History Characters / DanganronpaV3MaleStudents

* BirdsOfAFeather: In the ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'' universe, he strikes up a friendship with Korekiyo, due to their shared passion for the world combined with their devotion to their sisters

* {{Bishounen}}: He's very handsome-looking and has somewhat feminine mannerisms that he probably picked up from his 12 sisters. He's even better at painting Kaede's nails than ''Tsumugi'' is.

** On the other hand, [[{{Hypocrite}} Monokuma hardly has a leg to stand on]], as he has overseen 53 different killing games [[HopeCrusher for the sake of despair]] and continuing the ''Danganronpa'' reality show. Additionally, Korekiyo's signature outfit is nowhere to be seen in the prologue, and he wears a much more normal face mask, too -- since his sister designed every piece of it especially for him, it would be [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness wildly out of character]] for someone with such insane devotion to her not to wear it. It's just as likely that Korekiyo's personality ''was'' altered like all the other students' were, especially given Kodaka's documented TrollingCreator tendencies.

* DeaderThanDead: After Korekiyo gets CookedToDeath, Monokuma arrives to (literally) [[SaltSolution throw salt on the wound]], which melts his ghost into nothingness.

* StewedAlive: This is how his execution works after he gets violently spun around while tied up. As an execution, that makes it a very lethal variant on the trope.

* BaitTheDog: All of his Free Time events regarding his sister are designed to work like this since he deliberately conceals his sister's death and the sexual nature of their relationship. Replaying his events as Kaede after Chapter 3 can be brutal -- she happily agrees to meet with and try to make friends with his sister once they all escape the Ultimate Academy, all while the player knows good and well that as far as he's concerned ''she's verbally agreed to letting [[DeadlyEuphemism him murder her]]''.

* VillainRespect: Despite her misandry, he comments that although his original target in his DeathTrap was Himiko, he was happy when Tenko volunteered to take her place because her kind heart and noble intentions would make her an excellent "friend" for his sister and tells Himiko he can't understand why she didn't like Tenko in the first place.

* TheReveal: We finally see what's under his mask in the third trial. It's...weird.

* {{Tulpa}}: His split personality can also be seen as a tulpa.

* AffablyEvil: He is creepy and off-putting, but he is a soft-spoken and affable (in his own way) young man who genuinely enjoys teaching people about anthropology and discussing folklore and legends. He also truly admires people such as Kaede and Shuichi for all the right reasons. Unfortunately, he's also a psychotic serial killer obsessed with sending "friends" to his dead sister.

** On the other hand, [[{{Hypocrite}} Monokuma hardly has a leg to stand on]], as he has overseen 53 different killing games [[HopeCrusher for the sake of despair]] and continuing the ''Danganronpa'' reality show. Furthermore, Kodaka's TrollingCreator tendencies mean that he should be taken with a grain of salt, especially with the extreme ambiguity of ''V3'''s ending. Korekiyo's signature outfit is nowhere to be seen in the prologue, and he wears a much more normal face mask, too -- since his beloved sister made it, it would be [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness highly out of character]] for him ''not'' to be wearing it. It's just as likely that Korekiyo's personality ''was'' altered, like all the other students' were.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: It’s implied that his beloved older sister was actually controlling and abusing him.

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: The third case would have been nigh unsolvable if he had only killed Angie, but he decided to kill Tenko too (even though only one murder was needed to graduate) with the seesaw effect trap he had been preparing that night solely because he ''didn't want to waste a perfectly good trap''. Of course, he probably cared far less about graduating than he did about sending more "friends" to his sister.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In the Japanese dub of the game, Kokichi suggested that Maki gave him his video because of how [[HeKnowsTooMuch he knows about her talent]], and she wanted him not to have a reason to live. However, in the English dub of the game, Kokichi suggested that Ryoma actually blackmailed her into showing his video, threatening to reveal her true talent otherwise. However, given how this information is given to us by Kokichi, it’s debatable if this trope actually applies to Ryoma.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''OH SO VERY MUCH'', probably the worst non-execution death in the game. He is hit in the back of the head with a wooden board, then in his injured state drowned to death in a sink, which was noted by Shuichi to be a violent struggle owing to all the scratch-marks his handcuffs left, not to mention he had to stare at the handcuffs as he drowned, a vivid reminder of his criminal past. As if that wasn't bad enough, he also gets ''eaten by piranhas'' until nothing but his ''bones'' remain. Thankfully, he was already dead when this happened.

