Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-82.173.92.77-20140912122859/@comment-397235-20140913160724

Takako's crazy. She's not a violent person. In the manga she's actually one of Mei's friends and in the film, she actually sticks up for Mei...Izumi nearly kills her for it.

Takako was calm about the entire thing, right up until the inn keeper tried to kill her, at which point she decided to end the Curse the only way she knew how. On top of that, she's not right in the head and she's had Izumi telling her everything's Mei's fault for the past few months. She remembers Misaki, who she was apparently friends with, decides Misaki must be Mei (which is more or less a logical assumption) and tries to kill only her. Kouichi interferes; Izumi doesn't do anything but sit there.

Izumi could've stopped the mob; she didn't. In fact, most of Izumi's tenure as head of Countermeasures she didn't actually do her job. Takako at least tried to do the right thing; unlike both Izumi and Tomohiko she also made it a point not to kill Kouichi. A selfish person would've tried to get away (look at Chibiki, for instance); Takako goes the opposite direction. That's brave, if misguided.

Izumi yelled and Yukari and Yuuya for not explaining the Curse to Kouichi...you know, for not doing her job. Yukari specifically states earlier on she's afraid of Izumi, and won't tell Kouichi what's going on because "Akazawa will yell at us."

She makes fun of Junta's sickness, then uses it to rid herself of both Takako and Naoya so she can ride with Kouichi. On some level that's kind of funny, but at the same time, it's also pretty self-serving.

And yes, Naoya's an idiot. But he wouldn't have been able to mess things up if Izumi would've just done her job in the first place. So that just comes back to her being incompetent.