History Literature / Another

** [[spoiler: Junta Nakao's demise]] is very reminiscent of {{Jaws}}. Though [[spoiler: it was an aneurism that killed him, before the boat chopped him up.]]

A spinoff light novel, entitled ''Another: Episode S'' was released on July 31, 2013, and a sequel tentatively entitled ''Another 2'' is in the works.

* OldSchoolBuilding: Still in active use for art lessons etc., but the classrooms moved to the newer part of the school some time after Reiko was in Class 3.

** Finally, in Episode 12, Mei finally reveals to Kouichi who the extra was (she did try earlier, but was interrupted by Teshigawa). When he asks her why she didn't tell him sooner, she says that he wouldn't of believed her anyway. Probably could've saved a lot of deaths had she of communicated this sooner, but everything fits together once they replay all the clues sprinkled out throughout the series at once for anyone who missed it.

* SeparatedAtBirth: [[spoiler:Mei Misaki and Misaki Fujioka, who are twins. Mei was adopted by their aunt, but later the secret came out and the pair spent all their time together.]]

** There's also Makoto Ouji in Episode 11. [[spoiler: Teshigawa and Mochizuki both warn him and his friend about the fire in the cafeteria. So what's the first thing Makoto does when he leaves his room? Checks the cafeteria, of course!]]

* LoveDodecahedron: The chain of attraction within the group of main characters is hinted in the anime: Teshigawara -> Izumi -> Kouichi -> Mei. [[AllLoveIsUnrequited The last one may be reciprocated]]. Sakuragi seemed to be interested in Kouichi too, and Kazami apparently had a thing for her, [[spoiler: as we learned [[{{Yandere}} when he went nuts partly because of it]].]]

* TooDumbToLive: Nakao is afflicted with this in Episode 8 when he goes way too far into the ocean to retrieve a beach ball. [[spoiler:Justified in the next episode - turns out that he was suffering from a severe (and eventually fatal) head injury at the time.]]
** There's also Makoto Ouji Episode 11. [[spoiler: Teshigawa and Mochizuki both warn him and his friend about the fire in the cafeteria. So what's the first thing Makoto does when he leaves his room? Checks the cafeteria, of course!]]

** There's also one {{Bishounen}} student in Episode 11. [[spoiler: Teshigawa and Mochizuki both warn him and his friend about the fire in the cafeteria. So what's the first thing he does when he leaves his room? Checks the cafeteria, of course!]]

** Oh, [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/1127727/6-boys-6-girls-akazawa_izumi-another-ass-black_hai someone]] [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/1127728/akazawa_izumi-another-black_hair-blue_hair-blush-b already has]]. (Warning: Images are NSFW)

* GenreSavvy:
** Everyone becomes visibly tense in Episode 8 as they approach the city limits and a huge tanker truck passes them on the highway, as if they expect the curse to suddenly flare up the second before they leave Yomiyama.
** Kouichi's also quick to adapt to the circumstances around the curse and even wonders very early on if Mei is a ghost or not. This gets mixed in with a bit of WrongGenreSavvy, but he never wastes time thinking "[[FlatEarthAtheist This is impossible.]]"

* AccidentalMurder:
** Katsumi Matsunaga accidentally killed a student in his class when they were fighting during the summer trip. [[spoiler: The kid turned out to be the extra student, thus making Matsunaga realise what had to be done to lift the curse.]]
** [[spoiler: Teshigawara accidentally almost killed Kazami after accusing him of being the extra student. Subverted as Kazami survived the accident.]]

** Mei's mother. Mei confirms that her mother wouldn't care even if she was aware of how her daughter was being treated at school [[spoiler: as if she didn't even exist.]] {{Justified| Trope}}, [[spoiler: as she's not in the healthiest mental state. In fact, she's not even Mei's (biological) mother.]]
** The school administration is not very helpful with preventing the curse, putting a transfer student in class 3-3 (resulting in the class's initial PoorCommunicationKills problem) and making Ms. Mikami the assistant homeroom teacher (she had already had a harrowing experience as class 3-3's homeroom teacher two years prior). Justified for the latter; [[spoiler:she's the extra person and ''has'' to be in the class, even if FakeMemories result in a backstory that would make the homeroom teacher appointment seem unwise]].

