Iroha Nijiue

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**Iroha Nijiue** (니지우에 이로하) is a character featured in the Korean fangame *Super Danganronpa Another 2* created by LINUJ.

She is known as the **Super High School Level Painter** (초고교급 화가).

## Gallery

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

Iroha is a short high school girl with fair skin and grayish teal eyes. Her long brown hair reaches past her shoulders and is tied under her chin with a small pale green bow. Her smile is also a bit deformed.

Iroha wears an off-white long-sleeved canvas shirt underneath a black vest with yellow buttons and a red necktie tucked under it. Over her shirt, she wears a beige plaid capelet with brownish orange fringes and a matching beret perched on the top of her head. She wears a dark brown skirt with two black stripes around its hem, with the second one much thinner than the other. She also wears a pair of short yellow and green striped socks and sandy blonde shoes with brown flaps and black stitched laces.

Iroha usually carries a blue sketch pad. Its cover has a white cloud and wind design with the word "scetch" printed in rainbow colors. A head of a pink bunny with two small black dots as its eyes is also seen lying above the clouds. The sketch pad also has a red spring bind.

Outside of the simulation, Iroha is roughly the same age as Yuki, Sora, Teruya, the members of Void, and Mikado's human counterparts.

## Creation and Development

Iroha's design was heavily inspired by *Kise Yayoi* from the anime series *Smile PreCure!* As LINUJ had been inspired to create original characters similar to his favourite characters in other media. When the game had only just begun LINUJ believed this was somewhat easy to notice due to the lack of the development, stating Iroha's crybaby personality as one of the similarities

Her first design was sketched based off of *Yayoi*, however with certain changes to make her design her own. However LINUJ later redesigned Iroha when coming up with ideas for the story, and before Void was officially created. At the time Iroha had a pair of boots instead of shoes, and her skirt had a different pattern that was removed later on. When more of the story was created LINUJ began to start the process of redesigning Iroha, as well as many other characters, coming up with a design that was closer to what her finalized design was. The only difference before she received her final design was the pattern on her socks.

LINUJ has also stated that Iroha is his favourite character from the series, yet attempted to be as unbiased as possible with her involvement and fate. During Chapter 3 and 4 specifically, LINUJ began to have more fun when writing the dialogue for her character during the later part of the series and eventually reached a point where he didn't think much about what she was saying, as Iroha "doesn't think about what she's saying" from his perspective. He also worried that many people wouldn't like her, but was surprised when she later began to gain popularity in the Korean and Western fandoms.

### Stats

Intelligence, Reasoning and Physical Ability are all the lowest possible stat, all reaching an E. While reasoning and intelligence are stated to be so low due to Iroha's overall personality and childhood, physical ability was also seen with a low score as Iroha isn't interest in exercise.

Behaviour is her second highest stat, but mainly as LINUJ would've felt bad for given her four E's. LINUJ states that her score gained a point due to her overall behaviour in Chapter 5.

Human nature is the highest stat out of the five, and manages to reach up to an S - the highest possible score a trait can receive. Alike Shobai, who also reached an S in his graph due valuing life and money over anything, Iroha managed to reach an S as she priorities her own safety over anything else.

## Name Etymology

Iroha's first name is written in hiragana, so no readings can be determined, but iroha is the name of the traditional ordering of the Japanese alphabet, based on an old poem. The possible kanji interpretations for her given name are 色 (*iro*), which means "color", a nod to her talent, and 葉 (*ha*), meaning "leaf", referencing the green shades on her clothes. Her surname, Nijiue, uses the kanji 虹 (*niji*) meaning "rainbow", and 上 (*ue*) meaning "up", "over", or "above", so her surname can be read as "over the rainbow".

"Iroha" is also the name of Japanese morse code.

