Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25409301-20140911182738/@comment-397235-20140913212315

But on the other hand neither did Mei. And none of the adults in positions of authority (Reiko, Chibiki) ever try to assist.

And part of Izumi's problem is her patent refusal to delegate responsibility to anyone.

In the manga, Tomohiko's her Countermeasures partner, not Takako, yet he's kind of a Pirate Who Doesn't Do Anything because Izumi never gives him any jobs. She never delegates to Takako or Junta either. She mentions briefly they may need to come up with new Countermeasures...but I seriously doubt either of them had anything to do with them. It's Izumi's show, and given how territorial she gets about it (she yells at Yukari and Yuuya for trying to help), when things go to hell it's at least predominately her fault.

On the other, other hand, nobody ever tries to include her in what's really up, either. It's like they sat down and said "Hmm, the people in our class who've been trying to deal with this their way and who the class has a tremendous amount of respect for...should we tell them what we've learned? Nah."

If they'd sat Izumi and Takako down, played them the tape, and then said "Let's work this out as a group" they'd have gotten one result. Instead, Yuuya played it for them behind Kouichi's back, and Yuuya's about as assertive as Mei, so it's roughly the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded movie theater. He doesn't ever try to talk things over with them. He plays the tape, then leaves.