Umbrellas are actually surprisingly deadly in real life! Last year someone got murdered with a normal umbrella in Germany. I guess you can imagine where the rounded tip went...
@@akultyagi2818 he actually I was born by the person who was supposed to be ignored she had a good chance of correcting it by warning him but decided that he shouldn't have known
DuoReview I know this was the old but I watched the anime for the first time and in August 10 people die because everybody is trying to kill misaki and literally went crazy and that’s it so not the curses fault is what I’m trying to say but yeah July was curse
@@duoreview7492 I think you have a valid point but I think they were already cursed to begin with remember they most likely had the wrong lady if he remembered that the simple fact that they mistake her identity for her cousin that was really her sister
oh thank god I wasn’t the only one to question Izumi’s stupid ass judgment, I was never able to shake away the feeling of “Why are you getting mad at the obviously unknown transfer student WHEN ITS YOUR JOB TO TELL HIM WHAT TO DO”
Why didn't she tell him though? Was it because by the time they learnt about the transfer student, they had already begun to ignore Misake, ultimately making the task of deposing Sakakibara of the situation counter intuitive?
@justhoodiesthings I feel like people are too hard on Izumi. She tried so hard, harder than literally anyone else there, and they’re all just kids. It’s not like this was a murder mystery, this was milo Murphy’s law cranked to X. Some of these deaths I didn’t see coming. The real problem is that she didn’t have a stable partner to correct her when she needed it. Kouichi and Mei had each other’s backs, and they honestly didn’t hide or run from death, therefore they were actually living. So death never actually came for them. The idea of there being an extra teacher imo was the show cheating, cause they never even brought that up as a possibility so nobody would’ve guessed such a thing. Also the teacher being Kouichis aunt too was deliberately hid from us so any clue about her being dead at all was completely uprooted out of any context it would’ve fit in. There’s also no possibility presented that it could be a family member either, so the mystery part of this otherwise gem of a show was a cheap shot.
Though we can't deny Izumi's incompetence at all, we can't put all the blame to her either. They actually adapted that 'ignore one person' charm only from the previous years. But it didn't work bcs their case isn't compatible with that solution, since the dead extra is not a 'STUDENT'. Their ignorance leads them to more deaths, but you can't fully blame them.
That's not it at all. They adapted the "ignore one student" charm on May the first, but the fact remains that Misaki Fujioka (Mei's twin sister) died due the curse in April.. In other words, the whole ordeal was futile as it was implemented too late. And you can most certainly blame them for not telling Koichi a damn thing and then get mad at him for talking to Mei. Do they think he's a mind reader?? Mei should of course have told them about her sister, but I doubt they would have listened to her at all. The class doesn't like Mei, something that's very clear. She has no friends, except for Koichi himself. And as far as they're concerned, she's always been an only child. If she'd start talking about Misaki Fujioka, they would most likely think she was lying and trying to get out of the ordeal of being invisible..
It really frustrated me when she forced misaki to apologise for doing nothing wrong. Sure she doesn’t know that her sister died, but I feel she probably had to peer pressure her into the nonexistent person. As I’m sure happens every year. Then she doesn’t tell Koichi anything in the hospital has blames the fact that she was ill one day. Her blaming it on Mei in front of everyone just looked like she fucked up and everyone else did and they just wanted to blame someone
@@grovercleavland2698 Uhm, they did? Teshigawara, Mochizuki and Sakakibara started yelling at her when she started accusing Mei, who in turn shows them great gratitude for having her back, Koichi in particular. This in turn makes Mei trust him completely and right after this scene, she spills the beans on everything towards him.
@@Stigmatix666 that’s not what I mean. For being so cold, they should have pointed out to her that she was even more responsible for the disaster because of her incompetence.
This is what happen in first 1-3 episodes Koichi: literally keep broking the rule because he didn't know anything about what the hell is happened Izumi:Nah,we better keep it secret
Calls herself 'head of countermeasures', repeats that title multiple times in the show with pride. Then does everything BUT counter the curse. Like for exmpl do Not ignore the freaking new transfer student, which she did. Honestly? The Curse just does its stuff but Izumi's incompetence pretty much did More. And her underlying jealous attitude towards Mei was annoying asf.
I kind of think that was the point of her character if you noticed in the end she was the most delusional so maybe she was just arrogant and full of pride
But Misaki's supposed cousin was actually her twin sister. They had a plot point where Koichi meets Misaki's mother and he notices that she regards her daughter like she was a stranger. It was later revealed that that Misaki's mother had a daughter who was stillborn but she had a sister who conveniently had identical twins so she adopted one and that became Misaki. Years later the twins learn of each other and meet up, however, no one else knew Masaki had an identical twin sister. So part of Izumi's issue was that she had seen Misaki's twin, but thought it was Misaki herself. Because she comments to that one student that gets hung to death in the Cluster Fuck that was a the class trip that she remembered seeing Misaki with two eyes. So they come to the theory that Misaki must be the ghost but she has been reborn half-formed.
Jaana Humlie I totaly agree with your points. I know I'm late, but thank you for having someone here to agree with me. Izumi was not incompetent, as was stated several times in the video. And besides, Kouchi met Mei before Izumi even had the chance to tell Kouchi not to come near Mei. Or am I wrong. I‘m not sure it could be wrong Thank God someone agrees with me.
Yess! Finally someone! I don't think Izumi was incompetent at all she did all she could with the knowledge she had and was given and she tried to save everyone untill the very end whereas Mei having so much information -the calamity had starting with her sister's death -her ability to see ghosts She could've at least told Kouichi about the truth earlier when she saw so many deaths happen, yet she remains silent almost uncaring the deaths. Mei really frustrated me to hell
TooDramaticForYou they tried to change classes etc but the curse was still in affect and people still need to learn, and the curse makes them forget them interacting with the dead person
@@idkanymore6204 they know about the curse remember they didn't originally forget they forget when the "extra" person dies and that being said they only forget about the "extra" person
Yes but Izumi doesn't know it, she is taking the wrong decision by letting them talk to the person that is supposed to dissappear. The Extra was in the teacher's clasroom, but there was one extra (her "countermeasures") so that left one extra in the clasroom as well.
No. That is incorrect. Everything starts with Mei's sister dying, in April, as she was the first victim of the curse. Reiko was obviously already assistant teacher at that point, since *nothing* points to the contrary. And it's perfectly in line with "one extra person infiltrating the class", in this case: Reiko Mikami. The school year in Japan starts in April, after all. They implemented the charm of "making one student invisible" in May, one month after Mei's sister dying. Fault #1. They didn't say a damn thing about any of this to Koichi, as Akazawa flat out forbade them to. And they got mad at him for not reading their minds. Fault #2. Mei should definitely have come forward with the fact that her sister was the first victim. Even though nobody would probably believe her.. Fault #3. But Akazawa is definitely the one who bears most of the blame here. But Mei does bear some responsibility herself. However, regarding Mei's situation. As far as the rest of the class is concerned, she's an only child. She clearly has no friends either. If she'd started talking about her sister dying in April, due to the curse, I'm pretty sure no-one would have believed her. Class 3-3 was doomed from the start this year.
DuoReview isn’t May Misaki sorta worse? I mean she already knew who was the dead one but didn’t take care of the situation or even tried until almost everyone is dead already xD
I love how Izumi constantly fucks up and causes loads of deaths, and still has the audacity to blame Mei as if she did anything wrong at all. And then Mei is the one who _ends_ the curse too. The poor girl can't catch a break
I love how episode 4, I think, Misaki tells Sakaibara that “not telling [him] before hand was a costly mistake” It’s ironic how accurate she is in that statement without even realizing it. She’s right. If the students just explained the curse to him then the charm may have worked. But they didn’t, and they paid the price.
The charm has a 50 50 Chance of work I forgot what episode but when there are 2 none exist the librarian tell him how it work and it success rate which is 50/50 so even if they told him we don't know if it will work or not
@@amadeus3263 that’s episode 6. Yeah the librarian guy said the countermeasures did work some years and didn’t work others. The curse had already begun by the time Sakibara transferred, so telling him would not have made a difference anyway since the curse was already in motion before he transferred.
This made me so happy on a day I loathe so much. A theory from one of my favorite UA-camrs on one of my favorite animes of all time (especially since it was my first anime.) Any day is instantly better when I see one of your videos in my notifications.
