Seishi Yodogawa

> "*A pleasure to meet you. My name is Seishi Yodogawa. Ultimate Mystery Novelist.*"
> ― Seishi Yodogawa (Meet the Ultimates - Ayumu Fujimori and Seishi Yodogawa)[[source]]
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## Name

### Romaji

* Yodokawa Seishi (Cover)
* Katagiri Zen (Real)

### Katakana

* ヨドカワ セイシ (Cover)
* ｶﾀｷﾞﾘ　ｾﾞﾝ (Real)

### English

* Seishi Yodogawa (Cover)
* Zen Katagiri (Real)

## Talent

### English

* Ultimate Mystery Novelist (Cover)
* Ultimate Hitman (Real)
* Ultimate Makeup Artist (CH:3 Motive - Talent Swap)

### Kanji

* 超高校級の「推理 作家」
* 超高校級の「殺し屋」

### Romaji

* Chō kōkō kyū no "suiri sakka" (Cover)
* Chō kōkō kyū no "koroshi-ya" (Real)

### Translation

* Super High School Level Mystery Writer (Cover)
* Super High School Level Hitman (Real)

## Family

* Yuji Sarumara (adoptive brother)
* Unnamed parents

## Personal Status

### Affiliation

* Participants of the Killing Game
* Precept's Peak Academy

### Previous Affiliation

Unknown

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### English

Avenir

**Seishi Yodogawa** *(淀川 星志, Yodokawa Seishi)*, his real name **Zen Katagiri** *(ｶﾀｷﾞﾘ　ｾﾞﾝ, Katagiri Zen)*, is a student in Precept's Peak Academy and a participant in the killing game located there.

His title is **Ultimate Mystery Novelist** *(超高校級の「推理 作家」, chō kōkō kyū no "suiri sakka" lit. Super High School Level Mystery Writer)*. But this isn't his real talent. In reality, he is the **Ultimate Hitman** *(超高校級の「殺し屋」, chō kōkō kyū no "koroshi-ya" lit. Super High School Level Hitman)*.

## Appearance

Seishi has a fair skin tone, light blue eyes and red hair covering his left eye.

Seishi has a white jacket with a red inner pad and black highlights, which he wears like a cape. He wears a dark blue shirt with thin grey stripes and a grey-brown sweater vest overtop. He wears a bracelet on his left hand. He also wears white trousers with ankle-high brown boots.

## Name

His given kanji name *星志* *(Seishi)* is composed of the characters *星* *(sei)* meaning "star, spot", and *志* *(shi)* meaning "plan". His surname kanji, *淀川* (*Yodokawa*) is composed of the characters *淀* *(yodo)* meaning "pool", and *川* *(kawa)* meaning "river".

## Personality

A very mature and kind man who has been known by many. He acts like a stereotypical gentleman and will be courteous towards those who offer him the same kind of respect. He is very close with Ayumu and keeps a calm and soft tone when talking with most people, He loves to write about mysteries and mazes and dislikes people who act rude towards him.

## Talent and Abilities

A very delicate and skilled mystery novelist who has published books like "The Secret of the Howling Orchid", "The Mystery At Dirty Vineyard", "The Case of the Delirious Caveman".

## History

#### Chapter 2: Beyond the Surface lies a Deadly Sin

Seishi was quite skeptical about Ayumu being a female.

#### Chapter 3: Parallel Hope, Divergent Despair

More plot and areas are introduced. One such area is the museum. This chapter’s motive is then revealed to be a talent swap. The talents that they swapped with are known to be from another killing game, which they find out from a phone that got in contact with someone from another killing game.

Some talent swaps that are known are: **Ayumu** as *Ultimate Lucky Student*, **Seishi** as *Ultimate Makeup Artist*, and **Aruma** as *Ultimate Veterinarian* (She takes care of a small dog named Joliette). This makes **Ayumu** consider to murder, but decides not to. One of the major events of this chapter is **Ayumu** decides to dress like a girl for the day, with most not sure how to react.

**Ayumu** initially tries to join the girls out of instinct, but flees upset when he scares the girls. While in the guys’, **Seishi** gets **Ayumu** more comfortable bathing with the guys, in a romantic fashion (**Seishi** is confirmed to love **Ayumu**, with them even kissing). This is when the ‘gender identity’ plot line starts, which **Ayumu** contemplates himself. Regardless, someone among the group then tries to use the motive of this chapter to act: **Seishi**. He had the talent of *Ultimate Makeup Artist**,*** which is what he was going to use to kill **Ayumu**, who is his target. (**Seishi** is shown to be the *Ultimate Hitman*, with his real name being ‘**Zen Katagiri**’.) **Seishi**’s plan to kill **Ayumu** is for him to be executed with everyone else. To accomplish this, **Seishi** disguises as **Maiko** to manipulate **Saiji**. He explains to **Saiji** that he’ll take the fall for **Aruma**’s death, in which they were going to do a locked room mystery in the museum area. They begin by both of them kidnapping **Aruma**, and disguise **Saiji** as **Aruma**, to complicate the time of death. However, **Seishi** also decides to try and stab **Kasumi** disguised as **Mitsunari**, but fails when **Misuzu** protects her. **Misuzu** manages to survive the stab wound, with **Saiji** then finally killing **Aruma** by brutally gutting her and putting her body in a display case. When the trial comes around, **Misuzu** dies during it due to poison that was coated on the knife.

