then jumps on Naoya and is about to stab him when Chibiki comes and kills her. He then leads them to his car where he tends to heal Naoya's wound. A few minutes later, Kazami's body is brought out. Naoya begs him to wake up, then screams "Damn it!" 3 times while crying. The anime ends with Naoya and Mochizuki putting a tape they recorded about how to stop the calamity into the locker where they found Matsunaga's original one.

Mei Misaki
Naoya thinks that Mei is a weird person, but he doesn't make fun of her or hate her. They are in good terms. Teshigawara takes Mei's side in episode 10 when Izumi blames her for the deaths.

Izumi Akazawa
Naoya seems to have a crush on her, proved in episode 8 when he wanted her to stay in the car next to him. However, she doesn't return his feelings for her as she thinks he's an annoying idiot.

Yuuya Mochizuki
Yuuya seems to be Naoya's best friend. Whenever meetings are arranged, they always show up together.

Kouichi Sakakibara
Naoya was the first one to talk with Kouichi in his first day at Yomiyama Middle School. They are in good terms. Teshigawara apologies for the fact that he is obligated to ignore him when he became a non-existent person. It is hinted that he can ship Mei and Kouichi when he asked Sakakibara if he was on a date with Mei.

Tomohiko Kazami
Tomohiko is Naoya's childhood friend. They also seems in good terms, even if the anime doesn't show this. In the original novel their relationship is more evoluated and Tomohiko has a larger role.

Trivia

 * He is ranked A in Another character ranking.Another_86.jpg
 * His first name, Naoya, means honest one or straight arrow.
 * His home address is 3-5 Yuumigaoka Yomiyama City.
 * In the original novel, he often hangs around Kazami. Also, he is not the cause of the cassette tape being broken. The cassette tape was damaged when the boys were unwrapping the packing tape it was wrapped in.
 * In the manga, he says he has an older sister.
 * He seems to be on good terms with Kouichi. It's proved when he mentions how lonely he is when he and the other classmates are forced to treat him as the nonexistent student. It also seems that only he, Mochizuki, and Kazami (in the manga), don't blame him and Mei for all the deaths that occured. He and Takeru also carried Kouichi to his room when he collapsed in Chapter 16.
 * He also likes to tease Mei and Kouichi together. When he asked Kouichi to meet at Inoya in Episode 7, he also asked if Kouichi had a date with Mei. In Episode 10, he instructs Mei to move closer to Kouichi when he wanted to take pictures.
 * He shares a room with Tomohiko Kazami during the class trip.