Talk:Misaki Fujioka/@comment-72.35.107.82-20141025053551/@comment-397235-20141026044249

I dunno, I think Death makes the same assumption the class itself did: the Extra has to be a student. Think about it: Reiko is never put in mortal danger, while her students are in peril the entire year.

Also, it kills one or two people a month out of at least thirty, not counting relatives or other people connected to the class. The odds aren't exactly in the Curse's favor.

And when you consider it usually takes an external event for multiple people to die (the storm in 83, the bus accident in 87, or the fire at the Inn in 98) and furthermore these events tend to happen at the end of the year (87 was why class 3-3 no longer goes on their "senior trip;" both 83 and 98 were a trip specifically planned to break the curse): they're unique events, which suggests if the class stays in Yomiyama proper, they'll still be in mortal danger, but fewer of them will die at a time.

Of course, my other theory is the Calamity is deliberately missing the Extra specifically because every innocent person it kills is a potential future Extra. If you think about how all the deaths are linked, it makes a horrible kind of sense:

In the manga, Kazuma killed himself almost certainly because of his depression, but the fact it was while his sister was in 3-3 cannot be ignored. His and Yukari's deaths sent Izumi over the edge and prompted her to attack Mei, which nearly ended the both of them; even so, because Izumi was attacking Mei, she wasn't protecting her class, and so Takako, Junta, Manabu, and Shigeki Yonemura were killed in the fire. Either way, that's a win for the Calamity.

In the anime, Takako sees Junta die horrifically and loses it. Her sanity slippage leads to her broadcasting Matsunaga's tape for the rest of the class, which causes them all to attack Mei. The direct result of this is Takako, Yumi, and Izumi are all killed, as are several other students who perish trying to flee. Again, the Calamity scores more victims.

Also, if you notice, we never see the Extra get killed by the Calamity; the two times this is recorded, it's done by another individual (first Katsumi Matsunaga and then Kouichi). This again dovetails with my theory: the Calamity doesn't want to stop. The times it seems to not be in effect are because it killed the Extra by accident.