History Characters / Another

* RepetitiveName: '''Aya''' '''Aya'''no

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:The turning moment for Yumi is her brother Atsushi's death, thanks to the Calamity. When she snaps on Mei, Yumi openly states that she'll avenge him.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:In Episode 11, she cracks, goes AxCrazy and tries to kill Mei, believing her to be the extra student who caused her big brother's death.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Saves Teshigawara and Mochizuki from the insane landlady in Episode 12.]]

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Her close relationship to Kouichi seems to have some undertones of this.

* CanonImmigrant: He didn't exist in the manga. In the manga, [[spoiler:Izumi]] has an older brother instead, but his name is [[spoiler:Kazuma Akazawa]] ''and'' [[spoiler:he commits suicide.]] He's present in the original novel, though; in fact, while she's actually a member of Class 3-3, Yumi is mentioned only indirectly as his little sister.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Yumi, who seems to have been close to him despite him being a {{hikikomori}}, loses it ''badly'' after his death.]]

* NonuniformUniform: Commonly wears a sports jacket over his uniform.

* DemotedToExtra: 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 manga.

* StoicSpectacles: He's a calm and collected boy with glasses.

* StaircaseTumble: [[spoiler:Cruel subversion: Yukari didn't die when she slipped and fell down the school stairs, already a bad potential way to go... but when she got impaled ''[[ImpromptuTracheotomy through the neck]]'' with the metal tip of her umbrella.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:His death is revealed to be why the innkeeper (who is his grandmother) went insane and tried to kill the students.]]

* YouthfulFreckles: As seen in the picture.

* IdenticalTwinMistake: 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. [[spoiler: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 dead incomplete.]]

* StaircaseTumble: He falls off the stairs at home, but seemingly was more or less fine.
* TimeDelayedDeath: In the anime, [[spoiler:he dies as a result of an aneurysm from an accident he had before the beach trip. He's already dead before the boat cones along.]]

* ChildhoodFriends: With Kazami
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Akazawa.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kazami, and Mochizuki in the anime.

* {{Keet}}: He’s rather peppy, at least, at first…
* LovableJock: Very outgoing, friendly, and good-humoured.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Reacts this way [[spoiler:after he thinks he's killed Kazami.]]

* PluckyComicRelief: As much as one can be in a horror story, and even then, it wears off as the body count rises.

* ThoseTwoGuys: With Kazami [[spoiler:and later Mochizuki.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:While most of the class went batshit insane in episode 11, this guy takes it UpToEleven in episode 12.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: In the anime; he's introduced early on, then doesn't show up again until Episode 10 due to being DemotedToExtra.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Teshigawara.

* CowardlyLion: Is 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 [[spoiler:murders two girls by stabbing them in the back.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:First thought to be killed after Teshigawara pushes him off a balcony (a cliff in the manga), but survives. Actually happens in the finale of the anime.]]
* DemotedToExtra: In the anime. Despite being one of Kouchi's friends and a member of the mystery-solving gang in the manga, he's pretty much sent off-screen right after the beginning of the anime. Oddly, the film gives him a much larger role; when Kouichi becomes the nonexistent student alongside Mei, he mentions being shunned by Tomohiko is one of the parts that hurt that most, as they had genuinely become friends.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Teshigawara.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:After falling from a two story balcony and being assumed dead, he's able to get up and start walking around again with little problem. In the manga at least, he suffers a head wound and has to be carried by Teshigawara.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:In the anime, he starts killing off other students in a desperate attempt to find the extra.]]
* ShipTease: Episode 12 hints that he might have had affections for Yukari Sakuragi.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Teshigawara [[spoiler:until his death]].
* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: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.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Teshigawara in the anime.
* HotForTeacher: Apparently has a crush on Ms. Mikami.

* NiceGuy: Aside from a couple of moments, he’s quite kind.

* TaremeEyes: As a rather shy and more mild-mannered student, he has these.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With [[spoiler:Teshigawara near the end.]]

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Since the beginning, she has had the feeling that she has met Kouichi somewhere before, but she can't remember where or when. [[spoiler:Turns out she did meet him a few years 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.]]

