Talk:Yuuya Mochizuki/@comment-6052796-20140708123715/@comment-397235-20140715032306

Who else have we not cast?

We have nobody for Izumi, Takako, Aya Ayano (because c'mon, we need more nice people), Kouichi, Tomohiko, Naoya, Ikuo, or Junta (I think Josh Hutchenson would be good for him, though, because they're both nice guys and you wouldn't expect that actor to die; it'd be like the chick who played Ripley in Alien: B list chick? She's gonna die really fast...). One thing I liked about the manga and film over the anime is the emphasis both placed on the Mizunos (albeit taking them in two drastically different directions).

I think a live action show would work better than another movie (because we had one of those, and it rather sucked). I don't have much faith in film as a method of character development for everyone. This is why I prefer novels or games; you have more time to tell a story.

Look at the movie. The characters who get the most development are Mei and Kouichi, followed by...Tomohiko and Takako. Everyone else is just there (special mention goes to Takeru, who at least serves a purpose in the film). That doesn't even make sense.

You could set things up so each season follows a different class (like Glee but not horrible...ironic, no?). While it's a series milked for all its worth, one thing I liked about The Grudge is its unwillingness to keep protagonists alive (the main heroine from the first film dies within the first half-hour of the second and is the catalyst for everything else which goes wrong).

You could do the same thing here. Maybe Tomohiko's sister is placed in the class, and we run into him a few times trying to protect her, but is among the first (or perhaps the first) to die. Talk about shocking.

Also, just being out of class 3-3 doesn't necessarily protect you from collateral damage. Thus you could have a scene with Izumi speaking to her successor as head of countermeasures in her car on the way home from school, only for them to crash and be killed. For that matter, the previous year aren't going to just magically vanish: if Takako survives, for instance, she's still going to be very, very insane.

Back to what I said earlier, it'd also be interesting to see the kids from the previous year take their presumed invulnerability for granted. Example: Naoya tries to help the current class, in so doing becomes connected to the class again, and nearly dies (or does, depending on how shocking it could be) as a result.

It'd also be interesting to see Kouichi (or his expy, since I assume we're going for Western names here) and how he's dealing with killing Reiko, especially since this isn't something he can exactly tell people about.

This is fun, by the way...