**Seishi** then tries to take the blame for both of the murders, with **Ayumu** unable to accuse him due to his feelings for him. This causes **Mikoto** to step in as the protagonist and label **Seishi** as **Misuzu**’s killer, and helps **Ayumu** regain protagonist status, in which he figures out that **Saiji** killed **Aruma.** Since only the first murdered would be executed, **Saiji** is executed by **Monodora,**and **Seishi** remains alive.

#### Chapter 4: To Those We Sing a Requiem

Immediately, **Seishi** gets jumped and tied up to prevent him from harming anyone. **Marin, Mitsunari,** and **Narumi** now assume leadership, with them making rules to keep everyone safe.

It is known that people take watches over **Seishi** (Or **Zen Katagiri**, his actual name.) due to chapter 3. With the new motive, it motivates almost everyone to kill **Seishi**. **Seishi** manages to escape during **Mitsunari**’s watch, with him being pushed down the stairs by **Kazuomi** and breaking his leg. **Mitsunari** then puts **Seishi** back into the classroom and leaves to get first aid. During this time, **Kasumi** comes in and strangles **Seishi**, with her only leaving him unconscious. **Kasumi** tries to hide her deeds and leaves. **Mitsunari** returns to no avail, only to see the scene that **Kasumi** had left, with him thinking that someone murdered **Seishi**. Mitsunari then leaves to find both **Marin** and **Narumi**.

With the three now returning to the classroom, they were shocked to know that the Body Discovery Announcement didn’t go off, which meant that **Seishi** wasn’t dead. Knowing this, **Narumi** quickly rushed to the kitchen to cook a poisonous meal for **Seishi**. When **Seishi** finishes eating it, both **Narumi** and **Mitsunari** leave, with only **Marin** to watch after him. However, **Seishi** then starts to convolt from the poison, in which **Marin** tries to help by covering his mouth, killing him acidentally. **Marin** leaves, with **Mikoto** coming in later to decapitate the corpse and to clean up evidence. With all of this chaos, **Ayumu** finds the truth of this case.

## Relationships

### Ayumu Fujimori

He's closer to Ayumu than with the other characters. He goes on a tangent of the many books he's written especially when Ayumu recalls reading one of his first books. It is hinted that Seishi may have feelings for him, this being revealed in Chapter 3 during a romantic bathing scene, Seishi is confirmed to love Ayumu, with them even kissing, while Seishi helped Ayumu become more comfortable with his gender. Ayumu and Seishi even started dating. During Chapter 3’s trial, the protagonist temporarily switched to Mikoto, as Ayumu was unable to believe Seishi committed murder.

### Marin Mizuta

Before Seishi reveals his true self in Chapter 3, the two are on neutral terms. Seishi is kind after meeting Marin, and they have a good relationship before she learned about his true self.. With his identity revealed, Marin is shocked and horrified along with the others. As Chapter 4 comes, she still remains like this. It can be assumed that she did not hate Seishi, since she had attempted to save him from the poison. If she had not done this, which accidentally killed him, Narumi would most likely have been executed instead of her.

### Aruma Todoroki

Seishi gets annoyed with Aruma due to her perverted/inappropriate nature. Aruma also tends to use her whip on him constantly which causes him to obey her orders even though he gets frustrated.

### Kasumi Izumo

He personally feels sort of annoyed by Kasumi with her inappropriate language. However, he is quite fearful of her abilities after having experienced them firsthand.

## Trivia

* He shares his surname with the Yodo River.
* According to the creators on Discord, Seishi is Bisexual and Ayumu may have feelings for him. This is confirmed true after the events were revealed from the series getting cancelled on Discord, as in Chapter 3 they started dating.
* If the series was to continue, Seishi would've been murdered by Marin Mizuta in Chapter 4.

## Gallery

Meet the Ultimates - Ayumu Fujimori and Seishi Yodogawaダンガンロンパ-Re Birth- 自己紹介動画（藤森歩&淀川星志）
## See also

* Seishi Yodogawa on the Fanganronpa Wiki

### Scripts

* Prologue and Chapter 1 (Daily Life)
* Chapter 1 (Deadly Life) and Class Trial 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 2.5
* Chapter 3 (Daily Life)
* Chapter 3 (Class Trial Ver 3.0; Unfinished)

## References

1. ↑ Meet the Ultimates - Seishi Yodogawa=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPvt9\_CwrQ&%7C
2. ↑ Meet the Ultimates - Seishi Yodogawa (Japanese)=https://youtu.be/WHj5bdXL67U
3. ↑ Ultimate Title: Translation
4. ↑ 星 (meaning)
5. ↑ 志 (meaning)
6. ↑ 淀 (meaning)
7. ↑ 川 (meaning)
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodo\_River
Danganrebirth-Voices: Chapter 2, Daily Life (Part 1)=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yppf28M6Q

Danganrebirth-Voices: Chapter 2, Daily Life (Part 2)=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5CGJ37atOo

Danganrebirth-Voices: Chapter 2, Daily Life (Part 3)=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CqK\_Z\_tpKo

-Chapter 2: COURT PREPARATIONS-=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDvzX0I0taI

Danganrebirth-Voices: Chapter 2, Class Trial (Part 1)=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLIHl8L7diQ