Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-2175012-20160323030814/@comment-2175012-20160403133750

The other candidates that I was indifferent on were the pedophile teachers Yoshihito Kanamori & Nafumi Shintani from Higanbana No Saku Yoru Ni. As I had mentioned with Kanamori, he came at a time when the heinous standard wasn't too high, almost nonexistent. He performs supplementary lessons on Marie, as in he molests her and films it on a daily basis, and ultimately strangles her to death when she threatened to tell someone. Shintani is a prolific child molester who makes a habit out of torturing young boys, and then painting their tortured bodies, claiming that she loves the corruption of the innocent. She's essentially a Japanese version of Mark Jefferson. As for how many boys she had tortured, it's never explicitly clear, though what is known that she was doing this for a very long time. Unlike Kanamori, she didn't purposefully intend on murdering Yuuki; she, of course, doesn't feel remorse for it. Rather, she considers Yuuki an idiot for not letting her have her way.

As for whether or not I'd recommend the visual novel series, I'd say no. The series is dark, perhaps darker than When They Cry, and When the Seagulls Cry. For one, the Yokai eat the souls of people who were at the school at night; the way in which they hunt for souls is that they get their victim to kill themselves. However, it's never made explicitly clear how many people died at the hands of a Yokai. That, and the Yokai are depicted as possessing Blue and Orange Morality, meaning that they must eat souls to survive. In addition to this, there are a few instances of a Yokai befriending humans. For example, Higanbana does have somewhat of a good relationship with Marie (though she did say that she would've eaten her soul had she failed the test to become Mesomeso), she also befriended a blind boy at some point, and the reason as to why Renoir wanted to be the one to eat Shintani's soul was because he was offended that she didn't feel remorse for accidentally killing Yuuki. That, and Higanbana herself has done a few things that make her a very extreme anti-hero; I don't even want to start with what she did tyo a boy who made a hobby out of killing rabbits.