Synopsis
Meiko Honma, known to her childhood friends by the nickname Menma, is the story's central figure — a spirit who appears one summer day before Jinta Yadomi asking her old friends to grant her wish. In life she was a member of the Super Peace Busters and died as a child, slipping and drowning in a river near their secret hideout while running after an embarrassed Jinta.
Five years later she returns as a ghost visible and audible only to Jinta, though she can still interact with the physical world — opening doors, cooking, even playing video games. Menma has kept the innocence, kindness, and cheerfulness of the child she was: she worries about her friends more than herself, cries for their sake rather than her own, and hopes to bring the old group — Naruko, Atsumu, Chiriko, and Tetsudou — back together one more time.
Menma holds no grudge against her friends over the accident and simply wants to pass on so she might one day be reincarnated. She has a younger brother, Satoshi, and parents, Manabu and Irène Honma. Since childhood she cared deeply for Jinta, feelings she later describes as the kind of love that makes her want to marry him.