* CynicismCatalyst: To his friend [[spoiler:Takako]], since [[spoiler:his death is what ultimately sends her over the edge.]]
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler:Subverted. He fell off the stairs at home but seemingly was more or less fine. In reality, he suffered an aneurysm, which burst when he was swimming and killed him.]]
* MauveShirt: [[spoiler:He's not the most important classmate, but is still more or less easy to recognize among them. And then came Episode 8...]]
* TimeDelayedDeath: [[spoiler:Died as a result of an aneurysm from an accident he had before the beach trip. He was already dead before the boat came along.]]

Another friend of Izumi, a quiet young woman who gets ''specially'' affected and broken by the Calamity...

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Atsushi and Aya's deaths affected her so badly, she ends up cracking worse than others. She even gets a SlasherSmile when hunting Mei in Episode 11.]]

* CanonImmigrant:
** She didn't appear in the manga, and [[spoiler:the {{hikikomori}} brother was Izumi Akazawa's brother]] instead.
** Apparently, while she did exist in the novel [[spoiler:and survived the curse]], she was just a girl who hung out with Takako and Izumi and had next to no role otherwise.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:THE turning moment for Yumi is her brother Atsushi's death, thanks to the Calamity. When she snaps on Mei, Yumi openly states that she'll avenge him.]]
* GroinAttack: A blink and it's missed moment. [[spoiler:She slips trying to stab Mei, only to have her land crotch first on the window sill before falling to her death.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:When an apparently sweet girl snaps, ''[[AxCrazy snap]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge she]] [[NightmareFace does]]''.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: When Izumi blamed Mei for the calamity, Yumi nodded in agreement.

* CanonImmigrant: Was created solely for the anime.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Even more than Mochizuki, and that's something.

* CanonImmigrant: She appears only in the anime. Her first line of dialogue in the anime comes from the novel, so it's likely she's just a background, unnamed character. This also means in the novel, she and Yumi both survive the Calamity.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the live action movie, he's killed when he gets in contact with Reiko and falls down in the flames. He returns in 2012 as the "Other," now class 3-3's teacher.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:He accidentally killed the dead student of his class during a fight.]]

* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler:He died when he was hit by a lightning bolt through his umbrella..]]
* TooDumbToLive: According to [[spoiler:Matsunaga]], he was dimmer than usual. [[spoiler:He was the only one with an umbrella and got struck down by lightning for that.]]

* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: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.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With [[spoiler:Reiko Mikami]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:She joked around about the curse... And was its first victim in 1983.]] And later [[spoiler:her best friend Reiko became the "extra one".]]
* NightmareFetishist: She liked to tease her best friend [[spoiler:Reiko]] about Class 3-3's curse.

* AuraVision: [[spoiler:She usually keeps her Doll's eye covered because it makes her see the aura of death on other people.]]

* EyeScream: In the manga [[spoiler:she's stabbed in her fake eye by Akazawa.]]

* OracularUrchin: She knows about pretty much everything that's going on, yet she only gives very vague hints that don't really help to understand the situation.

* RedRightHand: Takako Sugiura doesn't remember Mei having an eyepatch in elementary school and comes to believe that [[spoiler:Mei is the extra student who was resurrected incomplete. In reality the girl Takako met was ''Mei's sister Misaki'', who has two functioning eyes.]]

* SugarAndIcePersonality: She comes off as emotionless, distant and somewhat creepy, but she's actually a nice girl.

* ParentalNeglect: She doesn't know or care about anything Mei does. Nor does she interfere in her life except for certain things.

* RhymeThemeNaming: She has a twin sister named [[ThemeTwinNaming Mitsuyo]].

