Characters from the novel and the anime series Another.
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Main Characters
Kouichi Sakakibara
- Voiced by: Atsushi Abe (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English), Javier Naldjián (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Kento Yamazaki
"You don't have to hide it. Misaki, I actually think your eye is beautiful."
Originally from Tokyo, 14-year old Kouichi is forced to transfer to his mother's hometown of Yomiyama, at least for the duration of his father's trip to India. While confined because of a collapsed lung in the local hospital, he experiences a chance encounter with a strange girl, an event that foreshadows that things aren't quite right in the town, specifically in the school he eventually enrolls in.
- Action Survivor: The curse targets basically everyone in the class, Kouichi included, yet when things went haywire, he was ultimately able to pull through when, tragically, few others could.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the manga, he's much more distraught about sending his aunt Reiko back to the dead. Even though she was the extra, she truly loved Kouichi as her own child and Kouichi saw in her the mother he never knew.
- Always Save the Girl: He will do anything to protect Mei, even turn against the entire class when they try to kill her because they think she's the extra student.
- Apologetic Attacker: He apologizes to Yumi before kneeing her in the stomach to protect Mei.
- Bloodsplattered Innocents: In Episodes 7 and 11. Poor Kouichi.
- Bookworm: He reads horror stories in his spare time, such as works by H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King.
- Break the Cutie: Whenever he watches someone die, which is often since most of the deaths happen in front of him.
- Brutal Honesty: Even though Izumi is dying in front of him and asks if he remembers their first meeting, instead of lying and letting her die happy, Kouichi just says 'no'. Izumi even lampshades this trope before she dies.
- Bully Magnet: In the original novel and manga, Kouichi was picked on at his previous school in Tokyo due to sharing the same last name as a middle school murderer.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: A variation. He calls his aunt Reiko "Reiko-san" rather than using the "Aunt" honorific. At school, however, they're on a Last-Name Basis as teacher and student.
- The Champion: If someone tries to hurt or blame Mei Misaki, even if it's for the curse, Kouichi will do all he can to protect her. Even if they come at him with a knife.
- Declaration of Protection: He promises to protect Mei.
- Delicate and Sickly: He misses his first month at his new school because his lungs collapsed and he has to be bedridden at the hospital. In the manga, his lung problems often cause him to collapse when he witnesses all the death and murder happening in the class.
- Determinator: He takes a lot of damage in Episodes 11 and 12, but it doesn't stop him from trying to find and protect Mei.
- Extremely Protective Child: One of the students set him off by hitting his aunt and mother figure Reiko also known as Ms. Mikami.
- Hero Protagonist: The series focuses on him and his efforts to understand the curse of Class 3-3.
- Kill the Ones You Love: He's forced to kill his dear aunt and mother figure after Mei reveals Ms. Mikami is the dead person of the class.
- Last-Name Basis: In the novel, he calls Mei by her first name in his narration, but "Misaki-san" when speaking to her.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Due to missing the first month of school, Kouichi is left in the dark about what the Calamity is and what the conditions are to cause it. His classmates and Aunt, at best only gives him vague warnings on how he should behave at school. It's not until he's been Un-person'd by his class that Mei finally fills him in on what's actually happening.
- Naïve Newcomer: He just moved to his maternal grandparents' home for a year while his father is in a business trip at India. He has never been in Yomiyama since he was a child and knows nothing about the rules and dark secrets of his new school, particularly the class 3-3 where he's assigned.
- Named After Somebody Famous: His last name "Sakakibara" is the same as a real-life middle school murderer from Kobe
. He was bullied because of this in the original novel. - New Transfer Student: He recently transferred to the Yomiyama North Middle School because his father is working in India and sent him to his grandparents' home.
- Nice Guy: He's generally a fairly polite and pleasant individual, as well as one of the few who sticks up for Mei.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Kouichi had been in the hospital at the start of the year, so he didn't know anything about "The Calamity" or the measures the class set up to protect themselves. Since he'd already met Mei once before, he thought nothing of approaching her and starting a conversation, inadvertently violating the conditions of the charm and bringing doom to everyone. At least... that's what we're lead to believe at first. It later turns out that the Calamity had already started back in April with the death of Mei's cousin/sister, so the charm wouldn't have worked anyway.
- Only Friend: To Mei. Since her classmates have to pretend she doesn't exist, Kouichi is the only one who gets close to her and befriends her. This eventually makes him a "sacrifice" as well, but he doesn't mind since he can still hang out with Mei.
- Ordinary Middle School Student: He's a completely normal student who ends up in the cursed class 3-3 and gets caught in the devastating effects of the Calamity.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Mei's Blue.
- Secret-Keeper: To Reiko and Miss Mikami being the same person. Made obvious early on in the manga and original novel, but only revealed in the last episode of the anime.
- Took a Level in Badass: In Episode 11, he protects Mei Misaki from his entire Ax-Crazy class, alone. And took a direct knee hit to the crotch before disarming the perpetrator.
- Unlucky Everydude: He’s an average guy...who gets roped into an ancient murder curse.
- Un-person: His classmates decide to pretend that he doesn't exist just like they do with Mei once people begin to die. It doesn't stop the curse.
- You Leave Him Alone!: Kouichi says something similar to this to Izumi in Episode 10, when she tried to place the blame on Mei. He does it again in Episode 11.
Mei Misaki
- Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori (Japanese), Monica Rial (English), María Laura Cassani (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Ai Hashimoto
"Death isn't kind. It's dark and black and as far as you, as far as you can see, you're all alone, there's no one else."
Quiet and more than a little mysterious, Mei is the strange girl that Kouichi meets one late night at the hospital. This encounter, as well as the strange circumstances surrounding her while at school, prompts Kouichi to try to get to know her. In the process, this gets him involved in uncovering the truth behind class 3-3's dark secret.
- Adoption Angst: Implied in the anime, but it's elaborated more in the manga. At two years old, Mei was adopted by her aunt Yukiyo after the latter had a stillbirth. While it's not that they don't get along, Mei knows Yukiyo never moved on from her stillbirth. Mei tells Kouichi that she's just another "doll" or "replacement" to her aunt since she cannot ever fill the void in her heart caused by the loss of her true child.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Her role as ignored student makes her an enforced version of this, but even after her Unperson status is revoked, she’s treated with significant suspicion and disdain by most of the class as the perceived cause of the Calamity. The climatic witch hunt is ultimately the culmination of the class’ inability to trust or befriend a girl they’ve already decided to blame for their pain.
