Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-72.35.107.82-20141021043643/@comment-397235-20141023001710

I'm really not sure. Could be some sort of formatting thing you did when you posted...

As for your comment: Tomohiko never interacts with Takako and Yumi, so I doubt he'd have had any qualms killing either of them (though I imagine Takako would've given him a run for his money; I think she could've taken him); likewise, Izumi seems to absolutely hate him (she calls him Kazami-kun after hitting him, which is usually reserved for close male friends, but by her tone suggests she's taunting him). And obviously he blames Kouichi for the death of the girl he's infatuated with, and clearly he had no problem trying to kill him.

They, had they tried, probably could've stopped Takako. She's sick. She needed help. And for her, I really don't think killing Mei was personal.

For Tomohiko killing Kouichi, it very clearly was; however, I don't think he would've stopped at killing him. He would've kept going until either the Calamity got him or someone else did (the evidence of this is his complete lack of remorse after killing Aki; Takako even went far enough to apologize, in a way, to Kouichi after she stabbed him). Takako, had she killed Mei, almost certainly would've been horrified by what she'd done; granted, that wouldn't have done Mei any good.

Still, think about the process she went through in the anime. It occurred to me she's more or less the manga version of Izumi, who everyone feels bad for. Yet she survived and got help; Takako could've too.