Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140801024539/@comment-6052796-20140803060831

I must have gotten the names mixed up. However the deaths when it comes to the people trying to kill Kouichi or Mei they it's not so much the method but the result. Reiko wants nothing bad to happen to Kouichi, but she cannot control how that happens. The fact that some deaths are more brutal than the other is merely incidental. Except for Takako. She said she wouldn't kill Kouichi, but still cut and beat him up.

As for why the same happens to those simply trying to kill Mei this is where reading between lines comes in handy. As Reiko, she met Mei in episode 8 and he at some point during that episode offscreen, told her that Mei was his friend, so odds are she is extending her already need for protecting Kouichi to Mei as well as she knows if Mei dies her nephew would have a broken heart. As Mikami on the other hand, she knew Mei before Kouichi enrolled and is simply trying to find a way to make up for putting her throught he role of Non-existence. Either way that Id is showing through those deaths.

Tomohiko on the other hand made it perfectly clear that even prior to killing those girls, he believed Kouichi to be the Extra, but as a class officer and a calculating person he wanted to see if he was wrong and just so happened to run into kouichi upon doing so.

As for Makoto, his only crime was being stupid enough to open a kitchen door even though early on he was told that the kitchen was on fire.