Talk:Yumi Ogura/@comment-64.237.139.211-20140421033942/@comment-6052796-20140704054841

I wouldn't justify Takako either. The fact of the matter is all three girls implied, be it by their words and actions in the anime's continuity was that even if Mei wasn't the extra they were gonna kill her anyway. Ogura's reasoning was because even if Mei wasn't the extra she still think's Mei is at fault for talking to Koichi which in her POV lead her to believe Mei's role in her brother's death. Takako's motivation was for the sole purpose of pleasing Izumi. The two were close friends and obviously outside of school Izumi lamented her hatred of Mei numerous times. And Izumi her's is the worst example. She wanted Koichi, much of her actions both positive and negative have always been a means of her trying to get his attention. She buys coffee for him, sits in the back seat with him. Uses the old fashioned cryptic blaming trick. I.E. telling him that the events were his and Mei's fault before backtracking and saying she can't bring herself to blame Koichi. Which pretty much means she still blamed Mei. With that said, all three shifted the blame away from themselves. They knew damn well what the risk of not telling him about the calamity was and yet by insisting on keeping it a secret they became solely responsible for the deaths because of his curiousity. The didn't even have to say it flat out. They could say "Look Sakakibara, there is a thing we do in school that must be followed no matter what, just follow our lead." He's not stupid and after hearing that prior to his first day of school and watching their actions he woulda put 2 and 2 together. That being said, before the calamity, they failed to do a proper background check on Mei. If it was so easy for Koichi to find out about Misaki Fujioka, then it woulda been easy for them to find out when the calamity really started. Hell Kazami already knew a bit about it but refused to believe it.