Kiyoka Maki

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## Kiyoka Maki

* Splash Art
* Halfbody Sprite

## Characteristics

### Dislikes

* Studying
* Shooting

### Family

* Mother
* Father
* Ryutaro Maki

## Status

### Fates

* Murdered by **Mitsuhiro Higa**

Died from concussion to the skull

## Fangan Info

### Origin

Danganronpa Another~ Another Despair Academy~

### Artists

LINUJ

 —Danganronpa Another

**Kiyoka Maki** (마키 키요카 *Maki Kiyoka*) is a main character featured in the Korean fangame **Danganronpa Another~ Another Despair Academy~**, made by **LINUJ**. She is known as the **Super High School Level Sniper** (초고교급 저격수 lit. *Super High School Level Sniper*).

## History

### Early Life

Since childhood, Kiyoka has lived with her parents and younger brother Ryutaro Maki. The two would often squabble with each other with Kiyoka finding her brother annoying. At the age of six Kiyoka developed her habit of speaking before she thinks, which has landed her in all sorts of trouble ever since.

At an unknown point in life, Kiyoka started to become recognised for her shooting skills and accuracy with using any gun. While Kiyoka didn't think much of it at the time, she rushed to accept Kibōgamine Gakuen's offer when they scouted her as the Super High School Level Sniper. Despite this though, Kiyoka always felt indifferent about her talent, not having much interest in anything relating to guns.

### The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy

Kiyoka was one of sixteen students scouted by Hope's Peak Academy under its 79th class. Quickly admitted by the school to complete a secret project, everything was in vain when the student council was massacred by this same project. Although the schools administration tried their best to cover up the incident, rumours inevitably spread between the schools students. After personally researching and confirming their claims Yamato Kisaragi, the Super High School Level Inventor, searched for the incidents true masterminds after seeing one of them in footage from a hidden camera. placed on the body of the last surviving council member. Throughout his investigations, Yamato soon learned about a more sinister plan taking place. To protect his friends Yamato came up with his own plan to protect the 79th class. When the 'parade' began to take place, Yamato inflicted his plan and drove his classmates to an isolated island belonging to the Kisaragi Foundation. Unbeknown to all of them at that time, two members of the Ultimate Despair were already among them.

Shortly after escaping to the island Monokuma's attacked the building, killing numerous of the organizations staff and attacking the students. Kiyoka, Mitsuhiro Higa, and Kizuna Tomori were at the forefront of the attack. As Kiyoka did her best to hold back the attacking forces, Kizuna was attacked and left unconscious, and Mitsuhiro sacrificed himself to protect Kiyoka, claiming she was their only chance at survival. Further angered by what happened to her friends, Kiyoka was able to destroy over seventy percent of the attacking Monokuma's. Kiyoka was soon ambushed by Akane, under Utsuro's directions. After this her memories of her time at Hope's Peak Academy were erased, and the laboratory was remodelled to look like the school building.

### The 79th Class Killing Game

Kiyoka was one of fifteen students scouted by Hope's Peak Academy under its 79th class. After entering the Hope's Peak school building, Kiyoka and her classmates fall unconscious, and each wake up alone in different locations. After regrouping together in the main hall, an anonymous announcement lead them to the Gymnasium, where they meet a robotic bear, Monokuma, the school's self-proclaimed headmaster. Monokuma soon reveals the true nature of the school, announcing the start of a mutual killing game, where the only way they could leave were to murder another person. Enraged by this, Tsurugi Kinjo attempts to apprehend Monokuma, but is pushed back by a machine gun, leaving him startled and in silence. After this incident the class splits up until the next morning.

During the next few days Kiyoka attempts to build relationships with her classmates, often during morning breakfast and other gather-ups. Despite facing difficulties with befriending all of the students due to her bad habit, causing her to get into an argument with Rei, Kiyoka manages to befriend Satsuki and Haruhiko in a short amount of time. During the middle of the week, Monokuma gives the participants their first motive in the form of motive videos, showing something or someone close to the participant being in danger of dying or being taken away. Like most of the group, Kiyoka is shaken up by her video, and panic grips the group. After a big argument breaks out between the entire group, everyone decides to go their separate ways to calm down. During the afternoon of the same day, Yuki hears a loud crash coming from the dormitories, and goes to investigate.

