Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-118.209.242.55-20131028121035/@comment-397235-20140705092028

She tried to kill Mei because she thought Mei killed her best friend. There's a lot of frustration there too, of course, since she'd apparently decided she had a thing for Kouichi but kept messing that up, as she did everything else, which almost always results and pushing him away and toward Mei.

She's definitely unstable in the manga (I mean, really crazy), and she comes closer than anyone else to ending Mei. She has somewhat justifiable reasons for being messed up, but I can't remember any at all for her going after Mei other than jealousy and frustration thinly disguised as doing her job.

I will say this, though. At no point in either the manga or anime do I feel she crossed the moral even horizon reaching the other side of which is deserving of death. The only person she kills is Tomohiko, who's already killed at least two people and was in the process of lining up his third when she nailed him, and had things settled down some they probably could've gotten her some help.

She doesn't come off as particularly crazy in the anime (the apology scene is all about spite, not anger), so there's a very obvious brink she could've backed away from, and as the manga, where she was much, much closer to it shows, probably would have had things gone differently. She doesn't do anything, up until then, that's especially psychotically bitchy until that point, and it's definitely the only thing totally unjustifiable she does. Everything else has a twisted sort of symmetry to it.