Amane

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

- Amane Misaki

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

Story
Amane made her debut in "Blueprint" when she welcomes Kouichi 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.

Appearance
She has gray shoulder-length hair and gray eyes. Amane also wears spectacles with round lenses and dark purple clothes. In the manga, she has white, shoulder length hair and black clothes. Also, her spectacles 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.

Trivia

 * Her name, Amane, is not a common name for real people, but often appears in Japanese fiction. Amane means " sound of the heavens ".
 * Amane is the shortest person in the series.
 * Also, Amane accidentally let it slip that Mei is actually Mitsuyo's daughter when she was in the fifth year of elementary school.