- Alliterative Name: Mei Misaki.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: She was hit pretty hard by the death of her twin sister.
- Aura Vision: She usually keeps her Doll's eye covered because it makes her see the aura of death on people who are dead or about to die.
- Big Sister Instinct: Towards her cousin/twin sister Misaki. Once she saw the color of death on Misaki, Mei became very protective of her. Misaki even noted how Mei acted like her big sister, even though they're the same age.
- Blemished Beauty: Mei lost her left eye due to a tumor when she was a child. Her mother gave her a doll's eye as a prosthetic and made it green, unlike Mei's real red eye, because she thought it would look nice. Mei prefers to wear an eyepatch over her doll's eye, but she's still fairly attractive.
- Broken Bird: Before the death of her sister Misaki, she was a cute and happy girl, even dressing in bright colors. It's implied her gloomy and isolated behaviour in the series is because of her grief over her loss.
- Conveniently Seated: Mei is seated in the back row by the window so she can daydream and easily exit if she so feels. It also helps her classmates ignore her.
- Creepy Loner Girl: When Kouichi meets her, Mei is a quiet and slightly creepy dark-haired girl the entire class refuses to acknowledge for some reason. She usually skips class to draw sketches and due to her doll maker mother's work, she lives in a creepy doll store. It gets downplayed later with the reveal that the class avoids Mei in hopes it will prevent Class 3-3's Calamity and her gloomy demeanor is caused by the recent death of her cousin/twin sister.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She warms up to Kouichi over the course of the story.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has the pitch black hair, pale white skin and the creepy factor required for the trope. We learn fairly quickly that she's actually rather nice.
- Emotionless Girl: She rarely emotes and is very reserved.
- Eye Scream: In the manga, she's stabbed in her fake eye by Akazawa.
- The Gadfly: Mei's a Nice Girl, but she has her moments. During Kouichi's first meeting with her, she inadvertently makes him think she was a talking doll. When Teshigawara accuses her of being the extra student, she decides to mess with him and say that he could be the extra. When they look for the tape and talk about The Seven Mysteries, she jokingly confirms one.
- Girl of My Dreams: In the live action movie, Kouichi first sees her in a dream.
- Glass Eye: She lost her real left eye to cancer when she was four. Her mother, who is a doll maker, made her an artificial eye to fill her empty socket.
- Human All Along: At first, we're lead to believe Mei is some sort of ghost that only Kouichi can see. Turns out she's a living human girl and her classmates just have to ignore her because they don't know who is the real ghost in the class.
- Incest Subtext: At least in the anime with her cousin/twin sister Misaki. Intertwined Fingers, feeding each other, wrestling in the bed they share, wearing matching outfits, bathing together, groping each other while bathing together...
- Inhuman Eye Concealers: She wears an eyepatch to cover her green doll eye because it "sees things that should remain unseen" like the "color of death" that allows her to know who is going to die and who is the dead person in her class.
- Loner-Turned-Friend: Mei is forced into complete isolation at school because everyone at her class ignores her presence as a countermeasure against the Calamity. Kouichi befriends her despite it being against the rules of the class.
- Magical Eye: Her Doll's eye can see the "color of death" on dead people or people that are about to die.
- Male Gaze: Minor, but many shots with her and Kouichi show in his POV staring at her legs and skirt area.
- Mark of the Supernatural: Her Doll's eye is green, in contrast to her red right eye. Said Doll's eye can see the color of death.
- Meaningful Name: Her first name is pronounced "May." Similar to the month Kouichi started school in class 3-3.
- Mistaken for Murderer: When Takako dies trying to kill Mei, Mei takes the knife out of her hands, just as Izumi walks in. Izumi, upon seeing the knife in Mei's hand and Takako's corpse, instantly believes that not only is Mei the extra, but also thinks she stabbed and hung Takako.
- Mistaken for Undead: In the anime, Takako Sugiura doesn't remember Mei having an eyepatch in elementary school and comes to believe that Mei is the extra student who was resurrected incomplete. In reality, Mei isn't the dead student and the girl Takako met was Mei's twin sister Misaki, who has two functioning eyes.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: In-universe, just hearing her name freaks people out. Partly because of the "charm", partly because she shares the same name as the original dead student.
- Nephewism: She was adopted by her aunt Yukiyo's family due to the Fujioka family experiencing financial problems.
- Nice Girl: She may be creepy at times, but she's actually really nice. Just ask Kouichi.
- Not So Stoic: A comical example when she gets attacked by a small octopus in episode 8.
- Oracular Urchin: She knows about pretty much everything that's going on, yet she only gives Kouichi very vague hints and warnings that don't really help him to understand the situation of class 3-3.
- Polar Opposite Twins: She's a lot more reserved and introverted than her twin sister Misaki.
- Power Limiter: She wears an eyepatch because her Doll's eye can see "things that should remain unseen," even if Mei doesn't want it to.
- The Quiet One: She's a person of few words.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted; she seems to be sinister at first but she's actually quite nice.
- Red Herring: Everything about her, right down to the way she appears and how others act around her, lead the audience to think Mei is some sort of ghost that only Kouichi can see. The truth of the matter is a bit more complicated than that.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the stoic Blue to Kouichi's and her cousin/twin sister Misaki's Red, both who are more openly emotional.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: She's basically Rei with pitch black hair and an eye-patch resembling Rei's usual bandages, while sharing her red eye(s), deeply stoic demeanor and the overall feeling of creepy cuteness/cute creepiness exhaled.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: She figures out who the "Extra" is sometime before the class trip, but doesn't want to say anything because revealing Reiko is actually dead would make Kouichi sad. She only reveals the secret when she decides she must kill Reiko before more students die.
- Sexy Flaw: Mei has a doll's eye to make up for the one she lost to cancer as a child. She usually keeps it hidden with an eyepatch, but Kouichi and Misaki have told Mei she should go without the eyepatch more often because her doll's eye is oddly beautiful.
- Significant Name Overlap: Her surname Misaki was also the name of the student whose untimely death resulted in class 3-3 becoming one that "invites the dead". Because of many misleading events surrounding her, the audience is made assume that Mei is the original Misaki's ghost. The truth is Mei is very much alive and the original Misaki was a boy. Although, her name might have been one of the reasons why her class chose her as the "sacrifice" to avoid the Calamity.
- The Stoic: Nothing much fazes her.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She comes off as emotionless and distant, but she's actually a nice girl when Kouichi befriends her.