I started watching this anime last week and i finished it last night as well. I gotta say,i was not expecting that ending,though! And here i thought that Izumi had something to do with the curse,but i was wrong. I didn't even trust her in the begining,either. I still think that it was wrong of Izumi to blame Misaki and look what happened to her.
But she did have a lot to do with it that's what makes the fortune word apologize even more scummy because actually it's more her fault than any of theirs remember he did talk to her once but they had a chance to fix it but instead of telling him the reason to ignore her she convinced all of them to not tell him the truth although I don't know if that would have done any good since it was a case of mistaken identity because of Mei misaki's cousin that turned out to really be her sister but she didn't help the situation anything she's the worst of the worst to blame she made a lot of the problems happen so she had no room to have her apologize because she was the biggest problem
@Ionasku Alexander I got the feeling they wouldn't believe her and if it's truly doing nothing is for evil to succeed then why did mrs. Lady in charge of countermeasures I'm saying that sarcastically why did she not tell him Izumi is the biggest person to blame
And yes I do believe in doing nothing is how evil succeeds but she was trying to put the puzzle together the one who truly did nothing was Izumi not even that she did nothing and acted arrogant she's a definition of a in fact I feel like she hit every off-putting version of dere types including yandere near the end she went crazy that's why I say yandere but she hits all the others where she just acts like everyone else is an idiot that personality type she also hit some arrogant personality type of things too highly of herself she's like a basket case all wrapped into one
She didn’t remember properly that she had met sasaki before . That’s because even sasaki doesn’t remember that as he was attending his aunt’s funeral reiko who was the one who came as the ghost in the class . That’s why she wasn’t sure if sasaki was or not . But after that it was all her wrong doing . She was pretty stupid tbh haha
Since they ignore Mei, they can't tell Koichi about her. That's why no one tells him nothing. Remember the guy who trying to warn koichi? He said Don't deal with things that non-existed. He can't just say don't talk with Mei. Because if he does that means he acknowledges her existence. I think that's the reason why no one told Koichi about her. Correct me if I'm wrong
Yes. And they discuss it at length in the manga. They also blame the students who visited him at the hospital in the opening; "Why the f.. didn't you tell him then?" Uhm.. You know.. That would have been the perfect, and only (?) opportunity.
I will always love Another and it will always hold a special place in my heart as it was one of the first anime I watched after I got into anime. It may have made me scared to take elevators for awhile and have an umbrella on me when taking the stairs.
I'm going to confess something that's going to make me look like a horrible human being but every time I watch this anime and I watch the teacher commits suicide I laugh my ass off this is the funniest thing I have ever seen I do not give a damn
Either the one where the guy gets struck by lightning out of nowhere, or the one where the guy escapes from under the chandelier and then gets crushed by a pillar right after. XD
The reason why I chose the teacher as my favorite is because I love a good bloody death but I don't want to see organs it was the best of both worlds and the students reactions were just the best
Honestly, this holds up really well and makes me love the show even more. It has its issues but also has great subtle moments, and all the stuff you praised about it in your previous ep on the show
My Theory: Its actually Mei’s fault to me because. Yeah he already talked to Kouichi but when Kouichi kept on talking to her Mei should’ve ignored him and don’t talked to him. But she kept talking.
No it wasn’t, the curse started in April when the aunt started attending the class, (the aunt died a year before, when she was stabbed and thrown into the river by an unknown assailant). So it didn’t matter if they talked to Mei or not, since she wasn’t the extra, and the curse already begun with Mei’s sister’s death.
@@noddlelebowski1074 It didn’t matter if he talked to her PERIOD, because like I said before, THE CURSE ALREADY BEGAN! Mei’s sister’s death started that year, which means the charm didn’t work.
@@momimhome7540 i had questions tho 1) how was the curse came back? Like how did the aunt came back from the dead? Why? 2) then who defish was driving them to the beach? Dead aunt? 3) what's the point of them revealing the back story of kouchi and the red hair girl (one with two ponys) if it doesn't lead to the story.. or is just wanted to highlight that kouchi was there half a year ago?...but seems a waste to me. So i knew there was sumn off with the aunt bcs the grampa was saying "poor reiko".
@@emzaffar2884 Here’s what I think (I could be wrong so take what I say with a grain of salt) 1) Sometimes the charm works, sometimes it doesn’t, this year it didn’t work, every year someone connected to class 3-3 who died comes back for the year, the curse happens to balance out the students. It’s because of 26 years prior to the events of another. 2) Mei said that the dead person has a physical body, a soul, and their memories of when they were alive, but not their real death, so Reiko thinks she’s still alive. The one who was driving was the dead aunt. 3) Kouichi was there a half a year ago because his aunt died, he was there for her funeral, and he met Izumi there. The next year everyone’s memories are altered. I guess it’s for foreshadowing, and to explain why she thought he was there before. The writers wanted to leave subtle hints for the viewers, like when the grandpa said “poor Reiko” that was supposed to be a hint, I guess.
I agree that Izumi could've made better decisions, but I don't think we should just blame the increase of the deaths on her. There was nothing she could've actually done.
On the contrary; she flat out forbade the entire class to explain the situation to Koichi. To keep him in the dark about something so crucial is completely idiotic on her part.
Yes I agree. Also Mei could've improved the situation by telling them about her sister. She literally had so much information! Even about Mikami's death- She could've earned their trust and tried to convince them about Mikami being a ghost, yet she decides to keep her mouth shut and see everyone die. The last few episodes were to frustrating to watch because of her. She's truly a useless main character moment.
Somebody said that in the novel it was stated that Izumi didn't tell Kouichi about Mei because she wasn't chosen yet at the time. I do wish we go that information in the anime too. The hate for her is honestly so sad and unfortunate. She tried her best with what she knew and could do.
Thanks for talking about old anime and bringing light to it to a lot of people. I encourage you to go and check out the anime Another. It’s great. P.S: Great theory. I agree with the points you made.
The ritual is not effective in the first place because the first to die was Misaki's twin sister from the OVA which set before the series started and before the class started. Also I'm not defending Izumi because she's not good at what she supposed to do and she is the worst character in this show. Amazing video and keep up the amazing anime theory cause I love watching your video than any other anituber out there. Thanks.
Yeah, the original ritual or the "charm" had no effect since the curse had started well before Kouichi had arrived. The theory was more about how Izumi's countermeasure charm actually made things worse. =D
Ugh, couldn't stand this anime. I read the book before I saw the show and holy hell, did they compress the damn thing down. Too many characters, not enough development, the curse made absolutely no sense (and I watched the whole thing three times trying to see if I missed something), the twist at the end was an ass pull that didn't match the past pattern at all, and if Izumi had just done her freaking JOB, the entire anime wouldn't have happened. How hard is it to explain to the new guy what the rules are? You don't even need to hammer it in. Just explain the damn rules! If the plot demands him to break them, then he'll break them, but at least you'll have done your job and the blame shifts away from you! Izumi is seriously one of the worst characters I've ever come across in anime, and I'm usually forgiving to anime characters and their blunders. But the way her decisions (or rather lack of them) led to the slew of stupidity that had me yelling at my screen, I just can't do it. Go to hell, Izumi
@@sossstudios3282 I don't want to spoil it in case anyone hasn't seen it yet. I'm guessing you have. The status of the dead person came out of nowhere. For as long as the curse has been in effect, it's been consistent, the same signs every year. No changes otherwise. The students at least have that to look for. This year, THIS freaking year, the ONE year when the main character is in the class, the signs change, throwing everyone off balance entirely. And since the revelation came out of nowhere and seemed to serve only to hurl a few red herrings at us in the final couple of episodes, and throw suspicion off the one and only conclusion as to who the dead person could VERY OBVIOUSLY BE WITHOUT THIS TEENY BIT OF CRUCIAL INFORMATION, it just came off as a copout. Think about it; if we'd known ahead of time where the sign had moved to, we'd have known from episode one who the dead person probably was. But of course we can't be given that information or the mystery is pointless. If the author is trying to imply that the curse is a sentient being, that flops too. What this thing is makes no sense, how it works if not consistently makes no sense (and I'm sure the characters would agree with me here) and the plot twist would've made the entire story obvious from the getgo if they'd revealed where the new sign of the dead person was this year instead of where it normally was.
Izumi couldn't have told him the rules without breaking the seal. Since he was put in her class out of nowhere. She went to the principal to protest this, and he didn't take her seriously. She said this to her friends in the show. And the curse had already begun the month before the series with Fujioka, so Izumi telling him whatever would've made no difference anyway. You want Izumi to go to Hell, but it was all smoke and mirrors regardless. The curse absolutely does make sense--but it is confusing, and it honestly took me more than three tries to understand it all.
