Talk:Yumi Ogura/@comment-64.237.139.211-20140421033942/@comment-397235-20140703111556

I don't think she and Aya not helping Kouichi condemned them (I mean, Ikuo and Sanae died because they tried to help him). Aya died because she tried to escape, I'll buy, and Yumi died because she couldn't take it. I really have no idea where the razor Yumi had came from (or Takako's letter opener, or Tomohiko's perfectly balanced for throwing kitchen knife), but I don't think she was just wandering around with the thing, either (although considering what the inn keeper did to Manabu and Takako, maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad idea).

Also, keep in mind the girls' personalities. Izumi is definitely the alpha female of their little group, and the others more or less go along with what she says (even when it's stupid, such as ignoring Kouichi; no one explained the curse to him for fear of pissing her off). Yumi is quiet, withdrawn, and has lost her best friend and her beloved brother. Like everyone, she's horrified by what's going on, and thanks to Izumi being jealous of Mei (which is more developed in the manga, but still definitely present in the anime), she and Takako both have a convenient target to focus all their fear, anger, and frustration on. Mei, being an outsider, is of course the perfect scapegoat, since she's not connected to any of the other girls and isn't an especially charismatic individual (she's also kind of passive; she meekly accepts being the ignored student and then lets the rest of the class blame it all on her when that doesn't; she doesn't even try to defend herself against either Izumi or Takako, instead expecting Kouichi and stupidity to protect her). Of course, we as viewers know things about Mei the characters don't (her terrible home life, her dead sister) which would have probably helped smooth things over. But nobody ever tries to explain things to anyone, not even to Izumi, who could've stopped things at any time if she weren't so stubborn.

So no, I don't think Yumi actually deserved to die that way. I think most of us would've reacted in a similar way in the same situation, or at best simply run away. I definitely don't think she's reach Tomohiko Kazami levels of psychopath ("The dead person's one of my classmates? Why bother trying to rationally figure out who it is when I can just let karma do it for me and kill every single person I meet in the hopes God will sort them out?"); he's the only person I really think deserved death, and that's only because he murdered two other people for no reason; barring that, his death would be just as tragic (though probably still amusing).