Thread:Godzillafan93/@comment-25827868-20150304234139/@comment-397235-20150305003011

I don't know where to jump on this. In the anime, she's credited as "Kieko Numata" I believe (have to double check) and that's mostly what we go by, although I don't think her name is ever stated.

However, her name in the English translation of the novel is "Meiko" so I'm honestly not sure which way to go. I think Meiko is probably a bit closer, but I can't swear to it.

Where have you been verifying the kanji? I tried to put up exact menanings of several character's name, but a few really flumaxed me. I couldn't, for instance, find a version of Takako using the characters her name contains, so the closest I could come was "Noble Child" but I can't swear to the validity of that, and likewise, I couldn't find a meaning for Teshigawara anywhere.