On arrival at the scene, Yuki finds Haruhiko, Kiyoka, and Satsuki near two broken nameplates, accidentally destroyed by Haruhiko after he accidentally bumped into them while playing in the halls. Fearing punishment for breaking one of the school rules relating to breaking property, Haruhiko is startled when Monokuma appears from nowhere. The bear taunts and intimidates Haruhiko to the extent he begins to plead for his life. Amused by the sight, Monokuma reveals that the rule only applies to purposeful damage, and as it was an accident, Haruhiko wouldn't be punished. To fix the issue of the broken nameplates Monokuma presents Haruhiko with exact replicas. Monokuma then leaves him to put the nameplates back into place. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he mistakenly swapped the nameplates for the dorms, giving Tsurugi Kiyoka's nameplate, and vice versa.

### Fate

During the early morning of the next day, Kiyoka receives an unsigned letter by Mitsuhiro Higa, writing to her that he had something to discuss in the laundry room, and to meet him there. Not thinking much of it at the time, and placing trust in her classmates, she leaves to visit him. On arrival, however, she is struck and immediately killed via blunt force trauma. Mitsuhiro is taken aback at first when he notices who he had killed, intending at the time to kill Tsurugi. Unaware of the nameplate swap however, Kiyoka had become the accidental victim. Mitsuhiro acts quick to cover up his crime, wiping the blood from Kiyoka's head to try and cover up her cause of death, and then dragging her corpse to the girl's bathrooms. This causes him to overlook a large bloodstain he'd left behind in the laundry room. With his plan in danger after killing the wrong person, Mitsuhiro attempts to further mislead the participants by using a hook, rope, and rubber ball to tie Kiyoka to a pipe overhead of the bathroom, in attempt to cover up her death as suicide, and make it look like a girl had committed the murder.

Despite the position of the pipe making it near impossible for his plan to succeed, Mitsuhiro manages to make it work with the skills he developed as the Super High School Level Soccer Player, something which later causes him to be caught after the rubber ball pops and leaves residue along the walls. Due to one of the killing game rules forbidding him from entering the girl's bathroom, Mitsuhiro is unable to enter and fix his mistake. Mitsuhiro removes the ball from the rope and instead uses the hook to go ahead with his intended plan. Just before he hangs Kiyoka, he notices the note still in her hand. Knowing it would be used as evidence that she was murdered, Mitsuhiro ripped the note out from her hand. However, as rigor mortis had already set in by this point in time, half of the note was still with her when she was hanged. Coincidentally this half held valuable information, and was used to prove what he had attempted to hide. Running out of time, Mitsuhiro hides the murder weapon and remains of the rubber ball in the trash room, which Kakeru and Yuki later find during investigation. He then joins the group and pretends that he'd just woke up like the rest of the group. Mitsuhiro is later executed for his murder.

### Legacy

During the later weeks of the killing game Kinji finds Kiyoka's phone, which stored a photo of her and two of her friends: Rika Takahashi and Yuzuki Asada. The class are unable to gain a signal on her phone, and question the existence of the picture.

Her body is later found by Yuki, and was stored in the first floors laboratory up until the buildings destruction. Her body was lost to the ocean, as well as the corpses for the other participants. She makes a reappearance in Super Danganronpa Another 2, where a gold statue of her can be found by Sora in the Tower of Babel.

## Creation and Development

Kiyoka was created with a "teenage girl" motif in mind. Although she wasn't originally planned to be the first victim, she was the only character who LINUJ felt fit the role, not wanting a character who was "too obvious" or an important character. However, enjoying Kiyoka's personality, LINUJ continued to write her into future scenes, and tried to make her memorable in doing so.

### Creators Notes

Untranslated Info*The information below is currently untranslated. It will be re-written in more detail when more information is available.*

### Design Notes

While describing Kiyoka's initial design in her character sheet LINUJ comments, that Kiyoka's initial design is near-identical to her final one, with the only difference being that she wore eye makeup.