* AlmostDeadGuy: Subverted in the death of [[spoiler: Takabayashi, who was basically fine until he started telling Kouichi some important information, then he was suddenly KilledMidSentence by a heart attack.]]

** Zigzagged. [[spoiler:Mr. Kubodera ''pulls a kitchen knife'' on the students in an attempt to fight off the curse. Instead he just kills himself with the knife, but then it turns out that he killed his mother long beforehand.]]

* {{Irony}}: Semi-meta example. The perpetually-cloudy setting and morbid students let off an atmosphere of NothingIsScarier, but the ending credits provide a stark contrast: everyone is in a beautiful mansion with large windows that let in the light of the sunny day outside. They're all smiling and seem to be relaxed, and Mei is outside on a balcony, looking at the GhibliHills that surround the mansion.

* LetThemDieHappy: Subverted. [[spoiler:Kouichi got the opportunity to make Izumi happy in death by lying and telling her that he did remember their first meeting but Kouichi got hit by BrutalHonesty and told her "no." Izumi even lampshades this by calling him mean and telling him he was supposed to lie before she died.]]

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Subverted. A lot of the deaths could actually be counted as accidents, bizarre and unlikely as they are, if they had happened individually. But the fact that these deaths occur so alarmingly frequently, and sometimes even ''simultaneously'', is what makes it obvious that this is not the case.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Mei. [[spoiler: Subverted, since underneath her emotionless persona, she's actually a NiceGirl.]]

** [[spoiler: Junta Nakao's demise]] is very reminiscent of {{Jaws}}. Though it nearly subverted as [[spoiler: the boat chopped him up, it was an aneurism that killed him, before he was hit.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Sakakibara. He just ''had'' to transfer into thick of things, unaware of the unspeakable rules. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}. Mei said that the calamity had already begun when he started making contact with her. You can almost hear the audience breathe a sigh of bittersweet relief.]]

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:One of the students dies in a fire explosion during the summer trip.]]

** The backhoe in Episode 9.

* TomatoSurprise: The fact that [[spoiler: his aunt Reiko and his teacher Ms. Mikami are the same person]] is not a secret to Kouichi, but the anime hides it from the audience until the final episode, making it harder to connect the dots leading to [[spoiler:the "Extra"'s identity]].

** We also have an example of an inverse of this trope in the series. When the boys go in search of a clue to how to end the calamity, they decide not to tell anyone about what they are doing. Except they run into Yumi Ogura and Aya Ayano along the way and fill them in on their intentions. [[spoiler: If they has stuck to their guns, Ogura would never have let that information slip to Izumi and Takako, which would prevent them listening to the tape and inspiring an unhinged Takako from making a general announcement that inspires half the class to try and kill Mei at the climax of the series.]]

** [[spoiler: Takako]]'s death in the anime. A fire from earlier in the episode wells up and create an explosion from the backdraft, which destroys some of the building's foundations. [[spoiler: She then gets caught in some of the loose wires, which are somehow hoisted into the air and end up strangling her to death.]]
** From Episode 12, [[spoiler:several students are crushed by a falling chandelier in the opening scenes. The one who manages to get up and run away gets crushed by a randomly falling pillar before reaching the door.]]

* BloodyHorror: Mr. Kubodera dies by stabbing his own throat repeatedly in front of his students and causes them to be [[BloodSplatteredInnocents splattered by his blood]].
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[spoiler:Kubodera]] stabbing himself in the neck leads to this.

* TheNothingAfterDeath: Apparently Mei saw that during her NearDeatExperience, when her eye was surgically removed.

* AHouseDivided: [[spoiler: The summer trip.]] By counting students only, the curse doubled the number of all victims that year just in one day of it.

* {{Bishounen}}: Kouichi, Teshigawara, Mochizuki, Kazami, and almost all of Kouichi's [[http://another.wikia.com/wiki/File:817px-Another_76.jpg classmates]]. See how they are ranked? Yeah, since it's [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Noizi]] [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Ito]] who designed them.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: No-one seems to be all that inconvenienced by the fire of the vacation resort in the last episodes unless they actually touch the flames or end up under falling rubble. People walk around and talk normally even as the walls blaze all around them.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The curse doesn't bother with killing its victims either nicely or [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident plausibly]], most of the time.