## Personality

Iroha is a teenager who just wants to make friends and have fun. While she can be a bit fearful, she maintains an optimistic outlook in most situations. However, her optimistic personality turning a blind eye to the horrors of the killing game and not reading the room atmosphere sometimes makes her come off as rude to the other students. She often concentrates heavily while drawing, even in the tense situation of the Killing Game, so much so that she was unable to tell that Sora had been with her the entire time. This is mainly fueled by her habit of drawing in tough situations to collect herself, possibly developed during her childhood. Albeit her optimism Iroha appears to lack any confidence in herself or her drawings, confessing that she wasn’t too confident in drawing landscapes, further proven with her brief (and then extended) embarrassment when asked if she could be watched drawing by Sora, and when revealing she was most confident in drawing manga.

When talking about her passions or interests, especially manga and anime, Iroha tends to go on small ramblings about each things she likes - though she’s able to stop herself when she realizes she’s rambling. She subsequently reveals that reading manga and watching anime is one of her few hobbies, also revealing that she’d never drawn a comic before. She isn’t against the idea of drawing one, however, and takes up on Sora’s idea of drawing one. Despite her talent, Iroha doesn’t actually like drawing.

During the 'A Woman's Fantasy' bonus scene, Iroha is shown to be somewhat perverted. It is also shown in Chapter 3 when Shinji is talking to Yuki about man bonding.

After Mikado's meeting, it's shown that Iroha is overly dependent on others and doesn’t try to redeem her problems by herself. It's principally due to the fact that she isn't very smart and between two sides: survive with the others or follow Void's plan to resurrect Utsuro.

Iroha is an ambiguous character. She is very friendly and nice, and always thought about being friends with everyone, but her unique goal is to survive no matter what. This had led to some actions like trying to murder Teruya in Chapter 5, pushing Sora from the top of the Tower of Babel, and trying to persuade Nikei into taking her spot in killing after Mikado had threatened her to kill at the end of the Chapter 3.

## History

### Early Life

Iroha is the youngest daughter of a family of very influential artists; her father does modern art, her mother is a sculptor, and her siblings have their own specialty. She saw how happy they were when creating their work, but she never really liked to create such artwork, but was forced into the occupation by her strict parents. Neither of her parents ever saw any value in any type of art that wasn’t framed, so they were quite quick to forbid her from drawing comics or manga. Instead, she’d been taught into drawing landscapes. Her mother even ripped apart her secret stash of comic magazines she had gathered.

As a child, Iroha was forced into solitary confinement in her room, watched for 24 hours, as well as forced into painting all of the time. She considered herself lucky that she was well-fed and had a decent room. As her skills never met the expectations that her parents and family had forced onto her, her life gradually became worse. She was regarded as a 'nobody' by her family and was never allowed to be seen in public, with every day of her life focused on making her artistic skills up to their standards. Outside of the Nijiue family household, nobody knew much about Iroha; and her family often made up excuses to cover up why she was never heard about or seen. The most common excuses were that she was always sick and that she had a mental disability, but this was more of a way for the public to forget that she ever existed in the first place.

Whenever Iroha tried to escape the room she was trapped in she would be physically abused by her parents, and that she wasn't allowed to commit suicide until her parents believed she was 'worthy enough to be a part of the Nijiue family'. Iroha describes that the time in the tower during Chapter 4 was nothing compared to the time in her room.

At an unknown point in her life, a man named Utsuro saved her, and she would be gifted by fortune. Her artistic skills began to improve drastically to a point that her family began to approve of her now, and she soon became a talented individual and was allowed to read manga. One day however Utsuro went missing, and out of fear she successfully ran away to find him.

Later in her life, she then met Nikei, Hajime, and Emma, who all came to the conclusion that they all had one thing in common: they were blessed by Utsuro. However, this person suddenly disappeared, leaving Emma, Iroha, Nikei and Hajime alone. This caused Nikei to create the organization named Children of Utsuro to search for this person while each one of them were doing their jobs that were related to their talents. Progress regarding finding Utsuro was very slow and had nearly no leads, and so Iroha, along with Hajime and Emma, started to greatly doubt Nikei. It is noted that Nikei never really got along with his friends from his perspective; but Emma, Iroha, and Hajime considered him a good person still.

