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Don't you think there's something that's way more important than whether or not you have a talent?
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~ Chiaki Nanami
Chiaki Nanami is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Nagito Komaeda) in the 2012 visual novel game Super Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. She has the title Ultimate Gamer.
She is actually revealed to be an AI along with Usami, created by Alter Ego to be a mole for the Future Foundation. She is the culprit of Chapter 5, where she is tricked into accidentally killing Komaeda. But in reality, she is already dead.
Unlike the Al, she is a real human in Dangaronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Side: Despair. She seems to have romantic feelings for Hajime Hinata.
Chiaki was executed by Junko Enoshima, her death effectively managing to drive all her classmates from Class 77-B into the Ultimate Despair.
Nanami has short, light pink hair which is flipped at the bottom, and has light pink eyes. She wears a white, blue, and red Galaga spaceship hair clip, and wears a dark teal hoodie that's unzipped. There's cat ears, 2 pink lines resembling a cat's eyes, stripes on the bottom of the hoodie and on the bottom of her sleeves, and a symbol on her chest. The meaning of the design is unknown. Nanami also is seen with a pink bag with a cute cat design. It's said that she won it in a contest from a gamer's magazine. Under her hoodie, she wears a white buttoned shirt with a pink tie and a beige pleated skirt. Nanami also wears black thigh highs and white shoes.
Personality[]
Nanami normally has a dazed expression which gives her a sleepy demeanor, but she concentrates hard when she plays games. She often helps Hajime Hinata during Class Trials and provides important points. Nanami can also be stern when she tells people to do things and becomes a lot more lively when discussing games.
Chiaki is a calm person who has never really screamed. She does have plenty of unusual habits, such as taking long pauses in conversations so she can think what she wants to say, spacing out while playing video games, and even standing while sleeping and she even forgets how to breathe sometimes when she playing games.
Relationships[]
Class 77-B:
Class 77-B is Chiaki's class at Hope's Peak. Although she does not attempt to get along with them at first, Chiaki helps them bond after Chisa offers her advice, and ends up being their class representative. Chiaki visibly cares about each and every one of them and is willing to protect them. She does her best to keep her class together and loves them all for who they are. In return, her classmates think of her as amazing and quite hard working. They all have a deep sense of respect for her, often giving her praise or credit for getting them all together. They describe Chiaki as the heart of their class.
However, when Mikan and Chisa, who were brainwashed by Junko, betray Chiaki, she is forced into her execution, leaving the rest of her classmates horrified and only able to helplessly watch. Despite these hopeless circumstances, Chiaki was determined to make it back to her class, even to Chisa and Mikan, who had betrayed her. They served as the fuel for her hope but were in the end, her downfall. Junko uses illusions of Class 77-B and Chisa welcoming Chiaki to lure her into a trap, ending with her being killed by several spears. Chiaki's death resulted in her classmates being brainwashed by Junko, who used Chiaki's execution to envelope her class in despair.
When the entire class was captured and sent to the Neo World Program, their collective consciousness all desired to see Chiaki again, so the AI program took her form.
Hajime was Chiaki's first, and closest friend at Hope's Peak Academy. The two first met at a water fountain near the school, in a scene which Kodaka described as being pleased with how beautiful it turned out to be, when Chiaki bumped into Hajime while playing a game. Since then the two started meeting with each other after school at that water fountain. Chiaki would usually ask Hajime to play games with her, often forcing him to play her favorite game multiple times. Although Hajime is sometimes annoyed by the fact that she would always beat him, even wondering why he was someone Chiaki would want to play with, Chiaki both enjoys and cherishes their time together, openly stating that she has fun playing with him.
Chiaki always comforts Hajime when he feels upset about not having a talent. She constantly tells him there's more to life than talent, and that together they could make memories. She also says to him that unlike her, who only has games, Hajime isn’t restricted by talent, and so he can go on and do anything. Interestingly, this happens to be the one thing that didn’t change after Hajime’s transformation into Izuru Kamukura, as Izuru possessed every talent so that he wouldn’t be limited to focusing on just one. All of Chiaki's words comfort Hajime, although his obsession with having a talent doesn't lessen. Hajime calls Chiaki his friend, and wants to one day tell her he has a talent with pride.
