History Characters / DanganronpaV3MaleStudents

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Possible interpretations include Ki-bo, Kiibo, Keebo, Keybo, et cetera.

* CatSmile: In some of his sprites.

* HeroProtagonist: Shuichi is the ''actual'' hero of ''Killing Harmony'' as Kaede is a DecoyProtagonist who she passes her wish onto, and is eventually the one to expose the true BigBad and end the killing games happening on the InUniverse ImmoralRealityShow by his own hand.

* TheHero: Shuichi is the ''actual'' hero of ''Killing Harmony'' as Kaede is a DecoyProtagonist who she passes her wish onto, and is eventually the one to expose the true BigBad and end the killing games happening on the InUniverse ImmoralRealityShow by his own hand.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: While ObviouslyEvil, Kiyo pretends to be one of the students' allies and implies to them that he has no intent to murder, and also uses phrases like "meet" as a substitute for killing when it comes to Shuichi and Kaede "meeting his sister", as in "killing them to meet her in the afterlife". In reality, he's a 100-body count serial killer ([[AmbiguouslyEvil if it's a real part of his characterization rather than just another fabrication]]) and was perfectly willing to betray the other students and kill them all via execution for his own selfish reasons.

* ChickMagnet: Like many of the protagonists before him, Shuichi is quite the ladies man. Excluding Love Hotel events (as the genuineness of the other students' attraction to him is questionable due to the nature of those scenes), nearly all the girls will show subtle signs of being attracted to him, both Miu and Angie will admit that they have fallen in love with him if he completes their free time events, and of course, there are all those ShipTease moments with Kaede. Some of the comments seen in the sixth trial reaffirm this.

* FlashStep: It is shown that he's capable of using this, complete with Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis reference. This comes up in the second trial; how could someone who was so alert and so fast be caught off guard by someone sneaking up behind him [[TapOnTheHead and nailing him in the back of his head]]? The answer: He wasn't. [[DeathSeeker He let himself get killed]].

* SerialKiller: A former example, unlike active cases like Syo, Kiyo, or Maki. He only targeted the mafia who murdered his own loved ones, but it earned him both the name [[RedBaron "Killer Tennis"]] and a spot on death row after he was caught.

* PowerOfFriendship: He's big on trusting people like he's a shonen series' protagonist. In the second trial, he trusts the notion that Maki didn't murder Ryoma, despite her having no alibi and the others are calling him an idiot for believing her without any evidence. In the third trial, he also believes in Himiko about Tenko not committing suicide because Himiko says that Tenko had no intention of dying. Chapter 4 becomes a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope. His only basis for believing Gonta is not the killer is because of this, despite the fact that there's a mountain of evidence that says otherwise. [[JerkassHasAPoint Oma]] calls him out on this throughout the trial, and even Shuichi is unable to side with Kaito this time.

* SleepsInTheNude: His FTE with Kaede reveals he removes his clothes before sleeping because it's uncomfortable for him.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: He's the feminine boy to Maki's masculine girl.
** And to a lesser extent, he's also the Feminine Boy to Kaede's Masculine Girl.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Due to being raised by his grandparents, Kaito in Japanese is essentially a PoliticallyIncorrectHero ramped up some, he frequently chided the male students for acting "like women" (ie. crying, having depression) and even asks Korekiyo if he is an okama, which can be a homophobic slur, when he briefly uses feminine speech patterns. In the English release, these comments are less explicit. However, he still retains the other outdated aspects, such as asking Maki her favourite blood type or saying "crackerjack" when imitating the wise-crackin' Kokichi.
** This is also slightly subverted in that Kaito says to Maki that ''everyone'' is a hero in their own story, he cries with everybody during Himiko's post Trial 3 breakdown, and okama itself being a complicated word in the complicated language of Japanese that is both a self-identifier or a slur depending on context. The fact that Kaito's influence is overwhelming positive on everyone he becomes close with and that Kaito is so well loved means that Kaito's dated upbringing often makes him RightForTheWrongReasons. Sexist reasoning aside, Kaito ''is'' accurate about the problems he identifies: when he berates Shuichi for crying, it was because Shuichi was taking all the responsibility onto himself and holing up in his room; whenever Gonta self-flagellates, Kaito pushes him to be useful by contributing; and Maki doesn't particularly like being an assassin with an arc focused more on the normal girl she truly is.

* BadassArmfold: During his execution.

* PowerOfFriendship: He's big on trusting people like he's a shonen series' protagonist. In the second trial, he trusts the notion that Maki didn't murder Ryoma, despite her having no alibi and the others are calling him an idiot for believing her without any evidence. In the third trial, he also believes in Himiko about Tenko not committing suicide because Himiko says that Tenko had no intention of dying.
** Chapter 4 becomes a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope. His only basis for believing Gonta is not the killer is because of this, despite the fact that there's a mountain of evidence that says otherwise. [[JerkassHasAPoint Oma]] calls him out on this throughout the trial, and even Shuichi is unable to side with Kaito this time.

* SirSwearsALot: Surpasses even Owada and Kuzuryu on that ground. He somehow manages to have a friendlier image than those two despite that. It's downplayed in the localization, however.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The MercyKill plan Kokichi manipulated Gonta into participating in, was, by all accounts, never a genuine plan on Kokichi's side. But from the Ultimate Entomologist's thinking, things had certainly gone this way. Gonta separated his avatar's memories from the memories of his real self, and his avatar's memories were in the Virtual World where they planned out the nuances to get Gonta to argue back and trick the others into thinking Kokichi was the culprit, causing him to be a total amnesiac to the intended plot, leading to him getting executed as the case's verdict and leading to the conclusion of sacrificing Miu in order to ''create'' the mercy kill situation to be AllForNothing. Along with this, Gonta was supposed to return the toilet paper to the mansion's bathroom without being seen after committing the murder as to make the murder weapon and the route to leave the roof unknown, but Shuichi and Tsumugi intervening at the wrong moment (which was most likely a part of Kokichi's plan to get Gonta exposed) forced him to throw it aside and leave it as incriminating evidence.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The MercyKill plan Kokichi manipulated Gonta into participating in, was, by all accounts, never a genuine plan on Kokichi's side. But from the Ultimate Entomologist's thinking, things had certainly gone this way. Gonta separated his avatar's memories from the memories of his real self, and his avatar's memories were in the Virtual World where they planned out the nuances to get Gonta to argue back and trick the others into thinking Kokichi was the culprit, causing him to be a total amnesiac to the intended plot, leading to him getting executed as the case's verdict and leading to the conclusion of sacrificing Miu in order to ''create'' the mercy kill situation to be AllForNothing. Along with this, Gonta was supposed to return the toilet paper to the mansion's bathroom without being seen after committing the murder as to make the murder weapon and the route to leave the roof unknown, but Shuichi and Tsumugi intervening at the wrong moment
forced him to throw it aside and leave it as incriminating evidence.