One day, a man named Mikado managed to contact them promising to help them, stating that he too had been helped by Utsuro, but needed to be the leader to properly help them. Iroha, Hajime, and Emma herself all agreed immediately after growing impatient under Nikei’s leadership. A series of unknown events occur with the Kisaragi Foundation seeking out Mikado and the finalized change of leadership within the Children of Utsuro. Nikei is greatly enraged and furious with this decision and vows that he will end Mikado. The Children of Utsuro don’t think much of Nikei past this point. Mikado, now leader, rebrands the Children of Utsuro as the Void, and kickstarts his plans for a killing game in hopes of meeting Utsuro that way. Iroha falls for Mikado’s lies, having her past and desires manipulated to partake in this game and to kill others; but much to her discomfort, she accepts with the other Void, desperate to meet Utsuro and unfortunately unbeknownst to Mikado's control over her future.

In The Chapter 6.5 of Danganronpa Another, we can find five notes that seem to have been written by the members of Void. The third one seemed to correspond to Iroha: *"What is it that's missing? Why are you doing this when I'm trying to do my best? Do you hate me? I want to be recognized. Is it wrong to put effort so that I can be recognized? Then what am I working so hard for ?...."*

### Utsuroshima Killing School Trip

Iroha was one of the fourteen students to introduce herself to both Sora and Yuki.

After a while, all of the students par Shobai went beside the Monocruise. In this time, after a suggestion of going for a swim was given by Setsuka, all of the students, save for Sora, Yuki, Kokoro, Emma, Mikado, and Yoruko, agreed to her idea, borrowing swimsuits from the supermarket to swim. Iroha would be seen with Setsuka at this point, being splashed by water. After Yuki began to enter the water, everyone including Iroha fell unconscious. After a while, the participants awakened, discovering that they had been changed out of their swimsuits, with them now being in their talent uniforms. Soon after, an anonymous announcement played, telling everyone to head to the center park.

In response, Iroha along with the other 14 participants headed to the center park. At arrival, Monocrow appeared. It was announced that he was the one who kidnapped everyone there, and the only way to leave was to kill someone, thus announcing the Killing School Trip.

Days afterwards, Setsuka sent a text to Iroha, Yoruko and Sora, requesting them to meet her at the bathhouse. Along with the three they would countdown, Setsuka pushing Iroha and the other two into the bathhouse. Iroha was revealed to be somewhat perverted in this scene, though she was soon able to leave with the other two.

A little afterwards, Setsuka suggested the idea of throwing a party, with Iroha joining in with the other participants during this time. It was discovered that alcohol had been mixed in with the water after Kanade was evidently drunk, thus leaving Iroha to help her back once the party had ended.

#### Void Meeting

After the first class trial, Iroha along with the other two unknown members of void met with Mikado at the monitor room. Like the other two members, Iroha was furious at Mikado for executing Hajime despite their plans. However, she was mocked by Mikado, then kicked out of the room for fear of being caught by Monocrow.

Days later, during her investigations on the island, Iroha ran into Setsuka who was outside of the Costume Exhibit. Once she was spotted, Iroha was be forced into the building with Emma. A little later, Setsuka brought Sora and Yoruko inside as well while Emma helped everyone into their costumes. She wore a vampire costume.

#### Meeting with Mikado

After solving the murder of Setsuka, Mikado met with Iroha during the night. It was revealed that Iroha had originally been planned to be the killer in the Second Island, intended to take Emma's spot, though failing due to the mention of Emma's father. It was then revealed moments later that Iroha was also supposed to kill two people, however she was beat to the punch by Kanade. Mikado soon grew angry at Iroha, saying that she was giving excuses, grabbing her by her hair, beginning to threaten her. Mikado soon gave Iroha another chance to murder, saying to do so on her own once the next island opened. After Iroha asked about the fourth member of Void's plot to murder, Mikado revealed that they had betrayed Void ever since they had arrived at the island.

### Meeting with Nikei

As an effect of this, Iroha met with Nikei a day or so later during the night, questioning if he had really left Void as Mikado said. After he confirmed he had, Iroha seemed to be shocked with what he had said. However, Nikei would soon ask why Iroha had really asked to meet with him, soon discovering that Iroha had wanted him to murder someone instead of her having to do so, with her believing that it was his turn to kill (Iroha was the second and Nikei the fourth).

