Talk:Aya Ayano/@comment-174.102.184.169-20180310015931/@comment-30834068-20180310025202

Reply to Shanethefilmmaker. This story had the opposite problem: It involved the whole class 3-3, and typical Japanese middle school classes have 30 students in them. So the writer had to invent characters to fill the 30 seats. This helps explain why several of the students did not go on the summer trip to the (fiery) lodge. The writer didn't want to have to account for what happened to them.