They appear to have romantic feelings for each other, as they often blush when speaking to each other, complimenting each other, or when Chiaki grabs his hand. However, after the deaths of Natsumi Kuzuryu and Sato, his classmates, Hajime pushes Chiaki away from him and stops meeting with her after school, which disappoints her. Still, Chiaki always waited outside the Reserve Course building in the hopes that Hajime would change his mind and come out for her, even though he doesn't for a year. She worries about him constantly and even asks Chisa about his well being multiple times in order to ensure that he was doing fine. During the Reserve Course students' riot, a fearful Chiaki whispers Hajime's name.
When Chiaki and Nagito find an entrance to an underground room, Chiaki encounters a man with red eyes and long black hair and, after taking a good look at his face recognizes him as Hajime. Upon realizing this, Chiaki quickly tries to start a conversation with him, inquiring him about his hair. She was visibly surprised and confused when he asked who she was, however. This is due to the fact that she did not know of the experiments that had been performed on Hajime, which converted him into Izuru Kamukura by erasing his old personality. Despite this, she believes that he is in trouble because he's with Junko, and sought to save both him and her teacher from her.
Following her execution, during her final moments, Chiaki is confronted by Izuru. While she understood that Izuru didn’t remember anything about his past life, she still made a desperate last attempt to make him remember. She fails, however, and laments her uselessness, stating that she didn’t want to die. Chiaki then lets out her final wishes to Izuru, wanting to not only see her classmates but also play games with Hajime again, before passing away. Upon dying, Chiaki’s hair clip fell to the ground and was picked up by Izuru. After looking at it, he then silently begins to cry, implying that her death was able to trigger some memories from Izuru’s past life, particularly those from the time that Hajime spent with Chiaki.
In Ultimate Talent Development Plan, Chiaki has a similar relationship with Hajime like she did in Danganronpa 3, with her playing different video games with him and even giving him the same advice about talent not being the goal. Hajime considered her a very reliable class rep, though Chiaki believed that Hajime can be very reliable and close with the aforementioned class as well (seemingly foreshadowing the fact that Hajime much later takes the leader role among the class). In their third year, she extended him an invitation to her class's Christmas party, and he accepts. With their graduation getting closer, Hajime asks her if she's free on New Year's, and explains that his friends are planning a party because it will also be Hajime's birthday. Chiaki appears a bit surprised that she can come too, but she then eagerly agrees and offers to extend the invitation to the rest of her class.
During her time at Hope's Peak Academy, Chiaki grows quite close to her teacher, Chisa Yukizome. She is shown to have a big influence on Chiaki, who later learns to share many of Chisa's beliefs. For example, Chisa encouraged Chiaki to use her gaming talent to make friends, as Chiaki had previously thought she couldn’t do. Chiaki took Chisa’s advice and was able to bring her entire class together, as they all bonded over games. She also began to regularly hang out with Hajime for this reason. After Chisa sees Chiaki help her classmates bond, she instantly takes a liking to Chiaki and selects her as the class's representative.
Chiaki was very upset upon learning that Chisa was being transferred to the Reserve Course. However, she promised to Chisa that she will protect her class as the class representative, demonstrating the trust they have in one another. When she hears that Chisa was coming back to her class after 6 months, Chiaki plans a big party for her arrival with the help of her classmates. Chiaki seems to think of Chisa as a great role model and teacher; in turn, Chisa sees Chiaki as the heart of the class that draws and holds their bonds together.
When Chisa let herself be captured by Junko to give Chiaki and Nagito time to escape, Chiaki rallies together her class in order to save Chisa. Unfortunately, they are too late, as Chisa has already been corrupted by Junko. Not knowing this, Chiaki unsuspectingly follows Chisa, who leads Chiaki to her own execution. Although shocked by Chisa's betrayal, Chiaki still cares for her beloved teacher and still believes that it wasn't Chisa's fault to blame which, unfortunately, was her downfall, as Junko used an illusion of Chisa welcoming Chiaki to lure her into the trap that ultimately killed her.
