Shortly after the death of the Ultimate Gamer in the anime series, the artificial intelligence Chiaki makes an appearance reenacting the first scenes of Goodbye Despair. In regards to characterizing the artificial intelligence Chiaki in the anime series, a second, human Chiaki was envisioned as having once had a fateful meeting with anger-driven Hajime in order to bring across him aid in the story across his multiple dilemmas, including his incoming transformation into his alter-ego Izuru Kamukura, and his developing relationship with future series' antagonist Junko Enoshima, with the artificial intelligence Chiaki basing her physical appearance and actions off of Izuru's memories of the human Ultimate Gamer. describing her as 'the ideal type of woman.' Rui Komatsuzaki designed the character in early development of the game, Chiaki was envisioned to be its tallest character. In contrast to Kyoko Kirigiri from the first Danganronpa video game whose main goal was assisting the player character Makoto Naegi in investigating the killing cases, Kazutaka Kodaka created Chiaki to be more of a heroine who would bond with Hajime Hinata. The parallels between Chiaki and her human counterpart in the anime series also earned a mixed to positive response.Įarly scrapped design of Chiaki Nanami by Rui Komatsuzaki. Critical response to Chiaki has been highly positive due to her role in the Goodbye Despair narrative as she takes a major impact in the class trials and her comfort provided to the main character, to the point of being cited as one of the best characters. Chiaki makes a cameo appearance in two episodes of the anime series Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, with an unrelated identical character, the visual basis for her design, appearing in the prequel Despair Arc as a student who bonds with Hajime as well as serving as unknowing instigator behind the creation of Izuru Kamukura and foundation of Ultimate Despair.Ĭhiaki was created by writer Kazutaka Kodaka as the game's heroine, with her traits being based on those of 'the ideal woman.' She is voiced by Kana Hanazawa in Japanese and Christine Marie Cabanos in English. She can bond with the protagonist Hajime Hinata in both social life gameplay and the main storyline before her true persona is revealed as the artificial intelligence observer daughter of Chihiro Fujisaki, and the younger sister of Alter Ego and Usami / Monomi. Super High School Level Gamer), Chiaki initially appears as an apparent high school student trapped with fifteen other student in the Jabberwock Island chain, where an omnipresent robotic bear named Monokuma forces the student to participate in a killing game in exchange for freedom. Formally known as the Ultimate Gamer ( 超高校級の「ゲーマー」, Chō-kōkō-kyū no 'Gēmā', lit. Chiaki Nanami ( Japanese: 七海千秋, Hepburn: Nanami Chiaki ) is a fictional character from Spike's 2012 visual novel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

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