Editing Kenji Setou (section)

=== Background ===
In "[[The Deep End/Transcript|The Deep End]]", Kenji reveals that he once had a girlfriend, about a year before [[Hisao Nakai]] transferred to [[Yamaku Academy]]. According to him, he had sexual intercourse with her one time. After the experience, Kenji claims he felt more fatigued than expected. This of course reveals Kenji's misogyny stems from a combination of his ignorance of how tiredness is a natural effect of sexual activity and his poor stamina.

From this, he believed that there was something "sinister was in the works" and formulated a theory that "women are dangerous, sapping the life force of all men through the one commodity that is almost solely theirs to control". This is later contradicted by his claim that women created industrialization to cover their tracks, which ignores how such a thing wouldn't have been allowed by the men of that era. 

Many fans speculate that the ex-girlfriend was [[Yuuko|Yuuko Shirakawa]] and this was true in the beta, but it was removed from the finished game. Some fans believe however that Kenji is deep in the closet and that his misogyny is a cover for his homosexuality. Evidence for this is that Kenji may've been planned to be the game's "gay route" originally, him appearing buck naked to Hisao in the bathroom asking him for money to buy a pizza, and his "manly picnic" ends with him leaning in toward Hisao with the song "To Become One" (the game's resident sex scene song) playing as Hisao falls to his death.