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...the only way to stop the calamity is: send the dead back to death.

—Katsumi Matsunaga


Katsumi Matsunaga
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Kanji 松永 克己
Romaji Matsunaga Katsumi
Personal Information
Born 1968
Age 29 - 30
Gender Male
Height 166 cm
Eye Color Brown
Hair Color Brown
Occupation Working
Family Unknown
Vital Information
Affiliation Ex-Banker
Ex-Student
Status Alive
First appearance
Manga Chapter 13
Anime "Sphere Joint"
Voice Actors
Japanese Shinya Takahashi
English Illich Guardiola

Katsumi Matsunaga is a Yomiyama North Middle School student from the 3-3 class of 1983 along with Reiko Mikami and Ryoko Akiyama. During 1983, he managed to successfully stop the calamity of Class 3-3; the only recorded case of the phenomenon stopping halfway through the year.

Background[]

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Class 3-3 of 1983 praying. Katsumi is standing to the left of Mr. Koga.

In 1983, Mr. Koga, the homeroom teachers of Class 3-3, organized a trip for two days and three nights at Yomiyama Shrine. The goal of the trip was to restore the abandoned shrine and pray to remove the curse. After praying, Mr. Koga declared everything would be okay and the class is free of the curse, much to the relief of his students. After leaving, the sky turned overcast, and it began to rain. Katsumi was walking behind Jun Hamaguchi and witnessed his death. After this, he got into a fight with a classmate in the forest. The argument intensified and Katsumi punched his classmate; the classmate fell over and piercing his head on a tree branch, killing him. Katsumi, terrified, ran away and was questioned by the police who arrived at the scene. The next day, he returned to the scene but the body had disappeared. When he asked his classmates about the classmate (his name can't be heard because the tape was altered by the calamity), no one remembers him and Katsumi realized that he killed the Extra. Afraid he would forget his findings, he recorded his theories and confession on a tape for the following years' students to find and hides it in a classroom. But in time, even Katsumi forgot what happened on the class trip. After graduation, he moved to Tokyo to pursue his studies. He became a banker but quit after a few years, and returned to Yomiyama to help with the family business. He actually works and lives in a hotel.

Appearance[]

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Matsunaga in manga.

Katsumi has brown hair, brown eyes and a negligent appearance. He is seen wearing a pale blue T-shirt, a dark blue shirt, a pair of pale pants and dark blue shoes.

In the film, Katsumi appears briefly, when Kōichi and Mei interview him about his year's Calamity. He wears the uniform of a hotel valet, and most notably, he's missing the fingers on one his hands, a wound he self-inflicted for killing a classmate.

Personality[]

Katsumi seems to be an ironic and superficial person. When he comes out about the 9th Grade Class 3-3 curse, he becomes agitated and stressed.

Plot[]

Katsumi made his debut in "Sphere Joint" in Tomoka Inose's flashback.

In "Hair Stand", after he learns that Reiko Mikami was looking for him at the beach hotel, he went out to look for them. On the shore, Katsumi had a chat with Reiko and the others; he and Reiko both comment how long it's been since they've seen each other, and Katsumi tells his old friend she hasn't changed much since Middle School. However, the fun at the beach is cut tragically short by Junta Nakao's death, despite the group's efforts to save him. Shocked out of his post-traumatic stress disorder, Katsumi remembered the tape's location.

At the beginning of "Glass Eye", Kōichi Sakakibara, Naoya Tashigawara, Yūya Mochizuki, and Mei Misaki listened to the repaired tape, and learned how to end the Calamity: Send the Dead back to Death. Yūya later shared the tape with Izumi Akazawa and Takako Sugiura, which unfortunately caused more problems than it solved and led to most of 1998's curse related deaths.

Trivia[]

  • In the original novel, Katsumi is never seen and only has contact with Tomoka Mochizuki. Also, she claimed that he is a faithful client at Inoya Café.
  • He is a smoker and drinker.
  • When Junta's dies, Katsumi remarks in disbelief that last time he'd protected them, likely referring to his classmates from 1983.
  • His first name means "overcome," or "serpent."
  • The closing words of his tape, "Send the dead back to death" are also the last words of Yumi Ogura, Takako, and Tomohiko Kazami, though the latter had not actually heard that tape.
  • The student Katsumi killed from in 1983 died differently in each adaption. In the manga, Katsumi beat his head in with a rock, in the anime, he knocked his classmate over and accidentally impaled him on a tree, and in the film, he became angry and strangled her to death due to the stress of the ongoing Calamity. However, in all versions, Katsumi is remorseful for his actions.
  • It's shown that he and Reiko had a close relationship as they were in the same class and their conversation at the beach.
  • Matsunaga’s recording of his confession had a fatal flaw as he had coincidentally killed the extra, without actually identifying the person as such. This caused the massacre during Class 3-3’s class trip as they had no way of identifying the extra and the only one who could was Mei Misaki. As a result, several of the students ended up killing their classmates one by one to try to find the extra and “send them back to death”.

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