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Re: Kiir's Gaming Topic
(Reply #567 on: July 16, 2025, 01:19:21 pm)

ALL CHARACTERS RANKED

The only named characters excluded are the enemy commanders and the mascots because I just don't see a reason to rank them when they're going to be under everyone else.

19. Kyoshika Magadori

I am sad to say this is a pretty easy last place for me. Kyoshika is one of the game's comic relief characters whose whole schtick is that she grew up in the forest with no knowledge of society except what she read in manga. Also she and her sword are in a lesbian relationship? Honestly I wouldn't mind her quirks at all if the game didn't constantly make it the butt of jokes. So my problems with her really aren't her fault, but when the rest of the cast is stacked with likeable freaks there has to be SOMEONE at the bottom.

The game lets her lock in whenever she gets to do something wildly self-sacrificial and those moments are awesome. Unfortunately, she is also absent for about 60% of the game due to said self-sacrificial nature. So that's sad.

18. Gaku Maruko

Gaku in First Scenario would be somewhere closer to the middle of the list. But when someone other than Kodaka gets their hands on him, they turn him into the token horny pathetic weirdo. It's a shame because he has so much more going on, and I was so impressed with the joke in First Scenario where he's presented with an opportunity to be horny about Kurara but instead he's attracted to her money and family status and makes no weird comments about her at all. But the rest of the game does not maintain this level of fun for his character. It doesn't help that he has an insane route survivability rate so his flaws are rubbed in your face more often when he's the designated comic relief for the route.

When he's written well though, he's easily the most endearing pathetic guy in a Kodaka game.

17. Kurara Oosuzuki

Kurara is a really fun character... but. She possesses a quirk that I hate in media, which is "girl that constantly accuses the male lead of being a sex pest for no reason". She is also the one that always turns Kyoshika's quirks into a joke, so it's hard to find a scene with her that doesn't feel mean-spirited.

That said, I love her energy and her morale. She has the brains and skills to back up her pompous attitude so whenever she's doing something cool, it's almost always a good scene. Her consistent desire to cook and share curry everyone is very endearing.

16. Yugamu Omokage

I wish there were more stories about Yugamu's experiences being the only dude in the Second-to-Last Defense Squad (aka the yuri harem squad). He's perhaps the only character that could have believably gotten along with them and that's honestly so impressive. Yugamu fits in to the "murderous freak" archetype that Kodaka loves to save a spot for in his games and while he is this low on the list because he is constantly talking about the sexual pleasure he gets from killing and dissecting people, he has enough respect for the people around him and for the laws of consent and never actually does it which is why I think he's a good character. While he's the morbid comic relief in most routes, we get to see his best and worst sides in a couple select routes and overall I just think he's an alright guy. His Japanese VA is the voice of Hisoka and hams up the creepiness, but his English VA makes him sound like a chill bro and I think it's funny as hell.

It seriously would have been SO easy to make this guy an awful murder pervert. Instead he's like your weirdo gay roommate that collects bones from all the dead animals he finds but he comes out of his room once a week to make a WICKED pasta for the household so you think he's alright despite being a little creepy.

15. Shouma Ginzaki

Shouma is definitely a love-him-or-hate-him type character. I personally think he's so over-the-top with his pessimism and self-loathing that it gets more funny/endearing the further the game goes on. The fact that he gets character development to tone that down in a lot of routes helps keep it bareable too.

My only gripe is that I think some of his actions across routes contradict each other and his morals/capabilities, but like... whatever. Also admittedly I feel like I skim his dialogue a lot more than other characters, but like! I still appreciate he's there...

14. Moko Mojiro

After seeing her on a character tier list, I wanted to meet her more than any other character. Moko is the last of the main characters that you meet and she's just a fun gal. She's the "muscle person" archetype found in Kodaka games, but she's also high femme and outgoing unlike past characters of this trope. As much as I like her, she rarely gets chances to shine so I don't feel like I got to know her the same way I got to know most of the other characters.

Spoilers for her Bonding Events + Second Scenario's plot twists

Interestingly, she is the only character to directly reference another Kodaka/Uchikoshi game, namedropping Sakura from Danganronpa 1 and implying either 1) Sakura Oogami was a real human at some point in history or 2) Danganronpa is fictional, implying V3's ending is possibly canon. Since everyone's memories of humanity are implanted, neither is more likely than the other but I just think it's crazyyy and that not enough people are talking about this.

13. Nozomi Kirifuji

I was initially lukewarm on Nozomi since the only thing First Scenario would give her character was lore drops and love interest bits, but she's grown on me. She has not only the aura of a protagonist (clearly fitting into that role for her Second-To-Last Defense Academy peers) but also is like a yuri harem protagonist with that same crowd?? She's like if Rosario+Vampire was yuri. And I think that's so cool.

What really warmed me up to her is how many completely random arcs she has across the routes. Most of her arcs have little to do with whatever Takumi is dealing with and it's genuinely like watching the main character of a different game going through their own main quest. In one route she adopts a new mom and sister. In another one she gets hit by a meteorite and gets Stand sickness. She's genuinely such a delight when the game isn't focusing on Takumi's feelings for her.

12. Takemaru Yakushiji

Takemaru is exactly the character you think he's going to be and that's what makes him so good. He stands up for what he thinks is right and protects the people who need it. He doesn't hit women but if he's mad at you, he asks you to tell him if you're planning on transitioning so he can beat the shit out of you after you do. He doesn't really get a route of his own to shine on, but he's a constant guardian presence regardless of whether or not he's alive or dead. What an awesome dude.

