Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27818776-20151120044358

OK, I found another potential candidate, though I'm probably going to do some extensive research on her when I have my Thanksgiving break. Anyway, her name is Nafumi Shintai, and she was an antagonist in the visual novel series Higanbana No Saku Yoru Ni. First things first, what is the series?

Higanbana No Saku Yoru Ni is a series of visual novels that were produced by 07th Expansion (of Higurashi and Umineko fame), and the series revolves around a school, with bullying being the main subject matter. Urban legends are spread by supernatural beings known as Yokai, and they each fight for the ownership of a "mystery." The two main protagonists of the series are Marie Moriya and the titular Higanbana.

Marie was bullied by her classmates, and she was eventually molested by her own homeroom teacher. She tried to defend herself against her teacher, but she ended up being strangled to death. She became known as Mesomeso, a spirit that haunted the bathroom stall of an abandoned school building. Suffice to say, she had to fight her homeroom teacher in order to acquire the title as Mesomeso (you see, he thought of himself as being a god after he murdered her, since he didn't get caught), and she does get her revenge on her teacher, and it is sweet. Anyway, as Mesomeso, she appears to the other protagonists of the next short stories as either an ally or an enemy if the protagonist turned out to be a bully themselves. Higanbana herself is an antihero/villainess. She mostly tries to get someone into giving up their souls, so that she could eat them (Yokai in this series eat souls, but they are mostly amoral creatures).

Okay, now on to Nafumi. Nafumi was the antagonist of a chapter in the visual novel known as "Renoir of the Art Room." She was an art teacher who considered herself the "queen of the art room." She appeared to be a cool teacher, but as you would've guessed, she was far from that. In reality, she is a sadistic child molester who likes seeing young boys get hurt and abused, because she viewed it as being beautiful. She abuses Yuuki Noda, the protagonist of that chapter, regularly, to the point that she murders him when he told her to stop. What made this worse was that he loved her and trusted her.

As I have mentioned before, I will do further research into her before proposing her, but let's get to the heinous standard. I have read the manga series a long time ago, but from what I remember of it, it was dark, of course. You had some really cruel bullies and there was the Yokai, of course. However, like I said before, while the Yokai do eat human souls, they are completely amoral and alien to really mark as being evil. Even Higanbana herself has a genuine friendship with Marie (even though she told her that she was going to eat her soul at one point). However, pedophiles are a rarity to the series. You have Yoshihito Kanamori, who was the former homeroom teach of Marie, who blackmailed her with video footage and then promptly murdered her when he feared that she would blow his cover. From what I've read of Shintani so far, she has more victims than Kanamori, and she has a disturbing fascination for seeing a young boy abused, because it gives her pleasure. That doesn't say that Kanamori himself doesn't count, it just means that he was fixated on one victim in particular; he is still without mitigating factors.

Like I said before, I will do further research into her before proposing her, but what do you think of her so far? 