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chrno fangal
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 36
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Originally Posted by Village Idiot
This is all from the top of my head:
Meroko's Past:
Spoiler:
Meroko's real name is Moe, whom lived around 40-50 years ago, and is actually Mitsuki's Grandmother's best friend.
Mitsuki's Grandmother had frail health, and she got betrothed to some ass.
One day, both she and Moe met a young musician, and all three became close friends and both of them fell in love with him.
One day, Moe found out that Mitsuki's Grandmother's betrothal was cancelled and Moe was betrothed instead, whom tried to rape her.
Moe ran away, and saw Mitsuki's Grandmother and the musican kissing. Believing that Mitsuki's grandmother cancelled the betrothal to be together with the musician, Moe slit her own wrist and committed suicide. This was the reason why Mitsuki's Grandmother hated music so much, because it cost her the life of her best friend.
Meroko found out that the musician is really Mitsuki's Grandfather, and tried to kill her, but was stopped by Takuto. Meroko found out that the two didn't get married. Rather, the musician got married to another girl and had a son, Aoi, whom married Mitsuki's mother, Kazuki.
Learning the truth, Meroko visited Mitsuki's Grandmother in Moe's form (looks so cute  ), where Mitsuki's Grandmother confessed that although she loved the musician, she had also loved Moe. Meroko told her to forget about the past, move on and be happy.
Izumi's Past:
Spoiler:
Izumi was hated by his mother, because her boyfriend left after finding out she was pregnant. Izumi wanted to make her mother happy, so one day, he jumpped onto a train track, and was killed when he got hit by a train. The last thing he saw was his mother, watching him and smiling.
But there was one thing that made Izumi different than all Shinigami, he had actually retained all his memories. Decades later, (he, Meroko and Takuto all worked in the same department) he found out that his mother was going to die. Wanting to see and talk to her one last time, he decided to take the assignment himself, but instead of talking to her, he took her soul as soon as she hear him coming through the window, his only words to her, was telling his mother that he became a Shinigami.
During all this time (Izumi was looking for a missing cat with Mitsuki), Izumi remembered his real name, Lio. He then tells his supervisor to leave Mitsuki alone for the time being.
As for Mitsuki's reasons for quitting:
Spoiler:
A lunatic is threatening Mitsuki to quit, or else he/she'll force her to. The lunatic sent a bomb through fanmail and hurt Ooshige (and Wakkoji fell in love with her ), and during a concert, someone threw a bottle at her, but it was blocked by Takuto. (hehe everyone was wondering why the bottle suddenly changed directions in midair XD). Mitsuki decided to quit afterwards because she didn't want her friends getting hurt because of her.
The manga also goes into more detail about Takuto's past.
Spoiler:
Takuto was an orphan just like Mitsuki, and Aoi was like a father to him. When Aoi found out that Kazuki was pregnant, he asked Takuto to name his child, but make sure that it's a girl's name (even though he had no idea whether or not it was a boy/girl XD). Takuto named the baby Mitsuki
A few years after Aoi's death, Wakkoji take Takuto to see Mitsuki at the orphanage. Takuto acting like a jerk (kicking away her soccer ball!) asks her about her parents and tells her that his father was a singer. He then tells Mitsuki that if she is ever in trouble to call him, he'll fly over, and protect her with all his power
Takuto's death was also different in the manga.
Takuto found out that he had throat cancer, the same disease tha Mitsuki has. Wakkouji performs the operation, and Takuto's life was spared.
However, he found out that he lost his voice, and that Wakkouji knew about it all along. Feeling completely betrayed and feeling that without being able to sing, there's no point in living anymore, he then jumps off the roof of the hospital and commits suicide.
When he 'woke up' he found himself talking to a spirit (who's wearing a dark cloak, with hair that looks suspiciously like Aoi), whom assigns him to work with Meroko as Shinigami.
There's also one interesting tidbit in the manga that wasn't in the anime:
Oh and about Eichi...
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Wow, thanks, pal! 
Hehe, now I'm even more fired up to buy the manga! Hmm... It seems like the manga concentrated more on their pasts and her singing career... And I like it!
Oh and btw, did the anime came out first or the manga?
Which means to say that Eichi's soul wasn't guided to the afterlife? Then what happened to him? Is his soul is heaven now?
Can you do me a favour? If you did collect the Ribon issues or the manga, can you help me scan the page where Takuto embrassed her on her bed?
Really appreciated the help you have given so far! Arigato desu!
Last edited by Tomomi; 2003-11-09 at 04:43.
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