11. Tsubasa Kawana

Tsubasa is probably the most "normal" person out of Squad 1 and as a result she kind of ties everyone together. I was worried that her "vomits when nervous" gimmick would get old or (worst-case scenario) become a thinly-veiled fetish, but the game is thankfully very normal about her. Her mechanic expertise (and the fact that most writers seem to love her) means she lives through nearly every route since she's always needed in the endgame, so you get to see a lot of her and I never found she got old.

I dunno, I just like her? I don't really have a lot to say about her to justify her being this high on the list. She has some really raw spoiler moments, but I shan't say them here...

10. Takumi Sumino

Takumi in First Scenario is probably one of my favourite Kodaka/Uchikoshi protagonists. He's kind of like if Makoto Naegi had more backbone but was a little dumber and more pathetic. Hajime Hinata but without the self-confidence issues or any dignity. My favourite Takumi moment is when he and Eito are trying to brainstorm ways to convince Tsubasa to join the fights, and they think that making her a fashionable vomit bag is the best idea ever. He also tells her that "I'll throw up with you!" to divide the embarrassment between them if she ever starts throwing up in public. What a guy.

Unfortunately, not all Takumis are written the same. While a decent number of routes make Takumi feel normal, there are a few that just feel a little off to me? In a game with this many writers, there are bound to be characters that feel different across routes (as mentioned with Gaku earlier), but it's extra noticeable when it's the character you're reading the thoughts and narration of. I also feel like after First Scenario (which is largely written with Takumi making decisions I think most players would make), a decent amount of the decisions he makes without your input don't feel like they match the vibes. But there can't be an infinite number of route splits, so I suppose that's just an inevitability in a game as big as this.

9. Undying Flames Boy

Click here to read about this character

Shion is a character initially shrouded in mystery who appears before calamities occur, leading the gang to think he's some kind of malicious entity hiding in the school. At the end of First Scenario you discover he's actually an infant with superpowers being kept in a tube in the Academy's basement, being used to power the school's weapons and defense system. After expressing a desire to live out his limited lifespan alongside the cast as normally as possible, many routes make an effort to make him feel included.

I think Shion ranks so high for me not just because of who he is, but also how the cast treats him. Whenever the topic comes up, the gang unanimously treats him like part of the family and bends over backwards in an attempt to save his life from extinguishing on Day 100. He's always doing his best to help out however he can, and yet he is peacefully resigned to his fate no matter how attached he gets to his new friends. He's so tragic in a quiet way and I really wish he could stay a main character across all routes instead of just a select few, because something about him always brings out the best in everyone else.

8. Hiruko Shizuhara

Hiruko is the cool and strict archetype with a secret soft side. Much like Takumi she experiences a dissonance in her personality across different routes, where she starts off bloodthirsty and relishes the adrenaline of battle but that gets dialed back on other routes. But in her case she does actually have a plot reason for changing across routes, so I can overlook some of it. I don't know if I buy the romantic interest she has in Takumi on some routes, but I like her overall vibes and would follow her to the ends of the Earth.

7. Kamyuhn

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Kamyuhn is Eva's adopted daughter and V'ehxness' niece and she is soooooo underused. Only appearing on three of four routes, she only reunites with Eva on one of them and only gets to join in on two happy endings. Maybe I'm a sucker for sassy children, but I think she is such a delight in every scene she's in and I honestly believe she makes any route more fun. If I was Takumi and I went back in time again to kick off Hundred Line 3, I'd be running out on Day 8 to bring her to the school so she could join the main cast in every route.

6. Eva

Spoilers for a plot point seen across most routes

Eva is an enemy commander that you take prisoner on most routes. In First Scenario you don't understand her language so you don't really get to know her, but on future routes you get to communicate with her. You learn about her adoptive daughter and about how her sister is V'ehxness, the game's main villain.

Unfortunately, this game HATES her. If her high death count wasn't bad enough, she ends up brainwashed to join your army's ranks in most routes and will often end the game still brainwashed. She is also the only adult in the main cast so the writing gets freakier with her than it does with other characters. There are only two endings in the entire game where she finishes both alive and not brainwashed. One is a bad ending and the other is uh. It's uh. Well.

Despite all this, she is a fantastic character when she gets to be herself. She's cunning and cold when she needs to be but is also very compassionate to those she gets close to. I just wish... she could have ONE happy ending...

5. V'ehxness

Click to read about V'ehxness

V'ehxness is the main villain of the game and she is the first time I saw people use the phrase "aura farming". She's the type to stoop to any lows to accomplish her goals, including lying to the enemy, killing her own allies, and betraying her religious teachings. Her voice acting is part of what makes her so great, as every line read is hammed up to the max. While on most routes she's just crazy (which is awesome we love crazy women here), she also gets a route to herself to unpack the nuance to her character. She serves as a really fun foil to Takumi as they walk different (but sometimes similar) roads to win the same war. She can also be really funny, such as when she shows up in Box of Calamity to battle but decides not to finish things because she thinks letting the heroes be haunted by evil spirits is a way funnier punishment than anything she can dish out. Awesome character.

4. Ima Tsukumo

This little gremlin has gotta have the WORST first impression I've ever seen in one of these games. In his and his sister's introduction he says a lot of things that come dangerously close to sounding incest-y and gets to show off the worst drool sprite I've ever seen in a Kodaka game (which had some hard competition). Turns out the worst of his quirks are actually localization crimes! Ima singlehandedly got me watching a Japanese playthrough so I could see/hear the script differences... which are mostly the same EXCEPT for him and Kako. Not only do they change the way they refer to each other (from the regular "oniichan" and derogatory "imouto-chan" to the more affectionate "Brother/Sister Dearest") but they also changed some of Ima's context-sensitive lines to be a little freakier and outright removed bits about their backstory. I think they thought he was a different character until Second Scenario onwards, because the way he's written is heavily toned down after First Scenario. They got to the line that compares him to being an ultra strict and doting dad who can't handle people having reasonable concerns about his parenting techniques and the loc writers went "ohhhh we messed up. We made him the wrong character" but they didn't have time to go back and fix it.