* EyepatchOfPower: Mei.

** A minor one but if you look closely to Kouichi's hospital table in the first episode, the Creator/StephenKing book Mizuno points out to is ''Literature/PetSematary''. Any King fan watching would know it was all about the consequences of trying to bring the dead back to life, a recurring theme in this Novel/Manga/Anime/Movie.
* FourIsDeath: The elevator Sanae rides in episode [[StealthPun four]] is missing the sign for the fourth floor, as a nod to this trope. [[spoiler: That doesn't stop the elevator from malfunctioning, though. Poor Sanae...]]

* LovecraftianSuperPower: Mei's ability to [[spoiler: see when people are going to die]]. It's subtle, but she says that [[spoiler: the person is highlighted in a color outside the spectrum]]. She covers that eye with an eyepatch because this ability makes her uncomfortable, but think about the implications if she embraced it...

** The curse [[spoiler: tries to get rid of the dead person in Class 3 just like the humans are trying to do. The problem is it's non-sentient and therefore has no qualms with indiscriminately killing the other children until it guesses right]].
** The [[spoiler:dead person]] is also one. They're never really antagonistic, it's just that [[spoiler:their very presence causes other people to die, and they don't even realize they're responsible.]]

* OldSchoolBuilding: Still in active use for art lessons etc., but the classrooms moved to the newer part of the school some time after Reiko was in Class 3.

* RepetitiveName: [[spoiler:Mei is actually the twin of her "cousin" Misaki; Mei was adopted by her aunt Kirika Misaki, whose actual child died in childbirth. Mei speculates that she was the one given over and not Misaki for the sake of avoiding the latter's name being "Misaki Misaki"]].

* SeparatedAtBirth: [[spoiler:Mei Misaki and Misaki Fujioka, who are twins. Mei was adopted by their aunt, but later the secret came out and the pair spent all their time together]].

* TheSevenMysteries: Kouichi wonders aloud if there's a set of these related to class 3. There isn't, although the school as a whole apparently has seven mysteries that no one seems to really care about.

* NamesToKnowInAnime: We have Creator/AtsushiAbe as Kouichi Sakakibara, Natsumi Takamori as Mei Misaki, Creator/AiNonaka as Yukari Sakuragi, Madoka Yonezawa as Izumi Akazawa, and a few other seiyu....

** The [[spoiler:dead person]] is also one. They're never really antagonistic, it's just that [[spoiler:their very presence causes other people to die, and they don't even realize they're responsible]].

* OldSchoolBuilding: Still in active use for art lessons etc., but the classrooms moved to the newer part of the school some time after Reiko was in class 3.

** Justified by a really nasty Catch-22. Class 3's continued survival depends [[spoiler:on pretending that Mei doesn't exist]]. On the other hand, explaining that to Kouichi would require them to [[spoiler:acknowledge her existence in the first place]], which would trigger the events they're trying to prevent. Needless to say, things go to hell very quickly indeed. They probably could have gotten away with it if they'd told him before he officially started attending class, but by the time they got around to it Kouichi had already [[spoiler:acknowledged Mei's existence, leaving everyone unsure as to how best to proceed.]]
** Mei has [[spoiler:the power to detect the taint of death in people at all time]], but her classmates just have to [[spoiler:shutdown all communication channels with her.]]

** There's also Mei's not telling anybody but Kouichi about her ability earlier than she did. Though given how everyone responded to [[spoiler:the knowledge of the tape and the possibility that she was the "Extra", her keeping quiet is probably justified]]. Also, in the manga version Mei tells Kouichi that her ability explicitly does ''not'' allow her [[spoiler:to see accidental deaths coming]]. This means that she couldn't necessarily save anyone or prevent their death anymore than anybody else in her position could, and could ''still'' get her blamed for failure because of it. Plus, the ability to [[spoiler:spot the "Extra" didn't have any practical use until the characters discovered the tape and learned killing them could end the Calamity.]]

* PowerPerversionPotential: As mentioned above, Kouichi and Mei could get away with dancing in the middle of class, since [[spoiler:the rest of the class has to pretend they don't exist.]] Imagine what ''else'' they could get away with.

* PsychoLesbian: Takako's love of Izumi is very powerful and [[{{Yandere}} very unhealthy.]]

