Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-5534769-20140927203646/@comment-397235-20140927220226

It's true...to a greater or lesser extent. I mean, Izumi and Tomohiko are more or less equivalent in the manga, but he definitely overshadows her in the anime. Of course, in the film, neither of them do all that much until the very end of the film.

Mostly that's because in the film, Tomohiko and Kouichi aren't really friends; Tomohiko's just got his crap together a lot more than anyone else, so he spends the last fifteen minutes of the movie running around telling people not to be stupid. He, Izumi, and Takako are all three kind of odd characters: they have their own subplot which brings pretty much nothing to the table, goes nowhere, and basically just wastes time. Of course, the upshot of this is Takako manages to survive for a change, but I don't really know why they bothered with any of these characters in the first place.

It's also worth noting apparently Naoya and Takako simply cannot both survive the Calamity. Naoya survives in every adaption except the movie, while Takako is killed (to varying degrees of violence) in every adaption except that one. I suspect this is all coincidental, however.