MishaChan

.:About Me:.

Misha is an apprentice angel, and has been for some time now. She speaks like a small child, ending almost all of her sentences with "su", a shortened form of "desu", and tries her very best to make everybody around her happy; consequentially making matters much worse. She moved in next door to Kotarou and has always been very hyper and outgoing around him. She is happy and optimistic, and has always managed to keep a smile on her face despite feeling unhappy.

.:Anime:.

In the anime, Misha is an overtly-happy girl whose only mission in life is to spread joy and happiness. She isn't very good and makes a lot of mistakes, but she always manages to make something good out of a bad situation. It doesn't take long for Kotaro, Koboshi, and Takashi to realize that she's an angel, and they try their best to help her (an interesting difference in the anime and manga versions, because in the manga Kotaro never believed she was an angel until she showed him her wings, and Koboshi and Ten-chan never found out at all). She has feelings for Kotaro at the very beginning of the series, evidenced by her constant hugging on Kotaro. However, it took Kotaro a long time to fall in love with her as well (Possibly because Kotaro thinks that Misha is a weirdo at first). Ultimately, Misha tries to make Shia happy (by resurrecting her) and gets deleted from the universe — until the other angels realize that there is nothing really wrong with helping a demon - therefore she's resurrected. At the end of the series, Misha is still an angel apprentice.

.:Manga:.

In the manga interpretation, Misha was alive long ago, as angels age at a different rate than humans. Misha holds a tragic past as well. Misha originally knew Kotaro's great uncle, Kotaro. When she was an angel-in-training, she used to habitually visit him every night, speaking to Kotaro very formally — something that irritated him to no end. Eventually, he asked Misha if she would relax a little and lose some of the formality, though Misha took his suggestion way too overboard and ended up speaking like a small child to the day she met Kotaro in the present. At her older sister Sasha's demand, Misha was forced to agree to stop her nightly visits with Kotaro. Kotaro overheard this and, deciding that he couldn't live without Misha, he then committed suicide by jumping off the cliff and landing in the lake. When Misha discovered his body floating in the water, she panicked and tried to save him, but couldn't, as her body was transparent and would have passed through him. Kotaro died. Upon her return to Heaven, Misha was blamed for Kotaro's death, and was imprisoned in a jail of thorns and forced to wear only black garments for many years to come, with nothing but feelings of guilt and sadness. In this state she fell from grace to the point where mortals could see and interact with her. Eventually, however, Kotaro reincarnated into the present Kotaro, and Misha was granted one final pass at trying to help make his life better for him. She set up lodgings next door to him and immediately searched Kotarou out and sincerely tried to make him happy (even though Kotaro had no recollection of ever being Kotaro, and thus did not recognize Misha). Misha's final test on her angelic license exam was to make Kotaro happy; which she finally achieved in the eighth and final volume of Pita-Ten (it is also implied that she was accepted as an angel and finally allowed to wear white). Kotarou's last request was that she use her powers to make it so he could no longer see angels and demons. In the manga, nobody actually realized she was an angel except for Kotaro, Shia, and Nya. The rest just assumed Misha's weird actions were part of her oddities. Misha is generally innocent, very benevolent and forgiving. She most likely knew of Shia's true identity as a demon but simply didn't mind (along with the knowledge that Shia nearly killed Kotaro on more than one occasion, but she still allowed Shia to live with her). She was also determined to become Kotaro's replacement mother upon realization that he had none.