Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140928191616/@comment-397235-20140929035523

When did Mei do a bar flip? I mean, to quote Flash Thompson, this girl practically lettered in Running and Hiding for 1998.

And I rather doubt it. There are a lot of names Battle Royale has in common with Another but the characters themselves have very little in common.

I mean, the male class representative's name is Kouichi but he's a coward and is just about the first person to get killed once the game actually starts. Likewise, Takako is a major PoV character for a significant portion of the story and the only person she kills, like I said, is because the mutt in question decided now was as good a time as any to rape the cutest girl in class (that...doesn't pan out very well for him). For that matter, the main female antagonist's name is Mitsuko, and she's a raving lunatic.

Oddly enough, however, both stories are set in 1998.