Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25256760-20160930005812/@comment-397235-20161001011440

She dies in most adaptions (hell, everyone dies in one adaption just about) but I do tend to agree the way she died is there pretty much for effect. As is discussed elsewhere, Yumi has Izumi's death from the novel (which Yumi survives, bless her heart) and it's treated much the same way; Izumi's given a more dramatic death in the anime because she assumes a much larger role in that adaption.

It is worth noting Izumi's is one of the two deaths Kouichi witnesses at the Inn in the novel, the other being Manabu Maejima's. Both of them were relatively minor characters who Kouichi had interacted with prior to everything going crazy; they're the closest to significant characters who die at the Inn (apart from the obvious one); two of the other three victims have no dialogue in the entire novel.