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Yumi Ogura's older brother.
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* CanonImmigrant: He didn't exist in the manga. In the manga, [[spoiler:Izumi]] has an older brother instead, but his name is [[spoiler:Kazuma Akazawa]] ''and'' [[spoiler:he commits suicide.]] He's present in the original novel, though; in fact, while she's actually a member of Class 3-3, Yumi is mentioned only indirectly as his little sister.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Yumi, who seems to have been close to him despite him being a {{hikikomori}}, loses it ''badly'' after his death.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: A standard example. He's only seen in his room, playing games at his computer. [[spoiler:And this causes his death, since an excavator rams into the Ogura house and crushes him to death.]]
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* AscendedExtra: She is existent in both the novel and the manga, just as a completely minor character [[spoiler: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 [[AxCrazy action]]. She also fills a Nice Girl role in the film.
* AxCrazy: Towards the end, she fucking ''loses'' it...
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Strangling 'self to death due to some cables is ''not'' a nice way to go.]] Her death is notable for being the only one in the ''series'' to get a gore discretion shot.

* ForeShadowing: In Episode 11, she and Izumi are talking. Takako mentions that in her old elementary school, she met a girl [[spoiler:who was identical to Mei Misaki, save for having two functional eyes.]] [[spoiler:The girl is Mei Misaki's twin sister/cousin, Misaki Fujioka, who becomes an AscendedExtra in the OVA.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Episode 11, holy shit...]]

* TheStoic: Most of the time, but ''much'' less towards the end.
* StoicSpectacles: [[RareFemaleExample She]] is a generally serious girl, and her use of specs enhances this.
* WhenSheSmiles: She's seen smiling sweetly [[http://another.wikia.com/wiki/File:Yuuya,_Takako,_and_Yukari.jpg in]] [[http://another.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tumblr_m71olxXWG21qzvtljo1_1280.jpg these]] pictures.
* {{Yandere}}: Episode 11 shows us she's got an... interesting view of [[PsychoLesbian her relationship]] with Izumi.
** AlternativeCharacterInterpretation is that by that point, [[spoiler:Izumi is her only surviving friend, and she can't bear the thought of her dying. To boot, she expressly spares Kouichi at least in part because she knows Izumi has feelings for him, not something she'd likely do if she saw him as a rival for her affections.]]

* AlliterativeName: '''A'''ya '''Aya'''no

* ShipTease: She's implied to have a mild crush on Kouichi.

* TheAtoner: He feels responsible for the calamity starting, as well as guilty over running away, and so does what he can to help.

* BigGood: The closest thing to one in this series, as he has the most information about the calamity [[spoiler: and proves to be a major help in the class trip.]]
* CoolOldGuy: He’s rather ancient, but can still put up a good fight.

* HauntedHouseHistorian: In general about the curse, and for Kouichi and Mei in particular when they ask for help understanding the curse.
* HeroicBystander: In the beginning, he took the position of being the librarian for the sole reason of this trope. Before then, he used to teach class 3-3 [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom and was the reason why the calamity was triggered to begin with.]] He now takes the position as Librarian so that he wouldn't be affected by the curse, while at the same time, also provides info on it to those that needed it. [[TookALevelInBadass He didn't actively help until the class trip.]]
* MessyHair: In the anime.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He was the one that started the "Misaki's not dead" act after the student died, which triggered the Calamity]].

[[folder:Tomoka Inose [[spoiler:aka Tomoka Mochizuki]]]]

* BullyMagnet: In the original novel, Kouichi was a target of bullying at his previous school in Tokyo due to sharing the same last name as a middle school murderer.

* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: One of the students set him off by hitting their assistant teacher Mikami, as she's also Kouichi's aunt and mother figure Reiko.
* FirstNameBasis:
** In the novel, he calls Mei by her first name in his narration, but "Misaki-san" when speaking to her.
** He calls his aunt Reiko "Reiko-san" rather than using the "Aunt" honorific. At school, however, they're on a LastNameBasis as teacher and student.

* MissingMom: His mother died after she gave birth to him.

* NewTransferStudent: The last student to enter Class 3-3, because he was in the hospital for having a weak heart.

* CanNotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: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.]]

* JapaneseSchoolClub: She's a member of the art club. Since the students of ''other'' classes aren't affected by the Calamity, they take her in without much trouble.

* WhenSheSmiles: She seems to smile a lot when she gets closer to Kouichi.

