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Yea the speedboat would have been better of not there, that's part of my example of people aren't supposed to be invovled but the are anyways..like the crane too, WTF!? Convenient deaths are too convenient, even in a show centered around them XD

In the last part, it felt more like someone was just sitting behind the scenes pressing a switch.
Examples: the chandelier, the pillar; the only thing unexpected was that the unknown kid with asthma was one of the five survivors.
Speaking of 'survivors', I think that Devil Survivor 2 The Animation did a far better job, seeing as the characters were notified in advance, and had the chance to prevent it from occurring.
But Another seriously killed the plot; I think that killing Izumi was also a seriously stupid move.
Of the list of characters that I liked:
Yukari Sakuragi - First killed - Umbrella.
Sanae Mizuno - Killed in elevator crash.
Yumi Ogura - Killed do to falling out of a balcony shortly after going insane.
Izumi Akazawa - Killed by shattering glass while in the middle of a stupid argument.
Reiko Mikami - Killed by someone that resembles Kouichi Sakakibara; and terns out to be the other person, is killed for the last time by Kouichi Sakakibara, ending (postponing) the curse.
Characters that I could live without:
Kouichi Sakakibara - Lives - I seriously hated him, a lot of the stuff would have never happened if he left it be.
Mei Misaki - Lives - I just didn't like her that much.
Yuuya Mochizuki - Lives - He felt like a filler character, that they tried to make important.
Naoya Teshigawara - Lives - He's okay, but if he didn't act on his own, and try to kill Tomohiko Kazami, a lot of people would have lived.
There were a couple other things that irritated me:
In the fire, half of the time Izumi, Mei and the MC just stand around, as though all the flames aren't even there, even stopping to call each other on the phone; and Mei just leaves the MC By Himself in the burning building, so that he doesn't have to see her kill his aunt, which over course he ends up seeing anyway, as he is the one that kills her.
The other thing that bothered me was with the speedboat; what the heck? It would have been better if they had him eaten by sharks; which would have been more realistic as well as disturbing.
Overall, the male characters in Another were either useless or problematic; and the only characters I found likeable died.

Anyways, I remember early on it was stated when the curse killed people it was always a seemingly innocent accident, never directly involving other people. At first it did that, but then it was like the creators ran out of ideas and that rule went out the window (such as motorboat and crane, they just played out weird).

They had a general idea of how many people die too, but they went WAY over it, maybe they could write it off as the result of the transfer student thing but they never even mentioned it...it just went way over the mark. At that point it was just episodic killing at end of episode featuring random named character (sometimes doing something stupidly suicidal despite being under a curse) that you immediately knew was going to die. They could of had some close calls or something, something to keep you on your toes without knowing.

I know this is sort of a rant, but I felt that show started off so strong...then it just petered off and the inability to follow its own rules without explanation really finished it for me =/ especially after it set them so solidly