* DudeNotFunny: Miu jokingly says that he and Shuichi should take a homoerotic shower together in the shower room of his Tennis Lab, and she implies that Ryoma is the perfect height to suck Shuichi's dick. Ryoma only responds by silenting giving her a DeathGlare and frightening her. See PrisonRape below.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: As per the series' standard RecurringElement he looks nothing like any of the other members of the cast, much in the same vein of Hifumi, Teruteru, Bandai and Daiki. And just like Bandai, Ryoma has a voice that completely contrasts his design. And much like those characters, he also dies in the first half of the game.

* ShipTease: With Kaede. Both of them seem to have formed a bond in Chapter 1, as Kaede is his only true friend, and they even get a special CG of Rantaro painting Kaede's nails in this chapter's bonus event.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: After the Mastermind's reveal in Chapter 6, Korekiyo becomes this, since it's not clear if Korekiyo's personality is his natural one or if it was one implanted into him. However, considering the Mastermind's revelation is a case of UnreliableNarrator (with Shuichi even suspecting that not all of the student's personalities were altered, at least not completely), [[EvenEvilHasStandards Monokuma's disgust at his incestuous relationship]], and the fact that Kodaka outright states his execution was well-earned, it's very likely the former.

* {{Bishonen}}: His face is noticeably much more feminine than most of the other male characters.

* WhatBeautifulEyes: One of the comments in chapter six's trial mentions his eyes with a drooling emoticon, implying that the viewer finds them attractive.

* YouAreTooLate: In Chapter Five, he tries to lie about Kokichi (aka the victim of Chapter Five) being alive to trick Monokuma into getting the wrong verdict, but Monokuma was already too convinced that Kaito was the culprit at that time leading Kaito to step out of the Exisal to make sure that Monokuma doesn't execute anybody but him.

* BigEater: During Chapter two, he eats more than his fair share during breakfast. This is especially shown when he eats all the breakfasts made for the ultimates who couldn't make it, making him so stuffed that Shuichi has to carry him back to his room.

* {{Bishonen}}: Per his design notes, though unusually he has a goatee.

* BrainsAndBrawn: In chapter 5, he is blackmailed to being the "Brawn" to Kokichi's "Brains".

* ButtMonkey: He lost badly in gambling against Ryoma Hoshi in Chapter Two, gets accused of being the culprit for 25% of that same chapter's trial, gets very sick throughout most of Chapter Three, gets involuntarily kicked out of the virtual world twice and was framed in an unsuccessful murder attempt in Chapter Four, and then gets kidnapped by Kokichi in Chapter Five. There is also the fact he often gets called an idiot by the rest of the students.

** Kokichi; Kaito's read is complicated by his emotions which Kokichi consciously instigates, however, one of the foremost examples include Kokichi's attitude pivoting halfway through the killing game: from recommending for everyone to not play the killing game, to in Chapter 4 outwardly stating he will win even if it includes committing murder himself - as the first and only one to notice Kaito punched him for this and comments on how strange Kokichi was now acting. The best example of Kaito's read being clouded by his emotions happens in that very trial, as Kaito loudly insists that Kokichi is attempting to divide them with his lies (and note earlier Kokichi offered in private for Shuichi to join him and leave Kaito) but ''Kaito'' is the one who splits from Shuichi. More subtle but more poignant, in the next chapter Kaito goes so far as to state that both Gonta ''and'' Kokichi snapped under the pressure created by Monokuma. This subtlety is especially poignant as it was then revealed much later that Kokichi had been exposed to '''two''' motives: not only did Kokichi use the keycard to witness the same "truth of the outside world" as Gonta, but he also had his own motive video from Chapter 2 like Kirumi. Complicated indeed.