### Alternate Fates

Untranslated Info*The information below is currently untranslated. It will be re-written in more detail when more information is available.*
**마키 키요카 처형 도안**

**처형명 "10점 만점에 666점"**

**마키가 로프에 포박된 채로 사격판 위에 서 있다. 이상한 기게 촉수가 내려와 마키의 몸의 각 부위마다 점수를 적는다. 머리에 10점, 양 팔, 양 다리, 배, 가슴에 1점씩. 이내 전방에 있던 모노쿠마가 총을 조준하고 사격을 개시한다. 첫 탄환이 마키의 머리에 박히지만, 실탄이 아닌 뚫어뻥같은 흡착력이 있는 장난감 탄환이었다. 당황해하는 마키의 온몸에 장난감 탄환이 박히기 시작하는데, 수 백발의 탄환이 박혀 온 몸이 장난감 탄환으로 가득찬 마키. 곧이어 점수판이 내려오고, 장난감 탄환 내부에 있던 폭탄이 일제히 터지면서 전광판에 666점이라는 수치가 기록된다. 마키의 몸은 흔적도 없이 사라진다.**

During the non-canon bonus chapter 'EX', Kiyoka and her classmates escape the killing game before it begins. She presumably joins the Kisaragi Foundation afterward.

### **Name Etymology**

Kiyoka's surname is written using the Kanji 牧 ('Maki') which translates to 'pasture; grazing land'. Her first name is written using the Kanji 清 ('Kiyo') which can translate to 'purify', and 香 ('Ka') which translates to 'perfume', possibly in reference to Kiyoka's hobbies and interests.

## Appearance

Kiyoka is a highschooler of average height with waist-length golden-yellow straight hair which gradually faces to a more reddish-orange colour, dark blue eyes and drill-like sidebangs. Kiyoka's attire consists of a short-sleeve dress shirt, a pair of rolled-up dark blue jeans, an unzipped green jacket tied around her waist, (although at times, as displayed in her splash art and Athletics illustration, Kiyoka will instead wear it zipped up) and a pair of white sneakers with red soles, laces, and lining. Kiyoka also wears a light blue cog-shaped necklace.

While hanging out with her friends Kiyoka wears a black and white striped shirt and a straw hat.

Despite her hair being golden-yellow, it is often depicted as blonde within her splash art and in-game illustrations.

If she had lived to partake in the chapter four party, Kiyoka would have worn a knee-length dress with wrist gloves, and a belt wrapped around her waist. The ends of her dress would have had frills, similar to Satsuki's. Her hair would have been worn in a side ponytail, and she wouldn't have worn her cog necklace. In addition to this, she would have worn a large bow.

If she survived long enough to join the Kisaragi Foundation, she would have cut her hair much shorter. It is likely she would have been a member of the security department based on her outfit. She would have worn a vest with numerous pockets, and a pair of combat pants. In addition to this, she would have carried a rifle around on her person.

## Personality

Kiyoka is a friendly, carefree, and sociable person described to be a 'big dreamer' and 'light-minded' person by Yuki. Despite her shooting abilities and the attention it has brought to her, Kiyoka feels indifferent towards her title and displays little interest in it, only accepting the offer from Kibōgamine Gakuen because of their reputation as a school. One of Kiyoka's biggest dreams is to be able to travel around the world, a dream she intended to follow after she escaped the killing game. This dream, to an unknown extent, seems to be connected to her indifference towards her talent, as she states that she would like to 'free herself from the boring guns' to Yuki in her Free Time Events. As a result of her carefree behaviour, Kiyoka has a positive outlook on life and tries to be optimistic about escaping despite the situation she and the others were in. Shortly after the group received their first motive Kiyoka, instead of letting panic overtake her, decided to put the present threat to the side and have mindless fun to ease the tension, something which Yuki admires her for. Despite this, Kiyoka's optimistic outlook on life can sometimes falter.

Even after losing her memories, Kiyoka trusted her classmates and wished to become closer with them. Her trusting behaviour would later lead to her death after she received an unsigned letter from Mitsuhiro detailing an escape route he found in the laundry room. Kiyoka is also shown to be a somewhat nervous person at times, stuttering during moments of panic.

Although a good person at heart, Kiyoka has a bad habit of speaking before she thinks, which often causes her to get into trouble. During one of the morning meetings Kiyoka's habit results in her threatening Rei. Later in her Free Time Events with Yuki, her habit results in her unintentionally making a love proposal to him. Kiyoka seemingly doesn't mean what she says however and frequently apologises when she says something she didn't mean.