- Two First Names: Her surname Misaki is a common given name in Japan, as seen with the dead student Misaki and her cousin/sister Misaki. This is pointed out to be the likeliest reason why Mei was given to her aunt's family; if Misaki was the one adopted, her name would have become "Misaki Misaki".
- Un-person: Her classmates pretend that she doesn't exist in hopes that it will prevent the Calamity from happening. It fails not only because Kouichi acknowledges her, but because the Calamity had already started with the death of her sister Misaki.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Her father apparently spends most of his time abroad and Mei isn't even sure what he does. Not that she cares.
- When She Smiles: In the manga, Kouichi blushes a little when he sees Mei smile for the first time.
Kouichi's Relatives
Yousuke Sakakibara
- Voiced by: Takurou Kitagawa (Japanese), Chris Ayres (English), Javier Gómez (Latin American Spanish)
"Man, India is seriously hot!"
Kouichi's father, a professor currently abroad in India due to research-related work. Kouichi's transfer to Yomiyama was prompted partly because this fact. He periodically keeps in touch with his son via calls to Kouichi's cellphone.
- Catchphrase: "Hey, son! You'll never believe how hot India is right now!"
- Disappeared Dad: Not really, but as mentioned, he is overseas when the events of the story occur.
- Foreshadowing: His talks with Kouichi over the course of the series indirectly provide hints related to the events surrounding class 3-3's situation, particularly concerning the supposed irregularities related to the "Phenomenon".
- Invisible Parents: He never appeared in the anime and only speaks to his son through phone calls.
- The Unseen: In the anime, he never makes a physical appearance.
Ritsuko Sakakibara
Kouichi's deceased mother and the older sister of his aunt Reiko. She went to Yomiyama North Middle School in 1972 and was in the same class with the dead Misaki Yomiyama.
- Missing Mom: She died shortly after her son was born. It looks like she was actually a casualty of the curse since her sister Reiko was a student of class 3-3 at the time.
- Posthumous Character: She's long dead when the series begins. She only appears in old pictures and Reiko's flashback in the manga.
- Practically Different Generations: Ritsuko and her younger sister Reiko are 11 years apart. This is relevant because Reiko was in middle school's class 3-3 when Ritsuko was already married, resulting in Ritsuko falling victim of the Calamity when she visited Yomiyama City to give birth to Kouichi.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks a lot like her younger sister Reiko.
Reiko Mikami (Unmarked Spoilers)
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- Voiced By: Naoko Sakakibara (Japanese), Molly Searcy (English), Mariana Martí (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Ai Kato
"Talent is a key factor, of course, but without some luck on your side, you're likely to fail."
Kouichi's maternal aunt and the assistant homeroom teacher of class 3-3, as well as the art teacher at the school. Reiko is an alumnus of the school that Kouchi transfers into, and was even part of class 3-3 at one point. At the end of the story, she's revealed to be the extra of the class.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the manga, she spends more time getting distressed and anguished by Kouichi being in danger of falling victim to the Calamity like her classmates and sister were.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the anime, her hair is tied in a ponytail at home and loose at school. In the manga, it's the reverse.
- Badass Teacher: She's willing to protect Mei from an angry mob, when they thought she was the extra. It comes back to bite her when Mei finds out that Reiko is the real extra and planned on killing her so Kouichi wouldn't have to. Though Kouichi ended up doing the deed anyway.
- Beautiful All Along: She's rather plain-looking normally. During work, she takes off her glasses, takes down her hair and gets a makeup.
- Cast as a Mask: Played With. The anime staff gave false information about "Ms. Mikami" being voiced by a fictional actress named Misayo Miyamaki, but Reiko is really voiced by Naoko Sakakibara in all of her anime scenes.
- Dead All Along: She is the dead person in class 3-3, rather than any of the students. Turns out she died in the Calamity one year and a half prior to the series.
- Doom Magnet: Because she's the dead person, her presence in the class 3-3 brings about the Calamity which kills the class members and their direct family. The Calamity stops after Kouichi kills her.
- Ethereal White Dress: As a teacher, she wears a black blouse with a white sweater, a white medium skirt and white shoes. At the end, she's revealed to be the dead extra in the class.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: A flashback to her younger years shows that she used to have quite shorter hair as a survivor of Class 3-3.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: In the anime, she takes off her glasses when she's working as a teacher. In the manga, this is inverted and she only wears her glasses when she's a teacher instead.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Reiko is seen cheerfully enjoying a drink in her free time.
- Hot Teacher: She works as the assistant homeroom teacher of class 3-3 and is pretty enough for one of her students to have a crush on her.
- Letting Her Hair Down: Played straight in the manga where she only wears her hair loose outside of her job. Inverted in the anime.
- Made of Iron: She gets struck in the head by a wooden broom till it bleeds and is found crushed underneath heavy rubble. Yet she still can move and talk. Though it doesn't work against a pick axe courtesy of her own nephew.
- Older Than They Look: She's in her 30s, but looks barely older than the students.
- Parental Substitute: Reiko wants to be a mother figure to her nephew Kouichi, as her sister died shortly after his birth.
- Ret-Gone: After Kouichi kills her, everyone in the class forgets about Reiko being their teacher and people's memories are back to normal, allowing them to remember Reiko has been dead for one year and a half.
- Stoic Spectacles: In the manga, she wears glasses during work and her behavior at work is more professional and serious than her outgoing personality outside of work.
- They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: She politely insists that Kouichi call her "Ms. Mikami" at school, out of respect for her being a teacher and he can only call her "Reiko-san" at home. In return, she calls him "Sakakibara-kun."
- Tomato in the Mirror: Not even she was aware that she's actually the dead person of the class.
- Two Aliases, One Character: The anime and manga mislead the audience into thinking Reiko and the assistant teacher are different characters, until the climax where Kouichi finds out she's the extra.
- You Are in Command Now: She's forced to take over as homeroom teacher after Mr. Kubodera commits suicide.
Mei's Relatives
Yukiyo Misaki
- Voiced by: Hitomi Harada (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English), Constanza Faraggi (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Miho Tsumiki
Mei's mother, and the owner of a ball-jointed doll shop.
- Berserk Button: While never shown onscreen, she does not like Mei spending time with her cousin/twin sister Misaki or her aunt/biological mother Mitsuyo, in fear of Mei one day running away to her biological family.
- Chekhov's Gun: Her doll making abilities allowed her to create a replacement eye for Mei. The Doll's Eye became crucial to identifying the Extra Student.
- Hands-Off Parenting: She doesn't know or care about anything Mei does at school. Nor does she interfere in her life except for certain unspecified things. She does make Mei carry a cell phone at least.
