Mene Tame

Mene from the Uzoumuzou album cover

**Mene Tame** (多目 メネ, *Tame Mene*[?]) is an original character by Guchiry, and protagonist of the song *Abnormality Dancin’ Girl*.

She has an abnormal obsession with "*being abnormal*".

To the casual observer, though, she is already "*abnormal*".

## Appearance

Mene is a young presumably teenage girl with pale skin and short, deep lavender mullet-styled hair with two strands of hair at her bangs forming an X shape and matching eyes. Whenever she has a breakdown the edges of her iris becomes bumpy.

In her school uniform she wears a plain white shirt with a collar, black tie, and a grey-ish purple sweater over it all. She also wears a black skirt, knee socks, and white shoes.

Her first dress is black, with a grey ruffle on the center. Over the dress is a matching shoulder ruffle with a purple butterfly on the left side. She also wears a circle-shaped hair clip, black gloves, and leg strapped shoes.

Her second dress is a two piece bikini with a see-through skirt that resembles the bottom part of butterfly wings and see-through cloth on her arms acting as the top wings of a butterfly. There are three magneta circles with black centres acting as a necklace with a fake white proboscis in the middle. Her strapped shoes also look like wings, and the her feet turn purple as they fade into her pale skin at her knees. She wears two fake twintails that receive the same purple fade at the bottom to bright cyan, they most noticeably resembles Miya’s, which is fitting considering Mene’s attachment and growing obsession with her. Her hair is held by two light blue feathers and is decorated with six eye-like clips. Her ahoge now resembles a butterfly's antennas and her X shaped bangs become undone and go down. The outlines in her irises also noticeably became thicker. She has no eyebrows in this outfit.

## Personality

Mene is notably very quiet and introverted, as clearly seen in the beginning. She refrains herself from talking to others, and keeps her problems to herself, having been very quiet and closed-off. Her attitude is normally very grouchy and sleepy because of her constant sleeping during classes and daydreaming.

Inside, Mene is obsessed with the concept of "abnormality" to the point she accepts that she's going crazy from it. This obsession may have arise from wanting to be as special as Miya or intensified because of it. Though Mene wishes to be abnormal and to stand out, she is unable to accomplish this as she is not good at anything but not bad at anything, making her "average". She does make small attempts to try to turn her life around and tries hard to break out of her perceived "normality" but gives up near the end of the MV when she realizes she can only be her abnormal self in her head.

## Relationships

### Miya Nanamiya

Mene believes that Miya's outstanding grades and her popularity are abnormal, and desires to be just like her. She eventually falls in love with Miya and watches her during class. But in the end she is devastated when she realizes she will never be able to be like her nor be with her. Though she's in love with Miya, she's mostly interested in her abnormality.

### Amane Amasaki

Amane falls in love with Mene and actively tries to become friends with her and attempts to help her by telling her that nothing is truely ordinary. However Mene shows very little interest in her and doesn't respond well to her and chooses to ignore her most of the time. Though Amane loves Mene for her plain looks and calm atmosphere, Mene most likely thinks she's noisy like the rest of her classmates.

## Etymology

**Mene** (メネ, ***Mene***[?]) refers to **Mene**laus blue morpho butterfly.

**Tame** (多目, ***Tame***[?]) refers to the pattern (back side) of a morpho butterfly.

## Story

Mene in Gods' Miniature Garden was mostly stuck in her own head dreaming about abnormalities and eventually falls in love with a popular girl called Miya for her ability to attract attention. After observing Miya repeatedly and comparing herself to her, she comes to conclusion that to be abnormal you need to think you're abnormal. *"If that's the case, I am not normal, I just have to imagine myself as an abnormal being"*, Mene starts imagining herself as an anomaly in her head and locks herself away from reality. Mene is also unknowingly involved in a love triangle between Amane and Karen who both has a crush on her, Amane loves her for being an ordinary girl while Karen's crush for Mene is fake. The love triangle of Mene, Amane and Karen involves Mene's other classmates such as Yuu, Amane's childhood friend who's in love with Amane and possibly Toa who supports her various classmates' love which may extend to Amane and Karen.

Check Video Sequence in Abnormality Dancin' Girl for Mene's story in it.

## Trivia

* Mene has a diary, excerpts from this diary can be seen in the MV of *Abnormality Dancin’ Girl*. See Mene's Diary.
* In the *Abnormality Dancin' Girl* MV, a vase of flowers can be seen at her desk for a split second, which means that she has passed away.
* Mene's name may have been created by Hima.