ANYWAYS. He's my dipshit problematic son voiced by Megumi Ogata (voice of Makoto Naegi & Nagito Komaeda in Danganronpa - and many other big voices but those are the ones most relevant to this game) and I'll protect him with my life. The only reason he isn't higher is because none of the writers had the guts to give him more of a character beyond the bond with his sister. He does not form bonds nor does he have hobbies. Maybe this was intentional to highlight how dedicated he is to keeping Kako happy and safe, but like... not one hobby? He wouldn't get into video games or books or anything?? Give me SOMETHING.

3. Kako Tsukumo

Much like her brother, Kako doesn't get much time in the spotlight. Whenever a route seems like it's going to focus on her, they abruptly end her relevance and shift gears to something else. She's the only girl in the cast without a romance-esque subplot (which is mostly a good thing since she's 15 compared to the others' 17, but it just highlights how little the writers wanted to use her) and half of her biggest moments are post-mortem. The other half are the arcs where she tells Ima to fuck off and stop being so protective, and those moments are done incredibly well.

Unlike her brother though, she actually gets to have hobbies! She likes mystery novels and wants to be a detective someday. That alone worms her into my heart as a long-time mystery loser, but she's also just very fun and cute and silly once the narrative lets her take charge.

2. Darumi Amemiya

Darumi's gimmick is that she's constantly going "OMG THIS IS JUST LIKE DANGANRONPA!!" and talking about how much she wants to be in a death game. I think the peak of this part of her character is in First Scenario, where the cast gets used to ignoring her which causes her to gradually degrade over the course of the route until all her lines are just her chuckling darkly and mumbling to herself in the corner about more and more morbid things as a thinly veiled cry for help. Fascinatingly, no other route explores this decline of her character.

...Probably because she's dead for most of them!!!!

But the routes she DOES live for often see her approach normalcy. At the start of the Game+Mystery Route, she panics and starts legitimately mourning when she sees her first dead body around Day 5. On both the Game and Retsnom Routes she gets a starring role to explore different fascets of her character, turning her into one of the more well-rounded characters in the game. Before this, I never would have expected a character like her to be in my top 5, nevermind the number 2 spot. I have to protect her.

1. Eito Aotsuki

It honestly doesn't feel right to have Eito as my number 1? He's not really the type of character I end up treasuring and there are other characters I think about way more than him. But I just love every moment he's on screen. He's a major part of this game and yet I feel like I don't get to see enough of him. I always get a stupid smile on my face when he shows up after being gone for awhile, or when he's been around but is just now making his move to enact a plan or something. He's bestie. He's yaoi bait. He's just so silly.

I haven't talked about gameplay for any of these characters, but I think I have to for Eito? His main gimmick is that he gains a random buff between +1 Attack, +1 Armour, or remove fatigue (buffing your movement basically) every time he does an action and this combined with his unique attack shapes makes him absolutely cracked as a fighter. I could tell very early on that they were NOT going to let you keep this boy on future routes because of how easily he could solo battles... and I was right lol. Even on routes he lives, they love to prevent you from using him in battle. This game is full of characters that can easily become broken so it's not a big deal, but it's like the difference between S tier and SS tier when it comes to Eito. I cannot stop myself from using him in battle whenever I get the chance because he's just soooo fun.

Anyways yeah a lot of the best routes in the game are accessible when you choose to kill this idiot for a route split. We love a loser who's useful both dead and alive.

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Re: Kiir's Gaming Topic
(Reply #568 on: July 16, 2025, 01:19:21 pm)

TRIVIA: WHO HAD THE MOST DEATHS?

(UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR ALL ROUTES)

During the game, I decided to tally up which characters suffered the most permadeaths across the routes to see how unbalanced everyone's screentime was. While I'd say this game does a pretty good job at giving you enough time with every character to learn about them and experience their arcs, there are definitely some who don't get to play ball as much as everyone else. So in this section, I'm tallying up two death counters:

Total deaths across routes before an ending
Total deaths across endings

To be eligible for the first one, they have to die before the final day of the route. Additionally, since some routes feature different deaths on different flowchart branches, a character that only dies in some branches but not all of them will only count for .5 of a point. And finally, if for some reason a character comes back after death (whether it be via revival, hallucinations, or some other means) then they only count for .5 of that route as long as they stay alive until the ending.

Additionally: Reset, Goodbye, and Multiple don't count for the first death total. Reset doesn't count because it's just the same total as Second Scenario but with different ending casualties, while the other two routes don't count because we don't get to see most of the alive characters anyways so they may as well not be alive at all. This counter is to compare screentime rather than raw body count data!