- Happy Marriage Charade: Implied. Her husband spends most of his time out of the country and Mei describes any time they spend together as an act.
- Pen Name: Uses the pseudonym "Kirika" for her job as a doll maker.
- Pet the Dog: Is fairly polite to Kouichi when he visits Mei.
- Replacement Goldfish: Yukiyo made a doll which resembles Mei to create a duplicate of the child Yukiyo lost during her pregnancy.
- Theme Twin Naming: She has a twin sister named Mitsuyo which rhymes with Yukiyo's name.
- Tragic Stillbirth: She had a stillbirth twelve years ago. Because of this and the Fujioka family's financial problems, Mei was adopted by Yukiyo's family. Yukiyo has been mentally and emotionally unstable after the stillbirth/adoption deals and it's implied she hasn't raised Mei very well as a result.
- Two First Names: Like Mei, she has Misaki for a surname despite it being a common Japanese given name.
Misaki Fujioka
- Voiced by: Hiromi Igarashi (Japanese), Felecia Angelle (English), María Laura Cassani (Latin American Spanish)
"I'm sorry, Mei."
Mei's deceased cousin.
- A Death in the Limelight: The OVA focuses on Mei's relationship with Misaki and it ends with Misaki's death.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: She and Mei wear Sweet Lolita-like dresses in the OVA.
- Family Relationship Switcheroo: She's actually Mei's twin sister. Shortly after their birth, Mei was adopted by their aunt after the latter's stillbirth.
- The Gadfly: She tells a guy who was trying to hit on her the story about how meeting someone's doppelgänger (look-alike) brings bad luck, knowing her identical cousin/twin sister Mei will arrive soon. She laughs as he freaks out and runs away when Mei appears. The moment also serves as foreshadowing for the rest of the OVA, especially because Misaki dies by the end of it.
- Genki Girl: She was quite energetic, in contrast to her more morose cousin.
- Littlest Cancer Patient: Suffers from leukemia and eventually dies because of it.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She finds things that any other person would normally find weird and ugly "cute".
- Polar Opposite Twins: She is more outgoing and cheerful than her twin sister Mei.
- Posthumous Character: She died a month before the start of the series.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The extroverted Red to Mei's introverted Blue.
Amane
- Voiced by: Sayuri Sadaoka (Japanese), Vicki Barosh (English), Matilde Ávila (Latin American Spanish)
"My, it's unusual to see a boy your age here. Are you a customer?"
Mei's grandmother, who works at the Misaki doll shop as a receptionist.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: As if the picture leaves any doubts...
Class 3-3
Naoya Teshigawara
- Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese), Chris Patton (English), Alan García (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Kiyotaka Uji
"That's how to stop the calamity. How you interpret this is up to you. Just make sure to carefully consider your actions. Think it through, and discuss it with your friends...so you'll have no regrets."
A Lovable Jock who befriends Kouichi when he joins the class. He is childhood friends with Kazami. Becomes part of Kouichi's inner circle alongside Misaki and Mochizuki.
- Childhood Friends: It's mentioned that he has been friends with Kazami since childhood.
- Death by Adaptation: He is killed in the 2012 live-action film after becoming entangled in electrical cables and electrocuted.
- Dumb Jock: He's said to like sports, and that his school grades aren't very good.
- Hopeless Suitor: He has a crush on Akazawa who thinks he's annoying and ignores him.
- In-Series Nickname: Teshi.
- Keet: He's rather peppy, at least, at first.
- Lovable Jock: He's a very outgoing, friendly, and good-humoured jock.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He's horrified after he thinks he's killed Kazami and Mei confirms Tomohiko isn't the extra. Luckily, Tomohiko doesn't die.
- Nice Guy: He's a little hotheaded at times, but his heart's in the right place.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- In Episode 9, he broke the tape that was supposed to help them stop the curse. Subverted since they were able to fix it later and hear it in full.
- Happens again when he thought that Kazami was the extra and pushed him off the balcony, believing he killed him and causing Kazami to snap.
- He also manages to nearly kill Yuuya in the film. Bizarrely, Tomohiko takes a break from trying to help Takako not bleed to death to call him out for this when Naoya is not especially okay with Izumi trying to kill her.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: Commonly wears a sports jacket over his uniform.
- Plucky Comic Relief: He's as much of a comic relief as he can be in a horror story, and even then, it wears off as the body count rises.
- Shipper on Deck: For Kouichi and Mei. He also suggests Junta is faking being sick to get more attention from Takako.
Tomohiko Kazami
- Voiced by: Mitsuhiro Ichiki (Japanese), Josh Grelle (English), Alan Kanaan (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Takashi Waka
"I know things about you that even you don't know."
A bespectacled boy who is a class officer, has high grades, and childhood friends with Teshigawara. In the novel, he is a supporting protagonist but is Demoted to Extra in the anime.
- Adaptation Personality Change: His personality varies drastically between adaptations. In the original novel, he's portrayed as somewhat unsure and cowardly; in the manga, he has a more rational demeanor and is generally calmer; the anime version, which has the smallest role, is a vicious, remorseless murderer.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the live action movie, he refuses to participate in Izumi's witch-hunt and ultimately saves another student's life in the process.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the anime climax, he's one of the students who go into a murderous rampage out of paranoia to find and kill the extra. This doesn't happen in any other medium.
- Ax-Crazy: In the last episode of the anime, he starts killing off other students in a desperate attempt to find the extra.
- Childhood Friends: It's mentioned that he has been friends with Teshigawara since childhood.
- Class Representative: The male one for Class 3-3.
- Cowardly Lion: He's a nervous guy in the film, but his courageous, kind side helps him save Takako from death and ultimately survives the movie. He's cowardly in the anime and novel, however, without a trace of the heroism: Naoya has to bully him into coming on the class trip despite being a Countermeasures officer alongside Izumi and Takako (who both go without coercion) and in the anime, he murders two girls by stabbing them in the back.
- Death by Adaptation: He dies in the finale of the anime, but survives in every other media.
- Demoted to Extra: In the anime, he's pretty much sent off-screen right after the first episode and doesn't show up again until Episode 10. This despite him being one of Kouchi's friends and a member of the mystery-solving gang in the novel and manga.
- Not Quite Dead: He's first thought to be killed after Teshigawara pushes him off a balcony (a cliff in the manga), but survives. In the manga at least, he still suffers a head wound and has to be carried by Teshigawara.
- Stoic Spectacles: His manga version is a calm and collected boy with glasses.