* FirstNameBasis: From chapter 2 onwards, he starts referring to Saihara by his first name.

* TheHeart: Kaito is the one who frequently lifts the group's spirits when the conversation turns dark or after the emotionally-taxing trials, he also refuses to isolate Maki after her talent is outed and goes out of his way to be supportive to Shuichi after Kaede's death. This shows when the remaining students rush to his side in concern when he collapses at the end of Chapter Four's trial and completely ignore Kokichi's HannibalLecture as they do so, much to Kokichi's frustration.

* IconicItem: His jacket, which is used in Chapter Five to make everyone think that he's the one who died in the hydraulic press.

* LeeroyJenkins: He is often quite reckless to the point where he nearly attempted to attack Kokichi with the Exisals on the Ultimate Supreme Leader's side in Chapter Five. This only results in him being kidnapped by Kokichi, and being separated from the group throughout the rest of the chapter. Kokichi slightly lampshaded this by calling him a reckless idiot.

** Also, Shuichi stated in Chapter 2 that "it is not like I will never see Kaito again" after the Insect Meet and Greet, and with him not showing up at the magic show, it made it seem like [[TemptingFate Shuichi jinxed Kaito by saying that]]. Around that time, the player may have zero ideas that he would be the {{Deuteragonist}} of the game as he had gotten way more screen time in Chapter Two than in Chapter One, and they may just think that Kaito would end up being the second victim of the killing game.
* RivalsTeamUp: With Kokichi in Chapter Five in order to create a murder that even Monokuma can't solve.

* TalkToTheFist: In Chapter Four, Kokichi bragging about how he intends to "win" the Killing Game and mocking the others over wanting to end it makes Kaito totally lose his temper and he actually punches Kokichi in the face. Unfortunately, this impulsive act is implied to be what inspired Miu to frame Kaito for her attempted murder of Kokichi, and Kaito is the prime suspect for Chapter Four's trial until Shuichi is able to prove Kaito couldn't log out of the Virtual World by himself.

* TragicBromance: After Chapter One, he takes Shuichi under his wing and they become very close friends, with even other characters like Miu commenting on their bizarre "bromance". Then Chapter Five arrives...

** Prone to these, beginning at the end of Chapter One when he punches Shuichi in the face and tells him that wallowing in his HeroicBSOD is disrespecting Akamatsu's HeroicSacrifice.
** Oma gives Kaito one of these in Chapter Four for his inability to accept Gonta is the killer. It all accumulates to an image that shows disturbing similarities to the one Kaito gives to Shuichi.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ghost stories upset Kaito to the point where he can't eat or sleep properly. The whole deal with the Monokubs' Necronomicon and Korekiyo's Caged Child ritual leave him completely useless for the rest of Chapter Three.

* PosthumousCharacter: While he was alive, he was extremely OutOfFocus but come to Chapter Six, his talent as well as what truly ended up happening with his murder case becomes extremely important.

** While he does die in chapter 4, he winds up killing another student instead of being killed.

* FailureKnight: Gonta's intentions are noble. He wishes to be a gentleman and to protect his classmates from harm, but as he himself lampshades in the fourth chapter, he never manages to save a single one from being killed.

** Also, similarly to the other chapter 4 culprits, his motive involves some form of noble self-sacrifice. Sakura commits suicide after breaking into the Headmaster's office in order to unify the remaining survivors and take the fight to the mastermind, Gundham arranges a fight to the death with Nekomaru to prevent the others from dying of starvation while trapped in the funhouse, while Gonta mercy kills Miu after learning the horrible truth of the outside world so he can take on the burden himself. Subverted slightly in that he was being manipulated by Ouma, who had far more selfish intentions.