For the ending death total, I rely on this simple question: are they shown or cited to be alive/dead when the credits roll? In addition, here are some little rules in regards to certain game scenarios:

Being possessed by G'ie counts as being dead
Becoming Retsnom doesn't count as a death since it's intentionally vague whether or not they're still alive after being taken over
An explosion or "the missles go off" ending assumes everyone died if they didn't successfully board the escape pod

I don't add to the counter if there are unknown variables, such as in endings that end abruptly (like any Conspiracy Route ending, or in any ending where Takumi dies alone and it's unknown how everyone else carries on without him), don't mention which characters are dead (ex. the Multiple Eitos ending where Takumi kills a few Eitos before getting killed by three still-living Eitos), or when an ending includes Takumi saying "I don't know what happened to the others or if they're still alive or not". And perhaps most importantly: I only count that timeline's iteration of that character. So when you kill Eito at the start of the game and the Eito from Box of Calamity enters Killing Game timeline, that timeline's Eito is still dead and thus adds to the death counter even if Calamity!Eito is alive during an ending. Likewise, just because he's gone from the timeline doesn't mean he's counted as "dead" in any Box of Calamity ending.

Protagonist Protection: Takumi Sumino

Surprising no one, Takumi has the least route deaths out of everyone due to the fact that most routes end when he dies. That said, there is one branch of the Slasher Route where he dies before an ending and the player's perspective shifts to another character for the last few days. In terms of ending deaths, he only ties for second and I was surprised at how few solo death endings there actually are. Aside from a few outliers like Killing Game where you refuse Yugamu's help or Retsnom where you try to calm down the beast, most of his ending deaths are tied to a total wipeout of the team.

Of course, this would be a different story if any of the many electrocution endings in Conspiracy resulted in death... but I'm just going to assume Takumi was fine after those endings and he got to play Casual Route 2 or something.

Total Route Deaths: 0.5
Total Ending Deaths: 38

The Doomed (or not?) Love Interest: Nozomi Kirifuji

After her death is the reason Takumi travels back in time, you'd think there would be a lot more routes/endings where Nozomi dies to pressure him into continuously going back again and again. Instead she's tied for second place for least amount of route deaths! Her three routes deaths are the aforementioned First Scenario, a branch of the Slasher Route, and all of Box of Calamity when she's killed early on and impersonated for the whole route. I swear the game forgets about her on a lot of routes which is why her death count is comparitively low, because she usually ends up being a side character having her own completely unrelated plotline. Like in S.F. she gets hit by a meteorite for some reason?? This girl is playing a DIFFERENT video game than us.

Total Route Deaths: 2.5
Total Ending Deaths: 40

Hell Was Full So She Came BACK: Hiruko Shizuhara

Since Hiruko died so early on in First Scenario, it seems all the writers were onboard with letting her live to the end in nearly every other route. Her only other major death is during the Killing Game Route and she also gains a .5 from a branch of the Slasher Route. Her survivability makes sense once you discover she's the secret second protagonist, since her whole character arc is about how many times she's had to live these one hundred days. As an aside, I get the impression our First Scenario Hiruko was already in the thick of her story, but I'd love to see someone do a deeper analysis and figure out what order she experienced the timelines in.

Total Route Deaths: 2.5
Total Ending Deaths: 38

Too Scared To Die: Tsubasa Kawana

Tied with Hiruko and Nozomi for route deaths and coming in first place for least number of ending deaths, Tsubasa only dies on all branches of both Mystery and Slasher Routes and also dies during a branch of Box of Calamity. It's not surprising she has so few deaths compared to the rest of the cast, since all the writers seem to like her a lot considering how many romance subplots she has. But I guess to be fair, a lot of routes would have gone differently if she wasn't around to do mechanic stuff.

Total Route Deaths: 2.5
Total Ending Deaths: 33

Possessed By The Narrative: Kako Tsukumo

Narrowly achieving a better life counter than her brother, Kako exclusively experiences total route deaths. Not only that, but all her route deaths are at the hands of the G'ie whether it be directly (taken over by one in Box of Calamity, and killed by a host of one in Slasher) or indirectly (her killer in Mystery was ordered by a G'ie host to kill her). I guess she's fated to cross paths with a weird bug one way or another.

Total Route Deaths: 3
Total Ending Deaths: 38

Gone And Forgotten: Ima Tsukumo

Although he comes back in Sirei's body in First Scenario (which they totally should have done with more characters on other routes IMO), Ima dies for good before the end of the route and also dies alongside his sister on all branches of Slasher Route. His other two routes are a little more complicated though! On the S.F. Route he dies just before the final boss on one of the branches, while on Box of Calamity he is murdered on one branch, and the other I'm counting as a death by the technicality that you do not see him for the last 50 days of the branch he survives. He doesn't even appear in the endings! The characters just say they knocked him out and put him on the escape pod already. How do I know you're not lying to me?! What if you killed him and are trying to Weekend at Bernie's his corpse!! Where is my son!!!!!

You'd think when he and his sister have as few route deaths as they do, they'd have to have a focus route somewhere. But every time a route teases some higher relevance to the two of them (such as Mystery, Calamity, Blessings, Comedy, Casual... and probably more) their arc comes to a premature close as some other problem takes center stage. I assume most writers simply didn't know what to do with them beyond their First Scenario character arc since if you keep them both alive that's two extra characters to write, and if you kill just one of them you lose Ima's defining character trait OR you'd be repeating Kako's First Scenario arc... All I'm saying is that I would have given them both the best arcs of all time. :)

Total Route Deaths: 3.5
Total Ending Deaths: 39

The Assassin Without A Kill Count: Yugamu Omokage

Yugamu holds onto his life surprisingly well for a Second-to-Last Academy soldier not named Nozomi. Perhaps even more surprising is that despite carrying the aura of a Chapter 3 Danganronpa killer, there are no routes where he breaks down and intentionally murders someone. It could have been SO easy to make him into an actual murder pervert, but even during his more heated moments he sticks to yapping about dissections. Heck, in Cult of Takumi, he dissects himself instead of dissecting Takumi despite always expressing the desire to do it to someone else. How much of his desire is even real? It's like Kodaka realized Korekiyo's schhtick would have been REALLY interesting to explore at the end of Danganronpa V3 and made Yugamu live forever to compensate for that.