Chiaki, along with Chisa, was the only one who genuinely cared about Nagito and thought of him as a friend, as the rest of her class didn't approve of him. Chiaki is the only one out of her classmates who greeted Nagito when he came back after being expelled for about a year. Despite all of this, Chiaki did not agree with his way of looking at things.
Later, Nagito put Chiaki's life in danger when he showed her a secret entrance to a room underground, where Junko, Ryota, and Izuru were hiding. Chiaki tried to stop Nagito from killing Junko, and was shocked when he is shot by Izuru first. She proceeds to hold him in a protective manner while he is unconscious, eventually carrying him back to her classroom. When Nagito failed to get up due to the impact of the bullet, Chiaki worriedly went over to him.
Ultimately, Nagito viewed Chiaki as the hope of his class, and as a rare reaction he cried over her death and thought it was horrible. However, he then begun to laugh madly while simultaneously crying, viewing her as a stepping stone for their hope upon her death.
In Ultimate Talent Development Plan, Chiaki is described as a person who would always invite Nagito to the group activities, with even Nagito understanding this despite his constant self-deprecation. When the graduation gets closer, Chiaki shows consideration towards him as she sees him alone in the corner and goes to ask him if he's having fun. Nagito claims that of course he's having fun and then talks about everyone's hopes, with Chiaki saying that's fine, though her face appears a bit sad and disappointed seemingly because of him still talking like that. Chiaki admits that she still doesn't really understand him after all the years together, but she says that she knows hope is really important to him. Nagito explains to her that everyone wants hope, not just him, but he just thinks about it more than others. Nagito admits that he's a bit disappointed that nothing big happened to make hope stronger, but Chiaki thinks it's a good thing and that everyone can spend time together happily in the future.
Sonia was a close friend of Chiaki's. Sonia always compliments Chiaki for her accomplishments, and appears to enjoy hugging her. Chiaki also teaches Sonia how to play games. Sonia was always close to her and admires her efforts to bring the class together. Chiaki is shown to take a liking to Sonia to, as they are together a lot in many of the scenes depicted in the credits.
Class 78th:
Junko Enoshima[]
Junko was actually the one who executed Chiaki. Her initial plan was to let Chiaki watch the Despair video, but upon realizing how much Class 77-B loved her, she decided to kill Chiaki in order to throw them all into despair. Even while being executed, Chiaki absolutely refused to give up to Junko, her class fueling her hope and determination to win, something Junko found amusing. Junko taunted Chiaki the entire time during her execution, ultimately succeeded in killing her when Chiaki falls for one of Junko's traps.
Reserve Course Students:
Chiaki is shown to be slightly curious about the Reserve Course after finding out that Hajime was a part of it, instead of being a Main Course student like herself. After learning about it from Chisa, Chiaki believes that the students, being talentless, have greater freedom than students like her, who can only focus on their own specified talent. From then on, however, virtually all of her concerns with the Reserve Course are derived from her friendship with and affection for Hajime.
Quotes[]
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair[]
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I'm Chiaki Nanami, the Ultimate Gamer. Video games are my hobby, and I'm a fan of all genres. ... Nice to meet you.
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~ AI Chiaki introducing herself to Hajime during Goodbye Despair's prologue.
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If this were a video game, it'd have a very high difficulty level... Let's do our best to clear the game.
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~ Chiaki comparing the killing game to a video game.
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It's fine if you don't know. What matters is that you hold on to the feeling that you have to do your best. So...let's do our best. Let's make sure a killing like this never happens again.
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~ Chiaki comforting Sonia after "Byakuya"'s death.
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Motive or otherwise, it doesn't matter... I won't let another killing happen.I will never...ever...let another killing happen.
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~ Chiaki reassuring the other students that she'll never let another murder happen again.
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Yeah, the only thing we can do is investigate. Cuz...we should never forgive that. Killing...is something we should never forgive. The killer has their reasons...I understand that. It was the same for Teruteru, too. It's really all Monokuma's fault...I understand that, too. But...even so... We should never forgive...killing.
