Eiichi Sakaguchi

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**Eiichi Sakaguchi** is a character featured in the English fangame *Danganronpa: Antebellum* created by **Rippilie**.

He is known as the **Ultimate Gacha Game Player.**

## Gallery

📷 For more images of Eiichi, see: Danganronpa: Antebellum/Image Gallery and Eiichi Sakaguchi/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Eiichi is a tall and muscular 22-year-old man with pale skin, ginger hair with an ahoge, curled on the right side of his head and covering his right eye, and dark blue eyes with square-shaped pupils and noticable eyebags. On the left side of his face, he has a beauty mark under his lip. Eiichi wears a dark red devil horned zipped-up hoodie with a cat-shaped zipper, a cat-shaped pin on the left wrist, and a pattern featuring geometric shapes, along with gray houndstooth sweatpants with a light gray cat-shaped patch on his right thigh, and gray striped slippers. The front pocket of his hoodie is adorned with three black and blue pins and a white and red convention pass, and it holds two S-Rank trading cards in rainbow-patterned sleeves. On his back, Eiichi carries a black cat-eared backpack with a cat logo and a paw-shaped zipper on the front pocket. He has one additional S-Rank trading card in a rainbow-patterned sleeve pinned to the front strap of his backpack.

## Personality

Eiichi is a kind and sweet individual and a recovering gacha addict who tries his best to practice self-restraint and always encourages others to work on bettering themselves while dealing with their bad habits.

## History

### Early Life

Eiichi grew up with two loving parents, but they did not have much money. Although he was happy, he never fit in with other kids because he was often bullied for having fairly girly hobbies, such as sewing and knitting. He used to make little dolls, namely of his favorite characters from magical girl anime. He was a massive fan of Melody Pretty.

However, these 'girly' hobbies meant Eiichi never connected with boys his age and was ridiculed for them, but he met one girl who absolutely adored his dolls; her name was Yui, and they became as close as anyone could be. Even if she often made fun of him for being poorer than her, throughout elementary school they were inseparable. In middle school, it was rare to see them walking home with anyone but each other. Yui even helped Eiichi search all day when one of his pet cats mysteriously went missing when the two were 12. Around this time, Eiichi started trying to make new friends; he found a group of boys who accepted him, and he got into playing video games to fit in with them, but after a few months of hanging out with them, photos of him enjoying 'girly' hobbies as a child were somehow leaked to them, and they left him. Yui also started to act more strangely toward him.

Eiichi eventually realized he was gay when Yui confessed to him that she loved him, but she did not seem to accept him, even when his parents did. Throughout high school, he found himself showing up to class less and less, as every time he made a new friend, something bad would happen. He began to feel like a bad luck charm, taking in black cats who could understand his misfortune. After one of his female friends killed herself after severe bullying at school, he confronted the one person who has never left him and with whom he had become increasingly uncomfortable, Yui.

As soon as he started standing up against Yui and telling her that she did not want to be her friend if she continued to be so possessive and controlling of him, a series of unfortunate events occurred, causing Eiichi to drop out of high school. Shortly after while he was away from home, a SWAT team was called to his house, and his father was permanently injured. This, along with other prior events, caused Eiichi to slowly shut down as he began to blame himself for what happened. He eventually shut himself off in his room, praying that one day it would happen again and he would get killed as some kind of 'penance'. He suffered from severe mental health problems at this point in his life.

To deal with his diminishing mental health, Eiichi started to play gacha games, wanting to feel some kind of success. He found he was oddly good at them and skilled in micromanagement. He found community online and, for once, started to feel happier. However, soon his funds for gacha started to run thin, and he started to work at a local gym as an instructor while working part time at an animal shelter to secure funds to fund his gacha addiction. Eventually his skills were noticed by Hopes Peak Academy, he was scouted, and his life started to look up. He even met a young girl called Alya, who reminded him a lot of himself, and he started serving as her personal trainer. She was like a second chance for him—a way to do good. Eiichi's life was finally improving. Until he arrived at the laboratory and noticed a certain childhood friend was in his class.