- Tranquil Fury: In the anime, he acts completely stoic when killing the other students to determine who the extra is. However, upon meeting Kouichi during his massacre, he flies off the handle. It turns out the reason why, is he holds Kouichi responsible for Yukari's death.
Yuuya Mochizuki
- Voiced by: Kazutomi Yamamoto (Japanese), Clint Bickham (English), Juan Balvín (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Kai Inowaki
"I feel uneasy about everything."
A quiet, shy boy who befriends Kouichi in class. He is a talented painter, being a member of the school art club, and has a crush on Ms. Mikami.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the film, he abandons his apparent Best Friend, Yu Yamada after the latter is hit by a car.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Kouichi comments, while describing their first meeting in the novel, if Yuuya were to "dress in drag" and go to Shibuya (a seedy district of Tokyo) he'd probably get "picked up" by someone mistaking him for a girl.
- Jerkass Ball: In episode 6, he took the entire art club with him for the sole purpose of keeping them away from Mei and Kouichi who was earlier the second Un-person. Since said club members acknowledged Mei, it was obvious they weren't part of class 3-3.
- Nice Guy: Aside from a couple of moments, he's quite kind.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He was the one responsible for letting the countermeasures group listen to Matsunaga's confession, unintentionally leading to the whole class becoming an angry mob against Mei. Further, no one ever calls him for it, either in the show or within the fandom.
- Nightmare Fetishist: A mild version. He likes Edvard Munch's "The Scream" because he feels uneasy when he looks at it.
- Tareme Eyes: As a rather shy and more mild-mannered student, he has droopy eyes.
- Teacher/Student Romance: He has a crush on the assistant teacher of his class. In addition, she also teaches the art club he's part of.
- Theme Twin Naming: In the novel, Yuuya has a twin brother named Naoya.
Izumi Akazawa
- Voiced by: Madoka Yonezawa (Japanese), Jessica Boone (English), Micaela Carla Oddera (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Mika Akizuki
"Honestly, you're terrible. You're supposed to say you remember, even if it isn't true."
Head of the countermeasures against the curse, Izumi has a lot of responsibility on her shoulders. Distant, icy, but ultimately concerned for the fate of her classmates, Izumi introduces the countermeasures to protect the class from death. Becomes close to Kouichi, convinced they met somewhere before.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed, but the anime gives her a few Pet the Dog moments regarding Kouichi, as seen below, and also emphasizes her sense of responsibility to her class. While she does scapegoat Misaki for the deaths and demand an apology, Akazawa also takes some responsibility for what happened and apologizes to the entire class.
- Adaptational Villainy: Strange though it may seem for someone most closely the series' antagonist, but Izumi at least has standards in every depiction of her...except the film. When Tomohiko plays the tape explaining how to end the Calamity for her and Takako at the Inn, Takako finally stands up to Izumi (who has bullied her for most of the film) and refuses to kill anyone. Izumi's response is to stab her in the throat. Not because she might be the Extra; just because her best friend wouldn't help her instigate a witch hunt against their classmates.
- Ascended Extra: She's a very minor character in the original novel, but is given a larger role in the manga and anime.
- Back from the Dead: In Another: 2001, she's revived as that year's casualty.
- Berserk Button: Not following the rules is enough to earn Izumi's unending ire, although this is justified since the rules are her job and not following them gets people killed. Hurt someone she cares about (like Takako or Kouichi), and she will very coldly beat you to death.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Implied to have a crush on Kouichi and she does a pretty rough job at actually conveying her feelings.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She tends to shoot a Death Glare at Mei whenever the other girl is around Kouichi. This isn't helped by the fact that she doesn't like Mei to begin with.
- Cruel to Be Kind: She ostracizes Kouichi out of a desire to prevent the curse.
- Dramatic Irony: The core tragedy of the first two-thirds of Another 2001 revolves around how the audience knows Izumi is that year's casualty... and she clearly has no idea.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Since the beginning of the anime, she has the feeling that she has met Kouichi somewhere before, but she can't remember where or when. Turns out she did meet him a year and a half prior to the story when she accidentally hit him with a can she kicked. The forgetfulness is justified since Kouichi was only in Yomiyama for the funeral of his aunt, a time erased from everyone's memories due to the events of the curse.
- Girlish Pigtails: She keeps her hair in twintails, which only helps to give her away as a Tsundere.
- Hate at First Sight: She has hated Mei since they first met, claiming to be annoyed by Mei's aloof attitude towards everything.
- Human Pincushion: In the anime, a lightning strike causes several shards of broken glass to impale her, fatally injuring her.
- Irrational Hatred: She really does not like Mei.
- Jerkass to One: She isn't exactly a nice person to begin with, but she's very harsh and hostile towards Mei.
- Morality Chain: To Takako, to some extent. She does not want to kill Kouichi because it would upset Izumi.
- Morality Pet: Despite her generally stern personality, Izumi has a soft spot for Kouichi.
- Ordered Apology: In Episode 10, she gives a speech to the class apologizing for her failure to stop the curse, then accuses Mei of failing to do more to stop Kouichi from talking to her and not showing any remorse for it, before demanding that Mei apologize. Mei says that there's little point in it now, but if Izumi thinks it will help, she'll comply.
- Pet the Dog: After Mr. Kubodera commits suicide, she approaches Kouichi because she's concerned about his well being. Although she warns him that some of their other classmates will blame him for the chain of events, she personally doesn't believe he was a factor in it.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Chibiki when he tries to talk her out of killing Mei, accusing him of being a coward for running away from his class.
- Sanity Slippage: In the manga, she snaps from seeing her friend Yukari having a gruesome death and her brother hanging himself. Having convinced herself that Mei is the extra, she tries to kill Mei.
- Spared by the Adaptation: The manga is the only continuity where she survives the Calamity.
- Tsundere: You can really spot it by her twintails, Zettai Ryouiki and Tsurime Eyes alone. She's harsh to Kouichi and Teshigawara, but it's easy to see she likes them well enough, even hinting she might have a crush on the former.
- Tsurime Eyes: As a Tsundere, she's bound to have these.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Everything she does is to protect her class, a role she volunteered for despite knowing how stressful it would be to her health. Even her Irrational Hatred of Mei and subsequent witch hunt comes from the desire to end the violence.
Yukari Sakuragi
- Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English), Noelia Culshaw (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Maya Okano
"Don't ever mention that name in Class 3 again!"
The other Class Representative, a sweet and gentle girl.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the anime, she has short curly brown hair with bangs and a small bun in the back. In the manga, she has loose straight hair and no bangs.
