Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140913190950/@comment-397235-20140916003034

Of course, on the other hand, it could be a Romero film, in which case there would be copious gore, random and irritatingly irrelevant politics, all the female characters would be worthless, and the stupid choices the characters make would be the rule, not the exception. :) I've never really had a problem with Michael Bay. He's not pretentious, which, in a world populated by talentless hacks like the idiots who made The Thin Red Line and They Live! is somewhat refreshing.

Back to your original argument, though, here's the problem I have with the idea Death was sparing Kouichi and Mei:

First of all, it came for both of them earlier on; Kouichi saved himself, and later saved Mei (oddly enough, both times from broken glass). If anything, Death seems to think both of them need to be killed by impalement, and Izumi just got in the way.

Two, I don't think any of us disagree Yumi wasn't a bad person: she's just distraught because she's lost her best friend and her brother, yet Death claimed her anyway. And while nobody agrees with me here, Takako's insane, not evil (and even then she's still herself enough not to go further than she has to), and it very blatantly killed her. And Izumi's just furious, again, not evil.

Three: If Death is claiming the depraved and dangerous, shouldn't Tomohiko have gotten a much more dramatic death than he did? I mean, he's deliberately killing everyone he runs into. I would think, if anyone deserves divine judgement, it's the guy who's decided to kill the rest of his class. But no, he just gets his ass beaten to death by Izumi. I don't really see that as a death directly motivated by the Calamity; Izumi would've done that anyway.