Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140722012358/@comment-6052796-20140722023510

It's not too bad, but the Ogura/Mei relationship has a bit of a hole. When Mei expresses her own loss to more than one person depending on the timing it makes the impact diluted a bit. If you were gonna get her to tell Ogura, it would have to be sometime after she laments it to Kouichi.

As for the Kouichi/Misaki Yomiyama thing,  it's a good idea, but it could be better. Before I explain how I want to give you a premtive example. There was a movie called Usual Suspects and what they did cleverly in regards to a certain mysterious character was use a different actor for each flashback regarding said mysterious character. They took it the extra mile by having only the Main character actors portray him in one scene or another. Making us the audience subconsciously believe that one of the main characters is that person. I believe that not just Kouchi's actor should play Misaki Yomiyama, but almost every main character actor in the show. Because Misaki was thought to be a girl at first, like have Mei's actress, or Izumi's or Yumi's play her in that way, but all wearing Yomiyama's clothes and hair in the same style with their faces obscured, be it in shadow or any other means. Then do the same thing when it's revealed that Yomiyama's a boy, start with a random main character male in the same context, but then when it seems like Kouichi might be this extra, use his actor more often.