Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-121.218.169.180-20140524031534/@comment-6052796-20140705083549

Personally all I see on Izumi is a control freak bully. Even the times when she's acting nice I couldn't help but sense a sinister motive to her actions. In episode 6 and 8 she seemed determined to stick to Kouichi like a fly on the wall whenver Mei isn't around and in 12 she was more than willing to kill Mei even if she may not be the extra. Now at first I thought this was mostly due to the changes the anime made to the novel, but upon reading that book, I noticed although Izumi's role wasn't as big as it was in the Anime, she did far worse than simply trying to kill Mei. For example a scene in both the novel and episode 6 featured Mei and Kouichi as non-existent students. Mei decides to take Kouichi to visit some friends of hers in the art club. After Mochizuki drove those friends out of the club, Mei showed Kouichi a paining of Kirika which had a gaping knife cut into it. While it wasn't quite explained how it happened in the Anime, the novel implied Izumi not wanting to risk any proof that Mei existed in class three as well as her own deep seeded hatred of her, took a knife to the picture and slashed it.