Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-6489422-20150521070525/@comment-6489422-20150521172302

Y'see, there's one simple thing that makes Teppei even worse than Shion, Miyo Takano, Rena, Keiichi, or any of those crazy murderers - he committed his disgusting acts of evil while NOT under the influence of any mental illness. He was completely in his right mind the entire time and was a colossal asshole by choice. Therefore he, along with Nomura and the Staff Leader of the orphanage Takano was raised in, are the worst people in the series by far.

Shion wasn't brainwashed, she was simply driven to madness by an invisible virus that Takano and her goons were testing. It doesn't excuse her actions, but in the Visual Novels, we hear her express how well aware she is of the fact that there's no real excuse for murder, and she ultimately condenms herself for her actions against her friends and family. (Your assessment of her actions is false, though - the only things she did that you said she did were torturing Satoko and taking Mion prisoner. The man she hung was not her uncle, her gradma was a corpse when she whipped her, Rika chose to commit suicide so Shion didn't "make her" do that, and she didn't actually succeed in murdering Keiichi - he died of a heart attack in the hospital and only hallucinated Shion coming back to kill him due to Ooishi's words about dead bodies walking around.)

Takano was borderline irredeemable for her actions, but she was also suffering from the illness she'd been researching and experimenting on, albeit in a different way than others, and she could be possibly rehabilitated and redeemed. Plus, she was ultimately a pawn to even worse people in Tokyo, namely Nomura.