Kōichi Sakakibara

Kōichi Sakakibara is the male protagonist of Another. He is a new transfer student to Yomiyama North Middle School's 9th Grade Class 3 in May 1998. He is the only son in the Sakakibara family. His mother supposedly passed away 15 years ago after giving birth to him. He also makes a minor appearance in phone calls during the events of Another 2001, where he is 18 years old. In the anime, Kōichi has a younger face, short brown hair, and brown eyes. In the manga, he has black hair and black eyes and looks slightly older. He wears Yomiyama Middle School's uniform most of the time. For his casual ...

Kōichi is shown frequently to have a very curious personality, being determined to find out what happened 26 years before the main storyline, despite repeated warnings from Izumi Akazawa and the other students of Class 3-3 to not go "looking for things that don't exist". He also initially believes M...