History Headscratchers / Another

* If people within Yokohama are affected by it (which was further proven true by the beach episode), why was Koichi's dad memories also altered? Isn't he at India? He's completely out of the country.
** The easier answer could well be that Koichi's dad is still connected to Yokohama through his son, who's still residing there. It may well be that he would never have been affected had Koichi not been attending or even part of Class 3. Though, from a narrative standpoint, you could also say that it prevents his father outright going "what? Your aunt is dead, kiddo" and breaking the mystery wide open in two seconds flat.

* Why would [[spoiler: Mei's sister Misaki]] be counted as a death due to the curse? Was she counted as being part of Class 3-3?

* So who was the student who [[spoiler:stabbed Reiko? I thought that it looked like Kouichi himself with hair over his eyes, but this wasn't referred to in any way after the scene. So was it just some random lunatic, or did Kouichi commit a murder that the curse prevented him from remembering?]]

* So is the reason why the counter measure didn't work this year because [[spoiler: the extra wasn't a student but a teacher/family member?]] Has something like this happened in other years too? Is this the reason why the counter measure only works some of the time? How does the curse know the difference?

** The Japanese school year starts in April rather than September [[spoiler: so the countermeasures did not work at all since Mei's sister died that month. Presumably they would have to ignore one of their teachers for the countermeasures to work since there was one less seat in the staff room rather than the classroom.]]

* In the beginning, Sakuragi and Kazami visit Kouichi in the hospital and ask him whether he's ever been to Yomiyama before. Obviously, they asked this to see whether he could be the Extra Person of that year. But Kouichi says something that makes them think that he isn't the Extra Person... what would they have done, if his answer would have somehow made him seem like the Extra Person? At that point, they didn't know that [[spoiler:the curse could be stopped for the year if they managed to kill the Extra Person]]. [[FridgeHorror What would they have done]]?
** It was already set in motion. Kazami thought that he was The Extra student based on the logic of having a sick kid of all people, being the last to transfer into the class. As the desks on opening ceremony were perfect as well as the calamity seemingly starting in May. He didn't count on [[spoiler: the faculty being a desk short or Mei Misaki having a dead relative in April.]]

* So how was Reiko [[spoiler: able to just come back to life and be an walking dead person? Or how did she get "chosen"?]]
** [[spoiler: The original death that started it all was the result of the class acting as if Misaki was still alive. Many of the other Extras probably got the same treatment in death as part of the curse, but in actual corporeal form. As another result of the Calamity her death, much like her second death was wiped from memory so no one could identify her as the Extra.]]

* When they are on the beach, [[spoiler:one of the kids gets run over by a boat. However it's revealed that he died prior to getting hit by the boat because of a brain tumor, which was presumably caused by the curse. This is supposed to explain why he died outside of the town's proximity. So what was the point in him being hit by a boat? Was that just an unlucky incident that happened regardless of the curse?]]
** [[spoiler:Episode 9 revealed that Nakao had suffered an accident as he was leaving before the trip. His death was caused by an aneurysm gained from that accident bursting, killing him before the boat hit him. Therefore the death could be counted as still being in Yomiyama because that's where the (eventual) fatal event occurred, and therefore was still part of the curse. Getting hit by the boat was presumably meant to throw the viewer off before this is revealed.]]

* Does [[spoiler: Kazami]] die in the anime? Because [[spoiler: Chibiki stopped Akazawa]] from harming him further, but he seemed pretty messed up by then.
** Given [[spoiler:Teshigawara's]] reaction, [[spoiler:it's a safe bet that he died, probably due to blood loss.]]

* Since family members, as well as other people connected to the class, are subject to the curse, [[spoiler:isn't it possible that one of them becomes the extra? The fact that the curse strikes at random and includes these people seems to point to this direction (after all the reality tries to remove the dead by killing them, so family members must be among the "suspects" to be affected). Yet, nobody points it out. Is it because the characters' understanding of the curse is incomplete, or are family members actually never the extra, yet they are affected for some reason?]]
** Given the information learned throughout the story, it's likely that [[spoiler: a family member (or in this story's case, a teacher) ''has'' been the Extra before, since there were years where the ignoring of a student didn't work, but nobody recalls it well enough due to the {{RetGone}}d memories resulting in them not remembering that this specific family member was the Extra in connection with the class]].
* When Koichi asks Mei why the doll looks a lot like her, Mei tells him [[spoiler: her mom based it off her sister who died a stillborn.]] But we later find out [[spoiler: Kirika didn't have any children and that Mei was adopted]]. So what exactly was Kirika basing the looks off of? Considering [[spoiler: they are not blood related]], it's strange that it looks a lot like Mei.
** Kirika is [[spoiler: Mei's aunt, so they are blood-related,]] but not closely.
*** Actually it mentions that [[spoiler: Kirika had a stillbirth before adopting Mei]]
* In both this year and the event from 15 years ago, why did the [[spoiler: deaths suddenly spike? Wasn't it suppose to be once a month?]].

