Mei Misaki

"Goodbye...Sa-ka-ki-ba-ra-kun."

- Mei Misaki

Mei Misaki is one of the main protagonists of Another. She was labeled by her classmates as "the one that does not exist." She has both a red right eye and a green left doll's eye. She is a student of Class 3-3 in 1998.

Personality
Mei possesses a very quiet and solitary personality; at first, she tells Kouichi to stay away from her, but as time goes on, she becomes accustomed to his prescense and doesn't seem to mind having him around. She also tells him to be careful, since 'it' (the curse) may have started already, indicating concern. Her hobbies include drawing, and Mei was a member of the art club.

In contrast to her typically taciturn behavior, she is the bearer of a childish side; as seen in Episode 8 of the anime, she spends time building a sandcastle and gets scared when an octopus sticks to her hand, leading her to think that "it was going to eat me". Another childish side of her is shown when she wore the flower headpiece she found in the box in the old Class 3-3 room and making a joke about hearing moaning in the auxiliary library. These traits of her personality only appear in the anime, not the original novel.

Appearance
Mei is an isolated girl in Yomiyama North Middle School's Class 3-3. She has a short, chin-length haircut with long bangs and a ghostly complexion. Her left eye is covered by an eye patch. Although in the anime her left eye is shown as green, it was originally blue in the novel/manga.

In episode 3, it is revealed that her left eye is actually an artificial eye, and she says that she keeps it hidden since she can see things with it that "aren't supposed to be seen."

In episode 6, the mystery behind her green eye is finally revealed. She mentions to Kouichi that she had a disease when she was about 4 years old and it was so severe that she lost her left eye. Her mother made her a new eye of green color saying that the same shade would be boring. The reason she uses an eyepatch is that she dislikes that dual shade and hence decided to hide it.

Plot
Mei first meets Kouichi in the hospital's elevator and tells him that she's going to the morgue since her poor "other self" is waiting for her. She is later seen on the school roof sketching, and tells Kouichi to stay away from her and to stop asking questions because she hates it. She is seen talking with him a variety of times. When Kouichi was finished with his test he went outside and saw Mei there. She tells him that she doesn't exist and that Kouichi may be the only one who can see her, leaving him shocked. At that time, Sakuragi runs out of the classroom and grabs her umbrella and runs towards Kouichi's direction. However, she looks in fear and runs in the opposite direction. She ran down the stairs but she fell to death when the umbrella pierced her neck.

Kouichi meets her again in the doll store, where she tells him to be careful since "it" has started and disappears soon after. But in episode 5, it is revealed that Mei Misaki really exists when Kouichi finds the class roster along with a sheet of paper written "Ask Mei Misaki about it" in it. Kouichi visits the studio and then Mei takes him up to her house through an elevator hidden behind the curtain. She asked Kouichi whether he suspected that if she was a ghost. Then assures him with saying that she is alive and is sure that she hasn't died. Since, "it" has started again, Mei tells everything about the class' curse, unknown reasons of the deaths & the prevention of the deaths of the students & their families. Kouichi and Mei's relationship continues to develop to the point that he frequently comes to Mei's house and on one such occasion, he meets Kirika, Mei's mom, who she says only treats her like the other dolls in her house.

Later on, she tells Kouichi that she will be going on a vacation with her parents, so she won't be back for a week. When the others go to find information on the curse, Kouichi meets Mei there and they talk about her family. Mei tells him that her father doesn't come to Japan often and that they aren't really close, despite them being a family. While they talk, their hands touch as they build a sand castle. After, everyone desides to get ingrediants to eat and they split up into groups. Mei shows Kouichi different types of seafood, but Kouichi tells her that they aren't edible until she finds a squid, which latches onto her. She becomes scared and tells Kouichi to take it off. After they look at their findings and shows Reiko them, and she tells them it's a draw. They then find Matsunaga, who tells them that he can't remember anything, but he thinks someone died on the mountain when they went to the shrine. Suddenly, a strong breeze comes and blows the ball the others were playing volley ball with out far into the ocean. Nakao said he was going to get it, leaving everyone waiting nervously for him to return. However, he ends up drowning and Kouichi and Matsunaga out to save him, which proves to be futile as a boat comes and cuts Nakao's body up, turning the water red. Mei stands by Akazawa in shock.