@@RebelOfDaNew thank you lol. if izumi had told him, that would mean that she just considered misaki as existing so it would have broken it anyways. that charm didn't even work
Why didn't Akazawa tell him though? Was it because by the time they learnt about the transfer student, they had already begun to ignore Misake, ultimately making the task of deposing Sakakibara of the situation counter intuitive?
Love the video. Hey Duo, when you mention 'dumb as the town that still even allows these kids to go to a school like this in the first place?' I think I have an idea of why they do it or could be wrong in the end. "The curse is able to adapt and grow stronger over time and could possibly instead of a just school building it could affect the entire town." Here is why? The curse is already capable of following the students and family where ever they go. It was capable of moving from class to class. And this year instead of the classroom it moves to the teacher's office space. As you know students cannot ignore a teacher especially during teaching. Making the students acknowledge the person that is to be ignored. I imagine the townsfolks or someone in charge brought the help of who knows about curses in and asked for the person or them advice. This person would tell them that this curse could grow to affect the town if it is isolated now in a single area. This area would be the school building and if there is a chance to end the curse it would be 50% - 50%. By ignoring the old high school building it could end there or overtime it starts to the surrounding buildings near the school. Slowly going outside affect business and families. Now you would have to worry about who is it not just at the school but at your home and workplace too? Everyone would become paranoid and distrustful of each other. The town would have to be ignored and all the people who lived there would become isolated and outcast. Or I'm wrong and just over thinking it.
Well i can see where this theory is coming from but the curse started before Kouichi joined class 3 with the death of Misaki's cousin and the death of Ritsuko (I think she died at the start of the year making her the first victim, if not please correct me). And i can understand that her death might have been not related to the curse, but Izumi's counter measure is logical considering that they thought the curse was avoided so when another student was added to the roaster making him non existent would set the number of student back to the "safe" amount. But then again this all doesn't matter since the dead person was a teacher. Still a great theory
@@duoreview7492 but here's the deal you can't blame Izumi nor Kouichi nor Misaki because they all think that the extra person is a student but it's a teacher which something that haven't happened before. In the end there is nothing for them to do about it except join the curse and kill the dead person before the curse kills them. Surely she should have been honest about the class's situation from the beginning and I think this is where she is at fault but the other rest of the counter measures she took are completely logical.
Ritsuko was Koichi's mother who died after his birth, 15 years earlier. She was a victim of the curse as well, btw. Reiko, his aunt and teacher, died a year and a half before the story even starts, and her death had nothing to do with the curse. The first victim this year was Mei's sister, and that happened prior to the task of "making one student invisible", which is the reason it was futile. It was too late, as it already had begun. The fact that the teacher was the extra is completely irrelevant. What *is* relevant is that Akazawa forced her ideas on the rest of the class and forbade everyone to even tell him what was going on. Akazawa is completely inept as the head of countermeasures!
1. the charm may work before but wont work in their year because the extra was the teacher, therefore they actually should ignore one teacher out of existence for the charm to work properly. 2. since the librarian memory wasnt affected, they should've used misaki to detect next year extra and kill before any death occur and since the extra only appear from last year dead people, the chain would be broken.
What really bothers me is that they didn’t really stop the curse they just found a temporary fix. I hope the next class doesn’t have it as bad. I would’ve made a bunch of copies on how to stop the curse instead of one before forgetting
I thought I was the only one who actually got this point....for real they didn't stopped it they only did what that other dude did when he stopped it temporarily after the first half of the year... they for real should've made ways to tell the other incoming classes
But not talking to Misaki would not matter? Because they needed that kind of person in the teachers room. That's why the first death started with Misaki's sister, way before anyone talked to Misaki.
I think you are a bit harsh on Izumi, because you already break the charm when telling that they are intentionally ignoring a specific student (and therefore confirming the existence of that student -> breaking the charm). Ofc we know that this never mattered in the show since the curse started already with the death of Misaki's twin sister - but Izumi couldn't know that. A lot of Izumis wrong decisions are more because of simple lack of available knowledge, not because of plain stupidity. Also if you want to blame someone for the large pile of deaths, its Misaki - unlike Izumi, Misaki knew the things needed to act preventively. She withheld the crucial information that her twin-sister died, a very important information that could have shown the others that the curse was already active before any new student arrived. She also kept the info of who the dead one was at the mansion. The anime could have easily ended there (especially with bringing the mystery ambience of the 1st act back) but plot said "more gory deaths". The only bad thing about this anime that it demanded from so many characters to be stupid and even withholding of crucial information in order to get the plot going, unlike for example the classic "Death Note", where its completely the opposite.
Just think what would have happened If Mei told everyone in the class that she had a twin who was first victim of the curse. You know her aunt-mom right? 🤣 her aunt-mom doesn't want her to even meet with her twin and she saw Mei as her only child. If the whole thing was exposed then what? House arrest! No more school 🤣 and more casualities And she knew who was extra for a while but they came to know what to do with the extra to stop the calamity at the starting of the ep 10 ig :/ and then she wanted to kill reiko alone so that kouichi won't be able witness that and everyone will forget about reiko. End.
@@lynxleviathan8669 No. Izumi bears the biggest blame here for not telling Koichi in advance as well as forbidding anyone else to tell him and on top of that acting like he's supposed to read their minds, while willingly and knowingly keeping him in the dark. Yes. Mei does bear some responsibility regarding not telling about her sister, but do you honestly think anyone would have believed her? First, no-one liked her. Second, as far as everyone knew she was an only child. Who else is responsible? Reiko. Yes, the dead one. She's his aunt as well as his teacher. And even she deliberately kept him in the dark about this entire phenomena. Sure she was dead, but she didn't know that and she should really have had some common sense regarding this. The entire ordeal was a clusterf**k which failed on multiple levels. But the biggest fault clearly rests upon Izumi.
I dont know why but i have got the most chills up my spine ever since I've watched this anime each time someone died my heart would send a massive wave keeping me on edge and turning on all lights as well as watching the anime next to someone
the outro background music gives me a horrific flashbacks get out of my head get it out of my head get it out of my head head get it out of my head get it out of my head head get it out of my head get it out of my head
Lol even if Izumi did work the charm correctly it would still have NO effect because the ghost is a teacher not a student. There was a missing desk in the faculty office NOT THE CLASSROOM. Honestly I cant blame Izumi, who would have predicted it was the teacher since most ghosts so far have been students? I actually blame Misaki on this. Misaki knew who the ghost was even before the class trip but didnt bother to tell anyone about it. Sure, she didnt know how to stop the dead person but she could have at least shared this information with the others so they could come up with a plan to stop Mikami sensei instead of turning against each other. Misaki waited until half of the class was dead before speaking up, leading to more deaths, including Izumi's.
This is my opinion but i think you’re wrong because izumi akazawa is trying so hard but mai misaki just could say who was the dead person and stop before it get worse
Ehh in the beginning she couldn’t tell them since she didn’t exist and if they did listen to her then they would die But after 2 deaths she should’ve said something what a moron
yea, Mei Misaki is in fault either in my opinion too, though Izumi showed incompetence. if Misaki already revealed the extra, and kill her right away, kills on their trip is reduced and the misunderstanding didnt happen
Okay but also how does the extra student get chosen??? Do they volunteer sometimes or is it like a card draw, or does the classes chief or countermeasures just chose a person??, what if they chose their teacher?? What if the extra student has a twin, cousin, or other family member working at the school then what happens, we can also see that for some reason the memory altering can't affect animals, as the bird is always saying poor Reiko, which means it remembers the family being sad that Reiko died, thus why she doesn't like the bird, but that also brings up the question, does it also alter the memory of babies and toddlers? What about like new born babies like what if one of the students moms was pregnant and gave birth would the babies memory get altered, could in theory Pregnant people die (sounds weird but) we know that usually 1-2 people die in a month, but wouldn't a pregnant person count as 2-4 people (4 would be triplets), could a fetus die whilst a pregnant family member stay alive?? Will the curse alter the memory of family members in a coma, or family members with alzheimers or other memory loss conditions, and finally let's say a student died and returned as the extra what if like their younger sister moved into the city would she get her memory altered as soon as she entered the city or would she be fine
(I love your theories ㄱㅇ ㅅ ㅇㄱ~) I personally, love the manga better. My favorite characters didn't die, by that I mean Kazami! Also, Happy Valentine's day!
