Yoshihito Kanamori

""As a result of that, what happened? You were choked to death, and sunk in a sewage pit...and even now that you're dead, all you're doing is pathetically whining about how there was nothing you could do...if you have even that amount of courage in you, surely you could have gone and contacted the police! But you couldn't even do that? Why? That's right. Sadly enough, Miss Scored-A-Zero-On-The-Test-Of-Life, the only person that you could even muster the courage to talk to, the only person you ever had a "connection" with was this perverted excuse for a teacher right here!!""

- Yoshihito Kanamori

Yoshihito Kanamori is one of the antagonists in Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni, which translates as On the Night the Red Spider Lily Blooms.

Character description
He was Marie Moriya's homeroom teacher who appeared in The Mesomeso Chapter. He was once a positive thinking teacher, who stood by Marie's side when she was being bullied by the other children. However, due to the stress of his job, he turned, and later developed a lolicon obssession with Marie in order to relieve his stress. He would practice "supplementary lessons" on her.

When Marie threatened to tell others about these lessons, he strangles her to death. He then drops her corpse in a toilet. Due to him seeming to not having left any particular evidence, he then calls himself Mesomeso. This later results in a contest between him and Marie over the title.

When Marie talked with him, he called her an imbecile who couldn't even stand up for herself when she was still alive. He proceeds to try and strangle her a second time, and when the body was seemingly left behind, he goes so far as to rape it. The Seventh Mystery of the School Higanbana the Dancing Doll of the Infirmary then appears to him, and informs him that he failed the three rules regarding Mesomeso. The rules were not to talk to Mesomeso, not to respond to its questions, and to not identify who Mesomeso was. Therefore, Marie becomes Mesomeso. She then proceeds to kiss him goodbye, and then devours him.