Talk:Mei Misaki/@comment-6052796-20140706133403/@comment-6052796-20140707105442

I liked how the anime approached her confrontation with Izumi. The thing about Mei is that you can tell what she is thinking by how she handles her emotions. That panicked look on her face when Izumi was about to stab her, while it could be interpretted this way, was not the result of her fear of Izumi. She herself knew who the real extra was prior to the fire, but she can't point the person out when Izumi is on top of her. She knows by now, Izumi can't listen to reason and she knows she can't flat out say that the extra is Reiko in fear of Kouichi in denial encouraging Izumi to kill her. It's almost like the cliffhanger of a movie serial only they can explain the impossible escape with a diablous ex Machina. I say diablous because the thing that saved Mei happened to be the thing that has to be stopped.

I see what you did there hehe.

With that said, she wasn't gonna be scared all the time. Look at the climax, as soon as she found Reiko, the first thing she did was grab the nearest pickaxe and told Kouichi to stay back. Sure he did it in the end, but give props to her to try to end it all with overkills.

As for Manga Mei, her guilt trip didn't stop Izumi from stabbing her in the eye. Albeit her glass eye, but still an Eye none the less.