…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?)
are all the characters women
if so i’m choosing to make some implications about the killing game’s host/mastermind
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)
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
you underestimate my ability to forget characters who die in chapter one
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?”
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
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.
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?
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)
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)
i mean like i headcanon that its a perfectly normal curable disease or a poison and that if space boy did survive the game somehow then they’d cure him super easily
like imagine hosting a game show and giving a contestant an incurable disease for the lols
that seems—well the whole game show is unethical but that seems like it would pose a highly unnecessary risk to the staff
That in itself would’ve been more spectacular than the original ending. Why? Because it screws over the viewers. As much as “plz end game; our fictional suffering is real” plea was used as plot device, it was in no way realistic enough to get all DR fans to drop the show.
It would’ve been way more realistic to see the DR fandom die because the (shit)show was rigged to oblivion, resulting in a game where literally nobody -not even the viewers- wins.
DRv3 is the closest an official DR piece of media has come to being genuinely, non-complicatedly good, and that’s almost entirely becuase it’s a surprisingly nuanced self-criticism that actually comes off as being somewhat earned
unfortunately, because it is a DR game, it tkaes care to go out of its way to be offensive to as many social groups as the writers could find on that day
i’m half-tempted to write an essay about danganronpa and its obsessive dedication to squandering the unbelivable potential it has as a story and murder mystery puzzle and put it in the collection of short stories and essays I’m workign on
next update probably tomorrow cuz i was really busy today and am totally exhausted
and also im not doing the arts in the order im posting them so some of the later ones might be done faster
Tsutomu Narinaga, Ultimate Painter
“I don’t want to talk to you now. I need at least eight hours at my easel every day.”
“A part of me wants to protect everyone. However… some of you make that very exaspariting. You aren’t entitled to my protection, especially not if you make jokes about homicide again. They’re not funny.”
A prodigy landscape artist who rose out of obscurity recently from the countryside, and rightfully so. His landscapes are hailed to evocatively capture the magic of the open air, no matter where it is. He is hailed as an eccentric genius, though equally complained about his abrasiveness in work. Based on the way he talks about his experiences curtly in the few interviews the media has managed to pry out of him, it’s been suspected that he has an eidetic memory. Nobody knows for sure, though.
成永勉
*whistles*
I don’t know how realistic these names are, or even what the nationality of these names are supposed to be anymore, but that’s one impressive name. Both surname and given name.
Aside from this story being a death game, I know nothing about how it will unfold. However, I can only hope that he will heed the meaning of his name. Even if he is not likeable by the general public, as long as his character does not falter, he will be one of my favorite characters of this story.
Man… I have a feeling he won’t be the protagonist of this story. Based on guts alone, I feel like the odds of him dying because of his personality is around 60%, whereas the odds of him becoming a killer (“in self-defense”) is around 40%. I do not like these odds…