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~ Chiaki convoluted over whether to forgive Teruteru for killing "Byakuya".
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Despite their clumsiness, I'm sure whoever made this probably did their very best... If you look at it carefully...don't you feel like you can sense their feelings? Mahiru's not alone... She'll be with us now and forever... This...was probably made with those feelings... So I definitely think... Yep. It's a nice decoration.
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~ Chiaki complimenting Hiyoko's shrine for Mahiru.
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I'm also worried about Fuyuhiko, but...is it really okay if we just stay here and do nothing? ...Isn't it better if we do what we can?
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~ Chiaki expressing concern for Fuyuhiko.
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Being depressed won't help. Let's believe in Nekomaru. C'mon feel better.
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~ Chiaki comforting Hajime after Nekomaru's sacrifice for Akane.
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Making a scene is just going to make us hungrier. So...let's just calm down for now.
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~ Chiaki calming the others down after they all became trapped in the funhouse.
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I guess Nagito is like a tardy detective. It's a trope in mystery games. They always come to the crime scene late, just to make an important discovery... But they can never reach the truth of the case. They just end up feeding the main character's assumptions. Well, in Nagito's case, he's not the type to feed anyone. He'll just make things even more complicated. I don't think a new discovery is bad, though. He might be able to find something we completely overlooked.
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~ Chiaki talking about Nagito during the 4th class trial.
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Hey, with your friends and their exceptionally smart brains, it must've been possible... ...to secretly get one of them behind Mechamaru, and press the button on the back of his neck.
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~ Chiaki telling Gundham about his hamsters' exceptional intelligence.
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Well...having talent means you're also bound to that talent. The moment you obtain talent, your way of life has already been chosen for you... You can't do anything else except rely on that talent... ...Regardless of whether you want that life or not.
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~ Chiaki talking about how talent automatically determines someone's life.
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As Kazuichi said...it's true we've been constantly betrayed. ...But even if I'm betrayed again, I still want to believe in everyone. No matter how many times I may be betrayed...I still want to believe in everyone.
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~ Chiaki wanting to believe in her friends in spite of how many times she's been betrayed and the chances she might be again.
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If, by chance, the traitor revealed themselves...during that bomb scare...what would've happened? Would it have...stopped Nagito from acting so reckless? But...they couldn't help it... Even if they wanted to reveal themselves...they couldn't do it... Because...they weren't created to do that. ... That's why...I want you guys to guess. A traitor who's not allowed to think that they're different from everyone else... A traitor who can only interact with everyone as a traitor... Because that's the nature of their existence... They can only exist as a traitor... Who do you think...is the traitor? ... ... Hajime...please.
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~ Chiaki asking Hajime who he truly believes is the traitor.
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...Aww, you totally guessed right! Just as expected... Yep, you're correct. ...I'm the traitor. The agent sent by the Future Foundation to hide among you all...is me.
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~ Chiaki confessing to being the traitor from the Future Foundation.
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Hey, can you listen to me a little? There's nothing to be sad about, you know. Cuz...this is different from what happened before. Unlike before, you guys don't have to stay alive by doubting someone... ...You guys can stay alive by believing in me.
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~ Chiaki assuring the others that as long as they continue to believe in her, they can survive.
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Monomi...I'm sorry, too. You're probably gonna get scolded by a lot of different people for this... But still, I want to protect everyone by any means. And...I'm happy that I'm able to do that.
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~ Chiaki apologizing to Monomi.
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There's no need for you to worry... The only thing beyond this point is a shining future. Now then...let's open the door to the future.
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~ AI Chiaki's final words before being executed.
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Even if I cease to "exist"... Even if you guys remember me again.. That doesn't mean I will completely disappear. As long as everyone continues to move forward toward the future we created together... I will never disappear. What I lived for, fought for, and risked my life for will still exist.
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~ Chiaki reassuring Hajime that she'll never truly disappear even if she ceases to "exist".
