Deaths

This page lists the deaths that have occurred due to class 3 grade 9's curse to the latest episode.

List of Deaths
Deaths are counted by the month they occur, as the "calamity" brings to death "one or more" of the individuals involved with class 3-3. They are named as "Death of (month)".

1983
Male students : 1+ Female students : 1+ Teacher : 0 Families : 4 Total : 8 (excluede the Dead)
 * Kyoko - Died from an illness on 12th April. She is someone's sister.
 * Watanabe's relative - Died from unknown reason on 9th May.
 * Student - Died in an accident on 6th June.
 * Student - Died in an accident on 13th June.
 * Ikumi - Died from an illness on 23rd July. She is someone's sister.
 * Ritsuko Sakakibara - Kouichi's mother, her cause of death is still unknown. In the original novel, she died of a sudden illness soon after Kouichi was born, fifteen years earlier.
 * Hamaguchi - Died by lightning in the crass trip on 9th August.
 * Hoshikawa - Died by falling off the criff in the crass trip on 9th August.

1993
Male students : ? Female students : 1+ Teacher : ? Families : ? Total : 12+
 * Mami Asakura - Died from unknown reason. 3 years later, she resurrect as the Dead of 1996.

1996
Male students : 4+ Female students : ? Teacher : ? Families : 1+ Total : 7
 * Shogo Ikenori - Died from an illness on 20th September.
 * Kazuma Akazawa - Died in an accident on 1st October.
 * Okutsu's sister - Died from unknown reason on 3rd November.
 * Shinobu Ono - Killed by someone on 29th January.
 * Akira Yamamoto - Died from unknown reason in March.

1998

 * Misaki Fujioka - The first death, the "Death of April." Mei's "cousin," who died after a kidney transplant.
 * Yukari Sakuragi - Died because she fell down the stairs, which caused her umbrella to impale her neck. Her mother also died in a car accident.
 * Sanae Mizuno - Died when the elevator she was in cords snapped, which caused it to crash into the 2nd basement. This caused Sanae to hit her head on the floor, before the elevator came crashing down, crushing her in the process.
 * Ikuo Takabayashi - He died from a heart attack.
 * Kubodera-Sensei - He commited suicide by stabbing himself in the neck with a knife in front of the class. He also killed his elderly mother.
 * Junta Nakao - At first, he was shown drowning before a speeding boat comes and hits him, splitting his body up into pieces. It was first thought that this death happened outside of Yomiyama, but this is however false. It seems like he hit his head in his home after he fell down the stairs, giving him brain damage. So he was "dead" before he even left Yomiyama. This death does not happen in the original novel.
 * Aya Ayano - While leaving Yomiyama with her parents in their family car, a rock fell and hit the windshield, causing the driver to lose control and drive off the mountain. This death does not happen in the original novel.
 * Atsushi Ogura - Brother of Yumi Ogura, he was a recluse who stayed at home. Crushed to death by an excavator that crashed into his house.
 * Kensaku Numata - Killed by piercing with broachs.
 * Yumi Ogura - She fell off a window during the pursue of Mei and broke her neck on the ground.
 * Makoto Ouji - He was burned to death when the dinning room exploded.
 * Takako Sugiura - She got tangled in the wires and got strangled to death.

Deaths in the Manga and the Original Novel

 * Manga
 * Novel

The Opening
During the opening for Another there is brief shots of characters from the series appearing in some what of a grainy, film-like picture. When a character dies, they are replaced with a new character. Following Episode 8, it has been rumored that the third and fourth characters to appear in this segment are doomed to die, as they were once filled with Yukari Sakuragi and Ikuo Takabayashi. When Sakuragi died in Episode 3, she was replaced with Junta Nakao who died in Episode 8, this is alike to Takabayashi, who died in Episode 5 was replaced with an Manabu Maejima. The last position instead chooses an adult from the series, which originally used to be Sanae Mizuno. When she died in Episode 4, she was replaced with Mr. Kubodera who died in Episode 7. He has since been replaced with Mikami-Sensei. After Aya Ayano died in Episode 9 she is replaced with Anzu Kanaki and Aki Matsui, while Nakao is being replaced by Makoto Ouji and Noboru Saruta.