History Characters / DanganRonpaRewoundDespairMaleStudents

* [[{{BeingPersonalIsntProfessional}} Being Personal Isn't Professional]]: Jin tries his hardest to separate himself from others, to avoid clouding his judgement with bias. In reality, he's much worse at this than he pretends to be.
* {{Born Detective}}: The Kirigiri family is a clan of legendary detectives. Jin was forced to conform to their standards, at risk of being disowned.
* {{Broken Ace}}: Jin is assumedly the best Private Investigator in Japan, and is super-intelligent... but on the inside, he's full of self-doubt and daddy issues.
* {{Brutal Honesty}}: Jin usually just tells it as it is, regardless of whose feelings he hurts.
* {{Comically Serious}}: Jin doesn't understand most jokes thrown at him, and often just stays serious. This can be humorous at times.
* {{Conditioned to Accept Horror}}: As a Private Investigator, Jin has seen his fair share of dead bodies. He also doesn't seem surprised when he's kidnapped, and claims to recognise the scent of chloroform.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Usually keeps his remarks to himself, though.
* {{Defective Detective}}: Jin prefers to keep to himself and forgo interpersonal relationships entirely- which conflicts with his natural desire for human companionship. This causes a lot of internal {{Angst}}.

* {{Family Business}}: Detective work. And he hates it.
* {{Fighting Your Friend}}: Jin has to face off against [[spoiler: Kotohiko]] during the first trial.
* FirstPersonSmartass: His internal monologue can resemble this sometimes.
* {{Friendship Denial}}: Internally. Whenever he gets too close to anyone, he chastises himself.
* {{Great Detective}}: As his talent would suggest.
* {{Hates Small Talk}}: This is shown in most of his Free Time Events.

* {{Hyper Awareness}}: Comes with being a detective.
* {{Idiot Hair}}: Has the trademark ahoge present on all Dangan Ronpa protagonists.
* [[{{ImNotHereToMakeFriends}} I'm Not Here To Make Friends]]: His general approach to the killing game.
* {{I Work Alone}}: Tries to keep up this approach. Usually ends up failing.
* {{Kid Detective}}: More of a "Teen Detective", really.
* {{Meaningful Name}}: Kirigiri is written with the characters for "fog" and "cut".
* {{Only Sane Man}}: He seems unamused by his fellow classmates' antics.
* {{Parental Neglect}}: Jin's father doesn't care about his son's ambitions, and just wants him as a mindless follower.
* {{Private Detective}}: As his talent would suggest.
* {{The Spock}}: Hates showing too much emotion.

* [[{{YoureNotMyFather}} You're Not My Father]]: Doesn't consider Fuhito to be his true father.

* {{Aborted Declaration Of Love}}: During his first Free Time Event. He gets interrupted before he can confess.
* {{Conveniently An Orphan}}: He doesn't have any family left to miss him if he dies. This is actually a good thing, considering he's in a Killing Game.
* {{Crush Blush}}: During his first Free Time Event, he blushes regularly around Jin, who he is implied to have romantic feelings for.

* {{Fan Boy}}: Of Hope's Peak itself.
* {{Knowledge Broker}}: He's researched all the students in Hope's Peak, and thus knows a LOT about them.
* {{Meaningful Name}}: His first name, Kotohiko, literally means "speech boy". He's quite the gossip...
* [[{{Mr Exposition}} Mr. Exposition]]: In the Prologue.
* {{Nice Guy}}: He isn't outwardly malicious to almost anyone.
* {{Ship Tease}}: With Jin.

* {{Alliterative Name}}: '''K'''oichi '''K'''izakura.
* {{Crazy Prepared}}: As the Super High School Level Boy Scout, Koichi has a whole range of Survival Skills ready for a situation like the Killing Game.
* {{Harsher In Hindsight}}: On his report card, his main dislike is listed as "Alcoholic Beverages". Now think back to [[{{TheAlcoholic}} how he turned out in canon...]]
* {{Merit Badges For Everything}}: Koichi is said to have earned ''every single'' merit badge available, even some specific to his camp.
* {{The Pollyanna}}: Koichi is probably one of the most upbeat characters in the Killing Game, and doesn't seem too nonplussed by the situation.
* {{Team Spirit}}: Tries to foster this within the group.
* {{The Teetotaler}}: His listed dislike on his Report Card is "Alcoholic Beverages".

