Talk:Episode 10 - Glass Eye/@comment-5534769-20140523073757/@comment-397235-20140524053718

I can kind of see that. I'd furthermore state there are actually three separate arcs: Before the Storm (the first episode through Yukari's death), The Curse (from the aftermath of Yukari's death through, I guess for lack of a better anchor point, the beach trip and Junta's death), and the Trip arc (the last few episodes).

The first arc deals primarily with establishing the characters and their relationships, as well as establishing something funny is going on and Mei's weird status within the class. I end this with Yukari's death because it's by far the most shocking in the anime (being the first and one of the most graphic). It's also the wake up call the class needed to realize they were in trouble.

The Curse arc I figure covers all the deaths between Yukari's (so Sanae and the kid who had a heart attack whose name escapes me, as well as Kubodera and Junta). I felt the curse is by far the most important aspect of this arc, as it becomes the main focus of the show. It culminates with Junta's death. It's at this point the kids decide they aren't going to wait around for the curse to get them, but start proactively start trying to fix it.

The third arc I think of as the "Countermeasures" arc, since that's what it's about: the kid's efforts (mostly futile, and often tragic) to either escape or counteract the curse. It includes the group finding the tape in the old school building, but mainly focuses on the trip itself, as this is the do or die moment for the class. Either they'll break the curse here, or they'll all die. The deaths in this arc are by far the closest together, occurring often times within the same episode, and have the greatest effects on the characters, as they finally reach their individual breaking points (Junta's death for Takako, Aya and her brother's deaths for Yumi, Takako's death for Izumi, and Tomohiko's death for Naoya). Like you pointed out, this is the arc in which the most occurs, as the curse gains steam, apparently the closer the year is to being over.