* ShoutOut: Various pieces of horror fiction and their authors are often alluded to, thanks to Kouichi's interest in horror stories and Mizuno's calling attention to it. Among the name-drops are Creator/StephenKing, John Saul, and Creator/HPLovecraft. Stories include ''TheOmen''.

* TheStinger: In the anime, [[spoiler: Teshigawara and Mochizuki]] are shown putting away a [[spoiler: new version of the tape]] that explains how to stop the calamity for the next class 3 to find.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Another_Wiki Another Wiki]]

* TownWithADarkSecret: In 1972, a popular student from class 3-3 named Misaki died. However, the rest of class 3-3 chose to pretend that he was still alive until graduation. [[spoiler:This altered the class to a place that "invited death". Every year since, an extra student has appeared on the roster--a dead person. All significant records and memories--even those belonging to the dead students themselves--are altered to accommodate them, and the identity of the dead person is not brought to light until graduation. Additionally, at least one person with connections to 3-3 dies every month. The only way to prevent the deaths, as class 3-3 discovered through trial and error, is to treat one student as if they don't exist for the entire year to "even out" the imbalance caused by an extra student. Or they can find the "extra" and kill it to end the curse for that year.]]

** The English dub of Teshigawara's entrance [[spoiler: before he revealed he nearly killed Kazami,]]
--> '''Teshigawara:''' [[SayMyName SAKAKI!!!]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero I think I might have fucked up!!!]]

** After [[spoiler: Mr Kubodera kills himself]] one of the students throws up - we don't see it but the audio is still there.
** Comedic example in episode 8 with the carsick Nakao. [[spoiler:Which gets a lot less funny in the next episode when we find out ''why'' he was so ill.]]
* WhamEpisode
** Subverted at first in episode 3 when Mei removes her eyepatch [[spoiler: to reveal she has a doll's eye]] (note that episode 2 before it played this as a huge CliffHanger). Then played straight at the end of the episode when [[spoiler: Sakuragi]] is impaled by an umbrella.
** Again in Episode 6. [[spoiler:Kouichi is strongly implied to be the dead student, the librarian reveals that {{Unperson}}ing only has a 50% success rate in preventing the calamity, and Mr. Kubodera [[CliffHanger pulls out a knife in class]]]].
** In a grand subversion of the BreatherEpisode, Episode 8 demonstrates that [[spoiler:leaving Yomiyama will not protect the students of class 3-3. Or at least it won't if someone has already been injured in the town and then leaves.]].

* WhenSheSmiles: The stern, serious Akazawa really comes out of her shell during the BeachEpisode, and even [[TheStoic Mei]] lightens up a bit. The latter is even seen ''giggling'' in the background of one scene.

** Akazawa has signs of being a very mild example. Were her actions not clearly spiteful, she'd be classified as a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] ClingyJealousGirl. In Episode 10 she randomly decides to blame Mei [[spoiler: for the reactivation of the curse.]] When Sakakibara attempts to defend Mei, the camera focuses on her angrily biting her lower lip. On top of that, the episode opened with Akazawa having a dream about Sakakibara that exemplified her growing feelings for him. Clearly, Akazawa is very jealous of Mei for how close she and Sakakibara have become. In Episode 12, she seems almost excited in getting rid of her "rival" for him, and hated how he keeps interrupting her. Then she seems to simply give up and [[IfICantHaveYou considers killing him as well.]]

LiveActionAdaptation in a form of a movie aired in Japan on August 4, 2012.

* {{Bishounen}}: Kouichi, Teshigawara, Mochizuki, Kazami, and almost all of Kouichi's [[http://another.wikia.com/wiki/File:817px-Another_76.jpg classmates]]. See how they are ranked? Yeah, since it's [[ShakuganNoShana Noizi]] [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Ito]] who designed them.

