| Meiko "Menma" Honma | |
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| Name | |
| Kanji: | 本間 芽衣子 (めんま) |
| Rōmaji: | Honma Meiko (Menma) |
| Information | |
| Hair Color: | Silver |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Human / Spirit |
| Height: | 147cm |
| Weight: | 36kg |
| Blood Type: | A |
| Age: | 15 |
| Birthday: | 18th September |
| Affiliation: | Super Peace Busters |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Voice Actors | |
| Japanese: | Ai Kayano |
| First Appearance | |
| Anime: | Episode 1 - "Super Peace Busters" |
Meiko Honma, called "Menma", is the female protagonist in the story. She is a sweet, selfless, child-like girl who was part of the Super Peace Busters before she died.
Personality
Menma is a very cheerful girl with a very air-headed nature. She's kind and often puts others before herself, especially when it comes to Jinta. She is extremely childish (although this may partially be down to the fact she died as a child and has only recently been 'resurrected'). Menma's favorite food is curry.
Although throughout the series she is surrounded by her friends, she does often get very lonely and upset easily, especially when she visits her family home and realizes she no longer belongs to them, nor does she have a home. Also, due to the fact only Jinta can see her, she can communicate with the others in the group using her notebook, and only her notebook, although Menma does wish to be able to talk to the other members. Despite being "dead", she is a very positive, energetic and lively person. According to Jinta, she is quite selfless and cries very often for others when they are hurt or upset, but not for herself. Jinta calls her "the beast of the summer" as he relates her to being a manifestation of his stress instead of a ghost girl.
It is discovered that Menma's wish was to make Jinta cry. It was his mother who asked this of Menma. Although she did mention that she really wanted to stay by everyone's side and enjoy happy times at the secret base. Her goal is to reincarnate so she will able to communicate with her friends for real in another life.
Appearance
As a child, Meiko appears as a small 5-year old girl with long, straight, silver hair that reaches past her shoulders with her bangs cut fringed on top of her forehead. Her eyes are light blue and wide, making her look like a cheerful, innocent child.
Her child and her "grown up" appearances are almost identical. She wears a tiered white dress, fastened with a blue bow. Her dress is often described in the anime as "a white one piece with a blue ribbon". Since she's a spirit, she always goes barefoot unlike her past self, who always wore simple sandals on her feet. In her older version her hair is about waist-length. Her skin is the palest among the other characters.
She is very skinny, and very short.
Trivia
- Like many other anime girls (and some guys), Meiko entered Saimoe Contests.
- Menma's nickname means "Fermented Bamboo"
Quotes
- "You found me." - (Episode 11 - "The Flower Blooming on That Summer")
- "If the dog of the day on the television is female, Jin-tan's doing something bad"
- "To Tsuruko: I love how gentle you are"
- "To Yukiatsu: I love how you always work so hard"
- "To Popo: I love how funny you are"
- "To Anaru: I love how you're always level-headed"
- "I don't want you to die! Never ever!" - (Episode 10 - "Fireworks")
- "I know. It's the type of 'like' where you want to marry me, right?" - (Episode 10 - "Fireworks")
- "I love you. Jinta It's the "I want to marry you" type of I love you"
- "I want to be Friends with everyone until the end. Please."
- "Thanks for everything today. Tomorrow I'll go to Heaven. Please be my Friends until the very end."
- "I want to spend more time with all of you."
- "If I would've had a normal life, I wonder if when I got older, I would've married you..."
- "After all, I don't even know why I'm here."
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