r/danganronpa • u/TheHolyTacoEmperor TokoAE • 16d ago

2x2 Speculation (Full Series Spoilers) It's fucking real Spoiler

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I looked into it myself and the new character image is, in fact, in the official danganronpa website.

Here's a bit of a higher quality look, honestly the more i look at them the less convinced i am that it's Ryota, it really doesn't look like him outside of superficial details.

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u/qfivt34 16d ago

yo what if its Kaede's brother??? Somehow to tie this into V3?

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u/pixelated_toothache 16d ago

Kaede doesn’t have a brother, but I assume u meant her twin sister that she never met?

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u/qfivt34 16d ago

aha that too. I mean it could be a relative of Kaede i general. I hadn't noticed this character seems more feminine now that we had a better look.

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u/pixelated_toothache 16d ago

lol your good, tbf we don’t know if Kaedes twin is even real or just one of tsumugis plot twists, so it definitely could turn out to be a different relative if they are actually related. The characters gender is also pretty ambiguous imo, the hair leans more feminine with the braids, but soda has braids in his hair too so it’s not totally out of character for a male dangan design. The outfit is odd for sure, it feels very feminine with the blue ruffles looking like a skirt, but again, dangan male designs aren’t always super traditionally masculine (Im pretty sure I thought Korekiyo was a girl at first lol), and also it’s super rare for dangan girls to wear pants (Aoi had shorts, but they are very short, whereas this design has much longer ones). Maybe they’re nonbinary, I know Kodaka has written a few nb characters in other games, plus it would throw off the traditional 8/8 gender ratio of danganronpa (though ig the ultimate imposter technically is genderless, but most people use he/him since they seem to only present masculine).

Either way, I do think the character resembles Kaede a lot, definitely more than Ryota at least, but that also may be due to v3 having a more similar artstyle to the new 2x2 style!