** The easier answer could well be that Koichi's dad is still connected to Yokohama through his son, who's still residing there. It may well be that he would never have been affected had Koichi not been attending or even part of Class 3. Though, from a narrative standpoint, you could also say that it prevents his father outright going [[spoiler: "what? Your aunt is dead, kiddo"]] and breaking the mystery wide open in two seconds flat.
* How did Reiko [[spoiler: leave Yomimori]] in the beach episode?
** There's nothing saying she couldn't. It doesn't seem like there's an established rule that [[spoiler: the Extra person]] is unable to leave town. For all intents and purposes, they're just like any other person who's allowed to live their daily lives and do things that they like. She may simply have had no urge or desire to leave town unless she had been previously requested by someone else.

* The {{Asspull}} of Mei's Doll Eye somehow being able to see The Color Of Death, which she says makes it easier for her to recognize who the dead/Extra Person is. If she can tell it so easily, why didn't she take her eyepatch off, look at everyone in the classroom and [[spoiler:[[WhyDontYouJustShootHim tell them that Ms Reiko had the Color Of Death around her, so she was likely the Extra Person]]]]? Yes, it was alluded to this maybe being a thing earlier (with Mei taking her eyepatch off while saying goodbye to Kouichi, implying she was using this to check on him), but if this was something she knew, why wasn't it used earlier? Of course, it would have severely shortened the suspense and plot, but if they don't want this to be mentioned, don't add something like this.
** Also, why doesn't she just tell everyone who the Extra is? Is it simply not to hurt [[spoiler:Kouichi's feelings]]? Or is it because she thinks that the students won't believe her? Her reasoning behind [[spoiler:Reiko]] being the Extra is sound and very thought-out, implying that she had been suspicious of [[spoiler:her]] for some time.
** It feels as though Mei's always been in a bit of a precarious position in the class even without the whole eye thing. She's a quiet, subdued girl with a known physical deformity who doesn't have many friends. In the first place, who would believe her without knowing her for a long time that she can somehow [[spoiler: "see the color of death"]]. Secondly, Mei may not have had reason to suspect that there was even a need to try the analysis using her eye until [[spoiler: her sister died]]. And by that point it was too late. People may have already been in panic mode by the time she made up her mind to speak up, and she either didn't have the chance to bring up the possibility or she did and people brushed her off. Plus the fact that the poor girl was already [[spoiler: ''mourning her newly dead sister''.]] By the time she managed to think of it through her grief, it was possibly already too late and lost her opportunity once everyone started ignoring her. Additionally, she may have been hesitant to use her eye on anyone, given that, chronologically [[spoiler: the last time she used her eye was when she saw the color of death on her sister, who died shortly after'']]

** It feels as though Mei's always been in a bit of a precarious position in the class even without the whole eye thing. She's a quiet, subdued girl with a known physical deformity who doesn't have many friends. In the first place, who would believe her without knowing her for a long time that she can somehow [[spoiler: "see the color of death"]]. Secondly, Mei may not have had reason to suspect that there was even a need to try the analysis using her eye until [[spoiler: her sister died]]. And by that point it was too late. People may have already been in panic mode by the time she made up her mind to speak up, and she either didn't have the chance to bring up the possibility or she did and people brushed her off. Plus the fact that the poor girl was already [[spoiler: ''mourning her newly dead sister''.]] By the time she managed to think of it through her grief, it was possibly already too late and lost her opportunity once everyone started ignoring her. Additionally, she may have been hesitant to use her eye on anyone, given that, chronologically [[spoiler: the last time she used her eye was when she saw the color of death on her sister, who died shortly after''].

** Kirika is [[spoiler: Mei's aunt, so they are blood-related,]] but not closely

* Isn't there a chance that the curse could be broken, if the class from 1972 came together and openly acknowledged that Misaki was dead and they should never have pretened otherwise? Or was something like that tried during the 26 years since the curse started and it turned out to be pointless?

