Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25409301-20140911182738/@comment-6052796-20140912132642

Here's the thing I can see through Izumi's perspective, but no matter what justification she has, she's made nothing but bad decisions. In her journey to protect the school she did nothing to forewarn Kouichi. It wouldn't have killed her or Tomohiko to put a note saying "Oh there's a thing we gotta do, it's no big deal or anything, but just follow our lead." When Kouichi was being ignored, Yuuya gave him a note stating he should ask Mei for further info on it and he made it through the story without a scratch and that guy's endured a snapped Tomohiko, a pushy Izumi and Takako duo and a psychotic hotel manager.

That picture and the gif picture that followed, I already discussed that with Godzilla fan, the first picture is either concept art or part of one of many anime magazine promo's. I seen a similar styles of Photos where two characters who are meant to be enemies can be seen smiling together. If you notice on the gif picture she does not turn her head to acknowledge Mei, so that leads me to believe that she simply really enjoyed that Watermelon she's eating. It's a classic table manner's moment. When one enjoys good eats, they tend to tune everything out and not talk.

Even without audience perspective, I still hate her actions against Mei during the dinner scene. Any sane and rational figure of education would have at least given Izumi a reprimand for her behavior whether she was justified or not. In the rule books what she did was single out a student with the intent of ostracizing. This in term is considered harassment a very severe case of bullying. For someone who is adept at following class rules, she forgot about that little tidbit. But no, not even the teachers including Kouichi's own aunt did anything to stop her.

The reason why they were in no hurry was because of the following factors. Had they told countermeasures right away, they would have risked the lives or more students trying to find the tape in the old classroom which was already falling apart. They also wanted to make sure it was the real deal, as one shouldn't get their hopes up over the only clue. It coulda just been false hope to keep people from worrying more about it. Even then those guys risked their lives to get the tape, it's up to them to decide how they used it. They earned that much. Even after listening to it, they were shocked at what they had to do. Extra or no, they still had to kill somone to save everyone. That kind of dilemma can get to you and many people could react to that scenario in different ways as seen when Takako and Tomohiko caught wind of the tape.

As for the most popular. She only became popular because the Manga and Anime expanded her character. I read the original book, she was mostly kept in shadow and rarely seen until the Diner scene. And in that scene she accused Kouichi of being just as responsible as Mei. Her death wasn't all that spectacular in it either. She was killed by Keiko while calling for help, dropping her attitude in a manner of pages.

As for the credits. Every Anime has often tried to make their openenings and endings have some type of artistic symbolism. The very type that causes debate over what it signifies. In the case of the credit sequence, you have every student in Class 3-3 living or dead appear with happy expressions. With the exception of Takako and Kouichi. Then you have Mei who was there for a brief moment fade away. The reason I interpret that as Izumi's mindset is because she is the only one that actually hates Mei no matter what. Takako's reasons are mainly to earn favor from Izumi. Nayoa simply finds her weird. Yuuya seemed more afraid of her. Ogura simply just viewed her as "The thing that killed her brother." when one views another as an object instead of a person it's easy for them to justify killing them. However Izumi does view Mei as a person. She views her as the extra at first, but even acknowledges that she could be wrong, but wants to kill her anyway. Even if she lived through the Calamity with barely any memory of the Extra or reasons why. She'd still hate Mei on instinct. The reason I view Izumi with hatred, is because she is hate personified.