Takako Sugiura

Takako Sugiura was a student of 9th Grade Class 3 in 1998 at Yomiyama North Middle School. She and Yumi Ogura help Izumi Akazawa as the countermeasures's personal right-arm. Takako is a young girl on her mid teens of average height with short ocher-colored hair above her shoulders, which she wears in 2 aquamarine braids on the sides (yellow at the Ending) and ocher-colored eyes as well. She is one of the few students in the class who wear glasses, wearing round purple-rimmed glasses (red on Hair Stand). As a student she was seen wearing the standard female school uniform, however instead of wearing the school jacket in winter or the vest in summer, Takako wears a light blue jacket for the winter uniform, and a special vest of the same. color for the summer uniform, being the only girl in the class to change the uniform in this aspect. Her swimsuit consists of a red bra for top and dark blue shorts with a white strap for bottoms. In the manga, Takako's appearance changes drastically, she has braided black hair and doesn't wear spectacles, bearing a certain resemblance to Sayuri Kakinuma; Her appearance and costume in the film is based on this. She has a completely different appearance and a different name in the film. Takako is a serious young girl, rarely smiling and generally saying little. She worked closely with Izumi Akazawa, who appears to be her best friend, in preparing 1998's countermeasures. Though she can usually be seen scowling, Takako can be compassionate, taking care of Junta when everyone thought he was car sick and consoling Izumi when the latter blamed herself for Yukari's death. Academically, Takako is apparently only an average student, as she doesn't take part in her friends' discussion of what high school she plans to attend, and can be seen visibly stressing over a practice exam. An analytical individual, Takako seems to view the curse as a problem which can be solved, and consoles Izumi dwelling on the past won't make things better; the group needs to focus on making sure no one else dies. Takako, much like Izumi, has a strong attachment to her friends, though being much less outgoing, this list is far shorter for her, mostly being consigned to Izumi and Junta. In all versions of Another Takako is devoted to Izumi, though this is present to varying degrees depending on the adaption. This doesn't mean she's completely blind to her other classmates: she was the only student who saw Yukari's death, for example, an event troubling enough she mentioned it to Aya Ayano, and she is visibly concerned about Daisuke when he had his asthma attack. Though she seems to have taken an initial disliking to him, she is at best neutral toward Kouichi by the end of the series, and doesn't wish him any particular ill will (this does not, however, extend to Mei, whom Takako unconditionally hates by that point). Seeing either of her best friends in danger is the only thing capable of breaking Takako's calm veneer, which once destroyed, is gone for good. Takako's normally quiet personality lead her classmates to trust her almost implicitly, which ended up not being such a wonderful thing, either for the class or herself.