In Episode 9, Mei is walking along with Kouichi behind Chibiki who asks them about the behaviour of Nakao the day he died. First, Kouichi answered him then Mei mentioned that he wasn't walking straight. After Chibiki clarifies them that the reason why Nakao died had originated in Yomiyama itself, they leave. Later on, when Kouichi along with Teshigawara enter the art club, they find Mei painting. She asks them what they were doing, just then, Yuuya comes hurriedly into the club room which prompts her to ask them why they all were there. Finally, the trio answers her & she tags along with them. They reach the floor where there are the abandoned 9th grade sections. She enters the barricated area first before which Teshigawara again comments that Misaki is really weird. They reach the class 3 section where they start searching for the clue Matsunaga had left during his session of 1983. While gossiping with each other, Mei tries to open a window to get fresh air.

Just then, a big fragment of glass pane starts to fall upon her. Luckily, she was saved by Kouichi who pulls her before the glass could hurt her. She joins the others in the AV Room where they listen to the tape they found.

In episode 10 Mei invites Kouichi into her room to see the graduation photo where Yomiyama Misaki appeared. After that, Mei starts to tell Kouichi the truth about her and her cousin, Misaki Fujioka, who is actually her sister, and about Kirika, who is actually her aunt, not mother. Later Mei tells Kouichi about how she can see things that should remain unseen. She states that she can distinguish the color of death by looking out her left eye and determine whether something is alive or dead. She also states that the color is different from any color that she has ever seen. Then Kouichi asks her who's the dead one. When Mei was about to tell Kouichi who's the dead person, Teshigawara opens the door with a teriffied look, saying that he has done something horibble. In Episode 11, Teshigawara admits to Kouichi, and Mei, that he thinks he might have killed Kazami, by accidentaly pushing him off the balcony. Kouichi tells Mei and Teshigawara to go check and see if Kazami is still alive. When they reached the hall, Kouichi noticed the dining room door and went to check it. He then found Manabu, who was badly injured. After a while, they heard Takako's scream and they went up the room to check it. Takako was gone and she later appeared with a blade and tried to kill Mei. Kouichi protected Mei and Takako fled the scene. Later, Takako plays the tape over the intercom, and tells everyone that Mei Misaki is the dead one. This prompts everyone into going on a manhunt to find Mei, and Kouichi into protecting her. They are pursued by the class, and they tried to escape through the window when Yumi Ogura found them. Yumi followed Mei and Kouichi out of the window and just as Yumi slashed at Mei, Kouichi quickly pulled Mei out of the way; Yumi slipped and fell off of the window sill due to Koichi's intervention, and slammed against the ground, breaking her neck. In the last part of the episode, Takako appears again with a blade, ready to kill her. Takako stabbed Kouichi and charged towards Mei, trying to kill her. Mei proved rather agile than her light constitution would suggest, and dodged Takako's onslaught --- this caused Takako to become entangled in loose wiring connected to the ceiling. Takako's violent struggle caused the wires to pull on a loose support beam, which ripped through the wires and pulled Takako up, and strangling her to death. She is shocked when Takako is hung in front of her. Izumi arrives, and witnesses the scene, believing that Misaki had killed her; Izumi then snaps, and says she's going to kill Mei, promting her to run up the steps during another ceiling collapse, seperating her from Kouichi and Izumi.

Trivia

 * She is ranked S (highest ranking) in the Another character rankings, meaning she is the only character who gets that ranking.
 * Her first name, Mei, is written with the same character for "to cry".
 * Her home address is 4-4 Misakicho Yomiyama City.


 * Fans have noticed comparisons between Mei and various other characters who wear an eyepatch; these include Rei Ayanami from Evangelion; and Badou Nails from Dogs: Bullets & Carnage.