Talk:Kouichi Sakakibara/@comment-211.27.40.54-20120405080032


 * Spoilers**

Don't read this unless you've finished watching the anime series or read the novel.

Significance of one and a half year ago: I honestly think they should've made this more obvious. From my insight, both Mei's and Izumi's memory is real'''. ''' Reiko (homeroom assistant and aunty shown in the anime), was stabbed and killed by Kazuma (Izumi's brother) who later commited suicide. The funeral for both of them were held around the same time, and thus Kouichi and Izumi met together soon after in Yomiyama after their funeral attendence.

Evidence of Kazuma being the killer: The picture shown in the manga strongly represents him in the anime. Also, it is evident that he has mental stability issues shown in the manga as well. His mental stability issue would then most likely be the cause of the murder.

More insights: No one related to "class 3", could properly remember the event of Reiko's death due to the 'class 3 phenomenon.' Other signs throughout the anime however, gives evidence of the occurence of the events. Izumi could remember touching Kouchi's hands before. Kouchi's grandpa talks about the funeral which had happened one and a half year ago, and mentioning "poor Reiko" (reasons for him remembering could be his constant isolation due to the funerals, or perhaps he always blabbers out his thoughts unconciously). There are some significance to the bird who always mentions about Reiko, but I can't be sure. In the end, Mei remembers the actual occurrence of Reiko's death at the end of the anime(I'm not too sure why, it could be the significance of her eye or because Reiko was close to death). Kouichi's dad called him up, saying that Kouichi had actually been to this city for the funeral, his dad soon realised that it was a depressing time so he had stopped mentioning it soon after.

Unrelated insights: Everyone who was about to die, seem to be cautious of death itself, and tried avoiding it. For example, the girl with the umbrella rushed out of classroom, as well as seeing Kouchi and Mei together. The guy with the heart attack, thought something was wrong and that Kouchi had to know the class's setup. The nurse wanted to end the conversation as quickly as possible and rush to work. Someone locked himself up in his room, who was straining himself infront of the computer. I can't say much about the person who was swimming after the ball.

If you struggle following the class 3 phenomenon's memory alteration, then the things mentioned above is a perfect example of what happens. Someone dies at first. Within class 3, the person who had died would enter the class in an alive form at the start of the year. As soon as this happens, all of the class's memories would be altered in a way to hide all memories of that person's death. After the dead person's second death, everyone's memory would be altered again in a way to eliminate all memories of the dead person's existance after their first death.

I'm not sure if the memory prior to the first alteration would come back. I don't think the things I've written deserves to be a comment, but I can't be bothered putting it somewhere else. I was also a bit disappointed that hardly any of this is written anywhere.