Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20141008112059/@comment-397235-20141010054741

Hm.

Actually, apparently the Calamity is affecting math. I just reread the section of the manga which describes this. It specifically states there are two degrees of separation and that aunts and uncles and cousins are safe. So in a sense we're both right...and we're both wrong. -_-

It also has occurred to me the reason there are "off years" is simple: sometimes Death gets lucky and kills the Extra first. Nobody remembers them, so for all intents and purposes there was no Calamity that year. That's also probably why something as inherently stupid as the Countermeasures have endured for so long.