Takako Sugiura

Takako Sugiura is one of the students of 9th Grade Class 3 in 1998. She and Yumi Ogura help Izumi Akazawa as the countermeasures's personal right-arm.

Personality
She is shown to be concerned and serious about the class 3 countermeasures.

Appearance
She has short ochre hair, which she wears two green clips in, with one on each side. They are yellow in the ED. She also wears spectacles. In the manga, she has braided black hair and doesn't wear spectacles.

Plot
Takako is often seen in the anime with Izumi, whom she helps out with the calamity's countermeasures. Aside from Izumi, Takoko also seems to be on good terms with Junta Nakao. In Episode 9, Takoko accompanies Kouichi and the others when they go to the beach to relax. During the trip, Takako is seen taking care of Junta who was suffering from car sickness. Later on in the episode, while playing volleyball, a strong gust of wind causes the ball to fly into the water which Junta goes after, only to be killed in the process. Takako seemed to be shocked by Junta's death and is seen being accompanied home by Izumi in episode 9. In Episode 11, at the start of the episode, she revealed to Izumi that she is in elementary school with someone call "Misaki" and the Misaki did not wear any eyepatch. Later on, after Izumi went to the hall and check out the ruckus, she let out a scream and disappear from the room. She appear after a while with a blade and she tries to kill Mei but was blocked by Kouichi. She ran away to a room and broadcast the tape that Mochizuki found, telling everyone that Mei is the dead person and asking them to sent the dead one back. Later at the last part of the episode, she appear again and this time she stabbed Kouichi with a blade, telling Kouichi that she will not kill him as he is not the dead one and beside Izumi seems to be fond of him. She went over to attack Mei with the blade and got tangled in the wire hanging around. The wire was pulled up as the celling began to fall apart and this choke Takako to death.

Trivia

 * She is ranked A in Another character ranking.
 * Another_109.jpg home address is 5-3 Akatsukicho Yomiyama City.
 * In the original novel and also the manga, Takako dies, being one of the "deaths of August". In the novel, she is killed by Keiko Numata.
 * She shares a room with Izumi Akazawa during the class trip.