Talk:Shoji Kubodera/@comment-397235-20140702233125/@comment-397235-20140704003051

I got the impression Ikuo's death made him feel like he'd failed, but rather than do the Western thing and resolve to do better, he instead opted for the traditional Japanese response of killing himself to atone for his failure. If he'd just hanged himself at home or something, that'd have been pretty horrible, but he decided to rip his jugular open all over his class. That's just unforgivably selfish.

It wasn't so much he felt he had no choice, as he just couldn't handle it anymore.