Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-82.173.92.77-20140912122859/@comment-397235-20140913150513

Reiko is hung-over most of the series due to the stress of keeping up appearances. She's also one of the few, 100% nice people in the series who never does anything questionable.

Aya was Yumi's best friend. She was one of the girls who came over and talked to Kouichi on his first day. Later on, Kouichi saved her from a falling window, which caused her to panic. Her family tried to flee Yomiyama, and Aya promised to call Yumi once they were safe. Instead, their call spun out of control and flew off the mountain, right at the same time the excavator was plowing through Yumi's house. So in less than five minutes Yumi's entire world has come a screeching end, and the time she needs her friends more than ever, Aya's gone...she's left with Izumi, who she never really hung out with before. Immediately after she becomes violent. I don't think that's a coincidence, anymore than Takako becoming violent after she starting hanging out exclusively with Izumi.

Misaki's in the bonus episode of the anime, as well as the manga (albeit only very briefly; the extra chapter of that is mostly about Reiko).

As for the deaths:

Yumi's brother's death was pretty sad too, mainly because you can the look of pure devastation on her face, and since it occurs concurrent with Aya's, you know her day will only get worse.

Yumi's death was sad too, mainly because I don't think any of us believe she really meant it. At least she died quickly.

Yukari was a genuinely nice person, and her death is both unjustifiable and horrific. Plus, judging by the way she flops around, she's fully conscious until she dies. Think about that for a minute.

Aya would've seen death coming for her. That's horrible.

Ikuo had a heart attack. That shit hurts, folks.

Takako died screaming and crying in extreme agony; on top of that, she knows what's happening to her. Her eyes are wide open and you can tell how scared she is. She was certifiable, yes, but that itself makes my point: she's not herself, and didn't deserve to die...at least not like that. I'm asthmatic myself: not being able to breath and not being able to do anything about it is the scariest thing in the world; you know you're dying and you know there's nothing you can do about it.

I don't think Izumi's all that nice a person. The only person she's really kind to is Kouichi, who she has a crush on. She's a jerk to Naoya, yells at Yukari and Yuuya for something she should've done, and manipulates her own friends. Her death was sad, I agree, but then so was just about everyone else's.