Wanted to draw the RPG look for them from Jataros artworks and decided to add Servant too for fun
(Part 1)
*Flips through pages*
Is it really wise to stay here and waste precious time? I can’t see the benefit in reading that file?
Why do you have that file anyway?
What do you mean? It’s a record of every branch leader of the Foundation. Why wouldn’t I have something like that?
I meant have it here. Wouldn’t that be too good information for anyone to have? Especially, if it’s as personal as I’m suspecting it is…
It’s not that, it’s-
A last will in testament.
Hmm?
Or that’s how I’m personally perceiving it with your phrasing here in some of these notes sections. If someone were to find this and read these sections about what you had to say about them, it would fill them with a sense of remorse.
A forced remorse though… From only reading your personal thoughts in this file, instead of from your own mouth.
Almost as if you’re expecting to die soon.
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…I have no idea what you could be referring too…
Fine then. Take this section about me for instance. You write,
“Kyoko Kirigiri is a smart, confident, and capable detective. Being the one to solve most of the mysteries surrounding the Hope’s Peak Killing Game even under a stronger memory loss influence than the other students proves she is a prodigy worthy of her family name. It almost gives me no doubt in my mind that she can solve all of the mysteries remaining about Hope’s Peak Academy. But whether I should be worried about that is still uncertain”
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….Well? I’m right here. What do you want me to potentially uncover?
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I’m….not sure what you could be referring to…
You wrote it, my man. Is your memory failing that much already?
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Very well. I’ve already figured it out anyway.
You have?
Yes. It has something to do… *Click*
*whiiiirrrrr* *Kyoko hits a button under Tengan’s desk. And one of the paintings on the wall splits open to reveal a compartment hidden in the wall with another type of file inside*
…with this.
W-Woah! That’s some serious spy-type stuff right there…!
And what is that exactly?
*Kyoko takes the file from the compartment* This…appears to be about the Izuru Kamukura Project.
I’m confused,what did Haji do in ultimate despair girls (I only know about Komaru and the warriors of hope from the game)
//A lot of things. This is why I don’t stop at just him admitting to being a pedophile. Literally all the situations in the game time back to him and his father:
They treated Monaca like shit while she was growing up, which lead to her becoming cruel, manipulative, and accepting Junko’s influence in the first place.
They put Monaca in a position as Chief executive of Towa’s Robotics Branch, which is where all the Monokumas came from. Instead of monitoring what she was doing, they let her make them money and just turned a blind eye until it was too late.
They willingly cooperated with Ultimate Despair to both build Monokumas to intensify the Tragedy and manufacture both the air purifiers and the technology needed to fight the Monokumas while making Towa City into a safe haven. All because they were “in too deep” and valued their company’s reputation above all else. During the apocalypse.
When Towa City was suddenly but inevitably betrayed and thousands of people were dying, including his own father, Haiji refused to work with Future Foundation, a group who probably could’ve done a lot to help save lives and smooth things over, because he still thought the company’s reputation was more important than the lives of all those people.
He cowardly sat underground and did nothing for the longest time, something Toko actually called him out on, and would rather blame other people for the problems he and his father caused than take responsibility for them.
He makes an aside that he didn’t think Towa Group taking over the world would be such a bad thing? Yeah, maybe he just meant it as a joke, but I will never give this man the benefit of the doubt, especially not when he knows his family’s company is complicit all this.
When Komaru and Toko finally beat Monaca and got the controller for the Monokumas and Monokuma Kids away from her, even after being told over and over that smashing it would result in all the kids dying and start a war with Future Foundation to kick off a new era of the Tragedy- which Monaca literally stated was her plan- he keeps egging Komaru on to do it out of pure vengeance and spite. And then tried to take the controller from her to do it himself.
To expand on that latter point, he was willing to basically commit genocide on tens of thousands of children on the grounds that “they deserve it” for killing so many adults, even though were all under mind control and thus had no true agency in their actions. Which he knew, but still didn’t give a shit about. All he wanted was revenge.
And in the end, he still hasn’t learned anything and was apparently gearing up the resistance in the city to start a new plan of attack against the kids. Something that DR3 never followed up on, so we don’t know how that turned out, but I’m certain it wouldn’t end well.
//Tl;dr, he’s an abusive, cowardly, self-centered corporate brat who can’t take responsibility for his actions, willingly sacrificed millions if not billions of lives to preserve his company’s reputation as if it would actually mean anything, is fully and knowingly complicit in the emergence of the Tragedy to begin with, almost committed genocide and started a new war because he’s a vengeful idiot, and, oh yeah, the man is also an actual pedophile.
//I do not like Haiji Towa. At all.
Holy wow...that...that whole thing actually happened...