*** The ending is also heartbreaking and a SequelHook TearJerker. [[spoiler: Sure, you manage to end the dreaded Class 3-3 curse for this year for now, but over half the class and many of the classmates's family members are dead. And Mei, Koichi, and the remaining surviving students recorded a tape and hid the tape in the locker with valuable information about the curse, implying that the Class 3-3 curse hasn't ended ''permanently'']].
* BloodyHorror: Mr. Kubodera dies by stabbing his own throat repeatedly in front of his students and causes them to be [[BloodSplatteredInnocents splattered by his blood]]

* BreatherEpisode: Invoked example with the anime's episode 8, which is also a BeachEpisode. [[spoiler:This comes right after Kouichi himself gets {{Unperson}}ed, Mr. Kubodera commits a very public suicide, and very strong evidence arises that Kouichi is the dead student]]. Everyone is exhausted by the events in Yomiyama, and the downplayed soundtrack and the emptiness of the beach make the entire affair feel like a rather futile attempt to relax in the wake of the recent disasters. [[spoiler: Too bad it doesn't last]].

* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Initially implied that only Kouichi and those near death can see Mei. [[spoiler: Then later subverted when it turns out to be an example of {{Unperson}}]].
* CatapultNightmare: Kouichi has one in episode 7 and 9.

** And again when [[spoiler: Nakao gets hit by a motorboat propeller (the next episode revealed he was dead already) and thrown into the air.]]

* ConspicuousCG: A few scenes with cars in episode 8 have this.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The curse arranges for these all the time, but a harmless one happens in episode 8. Mei couldn't help Kouichi and friends because she went on vacation with her family. They went to the hotel Matsunaga worked at to ask him about the curse, the exact same hotel where Mei was staying at during her vacation.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Kazami and Yumi Ogura]]

* TheEndOrIsIt: The end of the manga gives us [[spoiler:a mysterious student with a supernatural feel wandering in the empty school]]. Also, all of the continuities make clear that [[spoiler:the curse is stopped only ''this year''.]]

** Happens during Kouichi's dream sequence in episode 7.

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: In the anime's opening. [[spoiler: One does fall on a group of students in Episode 12, but in a subversion, everyone trapped under it survive, and the one who manages to get out from under it [[KarmicDeath (without trying to free the others)]] gets crushed by a falling pillar after running away.)]]

** A minor one but if you look closely to Kouichi's hospital table in episode one, the StephenKing book Mizuno points out to is PetSematary. Any King fan watching would know it was all about the consequences of trying to bring the dead back to life, a recurring theme in this Novel/Manga/Anime/Movie.

* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: Things were bad enough leading up to episode 10, but once they visit the vacation resort? Let's just say that blood flood in The Shining has nothing on this...]]

** Everyone becomes visibly tense in episode 8 as they approach the city limits and a huge tanker truck passes them on the highway, as if they expect the curse to suddenly flare up the second before they leave Yomiyama.

* GroinAttack: Kouichi gets one from [[spoiler: Takako]] in episode 11.

* Hikikomori: Yumi Ogura's older brother, Atsushi.
* HopeSpot: One student manages to survive episode 12's FallingChandelierOfDoom only to be crushed by a pillar as he tries to run.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Akazawa]] basically turns the whole class against Mei with their speech in episode 10. To be fair, nobody had any idea [[spoiler:that Mei's actions as 'the nonexistent' ''couldn't'' have anything to do with the start of calamity at the point Kouichi transferred, so Akazawa's reasoning was valid.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: One student who becomes trapped under the fallen chandelier in episode 12 manages to free himself and bolts for the door without helping the others. [[spoiler: He is immediately crushed by a fallen pillar while the rest of students who were trapped survive.]]

* LovecraftianSuperPower: Mei's ability to [[spoiler: see when people are going to die.]] It's subtle, but she says that [[spoiler: the person is highlighted in a color outside the spectrum.]] She covers that eye with an eyepatch because this ability makes her uncomfortable, but think about the implications if she embraced it...

* MagicAIsMagicA: After two and a half decades of dealing with the curse, those involved with class 3 have worked out most of the rules involving the curse, such as the fact that it can't harm you outside Yomiyama (the one time it looked like it had was a TimeDelayedDeath).

* MaleGaze: Ms. Mikami practically has a panty line in episode 3.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: [[spoiler:The only way to stop the curse is to kill the dead person. Unfortunately, most people can only guess who that is, leading to a lot of innocent blood being spilled]].

** From episode 12, [[spoiler:several students are crushed by a falling chandelier in the opening scenes. The one who manages to get up and run away gets crushed by a randomly falling pillar before reaching the door.]]

