Honestly everyone knew that... he's a crazy psycho and we loved him for that because he only ever directed it towards disgusting people. We just didn't think that he himself would to it to innocent people for his own pleasure, because they only ever show his intention as "doing good deeds" by killing bad people. Finding out about this manga made him seem like a hypocrite and ruined his character that's why everyone's surprised...
but he so clearly did enjoy doing it towards disgusting people, he never only did it out of morality. the polaroid pictures of the ‘perfect’ moment? the elaborate schemes and torture devices? he derived pleasure from it all, he was never selfless or doing it just to keep society in order. truth is, this is the next logical step for him. getting the expressions of the bad guys wasn’t enough for him, killing just bad people wasn’t enough for him, because it never just ends there i fear. the things he does is so twisted, that of course his morality would also become victim of this and become warped as well.
truth is, someone who does the murders that dan did in brutal cannot be a good person, not even an antihero. he was sick in that manga, just sick towards people we deemed okay. but yeah yall he drilled a machine in a man’s asshole, yeah he’s a psycho ?? these comments are killing me his actions were never defensible, just somewhat understandable but still wrong