Shizuma is kind of evil. ain't she? She's not the best charcter in my appinin.

I never found her to be evil, she never did anything that marked her as such. She does have several flaws and is a rather tragic character due to the loss of her last girl friend, she's very lonely, sad and broken inside. She doesn't do her duties as Etoile because she's depressed. Only when Nagisa lifts her spirits does her character begin to show a bit of light and joy. Then at the end she's finally free of her sadness and can love again. The only reason she "toyed" with girls hearts was because she was so hurt over the loss of her beloved, that she would just date girls endlessly trying to fill the gap, when they didn't, she left them. It got so hard, hurting girl after girl, and breaking so many hearts, that she became cold and started using them. Not because she was evil, but that's what tends to happen to someone who's heart is broken and stays broken for a long time. When NAgisa came into her life, she started things the same way, she was going to use her and probably throw her away like the other girls, but somehow Nagisa melted her cold and broken heat and mended it until they fell in love. Shizuma's not evil at all, just sad.

If you want to look for a malicious character, it would be her room mate and friend Miyuki. Who, for her own self justified reasons tried to hurt both Shizuma and Nagisa by tearing them apart from each other and manipulating poor Tamao into trying to steal Nagisa away. Thus hurting all three characters, She tried to take away the only girl Shizuma had ever fallen for after her last girl friend died. Tried to take Nagisa from the only girl she really loved, and tried to force her to be with someone she didn't love. And by doing all that, it was like dangling Nagisa in front of Tamao's face when we all know Nagisa would never love her. But then again Miyuki's not really evil either, she really just didn't want Shizuma to get hurt by having to separate from Nagisa when they graduated. So her intentions were good.

Kaname was another one who might qualify as "evil" the way she tried to rape Hikari, but then we find out she was only treating Hikari so bad because she loved Amane. That get's worked out face to face with Amane and she decides to stop hassling Hikari and even makes up with her girl friend Momomi.

And then there's Yaya who rudely violated Hikari's body by touching her inappropriately, this was also not because she was evil but because she just wanted to be with Hikari sooo badly, that she couldn't resist. But she apologizes and they become friends again.

None of the character's in Strawberry Panic are evil, or bad people, though they may start out that way, they all have their reasons, especially Shizuma. In the manga, Shizuma rescues Nagisa from falling to her doom, she could have just let her fall, but out of her love and devotion, she raced a horse across the field to her heroic victory because she's a good person. In the anime, she rushes into the Etoile ceremony to run away with Nagisa because she loves her. Not because she is evil.

She's a fine character with lots of wonderful back story and development that make her who she is. She's not evil, not one bit. I can understand how someone might think otherwise, but if you really pay attention, she is not the tiniest bit evil at all.