Chihiro Fujisaki

**Chihiro Fujisaki** (不二咲 千尋 *Fujisaki Chihiro*), is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant of the Killing School Life featured in *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc*. Their title is **Ultimate Programmer** (超高校級の「プログラマー」*chō kōkō kyū no “puroguramā” lit.*Super High School Level Programmer).

## Appearance

Chihiro has a small, lithe stature and doll-like appearance with short, light brown, layered hair and hazel colored eyes. He wears a girls' winter school uniform set, featuring a long-sleeved dark green jacket, a white shirt with a large Peter Pan collar secured with a thin dark ribbon, suspenders, a box-pleated brown mid-thigh length brown skirt, knee-high black socks, and white, ribboned mary janes. The logo of his school, St. Elbandia Academy, is featured on his buttons and the sides of his socks.

## Personality

Chihiro is very intelligent, but he also has a very meek and timid personality. He is very shy and apologizes a lot - it's easy to intimidate him to the point of tears. However, he also loves to talk about anything related to his work as a programmer and he becomes more lively whenever the topic is brought up.

Chihiro is one of the kindest and softest characters in *Danganronpa*, as he literally wouldn't hurt a mosquito, because it's "hungry and might have a family". After Leon Kuwata's execution, he felt guilt-ridden, even though it wasn't his fault. When he was attempting to reason with Byakuya Togami in Chapter 2, he revealed a deep disdain for disputes occurring between friends.

Unfortunately, Chihiro also had a deep-rooted complex over being looked down on by others as being "weak". This happened as a result of memories and experiences from his childhood where he was frequently bullied and told to act tougher due to him being rather frail for a boy. To make the bullying stop, he started disguising himself as a girl to avoid the pressure of having to become stronger. However, this only made his insecurities even worse. Though he tried to hide it, he gets uncomfortable when others treated him as a girl, and he would rather spend time with other boys instead of girls. He greatly admired men who are physically strong and he wished he could be like them, turning down the suggestion of Sakura Ogami training him in the school mode since as a boy he specifically wished to have a strong boy as his role model. In the official artbook, it's also mentioned that he wishes to be strong so that he can protect others.

When Monokuma threatened to reveal everyone's secrets, including Chihiro's real gender, Kiyotaka Ishimaru came up with the idea that everyone should share the secret right away. Naturally, most of them declined the request. However, Chihiro was one of the very few who planned to reveal his secret out of his own will. Instead of falling into despair, he became very determined to overcome his weakness and planned to become stronger so he could be his true self. Sadly, he didn't realize that he was already showing a significant amount of strength, due to his determination and will to confront his own core insecurities.

In school mode, Chihiro states that he enjoys reading and baking, but is afraid of earthquakes, big crowds and singing in front of other people. He really likes rabbits and hamsters and would like to have a one as a pet.

## Talent and Abilities

### Ultimate Programmer

When Chihiro was a child, he was too weak to play outside with his friends, causing him to begin playing on the computer to make the time pass. His father, Taichi Fujisaki, was a software engineer that developed many major computer programs, and one day, Chihiro found an incomplete information retrieval system on his father's computer that utilized voice input. This led to him creating his own modifications for it, and he soon realized that he could write programs by himself.
Chihiro's father praised him for his work and, as he finally found something he could take pride in, he became absorbed in programming. He really wanted to help and be useful, but he thought he was useless without a computer. Chihiro's outstanding programming skills would later serve him in contributing to the creation of the Neo World Program.

### Creations

Chihiro was an expert at programming extremely sophisticated artificial intelligence programs.
Alter Ego
Alter Ego is an artificial intelligence coded by Chihiro and housed in a laptop which Chihiro took from the Hope's Peak Academy library and hid in the un-monitored Hope's Peak bath-house locker room. Chihiro modeled the artificial intelligence in his own image and using his own voice. Alter Ego can have full conversations and ask and answer complex questions, and is designed to learn new information from everyone they speaks to. Alter Ego can change their appearance to resemble other people, including their voice, as long as they have enough data on that person. Alter Ego turning themself into Mondo, who had recently died, left a lasting impression on Kiyotaka, and brought him out of his catatonic depressive state. Because Alter Ego has Chihiro's sweet and kind personality, Chihiro's classmates are endeared to them, with Hifumi falling in love with them, with Makoto treating them as an extension of Chihiro and calling them "his friend". With Makoto's help, Alter Ego uploads a virus into the school's computer network, which later interferes with Makoto's execution, and leads to the remaining students being able to escape.

Alter Ego also appears in *Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair*, now working for the Future Foundation. They exist inside the Neo World Program, working as its Master Program and Overseer. They are also capable of communicating with the outside world. After a virus invaded the Neo World Program, Alter Ego tried to fight it as much as they could.

Chiaki Nanami

Chiaki was an AI created by Alter Ego using his programming and memories of the real Chiaki.

Usami

Usami was an Al created by Alter Ego using his programming and memories of the real Usami
Neo World Program
Chihiro was one of the creators of the Neo World Program, along with Miaya Gekkogahara and Yasuke Matsuda.

