Talk:Misaki Fujioka/@comment-72.35.107.82-20141025053551/@comment-25485053-20141026033358

That's all presuming the countermeasure worked that year to begin with. It didn't work to prevent Misaki's death, so chances are it was never going to work that year at all, as it sometimes fails for no reason, and someone else would've just died in her place, you and Shanethefilmmaker even said so. Something else to consider is that the reason Misaki being the first death is so pivotal to the plot is that her death was pretty much a secret from the rest of the class, as was her relation to Mei, which tricked the class into thinking the calamity began in May rather than April. This is what in fact creates the misconseption that Kouichi acknowledging Mei is what started the calamity, but if someone else, be it a student or a family member, had died instead, than chances are the class would've been aware that the calamity began in May and the countermeasure failed without any obvious reason. Chances are they might've just revoked Mei's status as the nonexistant one as a result and explained the situation to Kouichi up front, drastically altering the course of events in the story, since they would look for another countermeasure right away.