Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140722012358/@comment-397235-20140723030333

I'd leave in the confrontation between Naoya and Tomohiko, but have Yumi break it up by demanding, essentially, "What the fuck are you two doing?" She guilt trips them by the two are supposed to be best friends, and if her best friend were still around they'd be working out a way to fix things, not trying to kill each other. Unfortunately this all occurs when they're supposed to be looking for Takako; Manabu finds her instead, then after he gets attacked she finds Izumi, and we know how this all turns out.

I do agree there needs to be more physical confrontations before this. Kouichi has his little fight with Takako, but that's about it. Here's what I'd do.

I'd put in a couple instances where Takeru picks a fight with Kouichi, the first of which Aya breaks up. Kouichi whales the hell out of him the second time, but Takeru pulls a knife and nearly kills him. This is the fight Yumi stops.

Takako corners Mei in the girls' locker room at the school and tries to start something after Junta dies, but Aya nips that in the bud too, explaining later on it's payback for Mei helping Yumi.

The most telling would be a confrontation Kouichi witnesses between Kenzou, Yukito, and Manabu. The three start shouting at each other for no obvious reason and almost come to blows. Tomohiko explains, without a nonexistent student to focus all their anxiety on, the class will start turning on itself. He predicts (accurately) things are only going to get worse as the year goes on.