Talk:Mikami-Sensei/@comment-24611904-20140730222459/@comment-397235-20140730224125

Eh...Kinda depends. If you pay far closer attention than I did to the anime, you can figure it out pretty quickly (the most obvious signs are how uncomfortable Kouichi gets when Naoya asks him if he thinks she's hot, and how often Yuuya flirts with her at the beach).

Of course, in the film she flat out tells Kouichi she's his teacher within ten minutes of the film starting.

I guess its relevence to the plot is this: Anyone within two degrees of someone in class 3-3 is in danger from the curse. Thus Reiko, as Kouichi's aunt, is safe, just as Kouichi was safe, as her nephew, when she was in the class.

Only people killed by the curse are brought back.

Now, follow closely: Everyone brought back by the Curse has to have some role in class 3-3. It's been generally assumed they come back as a student; using only this information Reiko can't be the extra because she's Kouichi's aunt. However, Mr Kubodera and Ms Mikami both can be because they're directly connected with the class.

If anything, keeping the two characters separate makes Reiko less suspicious as she's not involved with the class anymore.

I never managed to put two and two together either; I got the plot ruined by the novel's stupid Wikipedia page, which didn't make me happy as I was on episode ten of the anime and curious as to how many more to go there were (because watching anime on Youtube can be dicey if an episode gets pulled). Her being his teacher didn't shock me; her being the extra did though.