It also didn't help that she order the class not to tell Kouichi, everytime someone did try they normally would get a death glare (no pun intended ) by one of the members of the community
@@attorneyacemarkey Exactly. Koichi's *real* mother died 15 years ago, when Reiko attended Class 3-3. His mother was actually a victim of the curse herself. That's also why Reiko and Koichi are so close, she's like the mother figure he never got a chance to have in life.
It's a good a point 😂 even tho I think that they dont treat the curse as a conscious thing....its a phenomenon that requires normal rhythm in reality....meaning that if 1 student is extra then you should cut 1 student down now your back to normal....its not about just making the student not existing its about normal rhythm
Go read the manga or the novel of another, in this one Izumi doesn't make stupid choices, the class representative simply coordinates the debates with the class, the ideas are general according to the problem and are chosen unanimously most of the time (moreover izumi like many people doesn't die in the novel) the animation studio just botched the work: moreover your video isn't really a theory but rather a criticism towards a character
Izumi doesn't make stupid choices in the manga?? She's completely blinded by her own arrogance ands spite in the manga. She's a much more likable character in the anime. And in the book, she's basically a filler character who almost adds nothing to the plot.
I think Izumi assumed that a transfer student coming in ruined the balance by adding another student so by ignoring the MC she thought she was restoring balance.
This anime is not talked about enough! I barely see or hear anyone talking about this anime and i barely ever see anyone cosplaying or RPing characters of this show. I know this anime is not the greatest out there but it was not that BAD. Sure confusing and slow but it was not that bad..
Anime culture has now prioritized new seasonal anime, meaning the discussion is almost always on them. It sucks since a lot of older stuff gets neglected, but I usually like to show them a bit of love. =D
This anime is really good though. I don’t even get people smfh... they like mirai Nikki and dislike another people are weird. Maria Nikki’s ending was so freaking shit and also it created questions about the plot in my head
Small nitpick but the school actually changed the classroom and name and even building but it’s just the third class of that school. Also since all the deaths are seemingly accidental or suicide and the deaths don’t happen every year the curse isn’t really taken too seriously for the higher ups. Also murder of students doesn’t count towards the curse. The curse kills 1-2 or so a month but most of the mansion deaths weren’t accidental or mind altering.
I would like to say one thing though, I wouldn't call most of the deaths at the house part of the curse and here's why. If I recall (I watched it in 2016 so it's been a while) the deaths took place because they were just murdering each other rather than the curse. I would call that more human reaction to the curse rather than the curse itself.
I think the issue is that firstly, several of the deaths actually still just end up being due to extraneous circumstances (fire knocking pillars and debris onto people, getting tangled in random wires, ect), while the others more often then not are due to a character going crazy just suddenly, which seems like it could also be a part of the curse. Remember, the teacher ended up offing his mother and himself due to the curse mentally messing with him, so it's very likely the curse was involved in 90% of the deaths.
@@duoreview7492 What's stupid is that they could've just told reiko to leave the town, then the curse would be lifted right? No uneven numbers, if Mei told him after the tape got played at the mansion then those deaths could've been prevented. Your thoughts Duo?
I've always hated Izumi and was never really able to sympathise with her 'woe is me' attitude, but you have to admit, she is just a child. And children shouldn't have the responsibility of over twenty other kids on their back.
I'd probably limit the 9th grade to 2 classes. If that didn't work, I'd burn down the entire school and rebuild it on the other side of town. Rename the school, change the uniforms, change the mascot, change the style of he school, build it on consecrated ground, and have charms all over the school.
Oh yeah, the Umbrella impaling anime
Yep, that's what's it's known as. XD
Umbrellas are actually surprisingly deadly in real life!
Last year someone got murdered with a normal umbrella in Germany. I guess you can imagine where the rounded tip went...
A Bulgarian deserter was murdered by poisonous umbrella from KGB during thr cold war
@@edi9892 up the bum
@@Ben-yj9wz through the eye socket. However, I did hear of an incident as you've described and it was lethal too. I think that it happened in the USA.
Curse: kills one student per month Izumi:"I'm about to end this whole curse's career"
She wasn't present in the school on the first day and when she came on the other sakakibara already talked to misaki
@@akultyagi2818 it doesn't matter the curse started even before that. When mei's cousin dies
@@nahidalifazel870 wasnt what i was talking about but ok
@@akultyagi2818 he actually I was born by the person who was supposed to be ignored she had a good chance of correcting it by warning him but decided that he shouldn't have known
@@nahidalifazel870 that is true they mistaken her for that identity that part is very true
I always wondered why the deaths went sky rocket in such a short amount of time
Yeah I did as well. I think my theory is a good enough explanation. =D
Now thinking about that, maybe most recent dead not the curse fault, but yeah people always want something to blame
DuoReview I know this was the old but I watched the anime for the first time and in August 10 people die because everybody is trying to kill misaki and literally went crazy and that’s it so not the curses fault is what I’m trying to say but yeah July was curse
@@theplaceofhawks Made me wonder if the July of 2020 would be worser
@@duoreview7492 I think you have a valid point but I think they were already cursed to begin with remember they most likely had the wrong lady if he remembered that the simple fact that they mistake her identity for her cousin that was really her sister
oh thank god I wasn’t the only one to question Izumi’s stupid ass judgment, I was never able to shake away the feeling of “Why are you getting mad at the obviously unknown transfer student WHEN ITS YOUR JOB TO TELL HIM WHAT TO DO”
Why didn't she tell him though? Was it because by the time they learnt about the transfer student, they had already begun to ignore Misake, ultimately making the task of deposing Sakakibara of the situation counter intuitive?
@justhoodiesthings I feel like people are too hard on Izumi. She tried so hard, harder than literally anyone else there, and they’re all just kids. It’s not like this was a murder mystery, this was milo Murphy’s law cranked to X. Some of these deaths I didn’t see coming. The real problem is that she didn’t have a stable partner to correct her when she needed it. Kouichi and Mei had each other’s backs, and they honestly didn’t hide or run from death, therefore they were actually living. So death never actually came for them. The idea of there being an extra teacher imo was the show cheating, cause they never even brought that up as a possibility so nobody would’ve guessed such a thing. Also the teacher being Kouichis aunt too was deliberately hid from us so any clue about her being dead at all was completely uprooted out of any context it would’ve fit in. There’s also no possibility presented that it could be a family member either, so the mystery part of this otherwise gem of a show was a cheap shot.
Classmate: "Gee, the curse is pretty scary killing 1 person a month huh?"
Izumi: "Hold my tea..."
Dude for real
@The Dark Knight it's actually umbrella
It's actually glass
Izumi basically added Kurt Angel to the mix and subtracted Koichi and Mei from the mix
I think her infatuation with Koiichi, and then jealousy over Mei is what clouded her judgement.
definitely
Yup
@@Stigmatix666
crazy
Yare yare
Get some sleep man.
NO FUCKONG WAY
Justin Y. HEYYYY
Glad to see you too. ;)
So fast
wanna hear a joke? umbrellas
They weren't much of a joke in the anime... ;)
@@duoreview7492 Thinking emoji
Funny man .
i flinched at that scene
That joke is to die for.
Though we can't deny Izumi's incompetence at all, we can't put all the blame to her either.
They actually adapted that 'ignore one person' charm only from the previous years. But it didn't work bcs their case isn't compatible with that solution, since the dead extra is not a 'STUDENT'.
Their ignorance leads them to more deaths, but you can't fully blame them.
That's not it at all. They adapted the "ignore one student" charm on May the first, but the fact remains that Misaki Fujioka (Mei's twin sister) died due the curse in April.. In other words, the whole ordeal was futile as it was implemented too late.
And you can most certainly blame them for not telling Koichi a damn thing and then get mad at him for talking to Mei. Do they think he's a mind reader??
Mei should of course have told them about her sister, but I doubt they would have listened to her at all.
The class doesn't like Mei, something that's very clear. She has no friends, except for Koichi himself. And as far as they're concerned, she's always been an only child. If she'd start talking about Misaki Fujioka, they would most likely think she was lying and trying to get out of the ordeal of being invisible..
