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 kills a few students with a metal spike and 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 collapse.