- Bespectacled Cutie: She's a cute and gentle girl wearing glasses.
- Class Representative: The female one for Class 3-3.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Her umbrella kills her when it impales her throat after she trips on the way down the stairs.
- Impromptu Tracheotomy: In episode 3, she trips down some stairs and lands neck-first on the metal tip of her umbrella.
- Mauve Shirt: Introduced as a class officer, and is the first in the series to die.
- Nice Girl: She's one of the most polite students.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Throughout the 3 episodes, she's been nothing but a nice girl, with a lot of questions to ask Kouichi. The only time she ever raised her voice in anger, was in episode 3 scolding Kouichi for mentioning Misaki's name. This was one of the first clues that tipped Kouichi off that Class 3-3 isn't what it seemed.
- Sacrificial Lamb: She becomes the first on-screen victim of the curse.
- Staircase Tumble: Yukari slips and falls down the school stairs. Then she gets impaled through the neck with the metal tip of her umbrella.
- Tareme Eyes: She's a very sweet girl, and as such, she has gentle droopy eyes.
Ikuo Takabayashi
- Voiced by: Shou Takano (Japanese), Blake Shepard (English), Damian Stavros (Latin American Spanish)
"It's not fair for her to force her own ideas on the rest of us! There must be so many things you wanna know, Kouichi."
The other local ill boy.
- Ascended Extra: He was only mentioned in the manga, but at least was seen in the anime.
- Chekhov's Gun: His death is revealed to be why the innkeeper of Sakitani Kinenkan (who is his grandmother) goes insane and tries to kill the students.
- Delicate and Sickly: The reason he doesn’t attend school often is because of his weak heart. Sure enough, as a result of the curse, his heart gives out for the final time.
- Every One Has Standards: Strongly disagrees with Akazawa's plan to Unperson Kouchi and is willing to answer his questions about the situation in Class 3. Too bad he dies before he can say anything.
- Mauve Shirt: He gets a decent amount of characterisation before he dies.
- The Unseen: He's never seen in the manga, just mentioned by his classmates.
- Youthful Freckles: He has freckles on his face.
Takako Sugiura
- Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Emily Neves (English), Noelia Lestani (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Mana Konno
"Don't torture yourself. What's done is done. The question is, what do we do about it?"
Izumi's best friend, a serious and no-nonsense girl who helps her with the countermeasures.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the anime, she has short ocher-colored hair above her shoulders and she wears two aquamarine hair clips on the sides. In the manga, she has braided Girlish Pigtails.
- Adaptational Villainy: The anime has her take a villainous role in the climax at the class trip where she tries to kill Mei and tells the rest of the class to kill her, convincing them that Mei is the extra.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the live-action film, her name was changed to Sakurako Wakui.
- Ascended Extra: She is existent in both the novel and the manga, just as a completely minor character whose only role is getting killed. In the anime, she's not exactly a prominent character either, but at least she interacts with Izumi and gets some action.
- Ax-Crazy: In the anime climax, she snaps when she's convinced that Mei is the extra and tries to kill her.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Strangling oneself to death due to some cables is not a nice way to go. Her death is notable for being the only one in the anime to get a Gory Discretion Shot.
- Custom Uniform: She wears a light blue vest or jacket (similar to Naoya's) over her uniform depending on the season.
- Despair Event Horizon: In the anime, Nakao's death is what ultimately sends her over the edge.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original novel and manga, Takako is killed by the innkeeper of Sakitani Kinenkan. In the anime, she survives this encounter, though it leaves her even more unhinged and causes her to attack Mei and Koichi. As she's trying to kill Mei, she accidentally strangles herself with electrical cables.
- Exact Words: She said she wouldn't kill Kouichi, but it doesn't stop her from beating and cutting him.
- First-Name Basis: With Misaki, Mei's twin. This is important later. She also calls Izumi by her first name.
- Identical Twin Mistake: In the anime, Takako mentions that in her old elementary school, she met a girl who was identical to Mei Misaki, save for having two functional eyes. The girl is Mei Misaki's twin sister, Misaki Fujioka. However, in her paranoia to find the extra, Takako assumes Mei is the Misaki she knew and now she's wearing an eyepatch because she came back from the dead incomplete. Izumi points out that Mei lost her eye at the age of four, before she ever would have entered elemntary school. Takako just clings to her delusional conclusion.
- Karmic Death: In the anime, she tries to kill Mei and tells her classmates that Mei is the extra so they must kill her to stop the Calamity. Then she attacks Mei a second time, only to become entangled in a bundle of electrical cables and strangle herself.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her Witch Hunt against Mei just gets more people killed while ignoring more major problems and results in her own death.
- Not So Stoic:
- At the end of episode 8, Takako screams and goes into a Troubled Fetal Position when Junta dies and his corpse is accidentally chopped up by a motorboat engine. Understandable: this happened when he went into the sea to retrieve Takako's beach ball and, not knowing what actually killed him, she surely blamed herself.
- In episode 9, she is seen near catatonic after Junta's funeral and Izumi is seen trying to comfort her.
- Episode 11 confirms that she's been emotionally unstable since the beach trip, explaining her Axe-Crazy behavior in trying to kill Mei.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Takako is reasonably soft-spoken throughout most of the series, and she's genuinely compassionate toward her friends. After surviving a murder attempt at the hands of the innkeeper her tone becomes completely flat and lifeless, and in the end, she's screaming and laughing. This is to drive home the fact she's not herself...not that anyone else especially noticed or seemed to care, and she's easily one of the most hated characters in the series because of it.
- Pet the Dog:
- One has to give it to her, she decided not to kill Kouichi when given a chance, because she thought he wasn't the dead one and Izumi would be sad if he died.
- She also seemed to have a soft spot for Junta, at least enough to check on his health before the class trip; she's in fact the only person in the entire group who actually cared he was sick. She also takes his death very, very badly.
- She makes it a point to not let Izumi blame herself for failing to protect Yukari and suggests that blaming anyone won't solve things, and the class needs to pull itself together. Izumi takes the first part to heart, and ignores everything else she says.
- She never directly does anything horrible to Mei until everything goes to hell. Even when announcing to the class Mei is the Extra, she never directly accuses her of causing the Calamity on purpose; interpreting the fact she's suffering PTSD and clearly unwell (and receiving no help for it) means her broadcast is basically "Hey, we need to kill Mei because she's the Extra and if we don't, everyone will die." At the very least, it's not personal for her, the same way it is for Izumi and Tomohiko. Even if she's completely off her rocker and wrong about eveything.
