Talk:Takako Sugiura/Image Gallery/@comment-5534769-20141004145507/@comment-397235-20141103014206

I dunno, I think the general consensus is that he died doing something he knew not to.

Honestly, Takako's not that different from Kouichi. They both went after the person they thought was the Extra. There's not any hatred behind it for either of them; it is what it is.

Takako never displays any particular animosity toward Mei; that's all Izumi. For the most part, they aren't friendly, but there's no anger there either. They play together at the beach like everyone else, and when Takako gets attacked by Keiko, Mei goes running to help her with Kouichi, both of them ahead of Izumi. Even when she's trying to kill Mei, she's still sympathetic toward her, and when she's dying, Mei is absolutely horrified: Mei understands under normal circumstances none of this would be happening, and she doesn't want her classmate to die.

If she'd survived, they're never really going to be friends, but I think Mei would understand what happened, even if she never quite forgave her for it.