### The Final Step

    After Nikei's death and at the start of Chapter 5, Mikado went in Iroha's room, praising her for pushing Sora off the balcony in Babel's Tower, but criticized her by telling her how stupid her plan was. Iroha asked him why he killed Nikei and why he added Rule 17, but Mikado yelled at her, saying that she shouldn't have said that because he could believe that she will betray him. He then asks her to help him at the last Island.

## Talent & Abilities

### Painter

Iroha was forced to draw by her family at a very young age, with high expectations set for her by her family. Every day of every week would be spent on solely drawing and painting to try developing her artistic skills, but Iroha was unable to reach the expectations set upon her. This was until Iroha was blessed with fortune by a man named Utsuro; Iroha's art skills increased dramatically over a short period of time, and allowed her to reach the standards set by her parents which potentially saved her life. Iroha's artistic skills range from sketching to drawing to painting with the ability to sketch out lifelike landscapes, as shown to Sora in her free time events. She can also paint lifelike replicas of humans, which would later come in use during Chapter 5 where she would draw a fake corpse of Teruya.

On the contrary, while Iroha is skilled in sketching and painting landscapes her skills in drawing manga is much lower, as stated during her free time events. A likely reason for this is because of her parents influence, as they saw no worth in manga and often threw any of Iroha's attempts away when they were found. Her skills were never able to properly develop due to this, but she would begin to practice because of Sora. Her first proper attempt is described to be "not good" when compared to her landscape sketches, and that the overall plot was unclear. Her second attempt receives more positive feedback, and while the art style is still unstable the plot is described as refreshing. Iroha states that she wouldn't have started drawing manga if it wasn't for Sora's advice. She usually draws still-life and abstract art, but prefers comics and manga.

## Trivia

* Iroha ranks third in the SDRA2 popularity poll, with a total of 399 votes and 9.5% of the overall votes.
* If the cast was ranked based on their school grade, Iroha would be last.
* In Chapter 3, Iroha is seen reading a Jump magazine. This has been mistaken as Gintama, by fans.
	+ LINUJ states she would be a regular reader of Jump.
* Compared to Satsuki, Iroha is remarked as less intelligent.
* Iroha's sisters are about 1-2 years older than her.
* If any of the participants existed in real life, LINUJ states he would want to meet Iroha the most, to "see how dumb she is".
* Iroha has poor school grades.
* Iroha doesn't move around a lot.
* Iroha's favourite kind of fruit are apples.
* All of her art is kept inside her sketchbook, and she isn't allowed to make any of her work public because of the pressure from her family.
* Iroha is LINUJ's favourite female character.
* She hates the gift 'Gold Ring' because of her family's wealth.
* In her execution, Iroha is seen being held by a mysterious hand and her hair seems to be covered in paint.
* Iroha and Yuki’s preferred gifts are almost the same. They both like manga and games.
* Among the cast, Iroha uses the most emoticons out of all.
* Iroha still views Shobai as a bad person.
* Iroha has the weakest mentality among the cast.
* Iroha's TTS sprites' outfit is a clear reference to *Bob Ross*.

## 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 2.9 **Fanganronpa Wiki**: Korean Translations Thread by EverAyakari
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 **Pastebin**: SDRA2 Fan Questions (translated by CKLeming) (JAN 31 2020)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 **LINUJ's blog**: Iroha Nijiue character profile (March 17th, 2020)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 **YouTube**: Chapter 6 livestream (Johnny Youngster) (Jan 9th, 2020)
6. ↑ **Youtube**: Void Notes translations (English)
7. ↑ **Youtube**: [SDRA2 Chapter 4 - Secret Meeting]
8. ↑ **Youtube**: SDRA2 Iroha Nijiue Free Time Events!(Eng) (July 4th, 20th)
9. ↑ **Linuj's blog**: Popularity poll results (Feb 7th, 2020)