Kiyoka is shown to be a romantic person, which later becomes a source of frustration for her. When faced with the possibility of never leaving the school, Kiyoka briefly considered dating one of her classmates, and later expressed a potential interest in dating Yuki. However, this came after she ruled out the rest of her male classmates for a variety of reasons, leaving him as the only other option. Later she apologizes for making an unintentional love proposal as well, inferring she may not have meant what she said. In contrast to her romantic aspirations, it is heavily implied Kiyoka has never had a boyfriend before.

In contrast to her hatred of guns Kiyoka will use her abilities when necessary, and stated she would use them if it meant she could escape from the academy. During The Tragedy Kiyoka fended off Monokuma clones with her shooting abilities, successfully allowing her class to escape to the Kisaragi Foundation lab.

## Talent and Abilities

### Super High School Level Sniper

 —Yuki talking about Kiyoka's talent

Kiyoka has exceptional talent when it comes to shooting, being well-regarded by several professionals in the same field as her. Regarded by Yuki, Kiyoka can always hit bullseye with any type of gun with several examples including sharpshooting, airgun shooting, dart throwing, and slingshots. When the Kisaragi Laboratory was attacked, Kiyoka was able to fend off and destroy over 70% of the attacking androids. She was only stopped after Akane intervened. In her character setting, LINUJ compares Kiyoka's shooting ability to a "superpower", and goes on to state that Akane and Utsuro are the only people who can win against her in a fight. This, however, is only due to Utsuro's divine luck.

### Singing Ability

Though not shown in-game, Kiyoka offers to sing to Yuki in her Free Time Events. After hearing her sing, Yuki makes an off-remark of how Kiyoka got the wrong talent.

### **Ryutaro Maki**

During their childhood Kiyoka and Ryutaro frequently bickered with each other. Despite this they are shown to care for each other. After Ryutaro escapes from the Kisaragi Facility, he visits Kiyoka's grave.

**Classmates:**
### **Yuki Maeda**

Though they aren't seen interacting much during the Killing Game, Kiyoka's Free Time Event's show insight into what Kiyoka thought of Yuki. After saying he had never been to an amusement park before Kiyoka debated whether Yuki ever had friends before, and then decided to take him to one just a moment later. Although Yuki didn't understand why, Kiyoka then started to question whether it would count as a date. Later in their Free Time Event's together Kiyoka invited Yuki to her room, and asked him for romantic advice. After going through the rest of her male classmates, finding none of them to be a match, she found Yuki to be the only one who could be 'okay'. She then later remarked that Yuki would win first place in a best boyfriend competition between the class, and again later remarked her would be a first-place husband. However, Kiyoka's thoughts about this remain unclear, as just a few moments later she seemed to process what she said, and got embarrassed.

### **Mitsuhiro Higa**

Before the events of the killing game it is heavily implied they were friends, and Mitsuhiro potentially had a one-sided love interest in her. Immediately after saving her life from a Monokuma clone he asked Kiyoka out on a date, to which Kiyoka rejected.

In Kiyoka's Free Time Events with Yuki, Kiyoka calls Mitsuhiro a "narcissistic snob".

### **Teruya Ōtori**

Even though Kiyoka and Teruya didn't interact during the killing game, a photograph of them during their time at Hope's Peak Academy suggests they may have been friends at some point.

In Kiyoka's Free Time Events with Yuki, Kiyoka describes Teruya as "a bit cowardly and kinda childish".

### **Haruhiko Kobashikawa** and **Satsuki Iranami**

Though they aren't seen interacting much, Kiyoka seemed to share a friendly relationship with Haruhiko and Satsuki. After the class received their first motive, Kiyoka joins Haruhiko and Satsuki in the hallways and try to have mindless fun with them. Kiyoka refers to Haruhiko as 'Haru', a nickname she made for him.

After her death, Haruhiko began to experience severe guilt, feeling responsible for why she died. He began to see her in his nightmares, where she would blame him for why she died.

**Other:**
### Rika Takahashi and Asada Yuzuki

Rika and Asada are Kiyoka's best friends from elementary school, but were separated when Kiyoka started to attend Hope's Peak. Even after joining the school, Kiyoka kept in contact with Rika and Asada. They are later seen in a picture on Kiyoka's phone.

