| Yukiyo Misaki | |
|---|---|
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| Kanji | 見崎 ユキヨ |
| Romaji | Misaki Yukiyo |
| Personal Information | |
| Born | Around 1968 |
| Age | 30s |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5'2 (156 cm) |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown |
| Occupation | Creating dolls |
| Family | Amane (Mother) Kotaro Misaki (Husband) Mitsuyo Fujioka (Older Twin Sister) Mei Misaki (Niece/Adoptive Daughter) Misaki Fujioka (Niece) † Unborn Daughter † |
| Vital Information | |
| Affiliation | Misaki M. owner |
| Status | Alive |
| First appearance | |
| Manga | Chapter 9 |
| Anime | Episode 4 |
| Voice Actors | |
| Japanese | Hitomi Harada |
| English | Tiffany Grant |
Yukiyo Misaki (三崎 幸代, Misaki Yukiyo), better known by her pseudonym Kirika (キリカ), is Mei Misaki's aunt and the owner of the doll store, Misaki M. Studio. She is also the person who makes the dolls upstairs while the store itself is downstairs.
Background[]
Before the start of the series, Kirika was born with her twin sister, Mistuyo. They both married and her older twin sister was soon pregnant with twins. These twins are revealed to be Mei and Misaki. Kirika also got pregnant, but she miscarried, leaving her devastated. At that time, the Fujioka family was experiencing financial difficulties. Because of this and the fact that Kirika was still trying to cope with losing her own daughter, Mei, her older twin niece, was given to her. Mei says that Kirika might have wanted to keep this a secret forever, but her grandmother accidentally let it slip.
Appearance[]
Kirika's appearance in the manga.
Kirika is a young woman with long, dark brown hair, which is placed in a blue ribbon at the back of her head. She has brown eyes and wears a white and blue shirt with a band, with a green shirt underneath. She wears black, three-quarter pants with orange shoes. In the manga, she has black hair and black eyes, but the same physical appearance. The only difference is that her eyes in the manga are sad, hollow, droopy, and looks like eyes of a sick woman, making her look older.
In the film, Yukiyo's appearance is the same as she had in the manga but she has short hair and looks a little bit young.
Personality[]
According to Mei, Kirika doesn't really care about her or what she does, is indifferent towards her school life, and says she treats her like one of her dolls. She's described as a "strange woman who isolates herself in the studio upstairs." Mei also said that when she asked Kirika if she can see her real mother, she was very upset and angry. Yukiyo didn't allow Mei to see her real mother and sister, but Mei and Misaki, her twin sister, were meeting in secret. She bought Mei a mobile to be sure she doesn't go to see Mitsuyo. In the OVA, Mei said that Yukiyo feels guilty for taking away her twin sister's baby girl. She fears Mei might run away to live with Mitsuyo; because of that, she doesn't allow Mei to see Misaki. She is somewhat friendly with Kōichi and is intrigued that any boy let alone him has interest in dolls, and gives him permission to stop by anytime.
Plot[]
Kirika watches Kōichi
In the OVA, Yukiyo went to a doll exhibition in Tokyo. She is only mentioned by Mei once before she was actually seen. She is only seen briefly though, watching Kōichi Sakakibara as he was about to enter the store before she retreated to her studio upstairs. She also appears when Kōichi and Mei were talking and just says a few things before going back to what she was doing, in Episode 4. According to Mei, Kirika made Mei's glass eye for her after she lost her real eye, saying that "an eye with the same color as her eye will be boring", so she made it green. At the end of Episode 12, after Mei tells Kōichi she threw her phone in the river, she claimed that "she (Yukiyo) will buy another phone soon for sure".
Trivia[]
- Her home address is 4-4 Misakicho Yomiyama City.
- Kirika's real name, Yukiyo, is a masculine name. Its source is a Japanese expression meaning " A lifetime of happiness".
- In the original novel, Kirika's dolls are a mix of female and male. Also, the doll in the coffin that looks like Mei has reddish-brown hair and is not a life-size doll (slightly smaller) that wears a light colored dress.
- Early in the series Mei revealed that the doll which resembles her was meant to resemble the child Yukiyo lost during her pregnancy.
- Misaki calls her "Yuki".
- Misaki claimed in the OVA that Yukiyo and Kotaro aren't good parents as they let Mei lose an eye.
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