Talk:Tatsuji Chibiki/@comment-71.47.196.56-20160810064159

I just finished watching the anime. I think:

Chibiki is a mastermind serial killer. Between his professional training in student psychology to become a teacher and his self study during his reign as "Lord of the Library", he is more than capable of causing deaths that look like accidents. He gets away with the murders he commits by having established himself as a trusted point of contact with the local investigative authorities and controlling the flow of information from potential witnesses; not to mention his complete access to Yomiyama North Middle School student files (or at least those of the 9th Grade, Class 3).

Just for fun, listen to his explanation of the school's death-related phenomenon at some point after 14 minutes in episode 6. "As you can see, when the phenomenon is active, checking records is pointless" because Chibiki's diligence in altering the records had made it to be pointless. His system of secretly moving a dead person's name onto the current class roster and then moving the name back off at the end of each year ties in with the claim that people lose their memory of the dead person who was supposedly in their class.

His involvement with the "curse" began in 1972 with the murder of Misaki Yomiyama (mistaken by 1998 students for a girl). Nobody knows why the boy died because Chibiki was the homeroom teacher at the time. He simply delivered vague and/or non-informative statements about Misaki's death-- so much so, that the students did not believe that a death had occurred: the pretense for the invisible and still-living Misaki Yomiyama perceived by 9th Grade, Class 3 students. Fascinated by the ignorance of the students and faculty in the face of this incident, Chibiki took Misaki's school photo and choppily edited it into the class picture before it was copied and distributed. Once the majority were convinced of the presence of a ghost, Chibiki began picking off students, faculty, and their family members from 1973 and on. All traces of his involvement in the deaths were eclipsed by everyone's belief in a curse.

The evolved rules of the curse provide a killer with the following: 1) A set of targets for which a scapegoat is already in effect. 2) A lonely student who is shunned by his or her classmates, and is therefore willing to reveal any information about the other students. 3) Enough fear-induced trauma to cause the students to kill themselves and each other.

People that Chibiki probably killed in 1998: Yukari Sakuragi's mother with a high-speed traffic incident. Yukari got this news in class, causing her to run out of her classroom and slip on the stairs, impaling herself with an umbrella. Sanae Mizuno with the hospital's old elevator. She was a smart person who was getting too close to the truth. "All we know for certain is that the sheaves holding the cables in place came loose, causing it to fall." -Yomiyama Detective Shoji Kubodera's elderly mother with altered medication. Due to this, Shoji Kubodera then proceeded to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the throat in front of his students during class. Aside from killing Keiko Numata, the insane innkeeper, he is potentially responsible for rigging the entire inn with makeshift bombs and lightning rods in order to achieve the Michael Bay effect seen in the final scenes of the series. After all, he was busy driving an asthmatic student to the hospital for the first 90% of the fire.