Kanade Saitō

"*I've been called a snake so many times that I'm pretty sure I've given up trying to find out the person calling me as such. It's just something that I can get use to it.*"
—Kanade Saitō

**Kanade Saitō** (斎藤 奏. *Saitō Kanade*) of Class 1-E located in Kunugigaoka Junior High School, is what can be described as a part time singer and a part time student. Very secretive and probably shady in some aspects of her personality, Kanade Saitō has dreams of being a singer and a songwriter at the same time, but they died out when as it turns out, she was neglecting her studies and seen breaking school regulations; by singing. Placed in Class 1-E as a part of Class E, she would get herself involved with the assassination of Korosensei, and just so happened to be meet her old childhood friend Hajime Oda. Inspired by the amount of wealth that can be earned, she hopes to share that wealth with Hajime and her classmates, as she admitted that she can't keep herself ready with an enormous amount of yen.

## Appearance

A slim girl at about average height, Kanade Saitō has pale skin, blue hair that reaches down to her waist with the bangs swept to the right, and her eyes are round with their color being dark-blue. On her hair, there appears what looked to be thin hair clips that are found pinned on her bangs. This appearance of hers match up what a musical idol should be: beautiful and impossibly charming, but it serves as a double edged sword because someone that beautiful also attracts very unsavory types of people.

Her clothing style is that of a typical high schooler, which has a sailor fuku type outfit. The outfit has a blue sailor collar and sleeve cuffs.

## Personality

Kind and often at times sweet for her friends, Kanade Saitō is looked at as a positive role-model for everyone, and it's because of her calm demeanor with the added bonus of being honest, it makes her quite popular with the male students of Class 1-E. Expressing a kind demeanor whenever she is shown, Kanade would often be cited as the only reason why certain people like Hajime Oda hasn't fallen to despair when it comes to tests.

Inside of Kanade Saitō however, lies a more cunning side of Kanade, in which it has been shown that she is quite clever for her age, being able to figure out that one of Korosensei's weaknesses is that he is fearful when it comes to angry hounds (thanks for Rensuke Takeda's help).

## History

Kanade's story first starts off with her birth, in which she is a child to a father who works in the mining industry whilst her mother is a singer. It's because of her mother that Kanade Saitō would find her interest when it comes to being an idol. It started off small, with Kanade singing out lyrics of her mother's songs, but overtime, it started to be the norm for Kanade to sing out songs in her free time.

## Abilities

**Infiltration:** What seemed to be surprising, is that because of her popularity amongst the students of Kunugigaoka Junior High School, he has to keep a low profile in order to not be seen, and so, he has been accused of having infiltrated many staffing rooms, mostly to get away from people who would recognize her.

**Singing:** Not that surprising given that she wishes to be a singer-songwriter in the future, it's obvious that Kanade Saitō is shown to be a great singer.

**Intelligence:**

## Etymology

* Kanade's surname **Saitō** means "religious purification/purification, Buddhist food, room, worship, avoid, alike" (斎) (**sai**) and "wisteria" (藤) (**tō**).
* Her first name **Kanade** means "play music" (奏).

## Behind the Scenes

* She is physically based off of **Sayaka Maizono** from **Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc**.
* Her given name comes from either **Kanade Otonokoji** from **Super Danganronpa Another 2**, **Kanade Minamino** from **Pretty Cure**, or **Kanade Yoisaki** from **Project SEKAI!**.
* Her surname comes from Saitō Dōsan, head of the Saitō clan during the Sengoku Jidai.
* Her ranking of 77 comes from Yue He from Water Margin.
* The reason for her "snake" nicknames is mostly due to memetic jokes from the Danganronpa fandom.
* Kanade's birthday of May 29 is also the same day that the Mongol siege of Kaifeng finally ended in a Mongolian victory, as well as a victory from the Roman Empire against the Sasanian Empire in the aftermath of the Battle of Ctesiphon back in 363 by emperor Julian.
* Her birthday also corresponded when the Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 occurred, which managed to confirm the Eddington experiment from Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
* It also just so happened that her birthday shares the same day of which English organist Jackson of Exeter, King Charles II of England, US. President John F. Kennedy, and singer Sylvia Robinson are born.