[[folder:Reiko Mikami]]

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-->'''Voiced By''': Naoko Sakakibara (credited as Misayo Miyamaki when playing Ms. Mikami) (Japanese); Creator/MollySearcy (English), Mariana Martí (Latin American Spanish)

Kouichi's maternal aunt and the assistant homeroom teacher of class 3-3. Reiko is an alumnus of the school that Kouchi transfers into, and was even part of class 3-3 at one point. As such, she has first-hand experience about what exactly is going on, but is hesitant to reveal any details about it.

* BadassTeacher: [[spoiler:She was 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.]]

* BeautifulAllAlong: She's rather plain-looking normally. As Ms. Mikami, she takes off her glasses, takes down her hair and gets a makeup, practically making her look like a completely different person and way more attractive.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:She is the dead person in Class 3-3, rather than any of the students.]]

* TheGlassesGottaGo: 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.

* HotTeacher: 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.
* LettingHerHairDown: Played straight in the manga where she only wears her hair loose outside of her job. Inverted in the anime.
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:She was struck in the head by a wooden broom till it bled and was found crushed underneath heavy rubble. Yet she still can move and talk. Though it seems it doesn't work against a pick axe courtesy of her own nephew.]]

* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: She politely insists that Kouichi call her "Ms. Mikami" at school, out of respect for her being a teacher. In return, she calls him "Sakakibara-kun."
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Not even she was aware that she's actually the dead person of the class.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: The anime hides Reiko and "Ms. Mikami" are the same character until the final episode [[spoiler:to cause a bigger surprise when she's revealed as the Other]]. The anime even made up a fake name for her voice actress in her teacher role, despite her voice actress being the same in both identities, to prevent the viewers figure out the truth beforehand. This is {{averted|trope}} in the original novel and the manga where Reiko being "Ms. Mikami" is a known fact from early on.

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: [[spoiler:It was a lightning strike that caused the glass to skewer her.]]

* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler:In the anime, several shards of broken glass impale her, fatally injuring her.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:In the manga and anime, she eventually snaps and tries to kill Mei.]]

* NiceGirl: Very much so.

* ParasolOfPain: [[spoiler:Her own umbrella causes her death.]]

* TaremeEyes: She's a very sweet girl, and as such, she has these.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: She and Kouichi. [[spoiler:Ironically, that same umbrella kills her when it impaled her on the way down the stairs]].

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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Before killing himself, he killed his very old and ill mother.]]

[[folder:Tatsuji Chibiki]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroakiHirata (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Yoshihiko Hakamaka
->''"Classmates should stick together, not kill each other."''

The librarian of Yomiyama Middle School.

[[folder:Sanae Mizuno]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeikoYoshida (Japanese), Creator/CarliMosier (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.
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* CuteClumsyGirl: She has her moments of clumsiness.
* ElevatorFailure: [[spoiler: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''.]]
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Her close relationship to Kouichi seems to have some undertones of this.
* HospitalHottie: A beautiful lady who works as a nurse.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Of the dead student in his youth.]]

[[folder:Tomoka Inose [[spoiler:aka Tomoka Mochizuki]]]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Mahiro Inoue (Japanese), Creator/MaggieFlecknoe (English), Constanza Faraggi (Latin American Spanish)

A friend (but not a classmate) of Matsunaga, who works in the café owned by her husband.

* CoolBigSis: To her half-sibling [[spoiler:Yuuta]] and the 3-3 kids she interacts with.
* TheConfidant: To Matsunaga, as he confessed his role [[spoiler:in stopping the Calamity]] to her.
* DemotedToExtra: In the novel, she's the one who relays Matsunaga's info on [[spoiler:stopping the Calamity]] to the kids. This doesn't happen in the anime, since Matsunaga makes on-screen appearances there.

[[folder:Jun Hamaguchi]]
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A boy who was a part of Matsunaga and Reiko's Class 3-3 in 1983.

