Izumi Akazawa

Izumi Akazawa is the countermeasures(Later becoming Class Officer) of 9th Grade Class 3 in 1998 at Yomiyama North Middle School. She is in the drama club with Aya Ayano and Yumi Ogura. She has an older brother named Kazuma Akazawa.

Personality
Izumi is the straightforward and unabashed leader of Yomiyama Middle School's 3rd year class. She has a bit of tsundere personality. Izumi was on good terms with Yukari and in the manga, a picture of her and Yukari is shown on her desk. She seems to be concerned about Kouichi as she feels that they have met before and she detests Teshigawara and often see him as a annoying idiot. She also seems to hate Mei, as she feels that the curse started due to her.

Appearance
She wears the school's standard uniform and has two reddish brown pigtails tied with ribbons. In the manga, she has the same hairstyle, but with shorter hair.



Plot
In Episode 1,Izumi visits Kouichi along with Kazami and Sakuragi, and asks him if he ever lived in Yomiyama, but Kouichi says he didn't. She seems to be nervous, along with everyone else, to tell Kouichi about the class' curse after Sakuragi's death. She blames herself for not telling him about it. In Episode 4, while arguing with Teshigawara, they hear a huge crash through Kouichi's cell phone. She holds a grudge against Mei and Kouichi for ignoring the rules and turning the countermeasures useless, causing the deaths to continue. In Episode 7,after she witness Kubodera-Sensei's death, she confronted Kouichi and the other on the rooftop. Later on,Izumi meet up with Kouichi,Teshigawara and Mochizuki in Inoya Cafe for further discussion regarding Class 3 issue. They acquired information about Katsumi Matsunaga and decided to look for him for help to solve the calamity in class 3. In Episode 8, the team went out of Yomiyama to look for Matsunaga and they had fun at the beach while waiting for Matsunaga's call. At the end of the episode, they witness Junta Nakao's death on shore. In Episode 9 after Nakao's funeral she walks Takako Sugiura, who is still in shock after the events, home after giving Mei a stern glare.

Yukari Sakuragi
Izumi and Yukari were shown to be good friends since they were young. In the manga, Izumi cared a lot about Yukari and she blames Kouichi and Mei for Yukari's death as they ignored the class rules, causing the calamity to happen. She was seen in one of the chapters crying for Yukari to save her as she does not want to die.

Izumi is noted to have a older brother in the manga, Kazuma Akazawa. Her brother is mentally unstable and often locked himself in his room. Later on in the manga, in one chapter, her brother commits suicide by hanging himself.

Trivia

 * She is ranked A+ in Another characters ranking.Another_87.jpg