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Momoko Koigakubo (恋ヶ窪 桃子 Koigakubo Momoko) (Nicole, in the Latin Spanish dub) is one of the main characters of Ghost Stories. Momoko is Satsuki Miyanoshita’s best friend and is in sixth grade. She is the oldest in her friend group. She is often possessed by Kayako Miyanoshita.

Appearance[]

Momoko has fair skin, brown eyes, and lavender-colored hair. She typically wears a sailor-themed school uniform consisting of a grayish skirt with a white trim, blue knee-high socks, and brown loafers. Her shirt is white and long-sleeved, with a blue collar and a yellow bow on it. She keeps her hair tied back in a ponytail with a large, pastel pink bow. She also has long curtain bangs.

Personality[]

In the original anime, Momoko is described as fearless, independent, smart, tranquil, and very beautiful. She is a very sweet girl who always has a plan and does not think twice about helping her friends. Satsuki and Keiichirou consider Momoko as their "older sister." She does not seem to care about boys.

English Dub Version[]

However, in the ADV dub, Momoko is a very different character. She is thought to have undergone more drastic changes than any of the other characters. In this version, Momoko is a fundamentalist evangelical Christian, possibly Pentecostal. Many of her lines contain references to God or Jesus. She also sometimes speaks disparagingly of Jews, Muslims and homosexuals. However, aside from her attempts to indoctrinate Keiichirou and her occasional reminders about spiritual damnation, Momoko is still otherwise perfectly polite and courteous to her "heathen" friends. In the dub for Episode 12, she reveals that before her conversion, she was a drug-addicted and sex-crazed "slut," and that she met Satsuki's mother while in a Christian rehab program.

Story[]

Momoko`s first appearance was in "Tonight the Spirits Will Be Resurrected! Amanojaku." She loses her cap, and the wind blows it all the way to the second floor of the old school. When she goes to get it, she meets Satsuki, Keiichirou, Hajime and Leo, accidentally scaring them. When Amanojaku starts to chase the gang, Satsuki looks in the Ghost Diary and Momoko helps to "destroy" Amanojaku.

Kayako (Satsuki's mother) sometimes possesses Momoko's body, to speak through her and help the kids fight a ghost. This happens first in the episode "Raise the Curtains! The Cursed School Arts Festival! Kutabe." When Momoko is in the spirit world in the episode "The Tunnel with No Exit - Anamaneki," Kayako is able to talk directly to her, and apologizes for the possessions.

As the series runs, Momoko always helps the gang, as she is fearless of ghosts. In The Demon Hand That Tears Through Doors: Night of Tragedy, she is the only who doesn't see Babasare, as only scared children can see them. In "The Nurse Who Tells Your Death - Mother's Feelings," she helps Satsuki to find Keiichirou. Later, when the Ghost Nurse disappears, she quickly understands that the Ghost Nurse is not evil.

Momoko's first main starring role is in the episode "Railroad Crossing of Evil: The Ghost Photograph That Takes Lives." When Leo takes a picture of the gang in the "haunted" train railway, the snapshot shows a mysterious hand holding Momoko's shoulder. As the episode runs, more things appear in the snapshot, as arms holding Momoko's neck and later, a entire woman holding her. And the most strange is that marks of hands appears on Momoko's real shoulder and neck. So, Momoko starts to get very ill, and later, the ghost Mrs. Shizuko possesses her, making Momoko go to the haunted train railway to get run over. However, Momoko is saved by the gang, and the ghost gets out of her body.

In the last episode, after Ouma and all the other ghosts get "destroyed," Momoko graduates and leaves Amanogawa Elementary School for middle school.

Trivia[]

  • Momoko's English voice actor, Monica Rial, has voiced highly diverse characters ranging from Bulma in Dragon Ball Z Kai, to Tomoko Kuroki from Watamote.
  • In the original, it is revealed that Momoko does not like her weight, as in "Raise the Curtains! The Cursed School Arts Festival! Kutabe," she wishes to the stairs's ghost that she would lose weight.
  • There are subtle signs that Momoko may come from from a well-off background, such as her possession of an early cellphone before children commonly had them and her parents' attire in their brief appearance in Episode 14. However, the dub plays her parents as having a dysfunctional relationship, perhaps making Momoko's purported childhood drug problems in the dub slightly more believable.
  • Momo means "peach" and -ko means "child" or "daughter/son." Thus, "Momoko" means "peach child."
  • Momoko does not appear in the episode "The Devil's Spell: Rites of Darkness."
  • She often exhibits motherly affection towards Keiichirou. This can be seen in moments where she holds him when he's scared, and feeds him a tangerine in Episode 10. This is interesting, considering her psychic connection to his mom. In the dub though, this is contextualized as her attempting to indoctrinate save his soul.

Quotes (English Dub)[]

  • "You're such kind, brave, handsome men... HaveyouacceptedJesusasyourpersonalsaviour?" —Momoko, Episode 1
  • "It's times like this that I support the Amish mode of dress. It is on the plain side but it does curtail adolescent erections." Momoko to Satsuki, Episode 5
  • "Oh, Satsuki, let's sing! [singing] Jesus loves me—COME ON, YOU KNOW THE WORDS!" —Momoko, Episode 6
  • "The internet was a blessing from the Lord Jesus to spread the word of God throughout the world, but pedophiles and Muslims stole it and used its holy power to seduce children like yourself into sin." —Momoko, Episode 8
  • "You just wait. When that wonderful president of ours finishes stacking the Supreme Court, we won't have to." —Momoko to Satsuki, Episode 10
  • "James 1:14 'Each one is tempted by his own evil desire.' But I think your skirt is helping them out, Slutsuki—I mean Satsuki." —Momoko, Episode 11
  • "Merry Mary called my house too, Satsuki (I'm unlisted so I don't know how she got my number). I tried putting my Patty Prayer doll on the phone, but those two did not get along." —Momoko, Episode 11

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