Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-39.42.71.48-20140706212805/@comment-397235-20140707113004

Not always the calm ones, though. Who were the first people to die? Yukari and Ikuo, who were both pretty level headed. Junta got run over by a boat as the third student to die on screen, and he seemed a bit too bland to do anything crazy. Sanae didn't panic either, and died in that elevator. The first person to really panic was Aya, and she didn't die until just about the end of the story, and even then she'd calmed down significantly (she seems really sad in her last scene with Yumi, like she knows she's doing the wrong thing and leaving her friends behind; I sort of got the impression that wasn't her decision in the first place).

I think it always comes back to what I've always said: if people would take a minute, calm down, and think none of this would've happened. But they don't, or can't, or won't, because it's just too easy to do things the violent way. No offense, but I'm not a big fan of the Romero approach to story telling, because it makes for rather sloppily designed characters (extremely stupid villains and designated heroes, such as the guys in Night and Dawn who aren't much better); that, and the irritatingly persistent politics. I don't believe, as a writer, you should have any characters who are 100% unlikeable, because I've yet to meet a single person in real life without any redeeming qualities.