Talk:Misaki Fujioka/@comment-72.35.107.82-20141025053551/@comment-25485053-20141026051905

Hmm, I guess you have a point, the odds aren't great to begin with, but the fact still remains that the chances of getting it right on the first time are lower than getting it on subsequent tries, so chances are they would at least see the rare occasion of the calimity stoping on its own, and they certainly wouldn't see the 50% success rate of the countermeasure.

Something else that we haven't considered yet, and a possible explination for why the Extra is never targeted by the calamity is whether or not death is a sentient entity or not. Think about it, Chibiki even says there's no malicious intent behind the deaths, maybe there's no "intent" at all, it seems like in the Another Universe death is not in anyway sentient, so the misconception that reality is trying to "correct itself" may in fact be invalid. What I think is that the existance of the extra is merely increasing the chances of the people connected to class 3 dying, after all you're not garanteed a tomorrow, there's always a chance you will die today. For one thing, in the movie Mei actually sees the "Color of Death" go from Reiko and attach itself to Kouichi, this seems to suggest that the Extra is never a victim of the calamity because they are in fact the sole cause, just existing makes the people closest to them, their classmates, closer to the death that they carry, making it more likely that they themselves will die, in other words, the "calamity" is just a side effect of the Extra's resurection rather than a course of action to correct the unnatural occurence. Of course this could be refueted on account of the systimatic nature of the deaths, with at least one happening per month, but I digress.