* SpannerInTheWorks: In the second chapter, he's able to help clear Himiko of suspicion when he jumped onto the top of the tank to rescue her. He was able to provide eyewitness testimony that Ryoma's body only entered the tank with the piranhas.

* BeautifulAllAlong: He's actually [[{{Bishonen}} very pretty]] without his mask.

* {{Bishonen}}: He's one of the most classically "bishie" characters to come out of ''Danganronpa'', with a ''very'' feminine face underneath his mask and waist-length hair. Since he has a female tulpa, this works out just as well.

* PurpleProse: Along with his antiquated terminology.
* RecurringElement: Like the past chapter 3 culprits, he kills two people with a relatively cold-blooded motive, similar to how Celeste murdered Hifumi and Kiyotaka to get out of the school while getting money in the process, and Mikan in her despair-ridden state had murdered Hiyoko and Ibuki "for her beloved", only this time Korekiyo murdered Angie and Tenko just for the sake of wanting to give his dead sister 'admirable friends' in the afterlife. And unlike the previous two where there was some clear degree of sympathetic quality (especially when tampered memories are taken into consideration), no such quality is given here.

* RatedMForManly: He seems to take acting "like a man" pretty seriously, often advising Shuichi to be more assertive and telling Gonta not to be so gullible. In Bonus Mode, he naturally bonds very quickly with [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Mondo]] over this.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Downplayed--Kaito wears slippers rather than normal shoes. The artbook lampshades the impracticality of this decision (noting that he can't exactly run on slippery or rough surfaces in them), implying it's a personal preference on Kaito's part.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Doesn't wear any shoes due to reasons unknown.
** It may be because of being in the wild and getting used to putting his feet on the ground creating some kind of protection by the time, but it is not confirmed by WordOfGod.

'''''Characters/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''''' | [[Characters/Danganronpa2MaleStudents Male Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaHajimeHinata Hajime Hinata]] | [[Characters/DanganronpaNagitoKomaeda Nagito Komaeda]]) | [[Characters/Danganronpa2FemaleStudents Female Students]]\\

* IdiotHair: Has one under his hat.

* BadassBaritone: Being voiced by Creator/AkioOtsuka gives him one, contrasting his cartoony design. Chris Tergliafera, the voice of [[Characters/Danganronpa2MaleStudents Gundham Tanaka]], another resident BadassBaritone, isn't too shabby in this department either.

* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: His goofy tendencies may obscure it, but Kaito has an ''excellent'' grasp on people's true natures. He very quickly figures out that Maki, despite her "child caregiver" talent, knows how to fight, and later that despite her assassin talent doesn't actually want to hurt anyone, and supports Shuichi in every way he can because he knows that Shuichi's greatest handicap is his lack of self-esteem. This trait of his becomes useful in the second trial (when he notices that Kirumi isn't referring to the other students when she says "everyone is relying on me") and a hindrance in the fourth trial (he knows that Gonta wouldn't murder anyone and is just as confused as the rest of them, but he ''doesn't'' realize that Gonta passed the DespairEventHorizon in the virtual world, murdered Miu in that state, and then forgot everything that happened there when he returned to reality).

** Manipulating Himiko to select the room for the séance allowed her to select the same room Korekiyo attacked Angie in, which let Shuichi discover Angie's bloodstains. The odds of this occurring were''' ''1/9'' !''' (1/3 * 1/3; the odds of Korekiyo being caught in the middle room multiplied by the odds of Himiko selecting the middle room). For extra irony, the entire reason he had someone else pick the room was to divert suspicion ''away'' from him.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: He was the Savvy Guy to Kaede's Energetic Girl, he was the one making deductions about the secret room in the library while Kaede came up with the plan to catch the mastermind with the cameras.

