Deaths

This page lists the deaths that have occurred due to class 3 grade 9's curse.

List of Deaths

 * Misaki Fujioka - The first death, the "Death of April." Mei's "cousin," who died after a kidney transplant.
 * Ritsuko Sakakibara - Kouichi's mother, her cause of death is still unknown. In the original novel, she died of a sudden illness soon after Kouichi was born, fifteen years earlier.
 * Yukari Sakuragi - Died because she fell down the stairs, which caused her umbrella to impale her neck. Her mother also died in a car accident.
 * Sanae Mizuno - Died when the elevator she was in cords snapped, which caused it to crash into the 2nd basement. This caused Sanae to hit her head on the floor, before the elevator came crashing down, crushing her in the process.
 * Ikuo Takabayashi - He died from a heart attack.
 * Kubodera-Sensei - He commited suicide by stabbing himself in the neck with a knife in front of the class. He also killed his elderly mother.
 * Junta Nakao - At first, he was shown drowning. Later on, a speeding boat comes and hits him, splitting his body up into pieces. It has to be noted that this happened outside of Yomiyama. This death does not happen in the original novel.
 * Aya Ayano - While leaving Yomiyama with her parents in their family car a rock fell and hit the windshield causing the driver to lose control and drive off the mountain. This death does not happen in the original novel.
 * Atsushi Ogura - Brother of Yumi Ogura, he was a recluse who stayed at home. Crushed to death by an excavator that crashed into his house.

The Opening
During the opening for Another there is brief shots of characters from the series appearing in some what of a grainy, film-like picture. When a character dies, they are replaced with a new character. Following Episode 8, it has been rumored that the third and fourth characters to appear in this segment are doomed to die, as they were once filled with Yukari Sakuragi and Ikuo Takabayashi. When Sakuragi died in Episode 3, she was replaced with Junta Nakao who died in Episode 8, this is alike to Takabayashi, who died in Episode 5 was replaced with an unnamed male student. The last position instead chooses an adult from the series, which originally used to be Sanae Mizuno. When she died in Episode 4, she was replaced with Shoji Kubodera who died in episode 7. He has since been replaced with Ms. Mikami.

Using this strange sequence of events, we can theorize that the third, fourth and ninth positions during the segment of the opening are "cursed" and will provide a hint as to which characters are going to die next.