It really frustrated me when she forced misaki to apologise for doing nothing wrong. Sure she doesn’t know that her sister died, but I feel she probably had to peer pressure her into the nonexistent person. As I’m sure happens every year. Then she doesn’t tell Koichi anything in the hospital has blames the fact that she was ill one day. Her blaming it on Mei in front of everyone just looked like she fucked up and everyone else did and they just wanted to blame someone
I really wish someone had called her out on her nonsense right there and then.
@@grovercleavland2698 Uhm, they did? Teshigawara, Mochizuki and Sakakibara started yelling at her when she started accusing Mei, who in turn shows them great gratitude for having her back, Koichi in particular.
This in turn makes Mei trust him completely and right after this scene, she spills the beans on everything towards him.
@@Stigmatix666 that’s not what I mean. For being so cold, they should have pointed out to her that she was even more responsible for the disaster because of her incompetence.
@@grovercleavland2698 Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't she accept and admit her own incompetence herself? Before directing it towards Mei
@@Stigmatix666 if you ask me that’s even worse. She knew she was at fault, yet she still blamed Misaki.
This is what happen in first 1-3 episodes
Koichi: literally keep broking the rule because he didn't know anything about what the hell is happened
Izumi:Nah,we better keep it secret
Lol
EXACTLYYY
I was so fcking annoyed with everyone in the class,like wtf,you can handle this SO MUCH BETTER
@@shotakun6044 fr
Lol
Calls herself 'head of countermeasures', repeats that title multiple times in the show with pride. Then does everything BUT counter the curse. Like for exmpl do Not ignore the freaking new transfer student, which she did.
Honestly? The Curse just does its stuff but Izumi's incompetence pretty much did More. And her underlying jealous attitude towards Mei was annoying asf.
Why not blame that Umbrella girl and others who were trying to stop her from telling Koichi. They are definitely to be blamed too.
@@animestudent3885 Exactly. So many were at faults all around her but no she woke up everyday and chose to blame Mei.
@@Ginn31 Lol....Yes. And, it's Misaki not Mikasa. I get it. It sounds familiar.
I kind of think that was the point of her character if you noticed in the end she was the most delusional so maybe she was just arrogant and full of pride
@@animestudent3885 they weren't the ones convincing her not to tell him actually it was quite the opposite my friend it was her convincing them
Legends say Koichi Sakakibara's dad is still at India
Legend say his original name was Keichi Maebara
@Mayur Atal LOL bro 😂
@@GetterBane Legend also has it that he used to live in another town called Hinamizawa and axed 2 girls to death...
Lmaaooo
But Misaki's supposed cousin was actually her twin sister. They had a plot point where Koichi meets Misaki's mother and he notices that she regards her daughter like she was a stranger. It was later revealed that that Misaki's mother had a daughter who was stillborn but she had a sister who conveniently had identical twins so she adopted one and that became Misaki. Years later the twins learn of each other and meet up, however, no one else knew Masaki had an identical twin sister. So part of Izumi's issue was that she had seen Misaki's twin, but thought it was Misaki herself. Because she comments to that one student that gets hung to death in the Cluster Fuck that was a the class trip that she remembered seeing Misaki with two eyes. So they come to the theory that Misaki must be the ghost but she has been reborn half-formed.
Jaana Humlie I totaly agree with your points.
I know I'm late, but thank you for having someone here to agree with me.
Izumi was not incompetent, as was stated several times in the video.
And besides, Kouchi met Mei before Izumi even had the chance to tell Kouchi not to come near Mei.
Or am I wrong.
I‘m not sure it could be wrong
Thank God someone agrees with me.
Yess! Finally someone! I don't think Izumi was incompetent at all she did all she could with the knowledge she had and was given and she tried to save everyone untill the very end whereas Mei having so much information
-the calamity had starting with her sister's death
-her ability to see ghosts
She could've at least told Kouichi about the truth earlier when she saw so many deaths happen, yet she remains silent almost uncaring the deaths. Mei really frustrated me to hell
The curse makes people forget things so that’s why they keep enrolling students?
Nick Then how did the whole class know about the curse and keep making one of the students non-existent...? this anime doesn’t make sense ._.
TooDramaticForYou they tried to change classes etc but the curse was still in affect and people still need to learn, and the curse makes them forget them interacting with the dead person
TooDramaticForYou they know what to do through trial and error
@@idkanymore6204 they know about the curse remember they didn't originally forget they forget when the "extra" person dies and that being said they only forget about the "extra" person
Lol....blame the Librarian
No, you're wrong. Everything starts when the assistant(aunt) starts to go in their class, so it doesn't matter if they talk to Mai or not
Yes but Izumi doesn't know it, she is taking the wrong decision by letting them talk to the person that is supposed to dissappear. The Extra was in the teacher's clasroom, but there was one extra (her "countermeasures") so that left one extra in the clasroom as well.
No. That is incorrect.
Everything starts with Mei's sister dying, in April, as she was the first victim of the curse. Reiko was obviously already assistant teacher at that point, since *nothing* points to the contrary. And it's perfectly in line with "one extra person infiltrating the class", in this case: Reiko Mikami.
The school year in Japan starts in April, after all.
They implemented the charm of "making one student invisible" in May, one month after Mei's sister dying. Fault #1.
They didn't say a damn thing about any of this to Koichi, as Akazawa flat out forbade them to. And they got mad at him for not reading their minds. Fault #2.
Mei should definitely have come forward with the fact that her sister was the first victim. Even though nobody would probably believe her.. Fault #3.
But Akazawa is definitely the one who bears most of the blame here. But Mei does bear some responsibility herself.
However, regarding Mei's situation. As far as the rest of the class is concerned, she's an only child. She clearly has no friends either. If she'd started talking about her sister dying in April, due to the curse, I'm pretty sure no-one would have believed her.
Class 3-3 was doomed from the start this year.
Rip
Other unimportant classmates who just died
Life sucks man
Sad...
We don't even know how many died.
Hope you enjoy the video! Best comment gets pinned by the way. =D
Just glad your back my dude
I mean I've been back. XD
Do you mind doing a theory on the manga? It's different from the anime.
DuoReview isn’t May Misaki sorta worse? I mean she already knew who was the dead one but didn’t take care of the situation or even tried until almost everyone is dead already xD
I love how Izumi constantly fucks up and causes loads of deaths, and still has the audacity to blame Mei as if she did anything wrong at all. And then Mei is the one who _ends_ the curse too. The poor girl can't catch a break
I love how episode 4, I think, Misaki tells Sakaibara that “not telling [him] before hand was a costly mistake”
It’s ironic how accurate she is in that statement without even realizing it.
She’s right. If the students just explained the curse to him then the charm may have worked. But they didn’t, and they paid the price.
The charm has a 50 50 Chance of work I forgot what episode but when there are 2 none exist the librarian tell him how it work and it success rate which is 50/50 so even if they told him we don't know if it will work or not
@@amadeus3263 that’s episode 6. Yeah the librarian guy said the countermeasures did work some years and didn’t work others.
The curse had already begun by the time Sakibara transferred, so telling him would not have made a difference anyway since the curse was already in motion before he transferred.
@@starwars1744 Correct. But the curse had already begun before they decided to make Mei "invisible", thus the whole thing was futile from the start
This made me so happy on a day I loathe so much. A theory from one of my favorite UA-camrs on one of my favorite animes of all time (especially since it was my first anime.) Any day is instantly better when I see one of your videos in my notifications.
Glad i was able to make you day better honestly. It makes the videos worth making. =D
This was my second anime haha
simpin
God tier pun lmao, gonna be a good one
Puns are the best.
You mean ANOTHER good one
I started watching this anime last week and i finished it last night as well. I gotta say,i was not expecting that ending,though! And here i thought that Izumi had something to do with the curse,but i was wrong. I didn't even trust her in the begining,either. I still think that it was wrong of Izumi to blame Misaki and look what happened to her.
