Talk:Junta Nakao/@comment-5534769-20140726211548/@comment-397235-20140728022048

It's true. Him and Takako both.

Junta doesn't make it into the movie, so they couldn't kill him there. Neither does Takako...in name, though there's a character who's clearly meant to be her, and who furthermore clearly survives.

I have to question the logic of the people they kill at the inn in the manga. We get:

Junta, who nobody in class even likes, and whose only defining characteristic is he's obsessively devoted to Izumi.

Takako, who spends the entire series extremely uncomfortable, is the first girl to talk to Mei after they stop ignoring her, and is the only person who tries to help Kubodera when he kills himself.

Maanabu, whose sole defining scene is opting to take the class picture so Naoya could be in it.

Shigeki...he's not even pictured, so I really have to ask: why bother?

Seriously, they killed off four characters who weren't even all that important, two of whom seem like genuinely nice people, one of whom is at least sad, and one of whom is so unimportant the artists never even rendered him. Jeez.

Shane and I talked about this for about a week. I'd love to write a Western adaption of Another with a lot more screentime for everyone.

I think I'm going to define a generational gap between us, but are you familiar with Lost? That's basically the approach I'd take to Another (episodic flashbacks devoted to a character, not irritating conspiracy theories and an unsatisfying conclusion). We had a big discussion about it on his wall until he got tired of talking about it.

It'd be fun, but unfortunately I don't write fanfiction anymore, and I'm not quite sure how I could adapt this without it being plaigirism (not that it stopped Suzanne Collins from taking Batlle Royale, setting it in America, and making it a trilogy, but whatever).