Talk:Junta Nakao/@comment-5534769-20140726211548/@comment-397235-20140728112052

These are the characters for whom I could think of Westernized names:

Tomohiko: Thomas (there's the whole "Doubting Thomas" thing because he doesn't believe in the curse, and it fits his name).

Naoya: Nolan (this is rather obvious).

Izumi: Either Isabel and Jesebel (the latter, if you aren't aware, was not very nice person in the Bible).

Yumi: Amy (because LOL obscure J-Pop reference).

My whole point with Izumi is once she became head of Countermeasures she really stopped having friends, just people to use. Yumi had expected Izumi to bend the rules for her when she became the extra, but she didn't. Tomohiko and she are at least on friendly terms at first, but once Tomohiko starts standing up to her she cuts him off (the same thing would've happened to Yumi first; they're replaced by Takeru and Junta, respectively). Even Takako, who was once upon a time Izumi's best friend, isn't much more than someone Izumi knows she can trust to do anything for her; it's only when Takako nearly dies trying to save her life Izumi realizes what she's done and snaps.

As for Yukari, I'd have her closer to Tomohiko (who has a thing for her) and Kouichi (who she has a thing for in return). I mean yeah, she's got other friends too, but she's not really around enough for that to matter much. She'd mostly be a flashback character, since it'd let people see how important she was to the class: she'd be in nearly everyone's flashbacks at some point.