Deaths

This page lists the deaths that have occurred due to class 3 grade 9's curse to the latest episode.

List of Deaths
Deaths are counted by the month they occur, as the "calamity" brings to death "one or more" of the individuals involved with class 3-3. They are named as "Death of (month)".

1972

 * Misaki Yomiyama - Died suddenly along with members of his family. Said to have died in a house fire or in a plane crash. He was the cause of the class curse; the first calamity leading to future deaths of the students, as well as thier immediate family members, who are a part of 9th Grade Class 3.

1983

 * Kyoko - Died from an illness on 12th April. She is someone's sister.
 * Watanabe's relative - Died from an unknown reason on 9th May.
 * Student - Died in an accident on 6th June.
 * Student - Died in an accident on 13th June.
 * Ikumi - Died from an illness on 23rd July. She is someone's sister.
 * Ritsuko Sakakibara - Kouichi's mother, her cause of death is still unknown. In the original novel, she died of a sudden illness soon after Kouichi was born and in the manga she died because of the curse.
 * Jun Hamaguchi - Struck by lightning during the class trip on 9th August.
 * Yuki Hoshikawa - Died by falling off the cliff during the class trip on 9th August.

Male students: 1+ Female students: 1+ Teacher: 0 Families: 4 Total: 8 (exclude the Dead) This year's calamity stopped on August. The extra student is unnamed due to the calamity alteration.

1993

 * Mami Asakura - Died from an unknown reason. 3 years later, she was resurrect as the Dead of 1996.

Male students: ? Female students: 1+ Teacher: ? Families: ? Total: 12+. The extra student is Misaki Yomiyama.

1996

 * Shogo Ikenori - Died from an illness on 20th September.
 * Kazuma Akazawa - Committed suicide in his room. He is Izumi Akazawa's elder brother.
 * Mikami Reiko / Mikami-Sensei - Died from drowning in the river while being pursued by an unknown assailant a year and half ago. Later, she was resurrect as the Dead of 1998.
 * Akiko Okutsu - Died in an accident on 3rd November. She is Okutsu's sister.
 * Masashi Hashimoto - Died in an accident on 17th December. He is Hashimoto's father.
 * Shinobu Ono - Killed by someone on 29th January.
 * Yuuko Matsuda - Committed suicide on 20th February.
 * Akira Yamamoto - Died from unknown reason in March.

Male students: 4 Female students: 1 Teacher: 1 Families: 2 Total: 8 This year's calamity started on September. The extra one is Mami Asakura.

1998

 * Misaki Fujioka - The first death, the "Death of April". She is Mei's "cousin", who died after a kidney transplant. In the newly realeased OVA she dies from lukemia.
 * Yukari Sakuragi - Died because she fell down the stairs, which caused her umbrella to impale her neck on May 26th. She and her mother are the "Death of May"
 * Mieko Sakuragi - Died in a car accident in the same day as her daughter, Yukari.
 * Sanae Mizuno - Died when the old elevator she was in snapped its cords, which caused it to fall and crash into the 2nd basement. This caused Sanae to smash her head on to the floor, before the elevator came crashing down, crushing her in the process. It happened on June 3rd. She and Ikuo are the "Death of June".
 * Ikuo Takabayashi - He died from a heart attack on June 6th. He is the "Death of June" along with Sanae.
 * Shoji Kubodera - He committed suicide by stabbing himself in the neck with a kitchen knife in front of the class. He also killed his elderly mother in July.
 * Junta Nakao - At first, he was shown drowning before a speeding boat comes and hits him, chopping his body up into pieces. It was first thought that this death happened outside of Yomiyama, but this is however false. It seems like he hit his head at home after he fell down the stairs, giving him aneurysm(brain damage). So his Death was already a certainty before he even left Yomiyama. This death does not happen in the original novel.
 * Aya Ayano - While leaving Yomiyama with her parents in their family car, a rock fell and hit the windshield, causing the driver to lose control and drive off the mountain. This death does not happen in the original novel.
 * Atsushi Ogura - Brother of Yumi Ogura, he was a recluse who stayed at home. He died by being crushed to death by an excavator that crashed into his house.
 * Kensaku Numata - Killed by being pierced with broachs all over his body by Keiko.
 * Yumi Ogura - She fell off from a two-story window during the pursue of Mei and broke her neck on the ground.
 * Makoto Ouji - He was burned to death when the dining room exploded.
 * Takako Sugiura - She got tangled in the wires and got strangled and hung to death.
 * Kyouko Kaneki - She was stabbed in the back by Kazami and bled to death while trying to escape with Matsui.
 * Keiko Numata - She was stabbed and killed by Chibiki when he was defending Teshigawara and Mochizuki.
 * Kenzou Kawahori - He was crushed to death by a falling pillar while trying to escape the house.
 * Aki Matsui - She was stabbed in the neck by Kazami when being pursued by him.
 * Tomohiko Kazami - He was bludgeoned with a metal rod by Akazawa and later died due to his injuries.
 * Izumi Akazawa - As lighting stuck the window, it shattered the glass, causing the shards to pierce her body against the wall. One of these shards pierced her heart.

Male students: 5 Female students: 7 Teacher: 1 Families: 9 Total: 22 This year's calamity started on April and stopped on August. The extra one is Reiko Mikami.

Deaths in the Manga and the Original Novel

 * Manga
 * Novel

The Opening
During the opening for Another there are brief shots of characters from the series appearing in grainy, film-like picture. When a character dies, they are replaced with a new character. Following Episode 8, it has been rumored that the third and fourth characters to appear in this segment are doomed to die, as they were once filled with Yukari Sakuragi and Ikuo Takabayashi. When Sakuragi died in Episode 3, she was replaced with Junta Nakao who died in Episode 8. The same happened for Takabayashi, who died in Episode 5 and was replaced with Manabu Maejima. The last position instead chooses an adult from the series, which originally used to be Sanae Mizuno. When she died in Episode 4, she was replaced with Mr. Kubodera who died in Episode 7. He has been replaced with Mikami-Sensei. After Aya Ayano died in Episode 9 she is replaced with Anzu Kanaki and Aki Matsui, while Nakao is being replaced by Makoto Ouji and Noboru Saruta.