P R O F I L E

Name: Meroko
Surname: Yui
Real Name: Moe
Surname: Rikyou
Status: Half-Shinigami
Animalform: White Rabbit
Hair: Pink
Eyes: Red

 

PERSONALITY & APPEARANCE

Meroko is a tsundere. (the kind of girl that is always irascible and ready to fight)
Her personality is cheerful and energestic, the type of girl that always obtain what she wants because of her stubborness.
She likes sweets and clothes, and in fact, she's the one that chose how have to dress the full team.
She made her and Izumi's clothes following her tastes, and because of those, we can see that she likes white and pink.
The separation with Izumi changed her a lot, and when she's in team with Takuto, her clothes are red (even if Arina-sensei wanted to color them as black, as the first chapters).
She thinks that all the people have to be sincere with her but she's the first one that hide her real feelings in order to don't be betrayed again.
The real herself is fragile and she cries a lot, it's in moments of sadness (and near to the day of her death) that she remembers about her past life.

STORY

Meroko's real name is Moe.
When she was alive she was a normal girl. She decided to commit suicide because of the betrayal of her best friend Fuzuki, that Meroko considered the one who wanted to steal the beloved bot to her, leaving Meroko to marry the guy that she rejected.
The realty is another and Fuzuki didn't marry him, she've always been devoted to Meroko and her death was the saddest thing of Fuzuki's life.
Meroko understood the true only when, as shinigami, she meets Fuzuki again, and together they visit Moe's tomb.
As half-Shinigami, Meroko decided to become a complete one and in order to do it, she made a team together with Izumi Lio, her first partner. Because of Izumi's rejection of her feelings, Meroko made team with Kira Takuto, a new half-shinigami, and their team is called NegiRamen.
Day by day Meroko seems to fall in love with him but that's not the truth, and Meroko understands her real feelings when Takuto rejects her for the umpteenth time. He loves Mitsuki, but Meroko can accept to be rejected again, so she decides to kill Mitsuki and to send her soul to the Heaven, but Takuto fights against her and thanks to Mitsuki's sweet and warm feelings, and Takuto's declaration of friendship, Meroko gives up, definitely becoming Mitsuki's friend.
It's fighting for her that Meroko understands that she've always been in love with Izumi, and the one for Takuto wan't real love.
At the end Izumi understands that he've always loved her too and they work together again, as couple and as team.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MANGA & ANIME

At the end of the manga Meroko and Izumi rework together as lovers and as team, in the anime is different because Meroko becomes an angel and she fly in Heaven, obviously without him.
Unluckily their relation isn't deep there...