If I had a nickel everytime a game where a teenage girl who plays piano gets hanged ruined my life I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
sorry for not posting!! i’m not really proud of this art, but i think it came out pretty good! :-D i planned to draw a more detailed background but it thought to myself “frick, this is way complicated than it should be” so i just left it like this.
about the artpiece itself, i made it mainly because many people misundertood korekiyo’s backstory, and since i’m a big simp for him i made this art just clear some things up :-))
and no, i’m not justifying him, it’s more like understanding his character.
Alright, so I totally understand why Kokichi is hated by other characters in the game because of the amount of messed up things he said and did… But honestly the fact that no one gave a shit about his death will always be so aggrivating to me.
Not even when Kokichi died did the characters ever put the slightest efforts to think about his feelings. The only character who genuienly considers Kokichi’s feelings and last words was Keebo—a literal robot. It’s sort of ironic considering how Kokichi constantly dehuminized Keebo and yet Keebo was the only one who believed in Kokichi’s last words.
The fact that Kaito—the actual person who watched Kokichi’s last moments had the fucking guts to say his breakdown right before dying was a lie? I’m sorry but even a kindergardener can come to understand that Kokichi wouldn’t have lied while in the brink of death and in pain.
If Kokichi was lying about his last words then why on earth would he sacrifice himself instead of letting Kaito die instead? If Kokichi drank the antidote and let Kaito die then Maki would be considered the culprit and Kokichi could easily kill two birds with one stone considering the fact that Maki literally wanted to murder Kokichi many times throughout the game.
Kokichi was overwhelmed by the guilt of both Miu and Gonta’s death to the point it drives him to his own death in ch5. He was becoming desperate and had a very obvious deep hatred for the killing game. So sure, Kaito could assume he was desperate enough to lie about his last words to get Kaito to help him end the killing game, but I really doubt thats the case.
Kaito went through Kokichi’s plan as a bergrudging “thank you” for y'know… saving him which would in terms help save Maki from getting executed (not to mention, these two characters are very very VERY open about their hate and distaste for Kokichi). But Kaito never considered Kokichi’s feelings or the actual sacrifice he made for the group as a whole.
And I find all of this hypocritical from Kaito’s end since he also lied to himself and to others by saying that he was okay when in reality he was dying bc of an illness, just like Kokichi who lied to himself and others telling them that the killing game was fun as a coping mechanism and to survive. So I think it would’ve been much more touching to see these two characters who foil each other come at a genuine understanding of each other too.
I understand that Kokichi is considered the antagonist of the game and therefore has to be antagonized (sometimes unfairly) by the other characters but I feel like the game went too far with downright making the group disrespect Kokichi after he put his life on the line for them.
Then again, V3 has a knack of making characters be indiferent about a handfull of character deaths (Miu, Kokichi, Ryoma, Keebo, Rantaro, Angie, Korekiyo) while overglorifying and heavily highlighting the deaths of other characters. (Kaede, Kaito, Gonta, Tenko, Kirumi).
Also if we consider the fact that when Kokichi gets the consequences of every breath he takes throughout the game, its extremely frustrating that other characters get special treatment and not face or accept the consequences of what they did… aggresively stares at Maki.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love my girl Maki but we all have to be honest here. She is never held accountable for her flaws. NEVER.
Over the course of the game she says and does a bunch of inexcusable things and is never once called out on for her behavior. In Chapter 5 Maki is never once called out for trying to get everyone killed for a selfish reason.
Soooo, let me get this straight: Maki gets easily excused and brushed off for trying to get everyone killed yet Kokichi didn’t get the luxury to atleast be genuienly acknowledged and respected by the group after his death and downright saving Maki’s life and sacrificing himself for everyone.
Maki also literally went against the groups wishes and literally attempted to kill Kokichi so it would only be a natural reaction for Shuichi to be annoyed at Maki for not only going against the group’s promise to try and harm Kokichi but to also try and get everyone killed for a mistake she made right? Sadly…thats not the case. Shuichi instead begins to praise Maki and forgives her endlessly.
To be honest, Kokichi was very mistreated as a danganronpa antagonist. If we compare all of this to Nagito (the sdr2 antag) and how Nagito’s death was vital for Hajime’s progression throughout the game and was able to understand Nagitos intentions completely, enough for even Monokuma to point it out. And lets not forget the fact that Hajime completley drops the misconception of Nagito’s malice after ch6 and comes to an even greater understanding of Nagito.
It would have been great if Shuichi would’ve dropped his misconception of Kokichi and coming to understand him when he learned about Kokichi’s organization, but when Shuichi finds out that y'know…Kokichi actually cares about people and was heavily against killing he just goes “oh so he wasn’t a remenant of despair!?”
But when it came to Kokichi’s death, there was never a moment were Shuichi truly acknowledges his understanding of Kokichi and just calls him “the embodiment of a lie”. Which could be considered true since Kokichi’s character is a representation of truth vs lies but as a viewer I felt very unsatisfied because Shuichi just pointed out something that we all know instead of diving deeper and considering Kokichi’s last words, intentions and sacrifice.
Now, was Kokichi’s death usefull for the progression of the game? Yes. Was the information Kokichi left after he died vital to pinpoint who the mastermind is? Yes. Did Kokichi’s death motivate them to find the mastermind? No, but Kaito’s death did.
I genuienly believe that Kokichi atleast deserved people to actually take in in his last words and intentions instead of just brushing him off as someone who “isn’t the type to shed real tears.” Sadly, many V3 characters were treated poorly and I think one of the biggest flaws in V3 was the casts indiference over certain characters death, most of them made jokes out of them or reacted aphatetically and I find that unjust considering the fact that some characters actually had the luxury to have their deaths to be considered relevant and acknowledged by the rest of the cast.
09.07 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHUICHI SAIHARA ! Today’s is our Ultimate Detective’s day ! Let’s make this day one of the best he ever had : A day when he can finally escape from all his troubles. For a boy who deserves so much better. ✍
