Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140929045127/@comment-397235-20141002010549

My whole interpretation of Yukito is he wrote Another through the eyes of Kouichi, but he sanitized things a bit because he doesn't want his dead classmates to be remembered as monsters; thus Izumi and Takako are both murdered rather than killed by their own actions, Tomohiko survives and patches things up with Naoya, etc.

Basically, Yukito is trying to give life a "happy ending." That's why the anime is so much bleaker: reality kinda sucks.

I thought about playing with his character in the Westernization (my surname even conveniently shortens to Reynolds)...but that's a bit vainglorious I thought, and so he became Tripp Rhodes, which sounds like a terrible PI, but is more or less the English equivalent of his name.