Talk:Takako Sugiura/@comment-5534769-20140512114955/@comment-397235-20140513002423

She dies that way in the novel (and I assume the manga, though I've not gotten to that point yet). Since the entirety of episode 11 and the beginning of episode 12 (which deals with the fallout of Takako's death and Tomohiko going nuts) are exclusive to the anime, I look at that as one of the major points of divergence between the novel and the anime (that, and she, Izumi, and several other characters had much, much larger roles in the anime than in any other media).