Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-121.218.169.180-20140524031534/@comment-6052796-20140705133025

If you have an Ipod or a smartphone or a kindle be it the portable device or the free program amazon gives out, you can purchase an Ebook for about 3 bucks. That's how I got my copy of the book. It's hard as hell to find a paperback of the novel. But essentially Izumi in the novel was pretty much known as a ghost character. The difference between a ghost character and a minor is that a ghost character is someone that is rarely if not, never seen at least until the climax of the fictional medium they are portrayed in, like Merris on Frasier or Howard's mom on BIg Bang. In this case although she doesn't show up most of the book, she still impacts life for Mei and Kouichi. The only difference being that she has no personal interest whatsoever in him be it romantic or otherwise. The Inn scene had it so she blamed them both, rather than just Mei.