## Free Time

During Free Time, Makoto can choose to talk to Chihiro in order to learn more about him. If he gives Chihiro a present that he likes, and chooses the correct response during their conversation, their friendship level will increase and Chihiro will disclose something about himself. Each successful Free Time conversation adds a page to Chihiro's Report Card in the e-Handbook menu, and grants either a skill that will give Makoto an advantage during class trial battles, or an increase in Skill Points.

1. Blueberry Perfume
2. Kirlian Camera
3. Unending Dandelion
4. Tips & Tips

### Skills

Becoming friends with students grants Makoto special skills which can aid him during Class Trials. Becoming close with Chihiro grants the following skills:

### Dorm Room

Makoto is able to see inside Chihiro's dorm room during Free Time events. The most prominent item in Chihiro's room is a large bank of computer monitors and an office chair. Chihiro has a telescope, and several photographs of space. He has a DSLR camera, tripod, and camera case. On his bed are some grippers, reflecting Chihiro's drive to become strong.

## Quotes

*Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc* (English)

**Prologue:**

* "Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Chihiro Fujisaki... Sorry, I get kinda embarrassed whenever I introduce myself like this... Anyway, I hope we can get along..."

**Chapter 1:**

* "There wasn't any hope of escape anywhere..."
* "A weaponized toy that can just appear from nowhere... I can't tell if we're supposed to be afraid or not." (About Monokuma)
* "Yeah, you're right. We all need to calm down..."
* "Everyone's really upset... I mean, how could anyone be calm right now? Why...? How can something like that even exist? I just don't understand. I don't..."

**Chapter 2:**

* "I don't want to live...if it means killing someone else to do it. I don't want to kill anyone else...! Leon died because we all voted for him, right? It's no different from us killing him ourselves!"
* "Maybe I'll give it a try. I'd kind of like to get a little stronger..."
* "Kyoko's so amazing... She's so cool. She's smart, and she seems really tough..."
* "I...I hate how weak I am."
* "But...I still don't like how I am right now. I have to get stronger... If I'm so weak anything can make me cry...that's not good."
* "No...I \*want\* to get stronger. Maybe I should...start working out..."
* "I'm...weak... Weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak, weak...!"
* "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger...and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says "even though you're a boy" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage..."
* "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us..."
* "N-No, I just...really admire you. I admire...your strength..."

**Free Time Events:**

* "Mosquitos are living things too, though. It might have its own mosquito family... S-Sorry, I know that's dumb..."
* "You're right! Working together is super important... Of course, I dunno how I can be useful. I'll probably just weigh you all down..."
* "It's okay, you don't have to try and make me feel better. I know it's the truth. I'm completely useless without a computer in front of me... At least if I were a little stronger or something, then I'd be able to help somehow..."
* "If I get a chance, I'm gonna work super hard to chip in! When it comes to computers, you can count on me!"
* "I can't tell you how happy it made me to be able to make others happy...!"
* "If I don't do something, nothing's ever going to change."

**TMNT X Pokemon:**

* "I got into the Krang's system. All security should shut down right... now."
* "I wish I can be as strong as Erza. She can handle anything."
* "Incredible. Your power level increase by 10 points, Raph."
* "Let me analyze this Fishman. (analyzing) His name is Arlong and as I said, he's a Fishman. You better be careful. This guy is no joke."
* "Don't worry. I'll make sure Metalhead doesn't get control by the Krang this time."

## TMNT X Pokemon

Chihiro works with Hoka on hacking the systems of the Krang and the Foot to get information. Since he dressed as a girl, only a few knows he's really a boy while most sees him as a girl. Chihiro decided to become a ninja in order to become stronger and to protect his friends from danger. He also analyze the many enemies using a scanner Miko created for him to use

## Trivia

* Chihiro's introduction to Makoto at the beginning of *Danganronpa* has him ask if he and Makoto had met before. This is the first subtle hint of the students' memory loss at the hands of Ultimate Despair.
* Chihiro is the only character whose "memorial" portrait was changed for the animated adaptation of *Danganronpa*; instead of his default sprite, it shows an image of him facing the "camera" and smiling.
* Chihiro's former high school, St. Elbandia Academy, is a reference to another Spike Chunsoft game, *Elvandia Story*.
* Because Alter Ego uses Chihiro as an avatar, Chihiro and Alter Ego share voice actors in both the Japanese (Kōki Miyata) and English (Dorothy Elias-Fahn) versions of the game.
	+ His English voice actress also voices Sayaka Maizono and Tsumugi Shirogane in *Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony*.[7]
	+ His Japanese voice actor also voices Taichi Fujisaki, Chihiro's father.
* In a series of tweets from Kazutaka Kodaka during Valentine's Day of February 2013, he tweeted "in-character" as several of the *Danganronpa*cast, including Chihiro.[8] The tweet translates into this:

“*Th-This is kind of weird, isn’t it? …Huh? You’ll take it? Hooray, you just made my day. Ehehe.*”[9]
* In the school mode, he makes a reference to Usami and Four Dark Devas of Destruction, as he mentions wanting to have a hamster or a rabbit and wonders if there are any in the school. This appears to be further referenced in official art.