Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140801024539/@comment-397235-20140808135347

See, Misaki seemed like a nice person. Granted, they seem to have gone out of their way to kill the nice people first in the anime (her, Yukari, Sanae, and Ikuo).

They kind of do the opposite in the manga, in the sense they don't really kill any major characters ever in that adaption (the deaths at the inn are a good example of this: of the four who died, Takako's the only one who got more than one line, Manabu's only act was offering to take the picture so Naoya could be in it, Junta just stands around and is made fun of, and they didn't even bother to draw Shigeki Yonemura).

I think once you figure out the likeable characters aren't being killed past a certain point, it kind of makes the series less enjoyable (if you look at the last few who died, the most likeable were probably the two girls Tomohiko killed, although that's just because they don't have time to be stupid; Makoto died being an idiot, and the fireball which killed him is what weakened the structural supports of the inn, leading to Takako and Kenzou's deaths, as well probably contributing to the explosion which nearly got Matsuko, the chandalier falling on Yokito, San, and Sayuri, and the rubble which buried Reiko; Yumi, Takako, and Izumi all died doing something wrong, as did Tomohiko and Kenzou). I wonder if the survivors sanitized what happened to their dead classmates for their families. I mean, the Kazamis won't want to remember their son as a murderer, nor would the Sugiuras want their last memory of their daughter to be her going insane and trying to murder a classmate. In a meta example, maybe that's why so many people were killed either in the fire or by Keiko Numata in the novel: the kids are lying to protect the memories of their friends.

See, I wasn't really talking about the top of Kouichi's head (only in Resident Evil does stepping on someone's skull cause it to explode like a rotten watermelon) so much as his neck, because she forced it down into an unnatural angle when she stomped him, and she'd have compounded that when she jumped off him. Granted, Takako is one of the scrawniest characters in the series (we already talked about where all her body weight has preposterously ended up) so maybe she doesn't actually weigh enough for that to be a problem.