...Anyways. His death is one of the ones that kicks off Retsnom and he also dies during Calamity and Slasher. Finally, he can die on one branch of S.F. Thank you Kodaka and friends for making Yugamu an actual character instead of another one of your one-dinmensional murder freaks.

Total Route Deaths: 3.5
Total Ending Deaths: 40

The Guardian: Takemaru Yakushiji

Takemaru is resilient as hell and as a result, the only routes he dies on are ones that have gone horribly wrong - and often while trying to protect someone. He dies on all branches of Slasher, dies mid-way through Killing Game, and was apparently the only person keeping everyone normal since his death causes Cult Route to occur. He also dies on certain branches of Calamity and S.F. - but not all of them.

Total Route Deaths: 4
Total Ending Deaths: 41

Forced To Live For Your Amusement: Gaku Maruko

Following in his spiritual ancestor Kazuichi Souda, Gaku has a pretty strong life expectancy all things considered. His route deaths are almost exclusively at the start of a route - such as being the first death on the Mystery-Game timeline as well as the death to kick off Conspiracy - or a couple days before the ending like during Slasher or some branches of Calamity. Going nearly 50% on his ending death counter is honestly largely thanks to having the misfortune to die at the start of all the routes with 8+ endings.

The reasoning for choosing him to stay alive on Second Scenario is soooo BS btw. They must have assumed most players would want to save Kurara instead, which is why they bash a warning against your head beforehand lol. I would have simply saved them both, it would be so easy.

Total Route Deaths: 4.5
Total Ending Deaths: 48

What Is Your Problem, Dude?: Shouma Ginzaki

It's so funny that the guy with literal pacifist disease kills more people than the assassin in the cast. Shouma is killed on Mystery, Killing Game, Eva, and Coming-of-Age routes. He also dies on some branches of Calamity and Slasher. He's something of a go-to when the narrative wants to kill someone for shock value but have already exhausted their usual targets.

Total Route Deaths: 5
Total Ending Deaths: 42

Girls Rock: Moko Mojiro

Moko has a surprising number of deaths for someone we technically didn't get to meet in First Scenario. She also has even fewer character arcs than the Tsukumo twins, but at least she got a starring role throughout Romance Route. Alongside First Scenario, Moko also dies in Calamity, Slasher, Retsnom, Killing Game, and Mystery, making her another character who exclusively dies before any significant route splits happen. Despite that, she manages to sneak by with a lower ending death count than several above characters thanks to most of these routes having fewer endings than most.

Total Route Deaths: 6
Total Ending Deaths: 38

The Queen Of Pointless Deaths: Kurara Oosuzuki

Now we start getting into the game's most unfortunate souls - those who had the gall to die on the Second Scenario path. After you sacrifice her to bypass the Conspiracy split, Kurara is absent for a total of six routes: Second Scenario, Rebellion, Eva, Serial Battles, Goodbye Eito, and Multiple Eitos. As mentioned above, I'm not counting Goodbye/Multiple since even the living characters aren't in those ones, but... that's still a lot! She gets to come back as a hallucination in Casual Route but otherwise you don't get to see her much down the Second Scenario conglomerate.

Unlike the others who die in Second Scenario, Kurara doesn't find much happiness on other routes either. She dies early on in Retsnom and Killing Game; meanwhile in Mystery she gets killed and impersonated by a G'ie host before any route splits occur. In Slasher Route, she only survives long enough to see a single ending. She doesn't even get to live on all the earlier off-shoot routes of Second Scenario, dying on certain branches of Box of Calamity Route. I don't know why so many writers had it out for her, but she's easily one of the mistreated members of the cast. Let her ball!!

Total Route Deaths: 8.5
Total Ending Deaths: 51

Toxic Yaoi Forever: Eito Aotsuki

Despite having plenty of opportunities to make the choice to kill him, Eito is the weirdest character to count deaths for. Not only does he leave the school and vanish for certain routes - making his fate unknown for several endings - but he often finds a way to defy death and show up in routes post-mortem. Thankfully, this only matters for Multiple Eitos (where his spirit lives on within Takumi) and Retsnom (where he is brought back to life. Sort Of.) because every other time he tries to come back in a timeline he's already died in, he just dies again.

With that said, Eito is dead from the start of Killing Game, Mystery, Slasher, and Comedy and also dies during First Scenario and Serial Battles. As mentioned, he gets revived in Retsnom and in Multiple Eitos (sort of). Finally, he does not appear in Conspiracy at all and his Calamity self that leaps to Killing Game Route is killed, totaling his nine route deaths. For his Calamity iteration, I doubled up on counting his Killing Game ending deaths if Sponsor!Eito was dead, of which there are only two endings after that happens anyways.

Total Route Deaths: 9
Total Ending Deaths: 53

Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Means: Kyoshika Magadori

Kyoshika misses out on Second Scenario, Blessings, Calamity, Conspiracy, Rebellion, Eva, and Serial Battles thanks to her forced death early on in the Second Scenario pathway. She also dies on Killing Game, Retsnom, and one branch of S.F. Finally, she comes back as a hallucination on Casual Route, bringing her total route death count to 10 under my rules.

I don't think any character in this game should have been dead for more than 50% of the routes and endings (except Sirei - he should die on every route), but unfortunately because they crammed SO MANY routes down one pathway, it ends up being like that for most of our top death magnets. Girls, you deserved better.

