| Misa Tamura | ||
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| Gender | Female | |
| Appearance | Period 17: Black Forum | |
| Fate | Deceased - Killed by Ghosts | |
Misa Tamura is the protagonist of the 17th period of the series and 5th manga. She often gets mad at her friend Eiko, but never to her face. She also has two other friends, Noriko and Ryo.
Bio[]
Appearance[]
Misa is a young middle school student with long dark-colored hair worn in thin pigtails held by scrunchies and neatly brushed bangs split at the corner. She wears her school uniform with a cardigan.
Personality[]
Misa's outward appearance gives her a gentle and mild-mannered look and she normally tries to portray that in public due to the image she has built up over time. She tries to keep things to herself until she can properly vent because of this, choosing to silently fume and bottle things up. When she really lets loose, she is temperamental and foul-mouthed, and very aggressive. She sees no harm in gossiping or badmouthing others behind their back if it means she can avoid speaking honestly to their faces and avoid hurting them.
She struggles to get along with her mother, who wishes she would study more. Over the course of the story she becomes paranoid.
History[]
One day on their way home Misa suggests to her friends that they head to the nearby subway to pick up some more photo stickers. But after Eiko complains and suggests they try the new location out she angrily goes silent as Ryo and Noriko express approval. The second she gets home she hops onto the online forum for her school, where she starts a new topic about Eiko and responds to it until dinner. But before she goes, she finds a topic about someone named "Tamura Misa", spreading slander about how she faked needing to see the nurse to get out of cleaning duty.
Misa assumes its coincidental, and at school the next day she asks her friends if there is a celebrity or someone else with that name, causing them to laugh as its her name. As they meet up with Eiko she finds a new post in the topic, and seeing her address and phone number she starts to panic and assume that Eiko is responsible. She begins avoiding her friends and runs straight for home after school to try to figure everything out. She recognizes one name, but recalls how it belongs to a girl who vanished some time back, then she reads on to see they planned an offline meeting.
Wanting to find the culprits, Misa shows up at the appointed location on the day of the meeting. But to her disappointment nobody shows up and she heads home later that evening. She returns online to see if something happened but to her shock she finds that they were there and took pictures of her. Seeing them posted online, she panics and throws aside her laptop. Alone and afraid -and dealing with an irate mother- Misa feigns illness to avoid going to school. She wishes she could confide in her over what happened, but it's too late. She decides to rest until she feels hungry and she leaves her bedroom to get the snack her mom left for her, where she sees a newspaper article about a girl who was found dead by her notebook a while back- the same girl badmouthing her.
When she returns to her bedroom she is shocked to see her laptop turn back on, with the topic on screen and she reads it's rapidly updating posts from various users about how they plan on finally getting her. She locks the front door to her house and takes shelter in her bedroom, observing the screen to recognize more of the usernames; they were girls who rampaged on the forum like her. Suddenly the screen shuts off, revealing several ghosts surrounding her.
Later, Misa's friends are at the diner discussing her when Noriko finds a topic about her. The original poster is named Misa, implying that she has become her target.
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Trivia[]
- She is the first Protagonist killed who comes back as a ghost.
- She is also the first one to target their friend following their death.
- She has the longest hair of the Protagonists thus far.
- She shares few things in common with Sakura Moeno:
- Both of them wear twin-tails.
- Both are deceased at the end of their story by someone who died prior to it and go after someone else who is implied will share their fate through the same means.
- Both of them have a deceptively innocent appearance covering up their harsher personality.
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