* NightmareDreams: Kouichi has a nightmare about being the dead student himself in episode 7. It involved melting faces and bleeding eye sockets.

** If Mei has told anyone that Misaki was in reality [[spoiler:her twin sister]], people wouldn't be left in the dark about the progress of that year's Calamity and she wouldn't have [[spoiler:been blamed for failing as the 'nonexistent student']]. And there wouldn't be any theories about [[spoiler:her 'returning incomplete', thus being the Another, in the episode 11.]]

** Finally, in episode 12, Mei finally reveals to Kouichi who the extra was (she did try earlier, but was interrupted by Teshigawa). When he asks her why she didn't tell him sooner, she says that he wouldn't of believed her anyway. Probably could've saved a lot of deaths had she of communicated this sooner, but everything fits together once they replay all the clues sprinkled out throughout the series at once for anyone who missed it.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:In episode 8, Nakao dies in spectacular fashion outside of Yomiyama, leading the audience and characters to believe that the curse is not confined to Yomiyama. In episode 9, however, it's revealed that this is probably not the case--he may have actually died from complications from a concussion that took place in town, which one could technically count as an in-Yomiyama death.]]

* SchoolSwimsuit: Worn by Mei in episode 8.

** There's a bit of Kouichi/Izumi teasing in episode 7 as well. And again when she decides to ride in whichever car Kouichi is in to the beach in episode 8.
** Kazami/Yukari is teased in episode 12; [[spoiler:Kazami is particularly enraged at Kouichi due to her death]].

** Izumi/Teshigawara is sort of faked out ship teased in episode 8 as well (Izumi originally told Teshi that he was to ride in her car, momentarily giving him the impression she wanted to be together for the ride to the beach, to which he seems rather surprised/happy). It's quickly revealed that she did this to free up a spot in the car Koichi was riding in, thus the fake out.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The OnTheNext preview for episode 8 (which is a BeachEpisode) still uses the disturbing tune for other episodes' next week preview.

* StealthHiBye: Mei pulls one on Kouichi in the doll shop in episode 3.

* SuddenlySober: Reiko comes home drunk and slurring in episode 3 but is somewhat alarmed and completely loses the slur when Kouichi brings up the incident from 1972.

* TooDumbToLive: Nakao is afflicted with this in episode 8 when he goes way too far into the ocean to retrieve a beach ball. [[spoiler:Justified in the next episode - turns out that he was suffering from a severe (and eventually fatal) head injury at the time.]]
** There's also one {{Bishounen}} student in episode 11. [[spoiler: Teshigawa and Mochizuki both warn him and his friend about the fire in the cafeteria. So what's the first thing he does when he leaves his room? Checks the cafeteria, of course!]]

* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: Kouichi and Sakuragi in episode 3 (although it's not shown onscreen).

** Again in episode 6. [[spoiler:Kouichi is strongly implied to be the dead student, the librarian reveals that {{Unperson}}ing only has a 50% success rate in preventing the calamity, and Mr. Kubodera [[CliffHanger pulls out a knife in class]]]].
** In a grand subversion of the BreatherEpisode, episode 8 demonstrates that [[spoiler:leaving Yomiyama will not protect the students of class 3-3. Or at least it won't if someone has already been injured in the town and then leaves.]].
** In episode 10, we discover that the only known way to stop the curse is to [[spoiler:kill the extra student]]. Also, Mei [[spoiler:has the ability to identify said student]].

** The dream in episode 6 also has some Mei related adorableness.

** Akazawa has signs of being a very mild example. Were her actions not clearly spiteful, she'd be classified as a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] ClingyJealousGirl. In episode 10 she randomly decides to blame Mei [[spoiler: for the reactivation of the curse.]] When Sakakibara attempts to defend Mei, the camera focuses on her angrily biting her lower lip. On top of that, the episode opened with Akazawa having a dream about Sakakibara that exemplified her growing feelings for him. Clearly, Akazawa is very jealous of Mei for how close she and Sakakibara have become. In episode 12, she seems almost excited in getting rid of her "rival" for him, and hated how he keeps interrupting her. Then she seems to simply give up and [[IfICantHaveYou considers killing him as well.]]

** The English dub of Teshigawara's entrance [[spoiler; before he revealed he nearly killed Kazami,]]