- Perpetual Frowner: The times where she actually smiles could be counted with one hand.
- Psycho Sidekick: In the anime, Izumi is her only surviving friend by the time of the school trip, and she can't bear the thought of her dying. Feeling that she must stop the Calamity to protect Izumi, she convinces everyone in the class that Mei is the extra and instigates them to attack Mei.
- Sanity Slippage: In the anime, she loses it during the class trip. After a misunderstanding makes her think Mei is the extra, she gets everyone in the class to try and murder Mei.
- Skewed Priorities: Ignores that fact there's a murder on the rampage that she barely escaped to start a Witch Hunt against Mei. Then by that point she's clearly lost it.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She survives in the film, thanks to Tomohiko.
- Stoic Spectacles: She is a generally serious girl, and her use of specs enhances this.
Junta Nakao
- Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese), Houston Hayes (English), Ariel Cister (Latin American Spanish)
The closest to a male friend that Takako and Izumi have, and he hangs around with them.
- Adapted Out: He does not appear in the live action film.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original novel and manga, Nakao is Killed Offscreen in the fire at the Sakitani Kinenkan. In the anime, he dies in the Beach Episode where he suffers an aneurysm, which bursts when he's swimming and kills him.
- Mauve Shirt: He's not the most important classmate, but is still more or less easy to recognize among them. And then came Episode 8...
- Staircase Tumble: He falls off the stairs at home, but seemingly is more or less fine until he dies from an aneurysm.
- Time-Delayed Death: In the anime, he dies as a result of an aneurysm from an accident he had before the beach trip. He's already dead before a boat runs him over.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Was throwing up a lot in episode 8. It later turned out it was the result of an aneurysm.
Yumi Ogura
- Voiced by: Iori Nomizu (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English), Constanza Faraggi (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Ayana
"I'll avenge my brother!"
Another friend of Izumi, a quiet young woman who gets specially affected and broken by the Calamity.
- Adaptational Villainy: The anime turns her villainous by making her try to kill Mei when Takako claims that Mei is the extra.
- Adapted Out: She doesn't appear in the manga, and the hikikomori brother is Izumi Akazawa's brother instead.
- Ax-Crazy: When she snaps, snap she does. She even gets a Slasher Smile when hunting Mei in Episode 11.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Normally, Yumi seems to be shy and quiet. But her ultimate breakdown turns out to be among the worst as a whole.
- Death by Adaptation: In the anime, she dies from falling off a window after attacking Mei. She survives in every other media.
- Despair Event Horizon: The turning moment for Yumi is her brother Atsushi's death, thanks to the Calamity.
- Disney Villain Death: In the anime, as she tries to stab Mei with a knife, she slips off a window ledge and falls to her death.
- Named by the Adaptation: While present in the novel, she's only ever referred to by her surname. Her given name is only ever stated in the anime.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Episode 11, she cracks, goes Ax-Crazy and tries to kill Mei, believing her to be the extra student who caused her big brother's death. When she snaps on Mei, Yumi openly states that she'll avenge her brother.
- Sanity Slippage: Atsushi and Aya's deaths affected her so badly, she ends up cracking worse than others.
- Satellite Character: In the novel, she's just a girl who hangs out with Izumi and Takako and has next to no role otherwise.
Makoto Ouji
- Voiced by: Go Inoue (Japanese)
A boy who appears solely in the anime series.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created solely for the anime.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has wavy, shoulder-length brown hair.
- Too Dumb to Live: He was told not to check on the dining hall. He still did and got burned to death in the following explosion.
Aya Ayano
- Voiced by: Mana Hirata (Japanese), Margaret McDonald (English)
"No, it's not supposed to be me! I don't wanna die!"
Yumi's cute and cheerful friend. Again, she only shows up in the anime.
- Canon Foreigner: She's an anime-exclusive character, although her first line of dialogue in the anime comes from the novel.
- First-Name Basis: With Takako.
- Genki Girl: She starts as such. Naturally, she doesn't stay that way.
- The Nicknamer: Sometimes refers to others with cute pet-names, like "Kou-chan" for Kouichi or "Teshi" for Teshigawara.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Averted. Both of Aya’s parents died in the car crash alongside their daughter.
- Repetitive Name: Aya Ayano.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Her parents attempted to do this by packing up and leaving Yomiyama by car. It didn't work: a boulder fell on the windshield, and soon the car plunged off the mountain...
School Staff
Mr. Shoji Kubodera
- Voiced by: Kozo Mito (Japanese), David Matranga (English), Adrián Wowczuk (Latin American Spanish)
"Many sad events have transpired, but do not lose heart, and do not give up. If we all support each other during these troubled times, we'll be able to get through this together."
The homeroom teacher of class 3-3.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the anime, he has a short haircut with bangs. In the manga, his hair is even shorter and he has no bangs.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the live action film, while taking care of his mother, he accidentally slips on some papers, causing the spoon he had been using to feed her to impale his eye and a wall pushes it further in. In every other media, he dies from stabbing himself in the neck.
- Driven to Suicide: He commits suicide by violently stabbing himself repeatedly in the neck right in front of the class.
- High-Pressure Blood: He sprays, like, half his pupils with his own blood as he kills himself. Holy crap...
- Madness Mantra: "I'm sure you'll understand."
- Matricide: Before killing himself, he killed his very old and ill mother.
Tatsuji Chibiki
- Voiced by: Hiroaki Hirata (Japanese), David Wald (English)Portrayed by: Yoshihiko Hakamaka
"Classmates should stick together, not kill each other."
The librarian of Yomiyama Middle School.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: In the anime, his hair reaches past his shoulders. In the manga, his hair is much shorter.
- The Atoner: He used to teach class 3-3 and was the reason why the Calamity was triggered to begin with. He feels responsible for the Calamity starting, as well as guilty over running away, and so does what he can to help.
- Badass Teacher: Don't mess with his students, even if you're a student yourself. The few times he does act, he's easily able to disarm and knock down his opponents.
- Big Damn Heroes: He saves Teshigawara and Mochizuki from the insane landlady in Episode 12.
- Cool Old Guy: He's rather ancient, but can still put up a good fight.
- Death by Adaptation: He survives in every media except the live action movie where he's killed when he gets in contact with Reiko and falls down in the flames of the fire at the Sakitani Kinenkan. He returns in 2012 as the "Other," now class 3-3's teacher.
- Don't Call Me "Sir": He prefers that Kouichi not call him "Sensei," ("Sir" in the English localization of the novel) so Kouichi and Mei call him "Chibiki-san" instead.