Fun fact: Kyoshika is the only character in the game to survive all branches of the Slasher Route! (Well, at least until the endings...) Also aside from S.F., her route deaths are all due to sacrificing herself rather than being overpowered and killed. So that's neat.

Total Route Deaths: 10
Total Ending Deaths: 61

The Defense Academy's Punching Bag: Eva

Eva is THE most mistreated playable character on the cast. She's killed during First Scenario, Second Scenario, Box of Blessings, Rebellion, Killing Game, Mystery, Slasher, as well as the only confirmed character to be killed during Multiple Eitos aside from Eito himself. Although dead in Calamity, she "comes back" as a "ghost" during some branches... but ultimately remains dead (or her true form as a fake is revealed, disqualifying her from the tally anyways) across all endings, so she doesn't get half a point back for that. Finally, she is not even mentioned during Romance Route, implying she was killed off-screen instead of taken prisoner like she is on nearly every other route. She also doesn't appear on the V'ehxness Route, but at least she is mentioned to be present in the school on that one so I'm just going to turn the other way instead of adding it to the counter.

If her high death rate wasn't cruel enough, she only evades brainwashing on routes where Sirei is dead and stays dead, which only amounts to First Scenario, Killing Game, Mystery, and Slasher. That's right - all are routes she dies on! (And V'ehxness Route, but again, we don't get to see her sooo...) She manages to break the brainwashing in her route and in one S.F. ending, where she dies in one of those endings and loses her daughter in the other two endings. There is literally no happy ending for her.

Total Route Deaths: 10
Total Ending Deaths: 65

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Darumi Amemiya

Finally we reach the playable character with the most deaths across the game. Darumi dies in less than ten days of the Second Scenario pathway, meaning she misses out on V'ehxness Route, Cult of Takumi, Box of Blessings, Box of Calamity, Conspiracy, Coming-of-Age, Rebellion, Eva Route, and Serial Battles. Like the other dead characters, she comes back as a hallucination in Casual, but she also dies during Slasher and one branch of S.F. Route, bringing her total up to twelve route deaths.

Look, I get it! The whole joke behind her character is that she has the aura of someone who dies early in a Danganronpa game... but they didn't have to actually go through with it! She's consistently the least-mourned character in the cast, being completely forgotten about in Coming-of-Age Route and generally forgotten about if there are any other dead characters to talk about. The reason of course is because she doesn't make connections outside of Killing Game and Retsnom route... which are two of the best routes in the game, so clearly there's a pattern to success here.

Total Route Deaths: 12
Total Ending Deaths: 71

Okay He Looks Very Polite: Nigou

And now all that's left is the two mascot characters. Their numbers might be off because I only decided to count them after I finished the game, so I had to go back and assume whether or not they were alive based on if they showed up to the last couple battle briefings on any given route (since they are often just not in endings even if they're alive). I was surprised to find Nigou had a better track record than Sirei since I certainly don't remember seeing them more often, but Conspiracy Route is what made that tiny difference in the end.

Nigou dies during First Scenario, Second Scenario, Rebellion, Calamity, V'ehxness, Coming-of-Age, Retsnom, Slasher, Comedy, Killing Game, and Mystery, and then also dies on some branches of Blessings and S.F. I suppose you could also count Gotoh taking over in Conspiarcy as a "death" in the same way G'ie possession counts as one, but Gotoh claims Nigou's AI will return after a few days and while we don't see that happen, I'm just going to assume it's true.

Total Route Deaths: 12
Total Ending Deaths: 64

Your Commanding Officer (Gone Wrong): Sirei

All of my favourite routes are the ones where Sirei is dead so I'm pleased to discover he has the highest route death count in the game. Sirei dies during First Scenario, Rebellion, Conspiracy, Blessings, Calamity, Cult of Takumi, V'ehxness, Coming-of-Age, Retsnom, Slasher, Killing Game, and Mystery. He dies on some branches of S.F. and is also revived during Comedy, where he unfortunately lives all the way to the end.

As I mentioned in the Ima section, I think it's a total missed opportunity to not put a dead character's consciousness in a dead Sirei/Nigou across any of the 21 routes after First Scenario. It was genuinely one of the most fun parts of First Scenario and considering how many routes the mascots die on, I'm sure Takumi could have piped up here and there to be like "hey we did this thing last time and it worked out pretty well; let's do it again to save our friend".

