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Oct 18, 2012 6:04 PM
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Maybe I just missed something, but it's worth a shot

1. At the end of the last episode, Kouichi asked if the calamity was over and Mei nodded and smiled (which I'm assuming means yes). If that's true, then why didn't it stop when Katsumi killed the extra during HIS field trip?

2. How did Mei get her eye power (heh sounds corny)? I never heard anything about it except that it was a doll's eye.

3. Why did Sakuragi (umbrella girl) run away when she saw Mei and Kouichi

4. Why would the Manager's wife go on a killing spree? She did it before the announcement was made to the entire building, and I know they said that she was emotionally unstable, but seriously, it seems kinda random to go on a rampage, seeing as she was smiling the first time the class met her.

5. They said that 1 person dies in 1 month. Suddenly, ten people (2 people in some occasions) die in a matter of one day?

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Oct 19, 2012 2:06 AM
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1. 3-3 is cursed, and it happens every year no matter what. I don't think there is a way to stop it permanently.

2. She was born with a dead eye, so when she got her doll eye, for some reason she got the power to see dead things in different colors. So basically, when she was given life that part of her was dead, so therefore her eye had a special connection to the dead because it was never alive.

3. I guess she was just startled.

4. She was just cray.

5. For some reason deaths start happening uncontrollably when they go up to where they were, it happened in Katsumi's class too.
Oct 20, 2012 5:10 PM
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I get #2 now, thanks for explaining, and I remember for #4 that they said she was a relative of one of the classmates which might explain why she died with them but doesn't really explain the random psychotic act she pulled off (who knows. Maybe she had the hinamizawa syndrome too). The others seem a little loosely answered, but maybe a 2nd season will answer them. There's a lot of questions I had about the series that just didn't add up for me.
Oct 22, 2012 7:57 PM
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1. The curse happens every year no matter what. When Mei confirmed that the calamity was over, it was just for that year. There would be no more deaths associated with the curse for the rest of their year in 3-3. When Katsumi killed the extra, it ended the calamity THAT year, but it restarts again with every new class after his. There's no way to permanently get rid of the curse.

3. She recognized that Mei was alive (and that Kouichi was acknowledging Mei). Accepting the "extra" is what begins the calamity, so she ran in fear for her life.

4. She was just crazy. Crazy people have unpredictable mood swings. And it helped to move the plot along -.-

5. Like Rexzazel said, the death count heightens uncontrollably in that area. I guess because it's by the Yomiyama Shrine and who knows what crazy supernatural stuff went down at that shrine in the past :p I think another reason their were so many deaths is because the students were all in hysteria. They feared for their own lives, and that can make people do some crazy things.
Oct 22, 2012 8:13 PM
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3. i thought she just got a call about her mother before that.
Oct 23, 2012 8:06 AM
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leppalo said:
Maybe I just missed something, but it's worth a shot
4. Why would the Manager's wife go on a killing spree? She did it before the announcement was made to the entire building, and I know they said that she was emotionally unstable, but seriously, it seems kinda random to go on a rampage, seeing as she was smiling the first time the class met her.


Old teacher explained that , oh man.How do you watch the anime?On the graveyard of Reiko.He said that manager and wife was grandparents of one of the kids already died.T*somethin named kid.
Nov 25, 2012 11:21 AM
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I have another thing: At the end of ep 4 the lift went down cracshing, but in reality it would be impossible. The emergency breaks are mechanical, and stops the lift in an instant if the cables would rip. It was old, yes but I would be suprised if in a hospital it wouldn't be maintained at least to the point that the emergency breaks would work under any circumstances.
Nov 25, 2012 12:01 PM
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leppalo said:
1. At the end of the last episode, Kouichi asked if the calamity was over and Mei nodded and smiled (which I'm assuming means yes). If that's true, then why didn't it stop when Katsumi killed the extra during HIS field trip?


It was over for that particular year, they didn't stop the cause of the curse itself. That's why they still left a message for any future classes 3-3.

2. How did Mei get her eye power (heh sounds corny)? I never heard anything about it except that it was a doll's eye.


It's implied it's a result from the infection she got in her left eye that nearly killed her (which is why it was amputated and replaced with a doll's eye).

5. They said that 1 person dies in 1 month. Suddenly, ten people (2 people in some occasions) die in a matter of one day?


This is untrue. At least one person would die each month. 15 Years earlier, two students died right after each other during a class trip (IIRC, one fell off a cliff, and another got struck by lightning).

AntonyRedgrave said:
I have another thing: At the end of ep 4 the lift went down cracshing, but in reality it would be impossible. The emergency breaks are mechanical, and stops the lift in an instant if the cables would rip. It was old, yes but I would be suprised if in a hospital it wouldn't be maintained at least to the point that the emergency breaks would work under any circumstances.


This has happened in real life before, though. A plane struck the Empire State Building in 1945, the cables snapped and the elevator fell down the elevator shaft. It's unclear why the brakes didn't work there (maybe they were damaged by falling debris), but this shows it's not impossible (though very, very rare).
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Feb 23, 2013 2:58 PM
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About the crazy lady, the curse effects people and makes them do weird things like the teacher killing himself
Mar 31, 2013 4:54 AM
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C'mon guys, the old lady wasn't crazy, they were the maternal grandparents of Takabayashi, meaning they are included in the two degree family relation, maybe the old lady went berserk because of her poor emotional state because of the death of Takabayashi's parents (not sure what was the librarian was pointing out, so I assume it was his parents)

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