### Killing Game

#### Prologue

Shinku meets Eiichi when he first arrives in the kitchen, initially mistaking Eiichi for his captor because of his imposing figure. Eiichi warmly greets Shinku, telling him his name, before looking away in shame and requesting that Shinku not mock him for his talent. Shinku promises, shaking Eiichi’s hand. Eiichi cheers up, telling Shinku he seems like a good guy and "SSR-tier friend" before revealing that he is the Ultimate Gacha Game Player. Shinku lists a handful of gacha games he has heard of, including Epic Eight, Danbori, and Whiteknights Chronicle, the last of which invokes a disgruntled expression from Eiichi, who cracks his knuckles and tells Shinku he no longer plays that game after "#CostumeGate", an event he believes ruined the reputation of the genre. Shinku dismisses that game, which Eiichi approves of, offering to let Shinku do some of his pulls when they escape.

Eiichi and the other students would be called to the lecture hall, Mononeko informing them of the nature of the killing game; that all but one of them had committed a crime without due punishment, their imprisonment acting as rehabilitation. He would then leave the lecture hall. That night, Mononeko shows Eiichi and the others the first trio of crimes, Ismene Circe's, Kotaro Chishiki's, and Mint Byrne's.

#### Chapter 1

The next morning, Eiichi would join the others for a communal breakfast in the dining hall. After Ismene, Dracul Tremblay and Shinku leave, he stays in the dining hall.

The next afternoon, Eiichi receives a motive video as an incentive to kill. The day after, he is called to the lecture hall by Yui and Shinku, who inform everyone of an upcoming tea party Yui's throwing. Eiichi agrees to attend, offering to make the food for the party along with Kotaro. Once Kotaro had grabbed the ingredients for the food, they begin making it, informing Shinku and Yui the food will only have to be vanilla flavoured.

Once they're finished making the food, Eiichi dresses in his costume and attends the party, hearing Ismene screaming shortly after it starts. He stays at the party while Dracul goes to investigate, eating the pastries with Taka Takahiro and Asuga Hino. Eiichi, alongside the others, then passes out. An unknown amount of time later, Eiichi wakes up to see Dracul's corpse positioned on the cake, his intestines and eyes removed. The Body Discovery Announcement plays, and Ismene, Alora Asami and Kiyoshi Ainara run in.

Eiichi investigated in the food court. When Shinku walked in to investigate, he inspects the bottle of vanilla used in the food and sniffs it, despite Eiichi's warnings not to go huffing vanilla as it didn't taste as good as it smelled. Eiichi then attempted to comfort him over Dracul's death. After sniffing it, Shinku becomes drowsy, Eiichi pointing out vanilla isn't meant to do that.

Eiichi also notices a scalpel in a puddle of blood in the food court. Shinku asks Eiichi how he could spot something like that, and he responds with a "gacha player's intuition". Eiichi comforts Shinku and tells him he could be someone to talk with, as he had been through a dark time as well. Shinku asks him who had gotten the ingredients when they went to the library, mentioning an empty box in the library that had something taken from it.

During the trial, Eiichi is one of the people to initially suspect Ismene as the killer, but eventually votes for Maiko.

## Talent

### Gacha Game Player

Eiichi is the Ultimate Gacha Gamer and a master of all gacha games, from gacha RPGs to rhythm gacha. It is stated that he is skilled in the micromanagement required to play these games, but he quickly ran out of money, spending all of it on gacha pulls, requiring Eiichi to take up multiple part-time jobs to fund his spending habits.

## Creation and Development

Eiichi's beta design differed little from his final design and featured a softer face, hair that was less curly and lacked an ahoge, a brown backpack missing its cat ears, unpatterned sweatpants, and no visible trading cards.

Eiichi was originally intended to be a survivor and was the last person to have his position in the story swapped. One of the survivors was initially meant to die in Chapter 2, but it was believed that Eiichi being the victim made more sense for the killer's motivations.

Had Eiichi survived, he would have learned to value his talent while trying to find ways to make it useful, using his luck from his gacha pulls to help keep people safe. He would help Shinku become stronger and form a bond with both him and Mint. Eiichi would eventually process his trauma and try to find better coping mechanisms, although there would be an entire chapter before that point where he refused to eat and hid in his room, where the player, controlling Shinku, would have to bring him food and talk to him or receive a bad ending where Eiichi ends his own life.

## Trivia

* Had Eiichi survived, he would have opened an orphanage and been someone who researched how video games and animals could be used for therapy. He would have gotten therapy himself and worked past his past trauma. He would be the one to send Christmas and birthday cards to the other survivors every year.
* Eiichi is gay.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CQDearEtoFz/