But she did have a lot to do with it that's what makes the fortune word apologize even more scummy because actually it's more her fault than any of theirs remember he did talk to her once but they had a chance to fix it but instead of telling him the reason to ignore her she convinced all of them to not tell him the truth although I don't know if that would have done any good since it was a case of mistaken identity because of Mei misaki's cousin that turned out to really be her sister but she didn't help the situation anything she's the worst of the worst to blame she made a lot of the problems happen so she had no room to have her apologize because she was the biggest problem
@Ionasku Alexander I got the feeling they wouldn't believe her and if it's truly doing nothing is for evil to succeed then why did mrs. Lady in charge of countermeasures I'm saying that sarcastically why did she not tell him Izumi is the biggest person to blame
And yes I do believe in doing nothing is how evil succeeds but she was trying to put the puzzle together the one who truly did nothing was Izumi not even that she did nothing and acted arrogant she's a definition of a in fact I feel like she hit every off-putting version of dere types including yandere near the end she went crazy that's why I say yandere but she hits all the others where she just acts like everyone else is an idiot that personality type she also hit some arrogant personality type of things too highly of herself she's like a basket case all wrapped into one
She didn’t remember properly that she had met sasaki before . That’s because even sasaki doesn’t remember that as he was attending his aunt’s funeral reiko who was the one who came as the ghost in the class . That’s why she wasn’t sure if sasaki was or not . But after that it was all her wrong doing . She was pretty stupid tbh haha
Since they ignore Mei, they can't tell Koichi about her. That's why no one tells him nothing. Remember the guy who trying to warn koichi? He said Don't deal with things that non-existed. He can't just say don't talk with Mei. Because if he does that means he acknowledges her existence. I think that's the reason why no one told Koichi about her. Correct me if I'm wrong
Yes. And they discuss it at length in the manga. They also blame the students who visited him at the hospital in the opening; "Why the f.. didn't you tell him then?" Uhm.. You know.. That would have been the perfect, and only (?) opportunity.
Well explained ma man
I love how I watch these theories even when I havent seen the show
I will always love Another and it will always hold a special place in my heart as it was one of the first anime I watched after I got into anime. It may have made me scared to take elevators for awhile and have an umbrella on me when taking the stairs.
This was the first anime ive watched it will always be won of my favorites
Happy Valentine's Day! 😊😄😁❤️
Also Another is one of my favourite anime, so I'm glad you are covering it, also that intro was hilarious! 😂😄😁👍
Happy Valentine's day! Not sure the video relates though. XD
DuoReview Thank you, and it doesn't need to lol! 😂
Yikes.... another really isn’t that good. Have you been watching anime very long?
Hannah Morgan I know it's not the best anime in the word, but I love horror anime, so I guess this is what you call a guilty pleasure! 😄😁
I'm going to confess something that's going to make me look like a horrible human being but every time I watch this anime and I watch the teacher commits suicide I laugh my ass off this is the funniest thing I have ever seen I do not give a damn
A lot of the deaths are funny to me, so don't worry. XD
What is the death that makes you laugh the most in this anime
Either the one where the guy gets struck by lightning out of nowhere, or the one where the guy escapes from under the chandelier and then gets crushed by a pillar right after. XD
I got to say those two are pretty good choices 👌
The reason why I chose the teacher as my favorite is because I love a good bloody death but I don't want to see organs it was the best of both worlds and the students reactions were just the best
*SEVERE HAPPENINGS REQUIRES STUPID DECISIONS*
-Izumi 2012
Happy remember your single day!!
Honestly same. XD
You're.
*Happy Thursday*
The first time i saw Izumi i thought she cares about her classmates and is willing to sacrifice herself but then she pissed ony expectations
Omg it became so hard listening to whatever you were saying with Death note OST breaking my heart in the background
Less students in the class meant more room for the dead. I agree with your conclusion
Honestly, this holds up really well and makes me love the show even more. It has its issues but also has great subtle moments, and all the stuff you praised about it in your previous ep on the show
It had such a huge turn I’ve never think it was the aunt
It’s even worse when you remember the curse didn’t even last through the whole year like it was supposed to.
OMG.....but hey had she not done that we would have never gotten a good mystery anime
My Theory: Its actually Mei’s fault to me because. Yeah he already talked to Kouichi but when Kouichi kept on talking to her Mei should’ve ignored him and don’t talked to him. But she kept talking.
No it wasn’t, the curse started in April when the aunt started attending the class, (the aunt died a year before, when she was stabbed and thrown into the river by an unknown assailant). So it didn’t matter if they talked to Mei or not, since she wasn’t the extra, and the curse already begun with Mei’s sister’s death.
But Sakakibara wasn’t even officialy a student yet so it doesn’t matter if she talked to her in the elavotar .
@@noddlelebowski1074 It didn’t matter if he talked to her PERIOD, because like I said before, THE CURSE ALREADY BEGAN! Mei’s sister’s death started that year, which means the charm didn’t work.
@@momimhome7540 i had questions tho
1) how was the curse came back? Like how did the aunt came back from the dead? Why?
2) then who defish was driving them to the beach? Dead aunt?
3) what's the point of them revealing the back story of kouchi and the red hair girl (one with two ponys) if it doesn't lead to the story.. or is just wanted to highlight that kouchi was there half a year ago?...but seems a waste to me.
So i knew there was sumn off with the aunt bcs the grampa was saying "poor reiko".
@@emzaffar2884 Here’s what I think (I could be wrong so take what I say with a grain of salt)
1) Sometimes the charm works, sometimes it doesn’t, this year it didn’t work, every year someone connected to class 3-3 who died comes back for the year, the curse happens to balance out the students. It’s because of 26 years prior to the events of another.
2) Mei said that the dead person has a physical body, a soul, and their memories of when they were alive, but not their real death, so Reiko thinks she’s still alive. The one who was driving was the dead aunt.
3) Kouichi was there a half a year ago because his aunt died, he was there for her funeral, and he met Izumi there. The next year everyone’s memories are altered. I guess it’s for foreshadowing, and to explain why she thought he was there before.
The writers wanted to leave subtle hints for the viewers, like when the grandpa said “poor Reiko” that was supposed to be a hint, I guess.
I agree that Izumi could've made better decisions, but I don't think we should just blame the increase of the deaths on her. There was nothing she could've actually done.
On the contrary; she flat out forbade the entire class to explain the situation to Koichi. To keep him in the dark about something so crucial is completely idiotic on her part.
Yes I agree. Also Mei could've improved the situation by telling them about her sister. She literally had so much information! Even about Mikami's death-
She could've earned their trust and tried to convince them about Mikami being a ghost, yet she decides to keep her mouth shut and see everyone die. The last few episodes were to frustrating to watch because of her. She's truly a useless main character moment.
Somebody said that in the novel it was stated that Izumi didn't tell Kouichi about Mei because she wasn't chosen yet at the time. I do wish we go that information in the anime too. The hate for her is honestly so sad and unfortunate. She tried her best with what she knew and could do.
Thanks for talking about old anime and bringing light to it to a lot of people. I encourage you to go and check out the anime Another. It’s great.
P.S: Great theory. I agree with the points you made.
The ritual is not effective in the first place because the first to die was Misaki's twin sister from the OVA which set before the series started and before the class started. Also I'm not defending Izumi because she's not good at what she supposed to do and she is the worst character in this show. Amazing video and keep up the amazing anime theory cause I love watching your video than any other anituber out there. Thanks.
Yeah, the original ritual or the "charm" had no effect since the curse had started well before Kouichi had arrived.
The theory was more about how Izumi's countermeasure charm actually made things worse. =D
@@duoreview7492 yeah thanks man
@@duoreview7492 Do you have a theory on why the curse is not effective in the first place?
I think it was just one of the other 50% that fail. They did say that the charm doesn't always work.
@@duoreview7492 Thanks
Drake's favourite anime - Another One
You know you're a good UA-camr when you've got Justin Y. in the chat
I remember another, but for the life of me I can't remember anyone's goddamn name so I'm thankful for the intro.
Izumi: lol curse goes brrrrrrrrrr
More Anime Theory?! Yes!
*Another one*
Still an underrated anime
A very very underrated one
yep
Ugh, couldn't stand this anime. I read the book before I saw the show and holy hell, did they compress the damn thing down. Too many characters, not enough development, the curse made absolutely no sense (and I watched the whole thing three times trying to see if I missed something), the twist at the end was an ass pull that didn't match the past pattern at all, and if Izumi had just done her freaking JOB, the entire anime wouldn't have happened. How hard is it to explain to the new guy what the rules are? You don't even need to hammer it in. Just explain the damn rules! If the plot demands him to break them, then he'll break them, but at least you'll have done your job and the blame shifts away from you! Izumi is seriously one of the worst characters I've ever come across in anime, and I'm usually forgiving to anime characters and their blunders. But the way her decisions (or rather lack of them) led to the slew of stupidity that had me yelling at my screen, I just can't do it. Go to hell, Izumi
What was wrong with the twist?
@@sossstudios3282 I don't want to spoil it in case anyone hasn't seen it yet. I'm guessing you have.