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: [[spoiler:Sorta. He didn't do a lot to ''actually'' deserve being hit by a lightning bolt (aside of having an umbrella), but he was in Class 3-3 so...]]
* ParasolOfPain: [[spoiler:He was hit by lightning through his umbrella.]]
* TooDumbToLive: According to [[spoiler:Matsunaga]], he was dimmer than usual. [[spoiler:He was the only one with an umbrella and got struck down by lightning for that.]]

[[folder:Yuki Hoshikawa]]
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* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: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.]]

[[folder:Ryoko Akiyama]]
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A girl who was a part of Matsunaga and Reiko's Class 3-3 in 1983.

* CanonForeigner: She appears exclusively in the manga.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With [[spoiler:Reiko Mikami]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:She joked around about the curse... And was its first victim in 1983.]] And later [[spoiler:her best friend Reiko became the "extra one".]]
* NightmareFetishist: She liked to tease her best friend [[spoiler:Reiko]] about Class 3-3's curse.

* BerserkButton:
** Do not even think about hurting or blaming Mei Misaki, even if it's for the curse. If you do, he will do all he can to protect her. Even if you come at him with a knife.
** One of the students set him off by hitting Miss Mikami, [[spoiler:as it's his Aunt Reiko as well as his teacher that was hit.]]

* DeathByChildbirth: His mother died when he was born, [[spoiler:though it looks like she was actually a casualty of the curse placed on the class her younger sister was currently in.]]

* {{Irony}}: He reads horror stories in his spare time, such as works by Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/StephenKing. Now he's in one.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler: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 UnPerson'd by his class that Mei finally fills him in on what's actually happening.]]

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His last name "Sakakibara" is the same as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_child_murders a real life middle school murderer from Kobe]]. He was bullied because of this in the original novel.

* UnPerson: [[spoiler: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.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Seems to be the only reason why she's become so close to Kouichi.

* CanNotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:She figured out who the "Extra" was sometime before the class trip, but didn't want to say anything because it would make Kouichi sad]].

* HumanAllAlong: 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 the truth of the situation is a bit more complex than it seemed.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: She and Kouichi have a lot of ShipTease.

* PolarOppositeTwins: [[spoiler:With Misaki.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Kouichi's and her cousin[[spoiler:/twin sister]] Misaki's Red.

* InvisibleParents: He never appeared in the anime.

Kouichi's aunt and the assistant homeroom teacher of class 3-3. Reiko is an alumnus of the school that Kouchi transfers into, and was even part of class 3-3 at one point. As such, she has first-hand experience about what exactly is going on, but is hesitant to reveal any details about it.

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: The anime hides Reiko and "Ms. Mikami" are the same character until the final episode [[spoiler:to cause a bigger surprise when she's revealed as the Other]]. The anime even made up a fake name for her voice actress in her teacher role, despite her voice actress being the same in both identities, to don't let the viewers figure out the truth beforehand. This is {{averted|trope}} in the original novel and the manga where Reiko being "Ms. Mikami" is a known fact from early on.

* PolarOppositeTwins: [[spoiler:With Mei. She is more outgoing and cheerful than her sister. She even used Mei's condition to playfully scare a boy that approached her.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Mei's blue.
* RepetitiveName: Averted. She and Mei think Misaki wasn't sent to their aunt's family because Misaki's name would have become "Misaki Misaki".

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* HotTeacher: She works as the assistant homeroom teacher of class 3-3. It's made clear early in the original novel and the manga, but the anime hides they are the same character until the final episode.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Is in her 30s, but looks barely older than the students.
* ParentalSubstitute: Both the novel and the manga mention that Reiko wants to be like this to Kouichi. In the anime it's still implied through her interactions with him.

* {{Meganekko}}: She wears a pair of glasses.

* {{Meganekko}}: She wears a pair of glasses.

* {{Bishonen}}: In the manga. The anime gives him a more masculine design.

* {{Bishonen}}: He’s quite the cute boy.

* {{Bishonen}}: More so in the anime.

* FreakinessShame: She's uncomfortable about her green doll eye [[spoiler:because it makes her see the "color of death" on other people]]. The second time she shows Kouichi what is under her eyepatch, he remarks that her Doll's eye is oddly beautiful, and that she should go without the eyepatch more often. Her cousin Misaki thought the same.