Total Route Deaths: 13
Total Ending Deaths: 65

	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 23, 2025 a friend of mine is going to stream hundred line on discord and i cant wait to seek and destroy every line written by kodaka
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 no way they made korekiyo 2. kodaka................
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 not only did they make megumi ogata korekiyo 2 but they made him freakier in the localization. man !
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 ima's name using the same "ma" kanji as ouma is driving me crazy. kokichi doesn't deserve being connected to this guy
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 i hate to say it but i'm kind of endeared by this game. there have been a couple rough lines but i like these characters so far and the normal:freak ratio doesnt seem as bad as danganronpa? (i still havent seen the second batch of characters tho) i dont know if their collab games get as steep sales as solo uchikoshi games (i know danganronpa games are not regularly going for $2 lol) but i might honestly consider picking this up once the price drops. maybe for less than $30
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 using machine translation looking at the japanese script and maybe its because megumi ogata does such a killer job or maybe i'm missing some words but ima in japanese comes off as more of an embarrassing doting older brother who views kako as an infant instead of [gestures to english script]
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 i HATE to say this but ima is actually pretty endearing in japanese LOL. i think if i play this game i'm going to have to compare the scripts for this character line by line - the localization makes him more dramatic/flowery whenever he talks about his sister but seems more to-the-point in jpn
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 still have the tab open so i'm letting the japanese playthrough run with yt auto-translation going and the english version localized out a food that was invented by the english & used by american military and replaced it with just "dry bread". bizarre thing to dumb down for western audiences lol
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 24, 2025 just realized this playthrough is by the guy who played naegi in the dangronp stageshows & ultimate animator/imposter in dr3. bro hes been doing analyses of casting decisions and character archetypes i thought he was just a big kodaka fan but hes like IN his works o my god
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 25, 2025 just reached the end of day 7 in this japanese playthrough. dude if i had played this demo i would have been done for. i hate to say it but this game is kinda sick...! here's a character tier list. i shockingly dont feel neutral about anyone
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 25, 2025 remembered i have gift cards i could use to buy this game. but i'd probably want it on switch and if its on switch i need to buy physical since its like 13gb... then i have to Wait for it.... urrrrrghhhh Kodaka's Trick
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 26, 2025 dude this game is a tokimemo-like. i'm so cooked. updated tier list as of day 28
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 27, 2025 day 44 and i honestly think i'm endeared to everyone. i would not want a single one of these kids to be hurt or pushed aside. i wanna see fanart of this game so bad but i am really enjoying experiencing this game blind and i dont want to change that...
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 28, 2025 day 82 this game is awesome
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 28, 2025 got officially endeared to every single character today so here's a new tier list as of day 83. the gaku and ima stocks are rising
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 28, 2025 oomf made an uchikoshi + kodaka tier list template and idk if it's recency bias but the whole squad 1 of hundred line essentially being in my top tier is crazyy
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 29, 2025 watching one friend stream the game and have someone else in the friend group who is ahead by like 5 days messaging me about what is happening in the late day 80s. hundred line is multiplayer video game experience
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 29, 2025 had to go to the mall today and gamestop was on the way so i told myself "if they have the game physical i'll cave and buy it" but thankfully limited production saved my life. but now my friends are about to go on separate routes and i wish i had the game to do completely different choices LOL. i've had the amazon page for it up all weekend. i need to stay strong i just think it would be so funny if i bought the game, started playing tomorrow and didn't tell anyone i had it while i still watched people play it. i just dont think my brainrot for this game is going to vanish by watching it LOL its actually a problem
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 29, 2025 bought the game, hoping it comes in on time. i'm going to become an ima apologist. just watch me
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 29, 2025 my amazon tracking updated to tell me it was 3 stops away (i didnt know it does that! cool!) so i went downstairs and started pacing waiting for it to show up LMAO time to go radio silent for 48 hours while i speedrun the first route of this game
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 30, 2025 reached day 50 of the first playthrough and my two friends got onto different routes on the second choice and its really funny to hear one of them apparently having a pretty normal time while the other has been watching movies with kurara for a literal hour's worth of playtime
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · April 30, 2025 i think its insane that i learned about saya no uta a couple weeks ago and not only is it mentioned in this game but it being mentioned was Foreshadowing to a twist. what are the odds
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 1, 2025 even speeding through most of the dialogue, it still took me 23 hours to beat the first route lol. but yay now i'm 1% though the game :)

	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 1, 2025 i had a desire more than any other for my first route to be shut down with a lock and i am pleased to announce: it Happened. lets go gamers!!! i have a strong feeling this is the path to the good ending lmfao it shut me down eaaaarly
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 1, 2025 both of my friends stumbled onto harem routes meanwhile after i got locked i launched myself to the opposite side of the timeline bc i didn't like the vibes on the "spare eito" side and im now solving murder mysteries like danganronpa. never been so happy to be playing a danganronpa game
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 1, 2025 my first official ending is an everybody dies ending that feels like a 999 bad ending. we've never been more back
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 2, 2025 everyone else's experiences with hundred line sound like they are going through the mines meanwhile i've seen corpse cgs of every character on this cast and i had the biggest smile on my face the whole time. had to force myself to go back to the "spare eito" side of the flowchart or i'd stay here forever
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 2, 2025 i found a lock on the route i was having fun with and i looked up how to get thru it and i have to get through the FIRST lock i found, which needs 4 different endings... what da hell. cannot believe both my first and second paths ran into what seem to be the ONLY locks in the game lol

	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 6, 2025 my friends are methodically clearing out the routes around their first route and working backwards from there and its driving me CRAZY because it means i have no one to talk about the murder routes with because they're all on the opposite side of the flowchart. i need people to Know
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 6, 2025 if i was one of the villains in hundred line and i rolled up to the school on day 87 and saw anything these kids were dealing with on the various super death routes i think i would feel bad and want to help. the whole top part of the flowchart is so dire for them theres not a single nice route there
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 6, 2025 just rolled up to the final boss with only 2 playable characters left and i sincerely hope there is a route out there where i only get one. this game is so cool.
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 6, 2025 i think the craziest thing about this game is that 75 hours in, after getting 1/3 of the routes, i am still seeing new character sprites. i cannot wait to see a full sprite gallery, i'm so curious how many there are
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 6, 2025 as someone who feels that danganronpa's biggest weakness is the death game setting, ironically my favourite routes in hundred line are the ones steeped in permadeath scenarios lol. but the route system removes what makes it hurt danganronpa (early deaths mean you dont learn about that character) so i guess what i'm saying is that danganronpa should have a flowchart

