Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25281705-20140928101145/@comment-397235-20140928185716

She's really just a bit player in the novel: she and Takako only show up at dinner and between them have maybe a dozen lines. They decided to make her a major character for the manga I strongly suspect because otherwise there's only one significant female character, and that's Mei; she, Yukari, and Takako all got even bigger roles in the anime...they also all three died, so I guess that's not really worth much.

The thing to keep in mind is each story exists in its own universe. So, anime Izumi and film Izumi aren't really even the same person; they just share the same name.