Talk:Misaki Fujioka/@comment-5920896-20130727145747/@comment-397235-20140702113041

They picked someone who didn't have any ties to anyone else. It was at random, but Mei didn't particularly mind (and they probably wouldn't have been angry with her if Kouichi hadn't started talking to her). In the manga, that's how it's explained anyway. In the film, they initially picked Takako, but she couldn't take it, and Mei, being the nice person she is, volunteered to take her place. It was only ever going to be Mei.