## References

1. ↑ Translation Source
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1646342723157512193"メネは‘‘普通(平均的)’’なだけであって、得意なことは無いけど苦手なことも無いし別に特別劣ってるわけじゃないよ/Mene is just "average," while she's not good at anything, she's also not bad at anything, and she's not particularly inferior."
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1646349675405144064
"でも、頑張ってやっと平均的ってことは、多分サボったらダメなんだろうな… ﾒﾈﾁｬﾝは少なくとも俺よりは努力してるタイプだと思う/But if you work hard and you are finally average, it probably won't work out if you slack off... I think Mene chan are at least the type of person who work harder than me."
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 <>https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653114569538277376
https://web.archive.org/web/20230930165813/https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653114569538277376
" ‘‘異常’’という概念に恋をする女の子は、彼女から見て周囲から異常に‘‘注目’’されている女の子に憧れを抱く 「どうすれば彼女のような特異な存在になれるのか」 観察に観察を重ね、自分との違いを思考する/A girl who falls in love with the concept of "abnormality" admires a girl who, from her perspective, receives an abnormal amount of "attention" from those around her. "How can I become a unique person like her?” Observation after observation, thinking about how she is different from herself."
5. ↑ https://bomless-race-characters.localinfo.jp/posts/49036272
"クラスでは、ミヤ のことをいつも目で追っている。/In class, she always follows Miya with his eyes."
"平凡なんかじゃないと メネ に伝えても、彼女の声は届いていない。/Even though I tell Mene that nothing is ordinary, my voice doesn't reach her."
6. ↑ Mene's Diary
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653118946432925696
https://web.archive.org/web/20231005032925/https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653118946432925696
" ‘‘異常’’に憧れる女の子は、彼女の異常に‘‘注目’’を浴びている姿に憧れこそしたものの、あくまで‘‘異常’’という概念に恋しているため、彼女自体には大して興味は持っていない/A girl who admires "abnormality" admires the way her abnormality attracts "attention". However, she is not interested in the girl herself, because she is in love with the concept of "abnormality"."
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653116416898535424
https://web.archive.org/web/20231005032728/https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653116416898535424
"異常にやたらと固執する‘‘普通の子’’に恋をする女の子 クラスで一緒になった彼女の比較的地味(暗め)なルックスと落ち着いた雰囲気(頭の中で‘‘異常’’を妄想しているだけで別に落ち着いてはいない)が気になり、仲良くなるために積極的に関わろうとするが、‘‘普通の子’’は反応が乏しくほぼ無視される/A girl who falls in love with a "normal child" who is abnormally stubborn. They met in class together, and she became interested in her relatively plain (dark) looks and calm atmosphere (she was just fantasizing about "abnormalities" in her head, so she wasn't particularly calm), and tries to get close to her in order to make friends with her. However, the "normal child" do not respond well and mostly ignores her.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1645418681336487937
"ﾒﾈﾁｬﾝの名前の由来 (暇 大先生の命名) 多目(読み：ﾀﾒ) → モルフォ蝶の柄(裏側)から メネ → ‘‘メネ’’ラウスモルフォ から 裏側の気持ち悪いところが彼女の名前になってるんですね〜 Google検索で実物みたら納得いただけるかと ぐちりは虫が苦手なので検索は控えておきます…/Origin of the name Menechan (Named by great sensei Hima). Multi-eyed (reading: Tame) → Mene from the Morpho butterfly handle (back side) → "Mene" from Morpho menenlaus. Her name comes from the disgusting part on her backside~ I don't like insects, so I'll refrain from searching if I can see the real thing on Google...
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653114570742071297
https://web.archive.org/web/20230930165930/https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653114570742071297
"無意識下で彼女は自分を‘‘普通’’であると思い込んでおり、それが常日頃自身が実感している‘‘普通’’の正体であることに気づく 「ならば、自分が普通では無い、異常な存在であることを思い込めばよい」 頭の中に異常な自分を思い描き、彼女は自ら理想とする‘‘異常’’に閉じこもってしまったのだった/Subconsciously, she believes herself to be "normal" and realizes that this is the true nature of "normal" that she feels every day. "If that's the case, I am not normal, I just have to imagine myself as an abnormal being". She envisioned herself as an abnormal person in her head and shut herself up in her own ideal of "abnormality"."
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653127229608714240
https://web.archive.org/web/20231025132620/https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653127229608714240
" ‘‘恋すること’’に対して執着している子 精神的に不安定であり、容姿からは想像もつかない突飛な行動をする ‘‘普通の子に恋する子’’の様子を見て彼女に標的を定め、自身に対して「普通の子に恋している」と暗示をかけ、恋敵として立ち塞がる/A child who is obsessed with "falling in love". She is mentally unstable and acts in strange ways that are unimaginable from her appearance. Seeing the behavior of "a girl who falls in love with an ordinary girl," she targets her, hints to herself that she is "in love with an ordinary girl," and stands in her way as a love rival."
12. ↑ https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653127227452833793
https://web.archive.org/web/20231025132509/https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653127227452833793
" ‘‘普通の子が好きな女の子’’と幼馴染であり、幼い頃から抱えた想いをこれまでひた隠して過ごしてきたが、進学したことで想い人が‘‘異常’’なことに固執する子への恋を自覚し、彼女は苦しむことに 最近は恋愛相談を受けることが多く、家に帰っては涙で枕を濡らす日々を過ごす/She is childhood friends with a "girl who likes a normal child", and has been hiding her feelings since childhood, but now, after going to higher education, she realized that she was in love with a girl whose crush was fixated on things that were "abnormal" and she has been suffering. Recently, she often receives love counseling and spends her days soaking her pillow with tears when she returns home."
13. ↑ https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653457743070785538
https://web.archive.org/web/20231025133008/https://twitter.com/bomless\_race2/status/1653457743070785538
"妄想にばかりふけている子 その糧とするため、クラスメイトの叶わぬ恋を応援しており、その結末ばかり考えている（当の本人たち自身には興味が無い） 他人と接する際は明るくあろうと努めるが、基本的に根暗でよく爪を噛む癖がある/A child who is constantly indulging in fantasies. In order to feed her fantasy, she supports her classmates' unfulfilled love and thinks about their endings (but is not interested in them herself). She tries to be cheerful when interacting with others, but she is generally dark-hearted and often bites her nails."