## Guides

The link below is a full transcript and guide to Kiyoka's Free Time Events, including her preferred MonoMono Machine presents.

## Quotes

**Prologue:**
* "D-Did I offend you!? Ah-! Sorry sorry-! My bad habit again..."
* "I-Isn't this too much for a prank? I-I've got enough of this, so why don't you start the real ceremony?"

**Chapter One:**
* "Oh yeah, you're so great? What's your talent, huh? Professor? Wanna see who's better at fighting!?"
* "M-Monokuma wants us to kill each other... We'll only do him good if we can't keep our trust..."
* "Gee, what a chicken, Haru."
* "S-Sorry... I guess you could have viewed is as being ignorant of the atmosphere... But... I thought we could ease the tension by playing around a bit... Murder, motives, anxiety... Jush push 'em to the side, and have fun! That way we can all chill out and strengthen our bond!"

**Free Time Events:**
* "Ahaha, so you don't have any dreams? You've finally gotten out of the killing game, and all you want to do is live your daily life?"
* "But does having a talent mean I have to like it? I'm a girl with lots of dreams. There's still loads of things I want to see and do! Forget the shooting already. Ready, aim, fire, and voila, it's an easy 10-point shot. I never thought it was a big deal, and at the very next moment everyone was calling me the Super High School Level Sniper. I didn't care much at first, but after being accepted into Hope's Peak, I rushed to accept the offer. Therefore, I'm going to travel around the world when I get out! A girl should have big dreams in her heart! I'll free myself from the rusty guns and wander all around the world!"
* "The clothes in my closet look the exact same as what I'm wearing right now. No cosmetics from the brand I use, no fashion magazines, there's NOTHING for a teenage girl. At least give us some pretty clothes to wear! Silly Monokuma, he does nothing for the students' convenience!"
* "Okay, you're going to an amusement park with me after we get out! It's an order!"
* "Oh, and the shooting range! If you want anything, I'll win that prize for you! I don't love shooting, but my talent can still come in handy."
* "Uh.. So... If we... This is only hypothetical, just so you know! If we never get to escape, then we'd have to live here forever, right? That means I won't be able to learn how to play the guitar, work part-time in an aquarium and feed the fish, or study art in a studio, right? And I will never date someone either. Don't you find that to be unfair? We'll never get to fall in love until we get old and die here! I'm just a normal girl with losta hopes and dreams and this is waaay too much! Ohh, I can't take this! I'm really indifferent about shooting, but I'd do it all day if that'd get me out!"

## List of Appearances

* Games

* *Danganronpa Another*
* *Super Danganronpa Another 2* (Cameo-Only)

## Trivia

* Kiyoka ranked twelfth in Danganronpa Another's popularity poll, taken after the release of the full game.
* She is two years older than her younger brother, Ryutaro.
* It is heavily implied through her Free Time Event's that Kiyoka has never had a boyfriend before.
* Kiyoka doesn't like to be wasteful of money. Although she wishes to have a smartphone, she instead bought an old phone until she couldn't any more.
	+ This reason, alongside her birthday being the same as Junko's, caused fans to suspect her to be the mastermind of the killing game.
* Kiyoka wants to learn how to play the guitar, work part-time at an aquarium, and wants to study art in a studio.
* Kiyoka's favourite foods are parfait and fast food, while her least favourites are vegetables.
* She goes shopping, attends fashion shows, and chats with her friends during her free time.
* Before attending Hope's Peak Academy, Kiyoka befriended Asada Yuzuki and Rika Takahashi, who appeared in the background of Kiyoka's cellphone.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 **Danganronpa Another:** Character Settings (Translated by u/ToastCat333)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1KY1f6VIug
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCCVfu0rz3M
4. ↑ https://linuj.tistory.com/40
5. ↑ https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/IF%E2%80%A6-%EA%B7%BC%ED%99%A9
6. ↑ https://linuj.tistory.com/entry/%EB%8B%A8%EA%B0%84%EB%A1%A0%ED%8C%8C-%EC%96%B4%EB%82%98%EB%8D%94-%EC%9D%B8%EA%B8%B0%ED%88%AC%ED%91%9C-%EA%B2%B0%EA%B3%BC-%EB%B0%9C%ED%91%9C?category=412177