User blog:SPARTAN 119/Takako Sugiura (Another) vs Kotonoha Katsura (School Days)

Takako Sugiura, the girl who attempted to break a curse... by killing her classmates and causing them to murder each other

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Kotonoha Katsura, the girl who was driven to murder... by relationship gone wrong

WHO IS DEADLIEST?!

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Takako Sugiura
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Takako Sugiura is a character in the horror anime Another. She was a normal ninth grader, until she ended up in ninth grade, class three of Yomiyama North Middle School. Takako was, along Izumi Akazawa, a member of the an unofficial group of students in charge of countermeasures against the "curse of class three", a curse started when students acted as if a student who died in 1972 was still among them since 1972. Since then, in order to prevent a curse from killing off the class one-by-one. The students of later years discovered the deaths could be avoided if they acted as if one student did not exist. In 1998, that student was a girl named Mei Misaki, however, in the middle of the year, a boy named Kyouichi Sakakibara transferred into the class, and became friendly with Mei, restarting the chain of deaths. In the end, they discovered the cause behind the chain of deaths from a tape left by a previous class-  That one member of the class is in fact a person who has come back from the dead, and that in order to break the curse, they must "send the dead back to death".  When this information is revealed to the class on a field trip, they panic and start  accusing each other of being the dead person , and start attacking each other with improvised weapons and eventually set fire to the lodge they are staying in. Takako attempts to murder Mei Misaki.  Takako fails, and is killed when she is tangled around the neck by some loose wires and is "hanged" as beam supporting them collapses.

Kotonoha Katsura (School Days)
Kotonoha Katsura is a major character in the mundanely named, but violently ended anime and visual novel School Days, and a classic example of the yandere character archetype. Kotonoha was a shy, but otherwise normal teenage girl until she started dating a boy named Makoto Itou. Over the course of the anime, Makoto cheats on her with several other girls, most notably a girl named Sekai Saionji, who quickly becomes Kotonoha's rival. In the anime ending Sekai murders Makoto for cheating on her, stabbing him to death with a kitchen knife. The scene is discovered by Kotonoha, who has at this time been driven to the brink of violence by Makoto's actions, severs Makoto's head and then sends a text message to Sekai, telling her to meet her on the roof of the school, where she then proceeds to cut Saionji's throat with a folding hacksaw. Kotonoha commits a similar murder in a "bad end" of the visual novel, slashing Sekai's throat on a pedestrian overpass, in front of Makoto and several others, then standing there laughing maniacally, suggesting at that point she was not aware of, or did not care about the consequences of her actions. =Weapons=

Metal Spike (Takako)
Takako Sugiura uses a metal spike of some kind as her primary weapon. The weapon has a ring for hanging it on a hook, suggesting it is probably some sort of kitchen implement, such as a meat skewer, or is a fireplace poker of some sort. The spike is about a foot long.

Hacksaw (Kotonoha)
Kotonoha uses a hacksaw with a rectangular blade for most of her murders. The saw is seen to be kept extremely sharp, enough to cut the throat with a rapid, knife-like slash. The hacksaw can be seen next to Kotonoha in the image.

Kitchen Knife (Both)
A standard kitchen knife, mostly used for cutting food, but can be used as a weapon. Kotonoha and Takoko's knives will about eight to ten inches in length.

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