The status of the dead person came out of nowhere. For as long as the curse has been in effect, it's been consistent, the same signs every year. No changes otherwise. The students at least have that to look for. This year, THIS freaking year, the ONE year when the main character is in the class, the signs change, throwing everyone off balance entirely. And since the revelation came out of nowhere and seemed to serve only to hurl a few red herrings at us in the final couple of episodes, and throw suspicion off the one and only conclusion as to who the dead person could VERY OBVIOUSLY BE WITHOUT THIS TEENY BIT OF CRUCIAL INFORMATION, it just came off as a copout. Think about it; if we'd known ahead of time where the sign had moved to, we'd have known from episode one who the dead person probably was. But of course we can't be given that information or the mystery is pointless. If the author is trying to imply that the curse is a sentient being, that flops too. What this thing is makes no sense, how it works if not consistently makes no sense (and I'm sure the characters would agree with me here) and the plot twist would've made the entire story obvious from the getgo if they'd revealed where the new sign of the dead person was this year instead of where it normally was.
He met misaki before he could get to know them and that was the problem of approaching him
Izumi couldn't have told him the rules without breaking the seal. Since he was put in her class out of nowhere. She went to the principal to protest this, and he didn't take her seriously. She said this to her friends in the show. And the curse had already begun the month before the series with Fujioka, so Izumi telling him whatever would've made no difference anyway. You want Izumi to go to Hell, but it was all smoke and mirrors regardless. The curse absolutely does make sense--but it is confusing, and it honestly took me more than three tries to understand it all.
@@RebelOfDaNew thank you lol. if izumi had told him, that would mean that she just considered misaki as existing so it would have broken it anyways. that charm didn't even work
Why didn't Akazawa tell him though? Was it because by the time they learnt about the transfer student, they had already begun to ignore Misake, ultimately making the task of deposing Sakakibara of the situation counter intuitive?
Because Akazawa's sheer incompetence as the head of countermeasures, something she actually *does* accept some responsibility for..
Love the video. Hey Duo, when you mention 'dumb as the town that still even allows these kids to go to a school like this in the first place?' I think I have an idea of why they do it or could be wrong in the end.
"The curse is able to adapt and grow stronger over time and could possibly instead of a just school building it could affect the entire town." Here is why? The curse is already capable of following the students and family where ever they go. It was capable of moving from class to class. And this year instead of the classroom it moves to the teacher's office space. As you know students cannot ignore a teacher especially during teaching. Making the students acknowledge the person that is to be ignored.
I imagine the townsfolks or someone in charge brought the help of who knows about curses in and asked for the person or them advice. This person would tell them that this curse could grow to affect the town if it is isolated now in a single area. This area would be the school building and if there is a chance to end the curse it would be 50% - 50%. By ignoring the old high school building it could end there or overtime it starts to the surrounding buildings near the school. Slowly going outside affect business and families. Now you would have to worry about who is it not just at the school but at your home and workplace too? Everyone would become paranoid and distrustful of each other. The town would have to be ignored and all the people who lived there would become isolated and outcast. Or I'm wrong and just over thinking it.
Well i can see where this theory is coming from but the curse started before Kouichi joined class 3 with the death of Misaki's cousin and the death of Ritsuko (I think she died at the start of the year making her the first victim, if not please correct me). And i can understand that her death might have been not related to the curse, but Izumi's counter measure is logical considering that they thought the curse was avoided so when another student was added to the roaster making him non existent would set the number of student back to the "safe" amount. But then again this all doesn't matter since the dead person was a teacher. Still a great theory
I mentioned this in the video. I don't think it actually effects the 2nd charm's effect on the curse itself.
@@duoreview7492 but here's the deal you can't blame Izumi nor Kouichi nor Misaki because they all think that the extra person is a student but it's a teacher which something that haven't happened before. In the end there is nothing for them to do about it except join the curse and kill the dead person before the curse kills them. Surely she should have been honest about the class's situation from the beginning and I think this is where she is at fault but the other rest of the counter measures she took are completely logical.
Ritsuko was Koichi's mother who died after his birth, 15 years earlier. She was a victim of the curse as well, btw. Reiko, his aunt and teacher, died a year and a half before the story even starts, and her death had nothing to do with the curse. The first victim this year was Mei's sister, and that happened prior to the task of "making one student invisible", which is the reason it was futile. It was too late, as it already had begun. The fact that the teacher was the extra is completely irrelevant.
What *is* relevant is that Akazawa forced her ideas on the rest of the class and forbade everyone to even tell him what was going on. Akazawa is completely inept as the head of countermeasures!
I thought Another is pretty good, for it's story and characters.
1. the charm may work before but wont work in their year because the extra was the teacher, therefore they actually should ignore one teacher out of existence for the charm to work properly.
2. since the librarian memory wasnt affected, they should've used misaki to detect next year extra and kill before any death occur and since the extra only appear from last year dead people, the chain would be broken.
Really wasn't expecting Ocarina of Time bgm
What really bothers me is that they didn’t really stop the curse they just found a temporary fix. I hope the next class doesn’t have it as bad. I would’ve made a bunch of copies on how to stop the curse instead of one before forgetting
I thought I was the only one who actually got this point....for real they didn't stopped it they only did what that other dude did when he stopped it temporarily after the first half of the year... they for real should've made ways to tell the other incoming classes
Hmmm stone tower temple theme in the background.... fitting
Another is so underrated!!!!
Yes don't run with umbrella ever....I learned it...😂
But not talking to Misaki would not matter? Because they needed that kind of person in the teachers room. That's why the first death started with Misaki's sister, way before anyone talked to Misaki.
Man! That was great! This made made understand better 🤣 I think this might the right theory! Great job bro!
Background music is solitude in death note
I think you are a bit harsh on Izumi, because you already break the charm when telling that they are intentionally ignoring a specific student (and therefore confirming the existence of that student -> breaking the charm). Ofc we know that this never mattered in the show since the curse started already with the death of Misaki's twin sister - but Izumi couldn't know that. A lot of Izumis wrong decisions are more because of simple lack of available knowledge, not because of plain stupidity. Also if you want to blame someone for the large pile of deaths, its Misaki - unlike Izumi, Misaki knew the things needed to act preventively. She withheld the crucial information that her twin-sister died, a very important information that could have shown the others that the curse was already active before any new student arrived. She also kept the info of who the dead one was at the mansion. The anime could have easily ended there (especially with bringing the mystery ambience of the 1st act back) but plot said "more gory deaths". The only bad thing about this anime that it demanded from so many characters to be stupid and even withholding of crucial information in order to get the plot going, unlike for example the classic "Death Note", where its completely the opposite.
Just think what would have happened If Mei told everyone in the class that she had a twin who was first victim of the curse. You know her aunt-mom right? 🤣 her aunt-mom doesn't want her to even meet with her twin and she saw Mei as her only child. If the whole thing was exposed then what? House arrest! No more school 🤣 and more casualities
And she knew who was extra for a while but they came to know what to do with the extra to stop the calamity at the starting of the ep 10 ig :/ and then she wanted to kill reiko alone so that kouichi won't be able witness that and everyone will forget about reiko. End.
Izumi and the others would have explained to kouichi about the curse in the hospital.. but still who knew kouichi would met mei in the hospital lol
Agreed, this video is just Misaki-lovers hating on Izumi while denying all common sense
@@lynxleviathan8669 No. Izumi bears the biggest blame here for not telling Koichi in advance as well as forbidding anyone else to tell him and on top of that acting like he's supposed to read their minds, while willingly and knowingly keeping him in the dark.
Yes. Mei does bear some responsibility regarding not telling about her sister, but do you honestly think anyone would have believed her? First, no-one liked her. Second, as far as everyone knew she was an only child.
Who else is responsible? Reiko. Yes, the dead one. She's his aunt as well as his teacher. And even she deliberately kept him in the dark about this entire phenomena. Sure she was dead, but she didn't know that and she should really have had some common sense regarding this.
The entire ordeal was a clusterf**k which failed on multiple levels. But the biggest fault clearly rests upon Izumi.
I dont know why but i have got the most chills up my spine ever since I've watched this anime each time someone died my heart would send a massive wave keeping me on edge and turning on all lights as well as watching the anime next to someone
There is someone who watch this video in 2020. I love Izumi and why does everybody hate Izumi. There are so many reasons to love Izumi.