- Haunted House Historian: He has the most information about the Calamity and keeps records of the casualties caused by the curse.
- Heroic Bystander: He has taken the position as librarian so that he won't be affected by class 3-3's curse, while at the same time, also provides info on it to those that need it. He doesn't actively help the students until the class trip where he proves to be a major help in reducing the casualties.
- Mr. Exposition: Kouichi and Mei go to him when they need information about the class 3-3's curse.
- Put on a Bus: Conveniently "Put On A Car" during the summer trip's massacre.
- Supreme Chef: The manga shows he's a good cook.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He was the one that started the "Misaki's not dead" act after the student died, which triggered the Calamity.
Former Students
Misaki Yomiyama
The popular honors student whose death in 1972 resulted in the class 3-3 curse.
- Academic Athlete: He excelled in both academics and sports.
- The Ace: Charming, intelligent, sporty and popular. When he died, his classmates were so heartbroken that they acted as if he was still alive and with them.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Was the subject of his class's subconscious wish to bring him back after he died. He ended up coming back on their graduation day, appearing in their photo as a corpse, and cursing his class to suffer a deadly curse forever, year after year.
- Gender-Blender Name: Misaki is a rather feminine name, but boys have this name, too. This is the main reason why it could be assumed that Mei was the original Misaki until it's revealed the latter was a boy.
- Gender Flip: In the live-action movie, Misaki was apparently a girl, since an Annabelle doll was used as a stand-in for her.
- Gone Horribly Right: The entire reason Class 3-3 suffers a yearly Calamity. Misaki was very popular and well-liked, until he died in a fire that also took the rest of his family. His classmates were so heartbroken by his death that they pretended he was still alive... which resulted in Misaki appearing in Class 3-3's graduation photo as a corpse, just like the other students wanted. Because of this, Class 3-3 became a magnet for dead people, as well as an annual curse that kept targeting people indiscriminately until the dead person is... well, dead.
- Irony: When Misaki died, the rest of Class 3-3 subconsciously wished he was still there. Now, in order to stop the Calamity, Class 3-3 has to pretend the dead person of the year doesn't exist.
- Nice Guy: Apparently good-natured and well-liked.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His death was what triggered the Calamity, when everyone pretended he still existed and ended up attracting the dead to their class.
- Posthumous Character: He died before the series started.
- Walking Spoiler: Bring him up means bringing up his death being the source of the curse.
Katsumi Matsunaga
- Voiced by: Shinya Takahashi (Japanese), Illich Guardiola (English), Matías Carossia (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Masaki Miura
"...the only way to stop the calamity is: send the dead back to death."
A friend of Reiko, who also was a member of Class 3-3 some years ago and survived the Calamity with her.
- Accidental Hero: He inadvertedly saved 1983's class 3-3 by killing the dead student completely by accident. That year's Calamity stopped after that. He lost his memories of the event, but he left behind a tape to inform future class 3-3 students of the way to stop the Calamity.
- Accidental Murder: He accidentally killed the dead student of his class when he hit the latter in the head with a rock during a fight.
- The Alcoholic: Constantly seen drinking in the anime. He has his reasons.
- Ascended Extra: His role in the anime is expanded to an actual appearance outside of a flashback and a few more scenes.
- Heroic BSoD: After seeing Junta Nakao die, he fully remembers the tape he left in the classroom and suffers this.
- Hero of Another Story: It's stated that he stopped the Calamity in his mid-year. By killing the extra student.
- Madness Mantra: Usually relating to how he saved his class and about the object he hid.
Jun Hamaguchi
A boy who was a part of Matsunaga and Reiko's Class 3-3 in 1983.
- High-Voltage Death: He died when he was hit by a lightning bolt through his umbrella.
- Too Dumb to Live: During a storm in the class trip to the mountains, he took out his umbrella and got struck down by lightning for that.
Yuki Hoshikawa
A girl who was a part of Matsunaga and Reiko's Class 3-3 in 1983.
- Disney Villain Death: Once Hamaguchi died, the whole class started running around in a panic. As a terrified Yuki was trying to get to safety, she slipped and fell off the mountain's cliff.
Ryoko Akiyama
A girl who was a part of Matsunaga and Reiko's Class 3-3 in 1983.
- Canon Foreigner: She appears exclusively in the manga.
- Nightmare Fetishist: She liked to tease her best friend Reiko about Class 3-3's curse.
- Satellite Character: Her only traits are being Reiko's friend and telling her about the curse of their class.
- Tempting Fate: She joked around about the class 3-3 curse... And was its first victim in 1983. And later her best friend Reiko became the "extra one".
Others
Sanae Mizuno
- Voiced by: Seiko Yoshida (Japanese), Carli Mosier (English), Micaela Carla Oddera (Latin American Spanish)Portrayed by: Hiroko Sato
"So tell me, what are you reading these days?"
A pretty nurse who befriends Kouichi. Her brother Takeru is apparently a member of Class 3-3.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: She has her moments of clumsiness.
- Elevator Failure: She falls victim to one of these, as the cords of an hospital elevator give in due to material fatigue and make it fall to the bottom... with poor Sanae inside it.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: She forms a friendly relationship with her patient Kouichi. In a manga extra, she jokingly implies that she could be interested in dating Kouichi when he's older.
- Hospital Hottie: A beautiful lady who works as a nurse.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Particularly in the manga, she's the main source of comedy and light-hearted moments. When she dies, the story takes a much darker tone.
Tomoka Inose
- Voiced by: Mahiro Inoue (Japanese), Maggie Flecknoe (English), Constanza Faraggi (Latin American Spanish)
A friend (but not a classmate) of Matsunaga, who works in the café owned by her husband.
- Cool Big Sis: To her half-sibling Yuuya and the 3-3 kids she interacts with.
- The Confidant: To Matsunaga, as he confessed his role in stopping the Calamity to her.
- Demoted to Extra: In the novel, she's the one who relays Matsunaga's info on stopping the Calamity to the kids. This doesn't happen in the anime, since Matsunaga makes on-screen appearances there.
Atsushi Ogura
Yumi Ogura's older brother.
- Adapted Out: He doesn't exist in the manga, although manga!Izumi has a Hikikomori older brother named Kazuma Akazawa who is obviously an allusion to him.
- The Faceless: His face is never shown.
- Hikikomori: A standard example. He's only seen in his room, playing games at his computer. And this causes his death, since an excavator rams into the Ogura house and crushes him to death.
