Thread:Godzillafan93/@comment-26041510-20150127043403/@comment-397235-20150128003154

It's absurd.

I didn't like a lot of the people they cast. Kouichi is okay but I just didn't care for Mei all that much; she's kind of a charismatic black hole. And the girl they cast as Izumi looks like a lesbian, which is somewhat jarring given she's lusted after by half the class in the anime. There were a few casting choices I didn't mind; Chibiki is suitably creepy, the lady playing Reiko is pretty good, and the girl playing Takako is fair.

The Westernization project I'm working on takes a few cues from this. About the only adaptive changes I really didn't have a problem with were that they killed Chibiki, Reiko and Kouichi make peace before he kills her, and miraculously they didn't kill Takako like every other adaption does. They marginalized a lot of people, though (Sanae is pretty much unimportant but Takeru gets the biggest role of any version of the character in the series; Naoya, Yuuya, Tomohiko, Izumi, and Takako are all pretty much just there until the very end).