no by all mean your good
keep speculating i love it, i just feel like i should pitch in with something that has to do with people’s japanese aptitude rather than anything related to the writing
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and actually i can just say that yeah since its literally not related to kaguya hoshinomiya’s name
be warned: the following is exclusively guesswork. I am not a native japanese speaker so take everything I say about it with a grain of salt—be sure to fact-check before repeating
often in family names that are especially old, the “no” meaning “of/from” gets dropped and implied
like if someone’s name is 木の原 kinohara (field of trees) it can sometimes in writing just turn into 木原 (tree field) despite being pronounced the same way
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this calligraphy is so time consuming why did i do this 
if anyone knows a good procreate brush for japanese calligraphy then please tell me
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Feel my suffering…
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…I wonder what this actually entails. I know I have been using “Ultimate” in some of my setups as well -as a reference to Danganronpa- but the actual thing is 超高校級, which translates to “Super High School Level”.
The concept of Danganronpa is that the students are so expertised in a field, that they were given these titles. (E.g., Idol, Baseball Player, Gyaru/Fashionista, etc.)
Some of these are more unusual or outright odd compared to others (e.g., (Biker) Gang Leader, Gambler, Serial Killer, etc.), but ultimately they all imply they were in high school.
I wonder if the same applies in this story as well.
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Student Spotlight #3
Chen Shinonome, Ultimate Pyrotechnician
“Yeah, jeez, I know my family is a yakuza clan, you’re only like the twentieth person to say that today. I never asked to be part of that family, okay? I don’t deal with them any more, end of story. Why don’t you mind your own beeswax?”
“Wait, we have gunpowder? Heck yeah, it’s fireworks time!”
Although she tries to present a clean record, it’s no secret that Chen has a shady backstory. She’s the niece of Saikachi Shinonome, the probable head of an organised crime group that stands out as a power in the criminal underworld of the country—Though there’s no direct evidence, I suspect her involvement in multiple counts of arson and extortion that happened years ago. But as far as the public knows, she’s just a freelancer for designing and safety checking firework displays for events, private and public.
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also i am not hecking animating that cardigan
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…? Who the heck is writing these synopses? Another SHSL Scout?
東雲橙
…I understand nothing about this character’s given name. Shinonome meaning east clouds makes sense, but the kanji that represents her given name means “bitter orange”.
橙 (the fruit) is written as “daidai”, and while I understand that kanji have different meanings depending on the surrounding context, and have different pronounciations in general, I just don’t understand this one.
I can’t even make any solid predictions about her. She feels like someone who dies early / mid-story and gets forgotten by my degrading brain.
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…no wonder it doesn’t make sense.
It wasn’t Japanese to begin with; it’s Chinese.
As far as names go… The fruit matches her hair color, and that’s about all I can see. I assume it was given because it is simple and easy to remember for those familiar with the language.
…wait. If this name really is Chinese, does it imply the yakuza clan has connections with some other clans in China? (…China? And clans? What, is it something like the Chinese mafia?)
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are all the characters women
if so i’m choosing to make some implications about the killing game’s host/mastermind
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you have deduced that the killing game’s writer is me, a notorious woman liker
(in all seriousness, that question will answer itself in due time)
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one of my aims with this project is to not let any character be forgettable
if i do finish it or like, get it to a presentable state though, we’ll see how well i do when we get there :p
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you underestimate my ability to forget characters who die in chapter one
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It isn’t that she is forgettable, but rather it is me who has read too many stories. I wouldn’t dare to say I know everything about her after looking at her once, but I can most certainly say that I have witnessed stories where characters similar to her are present.
Given enough stories, characters from multiple stories begin to overlap with each other, causing me to forget the details of each character, and leaving me behind with their general traits.
It’s like… if a young female character has the eyes of a yandere, smiles like a yandere, and looks down at the camera while holding a knife, then -without knowing anything else about said character- you would probably assume that she is a yandere. Even though you have absolutely no proof she is one. (She might be just some student who loves cooking, and is about to chop the vegetables.)
The “problem” then becomes: “I have already seen so many characters with similar traits that I start to forget where characters with these traits come from. How can I be certain I won’t forget this new character?”
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fair enough
well i wanna at least do a better job than whatever the mainline dr game writers were smoking when they wrote certain characters
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Good. I will never forgive what happened in DRV3. The clown literally sacrificed himself to prove a flawed game, to the point where he gave a manual to the not-so-smart dying spaceman…
–and then it was all ruined by the puppet detective.
I don’t know what’s more infuriating: The fact that Monokuma and the mastermind couldn’t come up with the same conclusion (despite “having access” to Kirigiri’s and Enoshima’s deduction prowess) or the fact that the dumbass was being used as a dog to waste the plans of the only character with brains in that game.
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東雲槐？
A type of Japanese pagoda tree… but it should be pronounced as Enju in that case? I feel like there’s more stuff going on that I don’t understand that causes this to make sense. Something like “this can be pronounced as that” type of stuff.
–there was a Japanese actor who had this as his name, but as surname; not given name.
東雲皀莢？
A Japanese locust plant… Maybe because he has hair that resembles the plant?
サイカチムシ is also the old name of カブトムシ, but that’s like… way old. Like, Edo period old. Plus, the naming wouldn’t make sense, because why would you ever name your child after an archaic name of a commonly found insect?
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it is implied if not outright stated that the clown’s plan would’ve gotten everyone killed was it successful (and i do mean everyone, given that the sole survivor would’ve died almost immediately afterwards of a terminal disease)
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literally a point of the game is that they don’t actually care about the sanctity of the rules, with a core rulebreak happening in literally chapter 1 and going unpunished (which perhaps if the clown was actually the smartest character in the game he would’ve figured out)
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