Price : | |
Weight : | 150 g |
Director : | Tsutomu Mizushima , |
Year : | 2012 |
Genre : | Boy Series Animation , Girl Series Animation , |
Subtitle : | Chinese , English , Malay , |
Language : | Japanese , |
Video Format : | NTSC , |
Audio Format : | AUDIO STEREO , |
Discs : | 1 |
Region Code : | ALL , |
Model : | DVD , |
In 1972, a very popular honor student named Misaki died partway through the school year in Yomiyama North Middle School’s class 3-3. The rest of the students, devastated by the unexpected loss, decided to carry on as if their classmate were still alive, going so far as to keep the desk in place and bringing it to the graduation ceremony. Yet no one could explain why their classmate, already dead, was present on the graduation photo.[1]
In spring 1998, 15-year-old student Kōichi Sakakibara arrives from Tokyo in Yomiyama, to stay with his grandparents while his father works in India. He transfers into Class 3-3, but misses the first few weeks as a pneumothorax keeps him hospitalised.[2] While in the hospital, he receives a visit from his classmates and meets a mysterious girl wearing his school’s uniform called Mei Misaki, who seems to be visiting the morgue.[3]
Once recovered, Kōichi goes to school and tries to adapt. His aunt Reiko, a teacher at Yomiyama North,[4] gives him a few pointers, but, like his peers, remains evasive when it comes to their behavior towards Mei, whom they treat as if she doesn't exist. Kōichi is further confounded by the air of mystery around Class 3-3 and the fact that it is isolated from other classes, even practicing P.E. separately.[5]
Tensions suddenly rise when one of Kōichi's classmates, Yukari Sakuragi, slips while running down the stairs and dies, impaled on the sharp end of her umbrella.[6] This is one of many deaths related to Class 3-3 which have Kōichi and his friends Mei, Naoya Teshigawara, Tomohiko Kazami, and Yūya Mochizuki, trying to unravel the mystery of 1972’s Misaki and the senseless "calamity" that has struck Class 3-3 ever since.