Talk:Takako Sugiura/@comment-25874225-20150122163051/@comment-397235-20150125205914

It's very abundantly clear Naoya isn't Izumi's friend. She can't stand him, Takako can't stand him, Junta can't stand him. He hangs around because he can't take the hint.

If the house is divided, why does everyone accept Takako's word that Mei's the Extra. Even Makoto, who comes the closest to out and out disagreeing, admits there is something odd about her. There's no evidence anywhere anyone but Kouichi and Naoya didn't blame her, and for Naoya, it's more a matter of him agreeing with his buddy Sakaki. Yuuya very patently doesn't agree, since he went behind his friends' back to play the girls the tape. That's more or less "They've been screwing around so I'm taking matters into my own hands."

It's somewhat evident Yukari blamed her mother's death on Mei, since seeing her and Kouichi together made her panic and run in the other direction. On some level, she thinks those two conversing has killed her mother.

Aya only briefly mentions what happened to Yukari once, when she and Noboru are talking about her death. Aya mentions Takako saw it happen, but that's it. So far as is evident, Takako never blamed what happened to Yukari on Mei; the only person blaming her death on anyone is Tomohiko.

The same scene is significant, though, because Takako also talks Izumi out of blaming herself and then Kouichi for what happened. Mei is never brought up during this conversation, because she doesn't exist, but Takako's exact words are "What's done is done...All that matters now is what we're going to do about it." In that context, it's not hard or much of a stretch to say she's saying it's nobody's fault, including Mei's.

If Takako saw what happened to Yukari then she knows she died running from Kouichi and Mei. In the novel and manga, she tells the group at dinner Yukari might not have died had she not seen Kouichi and Mei talking and run the other way, which is true.

However, she never brings this up at the Inn in the anime, which is significant. The only person who went after Mei is Izumi; if Takako hates her as much as you say she does, wouldn't she have joined in like she does in every other adaption? The fact she doesn't is important. The only reason Takako went after Mei is because she thought she was the Extra; there's no evidence of any kind she was harboring any deep-seated resentment toward her.