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Wow....that....must have been a....intense memory to recall.....
But...I am happy you did so....confronting an event like that head on is-
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How could I.....do that....?
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Their....th-their faces were so....s-so sad.....so....much crying and.....and in pain, and I.....I........I just killed them.......H-how......
HOW COULD I DO SOMETHING LIKE THAAAAAHHHAAAAHHHAAAATTTT!!???!! *Akane starts bawling*
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Now, now Akane...Y-yes that happened but you aren’t a bad person because of it-
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*SLAM!* YES THE HELL I AM!
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They were mine! They were my little brothers and sisters! A-and I just killed them with my own bare hands!!!
It-It’s making me sick! They looked up to me, I was suppossed to take care of them and I just...just....
I...*hic*...I can still see there little faces....Niyo, P-Purin...Botamo....they were all so scared...scared of me...! Even Hotami and Moro....th-they were...I-I watched the life d-drain from thier eyes....! It...it-it...it’s haunting me....!
AAAAAAAHHHAAAAAHHAAAAA!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
One of my favorite things about Ultra Despair Girls is listening to the kid characters talk.
Like Jataro and Kotoko especially just ramble on and on about weird shit because their attention spans are still at this young age. Even Monaca just automatically gets bored with something if it fails to properly catch her attention. Nagisa doesn’t typically display this trait out of all of them because of his childhood and how he was pretty much raised by abusive parents to be an overachieving perfectionist to even get any scrap of worth or acceptance from them.
So many kid characters in anime are boring or there to be all cutesy. I really love that the Warriors of Hope are just… really gross and absent-minded. It’s not that they aren’t clever or anything, but their imaginations are at the age of just being on overdrive and so they go on tangents or lose interest and think of something better, cutting off their current thought processes…
Like Kotoko just has to tell everyone what her favorite food is and also what her least favorite food is and what she thinks about giraffes or eggs… and that’s just funny and cool of her. Hell, I love it even when the kiddy stuff covers up darker things like Masaru’s design of this standard shounen-esque kiddo with the little bandaids and scratches look is really hiding an outwardly and physically abused child.
It’s just really neat is all.
Munakata: You know nothing, you're just a naive child who thinks the world can be saved by positivity.
Well that might work in your game, but not in the real world.
Makoto: chained on the ground Your pathetic.
Munakata: What did you say?!
Makoto: You laughs, glares at him you know nothing. You think that I don't know, that words aren't enough to change people?
You think that I don't know that positivity can't fix everything?
Munakata: Than why do you drone on and on about it? If you truly believe your words are hollow, than why pretend to be such a fool?
Makoto: God your stupid. What I said was that I know words aren't enough. But they're a start, their a step and a necessary one.
If anyone's the hypocrite, it's you, Mr rehabilitating murderers is wrong but I'm gonna kill people that don't agree with me.
Munakata: You little-
Makoto: No? You go on and on about how dangerous it would be if despair disguised itself under a flag of hope.
And yet here you stand like your own Remnant of despair.
Munakata: How dare you! Kicks him, hard
Makoto: laughs And you say I'm the child. How did you get such a high up job?
I mean you talk tough but you're just a washed up graduate who's clings onto his high school glory days.
Munakata: seething How dare you!
Makoto: Oh I dare. I think you got the job to work at the overseas Hope's Peak, because you're so desperate to reignite that spark because you've found nothing else fulfilling in your life.
And than the world fell but you got lucky, because finally everything was yours. You could be the big bad hero you always wanted to be.
Munakata: You call this a victory?
Makoto: For you? Other than being vice chairman and Chisa, sounds like your dream.
Munakata: Don't you dare speak her name!
Makoto: Yeah, my bad I'm sorry. You know, I was willing to hear you out for her.
I've lost people, know how hard greif is especially in a place like this. And she wanted me to hear you out, and I thought sure okay.
Munakata: That sounds like her.
Makoto: But man, I've looked into the eyes of those infected with despair.
And I've still found shreds of humanity in their souls, you are as soulless as it gets. And I watched Junko kill her own sister without a second thought.
Munakata: scoffs
Makoto: Junko twisted the Remnants from the people they were. The kind, good loving people they were.
But no one did that to you, you are your truest self. There was nothing to regain because nothing was lost.
Munakata: Is that your long poetic way of calling me a monster? How original.
Makoto: No you're worse. Hell at least Junko knew she was being awful. You say the most awful things and pretend it's just.
Munakata: The truth is always hard to digest. You should know that better than anyone. But you insist on hiding behind your hollow words.
Makoto: They aren't hollow. Sure I talk, a lot. But I make my words mean things, I fill what could have been hollow because I believe in the power they hold.
