Izumi Akazawa

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

- Izumi Akazawa

Izumi Akazawa is the head of countermeasures and later on becomes the Class Officer of Class 3-3 of 1998 at Yomiyama North Middle School. She is in the drama club with Aya Ayano and Yumi Ogura. She has an older brother named Kazuma Akazawa.

Personality
Izumi is the straightforward and unabashed, and strong leader of the Countermeasures at Yomiyama Middle School's 3rd year class. She has a bit of a tsundere personality. Izumi is impulsive and sometimes really mischievous. She also seems to hate Mei, as she feels that she is the "dead one" and blame her in episode 10 for the deaths.

Appearance
She wears the school's standard uniform and has two reddish brown and curly pigtails tied with blue ribbons. In the manga, she has the same hairstyle, but with shorter hair.

Plot
At the very first day of the school year,(before Kouichi transfered to Yomiyama Middle School) Izumi volountered herself to be the head of countermeasures for class 3. In saying that she can never allow a phenomenon to happen again. In episode 1, Izumi visits Kouichi along with Kazami and Sakuragi, and asks him if he ever lived in Yomiyama, but Kouichi says he didn't. She seems to be nervous, along with everyone else, to tell Kouichi about the class' curse after Sakuragi's death. She blames herself for not telling him about it. In Episode 4, while arguing with Teshigawara, they hear a huge crash through Kouichi's cell phone. She holds a grudge against Mei and Kouichi for ignoring the rules and turning the countermeasures useless, causing the deaths to continue. In Episode 7, after she witness Kubodera-Sensei's death, she confronted Kouichi and the other on the rooftop. Later on, Izumi meet up with Kouichi, Teshigawara and Mochizuki in Inoya Cafe for further discussion regarding Class 3 issue. They acquired information about Katsumi Matsunaga and decided to look for him for help to solve the calamity in class 3. In Episode 8, the team went out of Yomiyama to look for Matsunaga and they had fun at the beach while waiting for Matsunaga's call. At the end of the episode, they witness Junta Nakao's death on shore. In Episode 9, after Nakao's funeral she walks Takako Sugiura, who is still in shock after the events, home after giving Mei a stern glare. In Episode 10, at the front part of the episode, Izumi was shown to be crying for her brother, who is dead. She kicked a can, which hit Kouichi. Izumi went to apologize for it but she tripped and fell down. Kouichi came and offered his hand to help her up. Izumi woke up and realised it was her dream. Later Izumi and the class went on the class trip, and during their first dinner together, she requested permission from Mikami Sensei and gave a speech on the curse issue. She demanded an apology from Mei and she feels that Mei was partly responsible for the curse's continuation. Later, their conversation cut off as Daisuke Wakui had a sudden asthma attack, and needed to be sent to the hospital. In Episode 11, she know about Mei's past from Takako in the start. Later when Kouichi and the others is at the hall, she heard the ruckus and went to check. They heard a scream and Izumi recognize it's Takako's voice and they hurried up to Izumi's room. They found the door is stained with blood and Takako is missing from the room. Later on, Takako appear with a blade and tries to kill Mei, Izumi was shocked and pushed to a side. Takako later escape and Izumi tell Kouichi and Mei that they had listen to the tape. Few second later, Takako broadcast the tape and tell everyone that Mei is the dead one and ask everyone to kill her. At the last part of the episode, Izumi found Kouichi and Mei with Takako's body. She was shocked and terrified to see Takako is dead and Mei is holding the blade. She misunderstood that Mei killed Takako and shouted out that she will kill her.

Yukari Sakuragi
Izumi and Yukari were shown to be good friends since they were young. In the manga, Izumi cared a lot about Yukari and she blames Kouichi and Mei for Yukari's death as they ignored the class rules, causing the calamity to happen. She was seen in one of the chapters crying for Yukari to save her as she does not want to die. Also in the manga, a picture of her and Yukari is shown on her desk.

Takako Sugiura
Izumi and Takako is shown to be good friends and she cares a lot for Takako. In Episode 11, after seeing Takako's death, she was angry over Mei as she misunderstood that Mei killed Takako. She shouted out that she will kill Mei.

Kouichi Sakakibara
Izumi first seems intrigued by Kouichi as she feels that they have met before. Izumi had held suspiscions that Kouichi was the dead student at one point. When informed of Kouichi asking about Mei Misaki, she vaguely warns him and shows signs of beginning to dislike him. In Episode 11, Takako revealed that Izumi seems to be fond of Kouichi.

Naoya Teshigawara
Izumi, after hearing of Teshigawara's promises to explain the history of Class 3 to Kouichi without her permission gives off the impression that she sees him as an idiot. Izumi also does not seem to return his feelings towards him and views him as annoying.

Mei Misaki
Prior to episode 9, Izumi seemed moreorless indifferent to Mei although it is not exactly known how she truly feels about her due to Mei being the "non-existent" student. As of episode 9, Izumi appears to dislike Mei, possibly because she blames Mei for starting the calamity. The reason for this being is that Izumi may believe that Mei could have resisted Kouichi's attempts to talk to her, but didn't.

Kazuma Akazawa
Kazuma Akazawa is Izumi's older brother. Her brother is mentally unstable and often locks himself in his room. He is yet to make an appearance in the anime although his name was seen in a class list of 1996. At chapter 17 of the manga, her brother commits suicide by hanging himself in his room.

Trivia

 * She is ranked A+ in Another characters ranking.
 * Her first name, Izumi, means fountain or spring.Another_87.jpg
 * Her home address is 1-1 Akatsukicho Yomiyama City.
 * In the original novel, Akazawa is a minor character that doesn't appear until page 256. While she is mentioned periodically, the first speaking lines she has isn't until her confrontation with Mei at the Sakitani Kinenkan near the conclusion of the book.
 * Izumi resembles Rise Kujikawa with her pigtails from Persona 4 (Game/Anime).