Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25281705-20140928125109/@comment-397235-20140928173858

She's what's called a tsundere. It means "hot/cold personality" in Japanese. Basically it's someone who acts tough on the outside but deep down is actually a fairly decent and compassionate person.

The thing I didn't like about her in the manga, like I've said, is she never actually does her job. Countermeasures is just kind of there; she doesn't actually do anything except nearly kill Mei, destroy her eye (meaning now there's no way to know who the other Extras are), and in the process get all her other friends killed by not being there to help them.

The Izumi in the film is probably the worst: she combines the worst aspects of the novel, manga, and anime versions of the character without any of the positive counterbalances.