Many fans say that she's very needy. Do I agree? Maybe...

Before You went to America, he asked Miki if she could wait for him because she's all he has... When You was in America, she missed him terribly. Although she understood (eventually, all thanks to Satoshi) why he had to be there, she still wanted him to always be with her. She missed everything about him, especially the sound of his voice and she just couldn't face the fact that she was alone. When she went to America to visit him, she broke off their relationship because You wasn't willing to go back to Japan with her. But doesn't she know how she had hurt You by all this? And even when she had broken up with him, she always stayed in his mind, no matter what. Anju and Jinny were there, yet to him, it was always Miki. But Miki, needing somebody because she was "tired emotionally" went to Kei.

When You came home, although he was jealous, he knew that Kei was the one Miki loved now and it was Kei that made her happy, so he did not interfere. He took it like a man. Then at that camping trip, it was Miki who was jealous of You and Anju because they were having such a great time with each other. It was her wondering why she was still thinking of You because she already has Kei. But doesn't she know that You is hurting even more because of what she had done to him? That she basically broke it off with him because he wasn't there to support her and she just couldn't wait. And then what happened later on, when she told Kei she loved him, yet ran to You.... because it was he and only he that she loved... Poor Kei. Not only did she break the heart of her own love, she also broke the hearts of Ginta and Kei... Yet everyone can still forgive her.

This is the anime Miki's one true fault. She plays around with the hearts of many, as Arimi had pointed out to her once. Other times, she is also a bit selfish. Sure she has a VERY big heart (like forgiving people like Jinny and Suzu for what they had done), yet sometimes it seems she's only thinking about herself and not how the other person or people might be effected by what she's doing.

There's something about Miki though that has an affect on everyone. She's far, FAR from perfect but she did grow a bit throughout the show and became what she should have been from the very beginning. She became much more sure of herself, she began to have confidence and became more trusting when it came to her relationship. She finally began to mature.

She knows she can never be as beautiful as the other women, she knows she has faults, she knows she just has a "simple" personality compared to everyone else but despite all that, she's just so full of life and spirit. She's always willing to help and to be there for everyone. She was there for Meiko and she was also there for Arimi and Ginta. And isn't it just fitting that her name means, "BRIGHT?" Because that's what she is, there's no other word to describe her but that. She's the kind of person, though still easily angered when teased, brightens up everyone and she almost always finds that silver lining behind all those dark clouds.