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Hajime...you've had it wrong this whole time. Having talent isn't the goal. There's something much more important than whether or not you have talent, right? ...What's important is that you believe in yourself. If you can't do that... No matter how much talent you possess, you will never be confident in yourself. Just like...how you were in the past. But past Hajime is in the past. He's not the same Hajime who spent time with me and the others in this world. So it's going to be all right... I think it's time you finally had confidence in yourself.
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~ Chiaki helping Hajime realize his newfound confidence.
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Even if this world is just a game, you guys aren't part of the game. You guys don't have to just choose a future... You should be able to create one as well. Since you're not part of the game, you don't have to worry about talent, skill, or level. You guys...have a tremendous ultimate move that can overcome anything. I guess what I'm trying to say is...if you just do it, things will turn out okay!
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~ Chiaki supporting Hajime during the battle against AI Junko.
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No matter what kind of future it is... As long as you guys move toward it, I will never disappear. Everything that happened here...it won't be meaningless... If you guys carried the burden of both hope and despair, you should even be able to create the future. Even if it's a convenient miracle... If you just do it, things will turn out okay! That's why you can't hesitate now. Resolve to throw everything away, and give it everything you got! I'll...be cheering for you, too...
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~ Chiaki's reassurance that she'll be cheering for Hajime and the other survivors while he fights against AI Junko.
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Me too... Thank you. I'll...never forget about you guys... I'll never...ever forget... I'll be cheering for you guys from now on...from somewhere. Cuz...we're all friends, after all.
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~ AI Chiaki's final words.
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School[]
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It doesn't make a difference whether you have a talent or not. I mean, that isn't the end goal. You have a greater freedom than we do. All I have are games. But you can go anywhere and become anything.
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~ Chiaki telling Hajime how he has more freedom than she does due to his lack of a talent.
~ Chiaki after accepting Chisa's advice to use her games to make friends.
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When you're with everyone, games are fun!
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~ Chiaki to Hajime.
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There's more to life than just talent. That was something Instructor Chisa told me, but... Your life won't be interesting just because you have a talent. By getting involved with others and making memories, hope, which is more important than talent, is born. I have fun playing with you... I think.
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~ Chiaki trying to reassure Hajime that there's more to life than just talent.
If she hadn't been there, I think I'd still be a loner. I'm sure I'd have never gotten to know you all. It's fun to play games as a group... I'd never have learned that. Through the fun times and the sad times, she was there, with us. I can't just do nothing!
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~ Chiaki convincing the others to help her save Chisa from the despair sisters.
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I won't lose. I won't let you beat me! My classmates, Instructor Yukizome, and I will definitely stop you!
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~ Chiaki standing up to Junko during her execution.
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Yeah, I'm done for. I won't... be able to help you. I'm... sorry.
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~ Chiaki apologizing to Izuru over not being able to help him.
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No... I don't want to die! I... I still have things I want to do. I wanted... ...to stay classmates with everyone! One... One more time... I wanted... ...to play video games... ...with you.
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~ Human Chiaki's final words.
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First, images of the ideal administrator were brought out from all your memories. Those images were supposed to be combined into one personality. But there wasn't any need. You all had the same image in your minds. Because you all had someone you longed to see again, from the bottom of your hearts. I may not be precisely the same person. But thanks to all of you, I was able to see everyone again. So this is a miracle that you won for yourselves, isn't it?
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~ The spirit of AI Chiaki visiting Hajime after class 77-B taking the blame for the final killing game and departing on a ship for Jabberwock Island.
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Of course not! It's what I lived, fought, and spent my life for. Now, let's go. We're all going to make our future together!
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~ AI Chiaki's final words to Hajime.
Trivia[]
Chiaki liked any kind of video game, even if she thinks they're terrible - with the exception of dating sims, the only genre she is bad at.
Curiously enough, her beta design resembles Chihiro Fujisaki.
In a poll by AnimeAnime, Chiaki was voted as the 14th best character to be played by Kana Hanazawa specifically for her role in the anime Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School.
She's the 2nd character in the series to have been manipulated/influenced into killing another character after Hifumi Yamada and before Gonta Gokuhara.
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