Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-39.42.71.48-20140706212805/@comment-397235-20140707022054

Exactly. 15 is an extremely difficult age anyway, and add to that all the responsibility she's got (which she volunteered for in the first place) and it's no wonder she's not the nicest person on Earth. I don't hold any of the characters' actions in the last few episodes against them (well, except Tomohiko, but that's only because he succeeded where Takako and Izumi failed).

Now, in the manga, she comes off like a paranoid psycho, and in the film she's really crazy and abusive (mostly toward poor Takako, which is rather odd). And from what I've heard, she's not an especially wonderful person in the novel, either.