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#15: Teruteru Hanamura

AVRIL LAVIGNE!

Japanese media likes to portray perverts. It's something the Japanese people seem to enjoy, for some reason. They like their nose bleeds, their female bath sneaking scenes, their panty thieves, etc.

But it's possible to make a pervert palatable to a Western audience. I think the key is in giving them some sense of shame, so that the depravity is implied rather than shown. Make them more of a gentleman who is thinking about dirty stuff than a guy who is openly boasting it. Some good examples are Sanji from One Piece and Jiraya from Naruto.

Teruteru does not do that. He's just disgusting. Half of his lines are trying to get some girl, any girl, to touch him or let him touch her. That's it. It seems he had a boner for his entire presence in this game, and needed to act on it over and over and over. His nose bled so much I'm not sure how he didn't faint. This is a person who, if existed in real life, would need an eletronic anklet to walk in public. He's the most off-putting character in 2-1, by far, and having him die early was a relief.

Ok, so why he is not last place? Because he has some decent highs. The part when he loses his cool during the trial and starts speaking in a funny accent is absolutely hilarious. Suddenly people can't understand him, then they can and it's amazing. That's a legit good work with VA, and dialogue writing.

Plus he has the best motive in the game, after 2-5. His backstory is legit sad. Dude just wanted to see if his mom was alive or not. That makes his execution scene particularly sad, too. And his kill plot is pretty solid, even it is somewhat tainted by Nagito's interference. It took DR1 three cases to have a premeditated kill, and Teruteru did it in the first one. Gotta give it to him for that.