Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20140907052246

Every single person connected to Countermeasures in every iteration of the series except the manga and the film die (and even then, it's two different characters who survive). Nobody from Kouichi's group dies in any version of the story (Tomohiko isn't really his friend in the anime, and Naoya specifically tells Kouichi his association with Mei means they can't be friends in the film). So it's not so much who's doing what as luck based.

I can see the Curse manipulating some of the events which take place in the anime:

Yukari falls to her death fleeing Kouichi...Tomohiko learns how to end the Curse and in a demented state attacks and murders two of his classmates before, driven by a desire for revenge, he tries to kill Kouichi, only to run afoul of Izumi, who's not interested in dealing with his bullshit and beats him to death.

Ikuo dies...his grandmother can't handle that and as a result murders her husband and, depending on the adaption, kills or seriously fucks up several other students.

Junta dies...this breaks Takako's belief in trying to ride things out and she starts actively trying to figure out how to end the Curse. Then Keiko tries to kill her and she says "Well fuck this, I'm not dying...but I know who is."

Takako dies...Izumi, who up until now has been more or less trying to do the right thing (at least as she sees it) finally snaps and goes after Mei.