Sanae Mizuno

"Oh! Now you are reading a novel by Stephen King, Mr. Horror Shonen?"

- Sanae Mizuno to Kouichi in Episode 1. Sanae Mizuno is a nurse at Yomiyama Hospital. She is first seen at Kouichi's ward. She has a brother named Mizuno Takeru who went to the 9th Grade Class 3 at Yomiyama North Middle School.

Personality
She is a cheerful nurse and she is in charge of taking care of Kouichi when he is at the hospital. She suggested various mystery authors to Kouichi to read while he was in the hospital, and also when they used to meet casually.

Appearance
She is usually shown wearing her nurse uniform. In Episode 4, she is seen wearing her casual dress. She has brown hair in the anime and black hair in the manga.

Plot
She looked after Kouichi Sakakibara while he was sick in the hospital. She also helped him find info on the Misaki that died in the hospital, and even offered to give him her phone number. They talked about the class' curse and how everyone thinks that Mei doesn't exist. Sanae tells Kouichi to be careful because they don't knew much about it yet.

In Episode 4,She called him to ask if Mei really existed, since her brother claimed she didn't in a horrified manner, while returning from the roof top through the elevator. While she was in it, talking to Kouichi about Mei, the elevator's motor started to spark and malfunction, and suddenly the cable snapped causing the elevator to fall. Sanae is slammed into the elevator floor head-first, and she is crushed when the elevator collapses. This incident lead to her being one of the "Deaths of June". In Episode 9, she returns as a ghost and appears when Kouichi opens one of the classroom doors when he is shock from Yukari, Ikuo, and Kubodera-Sensei's ghost form. She lies on a bed with blood covering her body, blaming Kouichi for her death.

Trivia

 * Her address is 1-9 Seitencho Yomiyama City.
 * Her first name, Sanae, means "rice seedlings".
 * She calls Kouichi Horror Teen (manga) or Mister horror lover (anime).