Kiyoka Maki

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**Kiyoka Maki** (마키 키요카 *Maki Kiyoka*) is a character featured in the Korean fan game *Danganronpa Another ~ Another Despair Academy ~* created by LINUJ.

She is known as the **Super High School Level Sniper** (초고교급 저격수 *Cho go gyo geup jeogyeok-su*).

## Gallery

For more images of Kiyoka, see Danganronpa Another/Image Gallery and Kiyoka Maki/Sprite Gallery.
## Appearance

     Kiyoka is a tall high school girl with olive skin, cornflower blue eyes, and waist-length golden yellow hair, which gradually fades to reddish orange. However, her hair is often depicted as simply yellow in her in-game illustrations. She has long side bangs styled in drills, and her hair can also be tied up into a ponytail.

Kiyoka wears a bluish white collared shirt with three gray buttons, blue jeans folded up to her lower calf, a green zip-up jacket tied around her waist, and a light blue cog necklace. She also wears off-white sneakers with red soles and laces.

In her illustration, Kiyoka wears her usual outfit, now with her jacket worn over her shirt. She also dons a cowboy hat.

When going out with her friends, Kiyoka wears a close-fitting black and white striped sweater, which is, according to her, already old and has been used by someone else. While she's comfortable with her clothes, one of her friends, Yuzuki Asada, comments that she doesn't look good in her outfit. In addition, she keeps her hat and necklace on.

## Name Etymology

Kiyoka's first name consists of the kanji 清 (*kiyo*), meaning "clear", "pure", or "fresh", and 香 (*ka*), meaning "incense". Her family name, Maki, means "pasture" or "ranch".

## Personality

Kiyoka is a carefree and outgoing girl. Even though she displays exceptional skills in using guns and darts, she actually dislikes her talent and just wants to be a "normal" high school girl, hence the reason why she is more interested in feminine things such as fashion and cosmetics. Her distaste towards guns so far that in her first free time event with Yuki Maeda, she reveals that she "wants to leave the boring guns" and go on a trip around the world, clearly showing to be a big dream to Kiyoka. Her carefree personality shows to help her have a positive outlook when the first motive is given to the group, believing that the anxiety of killing should be pushed aside for fun and bonds. Perhaps because of this carefree side to herself Kiyoka finds it somewhat easy to stay composed when given the first motive, though it's heavily implied that this is also helped by her trust with the other participants. Her trust is further shown when heading to the laundry room at night despite the letter being unsigned and sent after the first motive was given to anyone.

She has a habit of speaking before she thinks, developed at the young age of six, often leading her to (often unintentionally) offend or threaten the other participants and get her into trouble with certain people. Despite this, she also appears to be a light-minded girl, often cracking up jokes to try and ease the tension that builds up throughout the game. However, this also makes her seem ignorant of the atmosphere as admitted by herself, and indirectly by Haruhiko, due to the situation she and the others are in.

## History

### Early Life

Kiyoka developed a habit of speaking before she thinks at age six, and has never been able to get rid of it.

While attending her previous high school, she was scouted to attend Kibōgamine Gakuen as a part of the most recent class batch, and granted the title *Super High School Level Sniper*.

### Killing Game

#### Prologue

Sometime after being accepted into Kibōgamine Gakuen, Kiyoka, along with her other classmates, gathered in the entrance hall prior to orientation.

When Yuki Maeda introduces himself to her, Kiyoka mentions that he doesn't look like he's a Super High School Level student since he seemed so friendly, only for the former to apologize afterward, claiming it was a joke and became frantic. thinking that she offended him. She explains afterward that since she was six, she has a habit of speaking before she thinks, which often leads her to trouble.

After the introductions were finished, Kiyoka and her classmates all began to head into the school grounds before being rendered unconscious by an unknown force. Later after the group regains consciousness, they gather in the entrance hall to discuss their situation: being sealed within Kibōgamine Gakuen.

A mysterious, shadow-like figure interrupts the group's discussion on the screen and announces to the students to head to the gym for the entrance ceremony. Kiyoka was one of the first to leave.

The mysterious figure reveals himself to be Monokuma, the self-appointed headmaster of Kibōgamine Gakuen. He announces the start of the Killing Game, much to everyone's shock and horror. Kiyoka is particularly in disbelief with the situation.

