Shinji Kasai

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**Shinji Kasai** (카사이 신지) is a character featured in the Korean fangame *Super Danganronpa Another 2* created by LINUJ.

He is known as the **Super High School Level Firefighter** (초고교급 소방관).

## Gallery

📷 For more images of Shinji, see Super Danganronpa Another 2/Image Gallery and Shinji Kasai/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

Shinji is a young man with a muscular build, tanned skin, and light-yellow eyes. He has long red hair with a wavy fringe that's able to reach quite far down his face. Due to an incident in the past, which resulted in him gaining a large burn scar across his back as shown in the 'Woman's Fantasy" scene. He additionally wears a vine-like necklace with a faux daisy attached as the centre piece, a gift from a child he saved.

He wears a plain black t-shirt and an orange firefighters uniform with yellow lines, low-leg pockets, and grey patches. The top part of his uniform has been undone, now hanging down to the back of his legs. The red straps which'd hold this in place rest against his legs, currently used as a clip-together belt. He, in addition, wears a pair of black boots with a single beige stripe along the centre.

Outside of the simulation Shinji is shown to be much older than the other captives, and is the oldest out of them all, approximately in his late forties to fifties. He generally has shorter hair and stubble at his chin.

He wears a light blue tracksuit jacket with two chest pockets, dark blue sleeves, and light blue cuffs. Underneath his jacket he wears a plain white shirt with a neatly tucked collar, unknown sleeve length, and a Princeton orange tie. He also wears a pair of light blue tracksuit bottoms and a pair of calf-length black boots.

Shinji's VR appearanceShinji's real-world appearance
## Name Etymology

Shinji's first name uses the kanji 慎 (*shin*), meaning "humility", and 二 (*ji*), meaning "two". His surname, Kasai, uses the kanji 河 (*ka*) meaning "river", and 西 (*sai*) meaning "west". His family name sounds similar to the Japanese word for "fire" (as in a disaster), probably referencing his SHSL talent.

## Personality

Shinji is a passionate man that gives everything his all, no matter the circumstances. He's known for his incredible sense of justice, and cares greatly for the wellbeing of others, as shown throughout the course of the game. He also has a very loud voice, and is often times yelling when he speaks. However, he lacks confidence in talking to women directly, and usually ends up a stuttering, nervous mess when talking to them. Although, he's more suited to talking to them over text, since he wouldn't be speaking to them face to face. Like Hajime, he seems to care about his health.

Over his years training as a firefighter, Shinji goes by the morals of fear, anxiety, or crying out. He keeps a smile on his face for this reason, and appears to become angry when it's believed he isn't scared of the Killing School Trip.

Shinji states the reason for his awkwardness around women to be due to having never met any earlier in his life, as Hope's Peak Academy is the only place he's met any.

## History

### Early Life

During his childhood Shinji's parents divorced leading for Shinji to never meet his mother, implying it was during very early childhood. Since their divorce Shinji had been living with his father and younger brother. After Elementary School Shinji started to study at a Firefighter School.

One day while Shinji was at school, there was a fire in a nearby building. Without any training, Shinji ran into the building to save a child trapped inside the building, with both of them managing to leave the building without any harm done to either of them. This caused for him to be scolded by the police officers and firefighters at the scene, as well as his parents later on. A couple of days after this Shinji wanted to see how the child he'd saved was doing, and so visited them in the Hospital. As a thank you gift, the child gave Shinji a flower necklace, which he still wears to this day. After receiving this gift, Shinji felt as though saving people was his mission, and it's how he became a Firefighter - and later the SHSL Firefighter.

Prior to this incident Shinji started working as an apprenticeship, being accepted without even needing to apply, due to his uncle and his connections within the Firefighting community. During this time period Shinji proclaims he was "burning with passion", which he believed was all that he needed to solve any problem that came his way. This passion fizzled out however, after an accident at a scene of a fire. During this situation Shinji misjudged how bad it really was, resulting in him getting trapped inside the building after wanting to save the remaining trapped survivors in spite of his uncle and colleagues telling him not to. Shinji's uncle came in to save him after this, rescuing him and casually laughing and joking. With his help Shinji managed to escape the building, but his uncle never managed to escape the building which resulted in his death. After this, Shinji felt guilt over this, and believed he was the reason his uncle died.

Shinji was held back in the hospital for an unknown amount of time, until he was back in good health. After this, he was scouted by Hope's Peak Academy as the SHSL Firefighter, however older than his classmates due to the time he had to spend at the hospital.

### Killing Game

#### Chapter 1

Shinji introduces himself to Sora and Yuki, himself appearing to be a bashful and flustered mess when talking to Sora, unlike Yuki. After gathered at the beach, Setsuka would give the suggestion of swimming in the ocean - everyone par Shobai, who had gone beside the Monocruise, Mikado, Kokoro, Emma, Sora, Yuki and Yoruko would go into the water. Yuki soon said he had given up, and started to go into the water - however, everyone would pass out once he did so.

Awakening a while later, Shinji and the other students would realise they had now been in their talent uniforms, unlike how they had been only a few days ago - an anonymous announcement would play, directing everyone to the central park soon after, to which he would react positively too, doing so. At arrival, Monocrow would become present, and introduced himself as the teacher of the school trip. It wouldn't be long until he revealed the Killing Game however. Along with Hajime, Shinji became angry at this, and agreed that they should beat up Monocrow to stop him before it had started. Mikado would stop him, however.

## Talent & Abilities

### Fireman

     As the SHSL Fireman, Shinji possesses immense strength due to the training he'd received earlier in his life. Shinji first started his interest in firefighting as early as soon after attending Elementary School, as he'd move on to study at a firefighter's school. Despite this, Shinji's passion in firefighting is said to have actually began after he saved a child from a burning building, which he received a Faux flower necklace from. After this event Shinji became more passionate about firefighting, calling it his "mission". During said mission's, Shinji prays to this necklace, and it serves as a reminder to him for why he wanted to be a Firefighter in the first place.

Despite this however, Shinji is not officially considered firefighter by official standards due to him being considered a minor, and is only called one as it's what Hope's Peak scouted him under. By official standards Shinji works as an apprentice, which is something he started prior to the flower incident, stating that he didn't even need to apply to be accepted. During the start of his apprenticeship Shinji proclaims he was "burning with passion", and believed anything could be solved by passion alone, but after the death of his uncle this passion died down due to the guilt Shinji had felt believing he's the reason his uncle is now dead.

## Trivia

* Shinji ranked 11th in the popularity poll, with 151 votes and 3.1% of the overall votes.
* Shinji had poor grades.
* Hajime, Shinji, and Yoruko wake up the earliest.
* Shinji is LINUJ's favourite male character.
* Shinji is older than the rest of his classmates.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 **linuj.tistory.com**: Super Danganronpa Another 2 Character Profiles (Korean)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 **Fanganronpa Wiki**: Korean Translations Thread by EverAyakari
3. ↑ **Fanganronpa Wiki:** Korean Translation by Andem1
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 **YouTube:** SDRA2 Chapter 6 Live Stream!!!
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 **YouTube**: Shinji Kasai Free Time Events (translated by OfficialKai Another (OCT 19th, 2020)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 **Pastebin**: SDRA2 Fan Questions (translated by CKLeming) (JAN 31 2020)
7. ↑ **Linuj's blog**: Popularity poll results (Feb 7th, 2020)