* IllBoy: Damn collapsed lung, keeping him in the hospital! [[spoiler:And making him miss his first day at his new school, which means missing the tips about the "other student"!]] The first episode suggests that it's hereditary and he got it from his father.

The other local IllBoy.

* IllBoy: Has a weak heart. [[spoiler:And it kills him.]]

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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Reiko is one.

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* {{Megane}}: He wears a pair of glasses.

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Kento Yamazaki

%%* UnluckyEverydude

%%* GenkiGirl

%%* {{Keet}}

%%* ClassRepresentative

%%* {{Bishonen}}

* JerkassBall: In episode 6, he took the entire art club with him for the sole purpose of keeping them away from Mei and Koucihi [[spoiler:who was earlier the second UnPerson]]. Since said club members acknowledged Mei, it was obvious they weren't part of class 3-3.
%%* NiceGuy

%%* MauveShirt

%%* CoolOldGuy

%%* CuteClumsyGirl

%%* TheAlcoholic

* FreakinessShame: The second time she shows Kouichi what is under her eyepatch, he remarks that her Doll's eye is oddly beautiful, and that she should go without the eyepatch more often. Her cousin Misaki thought the same.

* HideYourOtherness: She wears an eyepatch to hide her green doll's eye.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiAbe (Japanese), Creator/GregAyres (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatsumiTakamori (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Takurou Kitagawa (Japanese), Creator/ChrisAyres (English)

-->'''Voiced By''': Naoko Sakakibara (credited as Misayo Miyamaki when playing Ms. Mikami) (Japanese); Creator/MollySearcy (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HitomiHarada (Japanese), Creator/TiffanyGrant (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiromiIgarashi (Japanese), Creator/FeleciaAngelle (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Sayuri Sadaoka (Japanese), Vicki Barosh (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese), Creator/ChrisPatton (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MitsuhiroIchiki (Japanese), Creator/JoshGrelle (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazutomiYamamoto (Japanese), Creator/ClintBickham (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MadokaYonezawa (Japanese), Creator/JessicaBoone (English)

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AiNonaka (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Shou Takano (Japanese), Creator/BlakeShepard (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisatoFukuen (Japanese), Creator/EmilyNeves (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KengoKawanishi (Japanese), Creator/HoustonHayes (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IoriNomizu (Japanese), Creator/TiffanyGrant (EN)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Kozo Mito (Japanese), Creator/DavidMatranga (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SeikoYoshida (Japanese), Creator/CarliMosier (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Shinya Takahashi (Japanese), Creator/IllichGuardiola (English)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Mahiro Inoue (Japanese), Creator/MaggieFlecknoe (English)

* GenderBlenderName: Misaki is a rather feminine name, but boys have this name, too. This is the main reason people mistake him for a girl.

The popular honors student whose death resulted in the class 3-3 curse.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Has Grade B in the 7th Episode.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade S. She wears thigh high socks, has GirlishPigtails and is a {{Tsundere}}.

* BadDreams: He has a couple.

* UnluckyEverydude

->'''Voiced by:''' Takurou Kitagawa (Japanese), Creator/ChrisAyres (English)

* {{Meganekko}}

* GenkiGirl

* {{Keet}}

* ClassRepresentative

* {{Megane}}

* {{Bishonen}}

* NiceGuy

* {{Meganekko}}

* MauveShirt

-->''Voiced by:'' Mana Hirata (Japanese), Creator/MargaretMcDonald (English)

* CoolOldGuy

* CuteClumsyGirl

* TheAlcoholic

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* FirstNameBasis: With Takako.

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* AdaptedOut: She only appeared in the manga.

->''"I feel uneasy about everything"''

* AscendedExtra: She's a very minor character in the original novel, but is given a larger role in the manga and anime.

* IllBoy: Has a weak heart. [[spoiler:And it kills him]]

->''"Talent is a key factor, of course, but without some luck on your side you're likely to fail."''

->''"I'm sorry, Mei"''