Munakata: You do have a lot of influence in your words. But that doesn't change that they won't fix things.
Makoto: I know it's not going to fix everything! But if they can get people to act, if they can change someone's opinion. That makes them mean something.
What you're proposing would destroy what's on the surface but change won't happen if you won't touch the root of the issue.
Munakata: And what of it? It will only spread. I do what has to be done. I use my words and I put them into action.
Makoto: The difference is I'm proposing people care about each other and you're trying to justify mass murder.
That's the difference between you and me, you take the easy route.
Munakata: Easy?! You dare call this easy?!
Makoto: Violence is easy, you can hurt anyone without raising a hand. You know what's hard? Healing.
Going day in and day out in a hopeless world trying to convince people life's worth living.
You watched the game... How many times did I try to bring people together? How many times did I try to talk to someone who would later be a murderer?
A tear falls down his cheek.
I will carry their deaths for the rest of my life. I will be kind in a world that hates that because someone has to.
I gave my weakness to everyone not because I don't know the danger but because I do.
Because I know if one person, just one comes forward it can persuade others to do so too.
Munakata: Scoffs What you've done is make yourself a bigger target.
Makoto: Gets up, got free ages ago and stands tall It's easy to kill the people who wronged you. What's hard is knowing all they've done, and forgiving them anyway.
I smile and it hurts more than anything and yet I do it because it makes people feel at ease. And if that's make me weak? Than so be it.
Munakata: So what, you'll forgive me for all of this?
Makoto: Yeah, because even now I think there's still hope in you.
Munakata: That kind of optimism will get you killed one day.
Makoto: It's gotten me this far. Sad smile And apart from my friends, it's all I've got anyway walks away, pauses And for what it's worth, I'm sorry for your loss. Walks away
you know what i really would’ve liked to see in dr3?
the remnants facing life-altering consequences for their actions. even though they were brainwashed, they still committed atrocities yet faced no real backlash that affects their life.
sonia being stripped of her rank as princess while her country bans her from her former kingdom. she tries to reason with them initially because she’s so stunned and resorts to her commanding princess self, but no one acknowledges her. they threaten her and almost arrest her, but she escapes. she no longer has a home or a family.
gundam being mistrusted by animals. he tries communing with them, but they refuse them. they lash out, biting him and rejecting him. they remember how he used them for evil.
saionji and ibuki being blacklisted in dancing/musical performances. former fans who felt the agony of their “concerts” recognize them and charge at them, trying to turn them in for their crimes. they no longer can dance or sing without retribution.
koizumi’s pictures being seen as despairing propaganda. her former work means nothing. all that matters to the world are her evil photos. no one will accept her work even when she tries to photograph “hopeful” things.
hanamura’s family has been blacklisted in the food/catering industry. if his siblings are alive, they want nothing to do with hanamura. it’s implied he may have killed his dear mother, so his brother and sister despise hanamura even though they left the family. like sonia, hanamura no longer has a family.
kuzuryuu and pekoyama have no clan left. the kuzuryuus could be dead or they decided to give the leadership to someone else if they came to their senses. they deny help to kuzuryuu and pekoyama, blaming them for their family’s decline. they only have each other.
that’s what i REALLY wanted to see. of course, hope arc is about “hope” and is seem as a “perfect happy ending,” which, considering the “gray” endings for sdr2 and drae, seems pathetic in comparison. these are people who, despite being brainwashed, committed terrible crimes. they shouldn’t be left off the hook so easily even if they endured their own private killing game. they say they will shoulder the burden of despair, but they go off hand-in-hand without consequences for their crimes. they pretend to be remnants, but they don’t face any backlash for what they did to thousands of millions of people.
shhhhhhh sleeping protags..........
I'm thinking about that one post that went "Amnesia but you're haunted by your scars" post, talking about how wiping someone's memory in fiction doesn't completely erase the trauma they went through, and I just immediately look to DR2's cast and go "... Yeah."
I think Makoto was well meaning in wanting to wipe their memories of being remnants and putting them in an island paradise, but like. That's not therapy. That's not healing. That's only covering the scars on their hearts with an ill-fitted bandaid.
Even without the KG for that game, I think the Remnants would have like, sensations of fear they can't explain, sensations of trauma they can't address.
I don't think it's cruel to want to erase someone's painful memories... but I don't think that's a solution, either.
Concept: After the kids were rescued from their abusive family. They temporarily stayed with the Naegi family. One night, Kotoko wanted to stay with big brother Makoto, because she was afraid of sleeping alone. Then Masaru joined in a tsundere way, then Monaca. Jataro and Nagisa stayed with big sis Komaru. The next morning as the kids play in the park, Komaru claimed she enjoys being a big sister.