#### Chapter 1

The first day of the killing game, Kiyoka investigates the school with Akane and Kanata, attempting to find a way outside, but instead finds the windows were covered with metal plates and that some doors didnt open. A few days later, the first motive is handed out in the form of a video. After watching it, Kiyoka, like everyone else, is distressed, but she is determined to escape until she is reminded she must murder to do so. The contents of her video are unknown, but she attempts to stay positive and tries to calm everyone down by reminding them they need to keep their trust. She later goes to the dormitory hall and meets up with Satsuki and Haruhiko. They start having fun and goofing off when Haruhiko bumps into Satsuki and knocks Tsurugi's and her own nameplate off the wall, shattering them. Yuki finds them soon after and she explains what had happened, the two girls laughing over Haruhiko's clumsiness. She is a bystander during his confrontation with Monokuma. After Monokuma left with the broken nameplates, Yuki realized that in order to overcome the thoughts about murder, he has to be positive to which Kiyoka replies "If we play together to forget sadness and hardships, you will forget about murder." Yuki gets a little hope from her words.

That night, she would receive a letter from Mitsuhiro slipped under her door, telling her to come to the laundry room since there were no cameras in there (which there was). She would go to the laundry room at around 6 AM, where he would murder her by hitting her in the back of the head with a hammer. In order to make it look like a girl committed the murder, he would string her body up with rope and a hook attached to a pipe on the ceiling of the girl's bathroom. It was Akane who discovered her body first, her scream alerting Yuki and Ayame to the scene, and the body discovery announcement played.

During the class trial, it was revealed that the first victim was intended to be Tsurugi, but after Haruhiko unintentionally switched the position of the room nameplates, Mitsuhiro sent his letter to Kiyoka instead, and had to twist his plan to suit the unintended victim, hence the reason for stringing her body up in such a manner.

#### Chapter 3

Kinji discovers a cell phone on the third floor, which was found out to have belonged to Kiyoka.

Inside the cell phone, there was a picture taken with Kiyoka and her friends, Yuzuki Asada and Rika Takahashi. The students questioned the existence of this cell phone and the picture but they weren't able to find the answer.

#### Chapter 5

Her body is shown to be stored on the first floor of the school's laboratory/fifth floor of the assumed Kibōgamine Gakuen.

#### Chapter 0

Kiyoka would first tell Mikako to quiet down when she talks with Yuki due to her loud voice. She'd also provide commentary on the shenanigans between Satsuki and Haruhiko, remarking they didn't look like a couple. When Yuki talks with Kiyoka, she jokingly asks if the sun would rise in the west before asking why he always avoids their classmates. She says it looks like he's suffering, then offers to take him to an amusement park if he opens up. Yuki wouldn't respond.

#### Chapter 6

In a flashback of Utsuro's memories during the trial, Kiyoka is seen riding on the back of Yamato's utility truck to escape the tragedy. Monokumas run up close to the truck, so Kiyoka would take a shotgun from Yamato and successfully shoots them away. When a Monokuma escapes her view and attempts to climb up the side of the truck, Mitsuhiro would save her. The flashback would cut to the day the Monokumas attacked the Kisaragi Foundation, Kiyoka shooting Monokumas down while Mitsuhiro kicks metal balls at them. Monokumas would soon come out of a vent behind them, leaving them surrounded. A Monokuma would run at Kiyoka to neutralise her, but Mitsuhiro would run in front of her, shielding her from it and telling her to run. Kiyoka is later seen shooting the Monokumas, but Akane would take care of her.

#### Chapter 6.5

Her younger brother Ryutaro Maki is the main playable character of the chapter.

## Talent & Abilities

### Sniper

Kiyoka is noted by Yuki to have a 100% accuracy hitting "bull's eyes" with guns, airguns, even darts and slingshots.

### Singing

During the first Free Time Event with Kiyoka, she states that she's pretty good at singing, presumably singing for Yuki after she asked. However, this skill isn't shown to be used all too much while in the Killing Game, nor being too useful.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 **linuj.tistory.com**: FAQ & Character Profiles (Full) (Korean)
2. ↑ **Danganronpa Another**: Kiyoka's weight was originally listed as 50kg, but was changed to 54kg after the release of Chapter 0.
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 **Fanganronpa Wiki**: Korean Translations Thread by EverAyakari
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 **linuj.tistory.com**: Kiyoka Maki's Character Design (Korean)
5. ↑ **linuj.tistory.com**: Athletics + Current situation (Korean)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 **Youtube**: [DRA: Another Despair Academy Full Prologue (All Text Implemented)]