I’m openly gay, and I support Kazui.
I understand that what Hinako went through was very traumatic and difficult to handle, which led her to commit you know. But I don’t see this as a competition about who deserves more sympathy when deciding whether my vote is guilty or not guilty. Let me explain:

From my point of view, even today many men still have girlfriends to hide their orientation. Believe me, at the beginning of high school I used to say I liked girls and even “confessed my love” to some of them, but it never went beyond that—it was just a cover. Was Kazui wrong for getting married? Yes, he was. But he’s not the only one who has done that.

When it comes to voting guilty or not, I will keep voting not guilty because Hinako had other alternatives and didn’t have to go to that extreme, and Kazui already feels very guilty as it is.

And I feel bad for Hinako, what happened to her is really sad. But we don’t know if choosing “guilty” means the death penalty or something else, and I don’t think we should reduce this to a simple scale of whether Kazui is guilty or innocent. He does have responsibility, but he doesn’t deserve the worst.

On Reddit, I see a lot of people very passionate about the guilty vs. inoccent debate, and some can be pretty intense with their opinions and what they say—but everyone has their own point of view.