* {{Brainy Brunette}}: He's apparently quite smart, and has a set of brown hair to match.
* {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}: Very much so.
* {{The Cuckoolander Was Right}}: Taichi is scared of the government. It's revealed in the Prologue that the government is funding the Killing Game.
* {{Conspiracy Theorist}}: Taichi apparently thinks that the ''entire'' government is always out to get him.
* {{Dude Looks Like a Lady}}: Both Jin ''and'' Tokiya mistake him for a girl.
* {{Nervous Wreck}}: Taichi stutters and seems very on-edge in general.
* {{Properly Paranoid}}: See "The Cuckoolander Was Right" above.
* {{Speech Impediment}}: He has quite the pronounced stutter.
* {{Uncanny Family Resemblance}}: Looks just like his canon son, Chihiro Fujisaki, to the point of ''also'' being mistaken as a girl.

* {{Abusive Parent}}: Becomes this in the regular canon.
* {{Afraid of Blood}}: Tokiya is severely hemophobic.
* {{All Men are Perverts}}: Tokiya is the most outwardly perverted and flirty member of the cast.
* {{Brutal Honesty}}: Doesn't hold back at ''all''.
* {{Hate Sink}}: Obviously.
* {{Hormone Addled Teenager}}: Won't stop talking about "the ladies".
* {{Share The Male Pain}}: One of his sprites has him gripping his crotch, usually in fear of something happening to it.

* {{Childhood Friends}}: With Ruka. They went to the same middle school.
* {{Cigarette Burns}}: Inflicts these on himself, as well as [[spoiler: on Jin.]]
* {{Dirty Cop}}: Openly admits that he only gained his position through nepotism.

* {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}: His and Ruka's friendship is... far from entirely respectful. It's gotten to the point where his apparent lack of empathy and the endangerment of her child is an in-joke for them.

* {{In Love With Love}}: Maiku seems to value the concept of love more than he values the actual object of his affections.
* {{Loving a Shadow}}: See above.

* {{The Big Guy}}: He's around 6'11 and 255lbs of ''pure muscle''.
* {{Friend to Bugs}}: As his talent would suggest. He's not just a fan of bees, but also wasps and hornets.
* {{Gentle Giant}}: He's the largest member of the cast, and also one of the most non-threatening.
* {{Gratuitous French}}: Usually he slips into this as a way to [[{{Stealth Insult}} insult]] people.
* {{Speaks Fluent Animal}}: He can communicate with his bees in an almost abnormal way. He refers to this as "speaking their language".
* {{Super Strength}}: He can break his own arm in one twist.

* {{You Gotta Have Blue Hair}}: Purple, in this case.

* [[{{Bishonen}} Bishōnen]]: His facial features are quite feminine.

* {{You Gotta Have Blue Hair}}: Literally blue. Interestingly enough, he's said to dye his hair- but only the electric blue streak in the fringe. [[{{Anime Hair}} The rest is natural.]]

* {{Purple Eyes}}: Slightly lighter than his [[{{CurtainsMatchTheWindows}} also purple hair.]]

* {{Alcoholic Parent}}: His father.

* Expy: Of Dorian Gray, pre-corruption. They share the same childish innocence and pre-occupation with a woman they love only for her art, whilst having an older (or older-looking, in Maiku's case) and more naturalistic best friend who seems to be enamoured with them. Maiku also liberally refers to himself as a Modern-Day Romeo, although the similaries between them are less glaring.

* HeroicSelfDeprication: Due to his untreated depression, Jin is abnormally hard on himself.

* {{Determinator}}: Jin won't let anything get in the way of his ambitions. And that means ''anything''.

* {{Good Is Not Nice}}: He's vaguely polite, most of the time, but generally not very "nice".

The first person Jin meets in the Killing Game. Kotohiko is an excitable young man with a strong love of gossip. He acts as Jin's guide throughout the Prologue, introducing him to the other characters in the Killing Game. Kotohiko runs and produces several tabloids, the most relevant of which covers the daily lives of Hope's Peak students.