* StunnedSilence: When he realises who the culprit is in the first trial, Shuichi enters such a bad HeroicBSOD he can't even bring himself to speak until Kaede encourages him to find the truth, no matter what.

* TheScapegoat: In a truly heart-wrenching fashion, Kokichi pulled him into a murder plot to kill Miu with his true intention of using Gonta as this rather than MercyKill the others as he was lead to believe.

* ASinisterClue: Played with. When everyone prepares to use the VR headsets, Miu explains that the red cord should go into the plug on the right, and Himiko, in order not to make a mistake herself, reminded everyone that right is where the hand you use to hold chopsticks is. Turns out Gonta is left-handed and, though exceptionally subtle, '''is always depicted as such'''. To avoid getting in the way, his bug case is on his non-dominant side: his right. To reinforce this, he also lifts the manhole with his left hand.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Gonta remains courteous and kind throughout the entire game. The reveal that he killed Miu is tragic, especially since he ''can't remember'' doing it.

* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: No one believes he could be Miu's killer as he's both a NiceGuy and not very intelligent, while the scheme to kill Miu required careful planning while accounting for the bizarre elements of the Neo World Program. It turns out that he's indeed the killer, but the scheme was devised by [[ManipulativeBastard Kokichi]] who had manipulated Gonta into carrying it out.

'''''Characters/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''''' | '''Male Students''' ([[Characters/DanganronpaShuichiSaihara Shuichi Saihara]], [[Characters/DanganronpaKokichiOma Kokichi Oma]]) | [[Characters/DanganronpaV3FemaleStudents Female Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaMiuIruma Miu Iruma]], [[Characters/DanganronpaAngieYonaga Angie Yonaga]])-]\\

* MenDontCry: Subverted. Despite his manly attitude, [[ManlyTears Kaito is visibly crying when [[KickTheDog punching Shuichi]] in the aftermath of Kaede's death and he's also among the students who end up crying alongside Himiko in the aftermath of the third trial]]. However, he takes issue when other guys do nothing but cry and wallow in self-pity, which is the driving issue between him and Ryoma, as well as the reason behind the aforementioned punching of Shuichi. [[EveryoneHasStandards Tenko]] DOES call Kaito out on this and make him stop, and he does. Later, on, he [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feels remorse for that and apologizes to Shuichi]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Kaito has a noticeable one at the beginning of Chapter 2, after the events of Chapter 1, when he abused Shuichi for "not doing anything" over Kaede's death, before he was stopped by Tenko. He visits Shuichi in his room and genuinely apologizes to him.

'''''Characters/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''''' | '''Male Students''' ([[Characters/DanganronpaShuichiSaihara Shuichi Saihara]]) | [[Characters/DanganronpaV3FemaleStudents Female Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaAngieYonaga Angie Yonaga]])-]\\

'''''Characters/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''''' | '''Male Students''' ([[Characters/DanganronpaKokichiOma Kokichi Oma]]) | [[Characters/DanganronpaV3FemaleStudents Female Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaMiuIruma Miu Iruma]])-]\\

* MenDontCry: Subverted. Despite his manly attitude, [[ManlyTears Kaito is visibly crying when punching Shuichi in the aftermath of Kaede's death and he's also among the students who end up crying alongside Himiko in the aftermath of the third trial]]. However, he takes issue when other guys do nothing but cry and wallow in self-pity, which is the driving issue between him and Ryoma, as well as the reason behind the aforementioned punching of Shuichi.

* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Downplayed, but one of his favourite gifts is [[EverythingsBetterWithPlushies a whale plush toy]] and ''he's'' the protagonist that openly displays the Monokuma dolls you collect rather than [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals Kaede]].

-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese), Creator/ChrisTergliafera (English)

* BadassBaritone: Being voiced by Creator/AkioOhtsuka gives him one, contrasting his cartoony design. Chris Tergliafera, the voice of [[Characters/Danganronpa2MaleStudents Gundham Tanaka]], another resident BadassBaritone, isn't too shabby in this department either.