Reiko Mikami

"If you're gonna drive that slow, get out of the fast lane!"

- Reiko, Episode 8.

Reiko Mikami  is Kouichi's slightly idolized aunt who he lives with after moving to Yomiyama.

Personality
She gives Kouichi lots of advice on how to get by living in Yomiyama. She seems to become very upset when someone talks about the incident 15 years ago, when she was in the 9th grade in class 3. She even states that she hates the family pet bird "Rei-chan."

Appearance
She looks young for her age and mainly wears a yellow top with green long pants. In the anime she has long brown hair, and brown eyes just like Kouichi. She also wears spectacles. In the manga, she has long black hair and black eyes.



Plot
In Episode 1, Reiko first appears at the hospital, when she visited Kouichi while he was sick. While there, she tells him information about how to live in Yomiyama, or which school he was going to attend. When Kouichi becomes suspicious about his class' curse he asks her about it, but she yells and says that she can't help him. She is Kouichi's aunt from Ritsuko's side and Class 3-3's deputy homeroom teacher. She gives her nephew advice about Yomiyama Middle School through a series of "rules". One of them, is to separate their private life from their school life, thus Kouichi addresses her as Reiko at home and Ms. Mikami at school. In the original anime story Episode 8, Reiko takes Kouichi and the other to the beach resort to look for Matsunaga. They had fun on the beach and at the end of the episode, they witness Junta Nakao's death on shore. In Episode 10, while Sakakibara and Misaki were looking at the pictures inside the box, they found a picture of Reiko painting. Misaki then asked Sakakibara if Reiko paints at home. He told her that her aunt does- and apparently Reiko paints for a living. In the anime, their were no episodes showing Reiko paint.

-SPOILER ALERT-

In Episode 12, it is revealed that she and Mikami-Sensei are the same person, and she's the extra one in this year. She is killed by Kouichi. Since that day, nobody remembers her and don't see her in the class photo trip, except Kouichi, Mei, and Chibiki. She originally drowned a year and half ago, being pushed by an unknown student. Also, Mei watched her death.

-SPOILER ENDS-

Trivia

 * Reiko and Mikami-sensei is the same person whilst having different hair color and voice actresses.
 * Her home address is 5-1 Furuikecho Yomiyama City.
 * Reiko means "very pleasant child".