	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 8, 2025 i think the big reason i like the top routes on the flowchart more is because they feel different? like i LOVED the first route, but because i loved it and spent so much time in it i don't want to play it again. the web in the middle of the flowchart feels way too similar + has kodaka Slop
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 8, 2025 while i think having route splits mid-battle is really cool, forcing you to replay the whole battle sucks & is made worse by the fact that every instance of this is on the same flowchart path. it makes it feel more tedious than it should!
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 8, 2025 another frustrating thing about the middle routes is that you solve the same problems on other routes without losing anyone, unlike here. seeing other routes first kind of makes it feel like manufactured drama, especially when the game is otherwise consistent with cross-route solutions
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 8, 2025 anyone who sticks with the middle of the flowchart path until you've gotten all the endings in it is insane. this takes so long! i haven't even gotten one ending and i want to bounce! but i only have one non-locked branch left aside from this so then i'll be forced to do all this back-to-back...
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 9, 2025 kodaka and uchikoshi held hands and stared deeply into each others' eyes to come up with this game's biggest twist. what an insane choice they made for this one (UMINEKO & DETECTIVE CONAN SPOILERS I GUESS IF U KNOW WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT) pondering if i should view this twist like how i view the same twist in umineko or like how i view said twist in detective conan. where does it fit on the scale
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 9, 2025 i wish there were more routes that separated ima and kako... i'm happy how frequently they have survived the routes i've done but also i think their solo moments are among their best content, and as a duo they pretty consistently end up being in the background. wheres the tsukumos routes
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 10, 2025 honestly been feeling kind of neutral about one of the "true" routes it wasn't engaging me as much as the other routes did but i just got ending 001 and oh my GOD. dude. Wow. i had theorized about a lot of the plot reveals to an extent and this route doesn't have a unique gimmick so i wasn't feeling it but that day 100........ kinda made the whole route worth it in the end. Man.
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 11, 2025 got my 50th ending. halfway there haha (skull emoji) dude i have no clue how that one reviewer took 130 hours to get all the endings. i'm at 110 hours and i even fastforwarded most of the first route because i watched people stream it. unless every route i have left is half length, i really dont see myself finishing within 25 more hours

	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 12, 2025 the main villain showing up and saying "i was gonna wipe you guys out but i see you're being haunted rn?? LMAO thats super funny i'm just gonna come back later to see how that resolves" is peak villain moments
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 12, 2025 you can tell they had to rush this game by the end because whenever you have a route where a non-standard character gets locked in one of the cages, they stop giving you free time events so they don't have to program them being in the cage. i haven't seen ima on this route in 50 days. its day 99
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 12, 2025 i think they put like 75% of the time and resources doing the first route and the intended "second route" because they are the only routes that have all the game's mechanics in them. they are the only routes that let you walk in the halls in the mornings. while i do think its insanely funny that some routes just dont have free time, i've played a few that really FEEL like they were meant to (you'll have days where takumi wakes up, has 3 lines of dialogue in his room and then it skips to the next day) but they ran out of time to program it in
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 12, 2025 i can't believe they didn't let ima ball on day 100 of this route. they shoved him in the escape pod before i could see him. let me see my boy please every time i think i've stumbled upon an ima route it gets taken away from me...

	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 3, 2025 got a (mostly) good ending on my third path, the retsnom route! i got to beat the final boss for the first time!! flabbergasted to find out it was a kodaka (with a cowriter) route because i reaaally enjoyed it. darumi deserves the world
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 4, 2025 decided to get the romance route out of the way after seeing someone else play most of it and coming off of killing game route, which already had a very developed romance with tsubasa, makes this route feel so undercooked... i think if they shuffled the interactions with the girls across the 75 days instead of breaking them into 25 day chunks one at a time it would have felt better? idk the whole route is meant to be trope-y slop but they could have gone way harder on it i also appreciate the joke being how no one else gets any lines or screentime because you are locked in a cycle of interacting with these four girls and not even the plot matters. that said, i really appreciate other routes giving all characters stuff to do. there isn't a "useless" character in this game unlike other kodaka (and even some uchikoshi) games
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 5, 2025 my only gripe with hundred line thus far is that i don't think i've seen an ai the somnium files reference yet. we need to talk about kaname date please

	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · May 13, 2025 weirdly pining for this game to be harder. i wish they didnt drop the difficulty of fights when you have fewer party members. i was really hoping some routes would have fights hard enough to encourage you to go to other routes first but it's always pretty easy to 1-2 turn every wave in any battle i remember going "theres no way they let you keep using eito regularly after the first route hes so strong" and i'm glad i was right but in exchange you get hiruko again for most routes and she can also solo everything lol... and there are like 3 other characters that are cracked too personally my favourite fights are the ones where you only have 5 or less characters to play with so you end up using way more of their and the game's mechanics. i think i would have been happy if they found more excuses to lower your fighter count OR have gimmick fights restrict options. personally my favourite fights are the ones where you only have 5 or less characters to play with so you end up using way more of their and the game's mechanics. i think i would have been happy if they found more excuses to lower your fighter count OR have gimmick fights restrict options
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · July 1, 2025 not sure how i feel about the route where gaku gets so into feminism that he becomes a hardcore yuri fan
	kiir⭐ @yoshichao.bsky.social · July 1, 2025 bro the takumi & eito cage roleplay route...

THE HUNDRED LINE: LAST DEFENSE ACADEMY

Kodaka's Latest Trick

ALL ROUTES RANKED

22. Comedy

21. Box of Blessings

20. Romance

19. Reset

18. Serial Battles

17. Cult

16. Casual

15. Eva

14. Conspiracy

13. Coming-of-Age

12. Rebellion

11. S.F.

10. Multiple

9. Mystery

8. Box of Calamity

7. Game

6. Goodbye

5. Second Scenario

4. Slasher

3. V'ehxness

2. First Scenario

1. Retsnom

TOP 10 ENDINGS