** It feels as though Mei's always been in a bit of a precarious position in the class even without the whole eye thing. She's a quiet, subdued girl with a known physical deformity who doesn't have many friends. In the first place, who would believe her without knowing her for a long time that she can somehow [[spoiler: "see the color of death"]]. Secondly, Mei may not have had reason to suspect that there was even a need to try the analysis using her eye until [[spoiler: her sister died]]. And by that point it was too late. People may have already been in panic mode by the time she made up her mind to speak up, and she either didn't have the chance to bring up the possibility or she did and people brushed her off. Plus the fact that the poor girl was already [[spoiler: ''mourning her newly dead sister''.]] By the time she managed to think of it through her grief, it was possibly already too late and lost her opportunity once everyone started ignoring her.

** Also, why doesn't she just tell everyone who the Extra is? Is it simply not to hurt [[spoiler:Kouichi's feelings]]? Or is it because she thinks that the students won't believe her? Her reasoning behind [[spoiler:Reiko]] being the Extra is sound and very thought-out, implying that she had been suspicious of [[spoiler:her]] for some time.

* The {{Asspull}} of Mei's Doll Eye somehow being able to see The Color Of Death, which she says makes it easier for her to recognize who the dead/Extra Person is. If she can tell it so easily, why didn't she take her eyepatch off, look at everyone in the classroom and [[spoiler:[[WhyDontYouJustShootHim tell them that Ms Reiko had the Color Of Death around her, so she was likely the Extra Person]]]]? Yes, it was alluded to this maybe being a thing earlier (with Mei taking her eyepatch off while saying goodbye to Kouichi, implying she was using this to check on him), but if this was something she knew, why wasn't it used earlier? Of course, it would have severely shortened the suspense and plot, but if they don't want this to be mentioned, don't add something like this.

** Probably, but imagine trying to explain the Curse to the city council or whatever civic board is in charge of the schools as a reason to destroy a structure worth millions of dollars. Of course, an enterprising person could try arson to so so, but the Curse may try and stop them. For all we know, someone has tried to destroy the building and failed.

*** Sure it does. The poster above you was arguing that someone else in the class already considered Koichi the Extra and had already began {{Unperson}}ing him, making the question "what would they have done?" pointless. Presumably they would've immediately turned around, left the hospital room, and started ignoring him in exactly the same way, but slightly earlier.

* If the Curse only affects a certain school, and a certain classroom, when not just bulldoze or torch the school. If the entire friggin' school is gone, wouldn't that solve the problem?

* How did Reiko [[spoiler: leave Yomimori]] in the beach episode?

* If people within Yokohama are affected by it (which was further proven true by the beach episode), why was Koichi's dad memories also altered? Isn't he at India? He's completely out of the country.

In both this year and the event from 15 years ago, why didn't the [[spoiler: deaths suddenly spoke? Wasn't it initially once a month?]].

* When Koichi asks Mei why the doll looks a lot like her, Mei tells him [[spoiler: her mom based it off her sister who died a stillborn.]] But we later find out [[spoiler: Kirika didn't have any children and that Mei was adopted]]. So what exactly was Kirika basing the looks off of? Considering [[spoiler: they are not blood related]], it's strange that it looks a lot like Mei.

** Given the information learned throughout the story, it's likely that [[spoiler: a family member (or in this story's case, a teacher) ''has'' been the Extra before, since there were years where the ignoring of a student didn't work, but nobody recalls it well enough due to the {{RetGone}}d memories resulting in them not remembering that this specific family member was the Extra in connection with the class]].

* Since family members, as well as other people connected to the class, are subject to the curse, [[spoiler:isn't it possible that one of them becomes the extra? The fact that the curse strikes at random and includes these people seems to point to this direction (after all the reality tries to remove the dead by killing them, so family members must be among the "suspects" to be affected). Yet, nobody points it out. Is it because the characters' understanding of the curse is incomplete, or are family members actually never the extra, yet they are affected for some reason?]]

* So, after the entire disaster that happened as a result of the tape being found and people panicking, the surviving students choose to help future classes by... making a new recording with the exact same information? Sure it works well as a sort of narrative bookend, but wouldn't it be better to just sic Mei on future class 3-3s and then take care of things discreetly? Even forgetting about how to solve the curse could be fixed by keeping a recorded summary on hand instead of hiding it and then forgetting where.

* So, after the entire disaster that happened as a result of the tape being found and people panicking, the surviving students choose to help future classes by... making a new recording with the exact same information? Sure it works well as a sort of narrative bookend, but wouldn't it be better to just sic Mei on future class 3-3s and then take care of things discreetly? Even forgetting about how to solve the curse could be solved by just keeping a recorded summary on hand instead of hiding it and then forgetting where.

***** Probably no more than any doll would.