Hisako (Dead or School)

is the overall main protagonist of the 2018 video game Dead or School. She is one of the third-generation residents living underneath the underground levels of Ikebukuro, due to a catastrophic war, known as the Doomsday War, that happened 78 years ago, forcing humanity to escape underground while hoping that the Mutant and the Cyborg threat would be finally over. Her goal is to reach the surface and go to a school, like her grandmother Noriko Takami used to.
Due to Hisako's uncompromising, optimistic efforts in stopping the Steel Berserker Mutant, Hisako later finally achieves that said goal. Her heroic efforts and deeds of stopping the threat have made people in all of underground Tokyo (including Ikebukuro) to go back to the surface world, including her friends Nami and Yui, as well as her mother, the first time in almost eight decades since the conclusion of the Doomsday War.
She later becomes one of the students of the newly-formed Hanamaru High School as its Student Council President, six months after ending the threat of the mutants.
==Appearance==
When Hisako initially appears, her hair is down, and she is wearing the shabby patchwork outfits typical of underground dwellers.
Hisako started wearing the school uniform she received from her grandmother before embarking on her journey and has continued to do so ever since. In order to maintain her schoolgirl appearance, she also pulled her hair back into twintails.
==Personality==
Hisako is a lively and upbeat young girl who appears unfazed by the difficulties of subterranean life. She is usually inquisitive and innocent, yet she struggles to understand complex concepts. Despite being completely ignorant of the reality above the surface, she is nevertheless rather stubborn and committed to seeing her mission through to completion.
When Hisako quickly allocates responsibilities and school club positions to the refugees she saves, it is clear that she can be rather forceful when interacting with other people. But she's not entirely righteous in her own eyes.
==Background==
===Events of Dead or School===
Hisako first appears after overhearing a chat between Nami and Yui, two of her childhood pals. In the Ikebukuro Station shelter, the latter two were discussing utilising a still-working elevator to reach the surface with the other local third-generation teenagers.
Hisako, the daughter of the settlement leader, was kept in the dark about the information for fear that she would reveal it. Despite this, she managed to catch up with them just in time to save their group from disaster when they were attacked by a swarm of Mutants, tearing through the monsters with nothing but her bare hands.
Her grandmother, Noriko Takami, appears and expresses her amusement at the development of her active granddaughter's very unhealthy interest. She plays along with Hisako's inquiries regarding the surface when she gets back to the Ikebukuro Shelter.
Despite the fact that the elder's memories were completely wiped out in the confusion of the Doomsday War, the school uniform she was wearing when she first fled years earlier helped her recall very faint but cherished memories of a place called "School," which she describes as a paradise where children played, laughed, and shared delicious food.
Hisako was even more motivated to reach the surface, locate a school, and recruit some companions to accompany her after hearing about such a magnificent paradise. She dons her grandmother's old costume as she gets ready for the arduous trek ahead, armed herself with a steel pipe and several hastily fixed guns.
Using a fortified and still-running train that functioned as their family's living space, she then travels to Shinjuku as per her grandmother's suggestion.
===Six Months Later===
As the student representative of the brand-new Hanamaru High School, Hisako gives a pre-semester address to everyone six months after she finally defeated the Steel Berserker Mutant in Roppongi, detailing the progress made and difficulties currently facing within the human race upon their resurfacing.
She later ended her speech with a "good morning" in an energetic way.
After that, a photo book featuring Hisako and every student at her school will appear during the closing credits. Additionally, she drew the illustrations in that book.
==Trivia==
*After a well-timed dodge, Hisako may cause others' time to slow down, which is similar to some characters in the Bayonetta game series' usage of the "Witch Time" ability.
*In the first chapter, there is a storyline discrepancy as Hisako identifies the uniform in a cutscene and then inquires about the type of clothing they are during the conversation with her grandma.
*Renge Todo, who provided the voice for Hisako, was listed in-game as having played four different characters: the title character, Yurika, Hisako's mother, and her grandmother. The voices of everyone else, save Yurika, can only be heard in the promotional video and not in the actual game, with the exception of Hisako.
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