Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-5534769-20140927203646/@comment-397235-20140928190417

Of the four who died at the Inn, Takako's the most significant, but no one really seems upset she died. In the novel she's Izumi's best friend, and Kouichi comments he sees them together fairly often, but Takako's the first person who acknowledges Mei after she and Kouichi start existing again, and before that she's the only person who tried to get help for Kubodera when he killed himself. If you look at how they're all standing during the apology scene, Takako sides with Izumi but she's standing with Mei and her friends instead; she was shaken up by Yukari's death but she's still embarrassed to be turning on Mei. She seems like a legitimately nice kid, but no one's upset she died.

The same is true to a lesser extent for Manabu. The only scene he's in is when he takes the picture for the class trip (this is what Kouichi remembers about him, just as what he most remembers about Takako is her turning on Mei). The reason he does this is so Naoya can be in the shot. Again, he seems like a nice guy...but nobody cares he died.