User blog:SPARTAN 119/Shion Sonozaki (Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni) vs Yuno Gasai (Mirai Nikki/Future Diary)

Shion Sonozaki, the girl from the small village of Hinamizawa, who murdered several victims under the influence of a mysterious disease

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Yuno Gasai, the obsessive stalker who is willing to kill to protect her love interest from harm.

Two classic examples of the yandere character collide. Only one question remains: WHO IS DEADLIEST!?

=Combatants=

Shion Sonozaki
A 17-year girl from the prestigious Sonozaki family, a family of great influence in the small town of Hinamizawa, Japan, and a family rumored to have Yakuza connections. In the summer of 1983, she succumbs to a local disease known as the "Hinamizawa Syndrome", a disease which manifests itself in violent behavior, and eventually suicide. Shion commits a number murders, sometimes disguising herself as her twin, Mion, while committing her crimes. (For more information, click here)

Yuno Gasai
One of twelve individuals given a "Future Diary" by a being known as "Deus Ex Machina", a being claiming to be God. The "Future Diary" predicts some aspect of the holder's future, in the case of Gasai, the actions of her love interest and fellow "Diary Holder" Yukiteru Amano. Yuno's "Future Dairy" takes the form of her cell phone, and marks her as a contestant in a battle between 12 diary holders, the winner becoming the sucessor of "Deus" as God. If the diary is destroyed, the user will die. Yuno shows an obsessive, stalker-like attraction towards Yukiteru Amano, brutally attacking and killing anyone who attempts to harm him, proving herself lethal with a variety of weapons. Later in the series, unpleasant details about Yuno's past, namely that she was forced to live in a cage and given limited amounts of food by her parents after she failed to live up to their expectations of perfection. In an attempt to make her parents see the error of their ways, Yuno escaped and forced her parents into a similar situation to the one she previously was in. Instead of changing their ways, Yuno's parents starved to death in the cage. Yuno has been hiding their bodies ever since. These past trauma contributed to the mentally unstable, violent persona Yuno displays in the anime and manga.

=Weapons=

Syringe of Hinamizawa Syndrome (Shion)
In one of her killings, Shion uses a syringe filled with the Hinamizawa virus, injecting them with the virus, which drove them to suicide.

Scissors (Yuno)
At one point, Yuno uses a pair of scissors as a crude stabbing weapon.

119's Edge
Shion's Syringe for its greater lethality.

Hunting Knife (Shion)
Shion Sonozaki and uses a large hunting knife for many of her killings. The weapon appears to be a Bowie-style knife, with a clip point and a length of about ten inches.

Kitchen Knife (Yuno)
Yuno can be seen in the manga wielding a kitchen knife. The knife appears to be about 8-10 inches in length.

119's Edge
Shion's Hunting Knife, as it is more designed with use as weapon in mind, while Yuno's knife is intended primarily for cutting food.

Sledgehammer (Shion)
Shion uses a short sledgehammer with a handle of about one foot in a couple different points in the series, most notably while she threatens to perform a torture on series protagonist Keiichi Maebara by driving nails in each joint in his fingers, and later, when Keiichi sees a delusion of Shion attacking him with the same hammer.

Hatchet (Yuno)
The Hatchet is arguably Yuno's signature weapons, using it at several points in the anime and manga series to kill those who threaten Yukiteru. The hatchet in question appears to have a small head and a handle of about a foot in length.

119's Edge
Yuno's Hatchet because of the greater probability of an instant kill with the sharp force trauma compared to blunt force.

Katana (Shion)
Shion is seen in a manga only-chapter wielding a katana while fighing a group of Yakuza sent to kill her. The katana she uses is about three feet long and is apparently an actual katana, made using traditional methods, rather than a replica. This suggests it has great durability and cutting ability.

Crossbow (Yuno)
Yuno uses a crossbow at one point during the manga. The crossbow in question appears to be a "pistol crossbow", a smaller crossbow with no stock, and presumably a shorter range, similar to the one above, but more "modern" looking.

119's Edge
Yuno's Crossbow for its greater range.

Tokarev TT-33 (Shion)
Shion uses a Tokarev against a group of Yakuza sent to kill her in a manga-only chapter of Higurashi. The Tokarev is a WWII-era Russian semi automatic 7.65mm handgun with a seven-round magazine. The Tokarev has a range of about 50 meters.

Smith and Wesson Model 36 (Yuno)
The Smith and Wesson Model 36 is a small "J-frame" .38 caliber revolver with a five-round cylinder. The weapon has a maximum range of 46 meters, but an effective range of only 23 meters.

119's Edge
Shion's Tokarev TT-33 for its greater range, capacity, and rate of fire thanks to its semi automatic action. =X-Factors=