Chiaki Nanami

Chiaki Nanami, also known as Ultimate Gamer, is a character from the Danganronpa series.
== Charactah Account ==
An absent-minded girl who loves video games of all genres (even bad games) and is skilled at playing them. She tends to become so absorbed whilst playing that it's hard to hold a conversation with her, and has a habit of pausing for long periods of time while she mentally composes what she wishes to say. She is the mole of the group, placed there as an inside observer by the Future Foundation. Chiaki is actually an Artificial Intelligence from the same cloth as Usami, acting as a Non-Player Character within the Neo World Program. She is the accidental culprit of Chapter 5, but foils Nagito's plot to kill all of the students (except her) by confessing to the "murder", forcing her execution alongside Usami. She returns as a vision in the final trial, giving Hajime the hope to continue forward.
Chiaki normally has a quiet and sleepy disposition, but she becomes a lot more lively when discussing games and concentrates hard when playing. She has a number of unusual habits, such as dozing off while playing games and taking long pauses during her conversations to think about everything she wants to say. She sometimes even sleeps while standing and forgets to breathe when she's playing games. She also quite often uses gaming terms and references.
Chiaki is very calm and she once mentioned that she has never screamed. She often helps Hajime Hinataduring the Class Trials and provides important points. She can be stern and bluntly honest, even at times forgetting to take other people's feelings into consideration. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
* Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Hope Arc
=== Light Novels ===
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=== Manga ===
* Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair
* Super Danganronpa 2: Chiaki Nanami's Goodbye Despair Quest
* Super Danganronpa 2: Dangan Island Heart Everlasting Summer, Here Ronpa ♪
* Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy - 4 Frames KINGS
=== Video Games ===
* Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
* Divine Gate
* Fish Island 2
* Houkai Gakuen 2
* Identity V
* Sengoku Asuka ZERO
== Trivia ==
* Nanami means “Seven Seas” while Chiaki means “One Thousand Autumns”.
* Chiaki shares her birthday, March 14, with that of her creator's, Chihiro.
** Another similarity between Chiaki and Chihiro is that both of them have kanji numerals in both their given names and last names, with the numerals in their first names both being chi, which means "thousand".
** Chiaki's relation to Chihiro is also subtly hinted at through their similar promotional illustration art. The only differences between the two is that Chihiro, being a programmer, is surrounded by computers while Chiaki is surrounded by game consoles, and that Chihiro is seated in a chair while Chiaki seems to be sitting on a floor.
* In Chiaki's character illustration features a Game Boy Advance SP, a PlayStation 2 slim, a GameCube, a Nintendo DS, a Game Boy, a Game Gear, a PS3, a Sega Saturn, an Xbox, an Xbox 360, and a Famicom.
* Chiaki enjoys any kind of video game, even games falling under the "kusoge" genre (games intentionally designed to be unlikable), with the exception of dating sims, the only genre she is bad at.
* In her Free Time Events, Chiaki will talk about or reference other video games, like "Trio The Punch", and "Dead Rising".
* In Chiaki's cottage, the same "Time Travelers" (a game by game company Level-5 written by Chunsoft's writer Jirou Ishii) poster as the one seen in the cinema can be spotted. In the Vita and PC versions, this is changed to a poster for "Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls" in both the cinema and her cottage.
* Chiaki doesn't like the idea of swimming, because she fears she might fall asleep and drown.
* Chiaki doesn't know about Girls' Day (Hinamatsuri), a holiday in Japan where families pray for the health of their daughters, until Hajime told her. This is a hint to the fact that Chiaki is an AI.
* Chiaki was featured in the last formal executions, while the real-world Chiaki she was based upon was featured in the first formal execution.
** AI Chiaki's execution mirrors Junko's, with both of them going through several sequences before ultimately getting crushed to death.
** Interestingly, real-world Chiaki's death in Despair Arc is very similar to Mukuro's death in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: being suddenly impaled by dozens of spears. The deaths also double as acts of betrayal from those who were closest to them (Junko, in Mukuro's case, and Chisa, in Chiaki's case).
*** Considering these facts, it's also worth noting that Mukuro was the first person to be executed during the Killing School Life, while Junko was the last.
** In the stage play, AI Chiaki is executed by spear impalement, just like her real-world counterpart.
* Chiaki is the only one of the eight characters shown on the cover of Danganronpa 1 ・2 Beautiful Days who is not shown in her promotional art.
* According to the series creator, Kazutaka Kodaka, the Chiaki who appeared to help Hajime during Chapter 6 of Danganronpa 2 didn't feel like the same Chiaki who appeared during most of the game, giving him the idea of another, different Chiaki—her real life counterpart.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2) at Danganronpa Wiki
* Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 3) at Danganronpa Wiki
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