Episode 1 - Rough Sketch

Rough Sketch is the first episode of Another. It aired on January 9th, 2012.

Plot
Over a montage of images foreshadowing events to come, two voices, a boy and a girl's converse over an old story: many years ago, a student from Class 3 of Yomiyama North Middle School was intelligent, good at sports, and generally loved by her fellow classmates. When the student tragically diee is more to the story.

In the local hospital, Kouichi Sakakibara, who has moved to Yomiyama to live with his grandparents, is bedridden from Pneumothorax. At his bedside, his grandmother laments that he has to spend his first month in the town in hospital, missing his first day of school in the process, despite Koichi's attempts to reassurecloser to death, than all of the other classes. On his way home he sees Mei looking up at the sky while it was raining, but said nothing.