The doll looks like the one in Kara no Kyoukai
Idk why there aren't more theories about Another there's so much rich history to explore
I like the Death Note music playing in the background while talking about *Another* anime
Question is why the town just changed the school and get a monk to cleanse goddamn school or land or figure out how to break the curse .
I don't think a monk could've done anything, but they should've just left the school to rot and have students go to a different school.
@@duoreview7492 maybe you are right.i still vote on burn it to the ground and charm the land after.
They've tried exorcisms in the past, to no avail.
the outro background music gives me a horrific flashbacks get out of my head get it out of my head get it out of my head head get it out of my head get it out of my head head get it out of my head get it out of my head
Lol even if Izumi did work the charm correctly it would still have NO effect because the ghost is a teacher not a student. There was a missing desk in the faculty office NOT THE CLASSROOM. Honestly I cant blame Izumi, who would have predicted it was the teacher since most ghosts so far have been students? I actually blame Misaki on this. Misaki knew who the ghost was even before the class trip but didnt bother to tell anyone about it. Sure, she didnt know how to stop the dead person but she could have at least shared this information with the others so they could come up with a plan to stop Mikami sensei instead of turning against each other. Misaki waited until half of the class was dead before speaking up, leading to more deaths, including Izumi's.
This is my opinion but i think you’re wrong because izumi akazawa is trying so hard but mai misaki just could say who was the dead person and stop before it get worse
Ehh in the beginning she couldn’t tell them since she didn’t exist and if they did listen to her then they would die
But after 2 deaths she should’ve said something what a moron
yea, Mei Misaki is in fault either in my opinion too, though Izumi showed incompetence.
if Misaki already revealed the extra, and kill her right away, kills on their trip is reduced and the misunderstanding didnt happen
Okay but also how does the extra student get chosen??? Do they volunteer sometimes or is it like a card draw, or does the classes chief or countermeasures just chose a person??, what if they chose their teacher?? What if the extra student has a twin, cousin, or other family member working at the school then what happens, we can also see that for some reason the memory altering can't affect animals, as the bird is always saying poor Reiko, which means it remembers the family being sad that Reiko died, thus why she doesn't like the bird, but that also brings up the question, does it also alter the memory of babies and toddlers? What about like new born babies like what if one of the students moms was pregnant and gave birth would the babies memory get altered, could in theory Pregnant people die (sounds weird but) we know that usually 1-2 people die in a month, but wouldn't a pregnant person count as 2-4 people (4 would be triplets), could a fetus die whilst a pregnant family member stay alive?? Will the curse alter the memory of family members in a coma, or family members with alzheimers or other memory loss conditions, and finally let's say a student died and returned as the extra what if like their younger sister moved into the city would she get her memory altered as soon as she entered the city or would she be fine
(I love your theories ㄱㅇ ㅅ ㅇㄱ~)
I personally, love the manga better. My favorite characters didn't die, by that I mean Kazami! Also, Happy Valentine's day!
Glsf you enjoyed it! I haven't read the manga myself. XD
DuoReview The manga is great. It explains things better and the ending where every students dies doesn’t happen. So it’s much better than the anime.
It also didn't help that she order the class not to tell Kouichi, everytime someone did try they normally would get a death glare (no pun intended ) by one of the members of the community
Correct
Your explanation video is good bro but that death note OST playing in background is OP
i’m confused are we gonna skip past the part where koichi calls reiko mom
Reiko was like a mother figure to him. He saw her as the mother he never had, and she saw him as her son. That's why he called her mom.
@@attorneyacemarkey Exactly. Koichi's *real* mother died 15 years ago, when Reiko attended Class 3-3. His mother was actually a victim of the curse herself.
That's also why Reiko and Koichi are so close, she's like the mother figure he never got a chance to have in life.
But izumi cant Tell koichi That he cant talk to misaki because That would aknowledge misakis existence lol
It's a good a point 😂 even tho I think that they dont treat the curse as a conscious thing....its a phenomenon that requires normal rhythm in reality....meaning that if 1 student is extra then you should cut 1 student down now your back to normal....its not about just making the student not existing its about normal rhythm
@@cyrus3316 yeah true that
the reason they keep the school is bc the curse might spread and get wayy worse if denied by closing it
Really great video my friend!
Izumi shouldn't have gotten upset at Mei evan if she was the dead because of her shit decisions that made it really really bad
Go read the manga or the novel of another, in this one Izumi doesn't make stupid choices, the class representative simply coordinates the debates with the class, the ideas are general according to the problem and are chosen unanimously most of the time (moreover izumi like many people doesn't die in the novel) the animation studio just botched the work: moreover your video isn't really a theory but rather a criticism towards a character
Izumi doesn't make stupid choices in the manga?? She's completely blinded by her own arrogance ands spite in the manga. She's a much more likable character in the anime.
And in the book, she's basically a filler character who almost adds nothing to the plot.
“Genius of the year” folks
"Genius of the Decade"
Yep, yours fits better
I think Izumi assumed that a transfer student coming in ruined the balance by adding another student so by ignoring the MC she thought she was restoring balance.
I'd love to see a shield hero theory
This anime is not talked about enough! I barely see or hear anyone talking about this anime and i barely ever see anyone cosplaying or RPing characters of this show. I know this anime is not the greatest out there but it was not that BAD. Sure confusing and slow but it was not that bad..
Anime culture has now prioritized new seasonal anime, meaning the discussion is almost always on them. It sucks since a lot of older stuff gets neglected, but I usually like to show them a bit of love. =D
This anime is really good though. I don’t even get people smfh... they like mirai Nikki and dislike another people are weird. Maria Nikki’s ending was so freaking shit and also it created questions about the plot in my head
The reason is people prefer to cosplay as that girl in Chuunibyou instead of Misaki, since the eyepatch... . 😂
@@satesup4353 i like both
It's actually a really good anime. The novel is way better tho
I gave a like, just cuz of the intro...
Ya did good, ya did good
Small nitpick but the school actually changed the classroom and name and even building but it’s just the third class of that school. Also since all the deaths are seemingly accidental or suicide and the deaths don’t happen every year the curse isn’t really taken too seriously for the higher ups.
Also murder of students doesn’t count towards the curse. The curse kills 1-2 or so a month but most of the mansion deaths weren’t accidental or mind altering.
I would like to say one thing though, I wouldn't call most of the deaths at the house part of the curse and here's why. If I recall (I watched it in 2016 so it's been a while) the deaths took place because they were just murdering each other rather than the curse. I would call that more human reaction to the curse rather than the curse itself.
I think the issue is that firstly, several of the deaths actually still just end up being due to extraneous circumstances (fire knocking pillars and debris onto people, getting tangled in random wires, ect), while the others more often then not are due to a character going crazy just suddenly, which seems like it could also be a part of the curse. Remember, the teacher ended up offing his mother and himself due to the curse mentally messing with him, so it's very likely the curse was involved in 90% of the deaths.
@@duoreview7492 that is true, the curse did affect the teacher mentally, and there were crazy situations in their deaths at the end.
@@duoreview7492 What's stupid is that they could've just told reiko to leave the town, then the curse would be lifted right? No uneven numbers, if Mei told him after the tape got played at the mansion then those deaths could've been prevented. Your thoughts Duo?
Misakis "cousin" is her twin sister dude
i feel like a 14/15 year old girl probably isn’t the best person to have to solve/prevent a death curse
Actually, its not izumi's fault at all. The curse started on April before sakaki transferred to yomiyama. So the effect of charm didn't work at all.
I've always hated Izumi and was never really able to sympathise with her 'woe is me' attitude, but you have to admit, she is just a child. And children shouldn't have the responsibility of over twenty other kids on their back.
Nice majoras mask background music
Thanks. Freakin love its soundtrack. =D
@@duoreview7492 btw I love ur content so much so keep doing what u do!
@@duoreview7492 and you're welcome my dude
I'd probably limit the 9th grade to 2 classes. If that didn't work, I'd burn down the entire school and rebuild it on the other side of town. Rename the school, change the uniforms, change the mascot, change the style of he school, build it on consecrated ground, and have charms all over the school.
I mean, they put a child in charge of keeping people alive instead of an adult/officer.
But she thought if he had already talked to her there was no point in telling him at that point.
always the umbrella and WHAT DID U DO TO L!?
Anime Theory on Happy Sugar Life please.
Yeah i love Masaki Mia, another is nothing without best girl
cant tell whos dumber, me for thinking that akazawa could quite possibly be the dead person or akazawa for just simply... being akazawa
mood