Talk:Yuuya Mochizuki/@comment-6052796-20140708123715/@comment-397235-20140715223002

The problem there is...kids get older. You'd have to recast people every season.

See, the reason my approach could be novel is you'd have the chance to see the kids grow up some, and you could make that especially devastating.

Take the scene I outlined for Izumi above. The current head of countermeasures (who, in my head, is a boy), is a huge admirer of hers because, so far as everyone knows, whatever she did stopped the curse cold. He starts doing things the way she did (strong arming, abuse, and terrifying his classmates), only for Izumi to find out and try to set him straight. She warns him not to make the same mistakes she did, since her countermeasures resulted in over half her class being killed, and tells him he needs to take the rest of the class into consideration, and he agrees to do so. The viewer starts to feel warm and fuzzy, both A, because things are looking up for class 3, and B, because they realize Izumi has grown up...and then they both die in a car crash. It'd also make it clear anyone can die, something the anime drove home very well.