Miharu Kirigiri

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## Miharu Kirigiri

* Illustration
* Sprite

## Talent

### Romaji

Super High School Level Assistant Detective

### English

Super High School Level Assistant Detective

## Status

### Fates

* Murdered by David F. Masuda
Death by electrocution

## Fangan Info

### Voice Actors

Hotakashi (穂隆)

**Miharu Kirigiri**, (霧切 美陽 *Kirigiri Miharu*) is a character from Danganronpa TheAfter, made by Kurono Pencil. She is the Super High School Level Assistant Detective

## Official Description

隠密に探偵活動を行う由緒正しい
一家の血を引く少女。
一家の伝統に疑問を覚えて自分の名を世間に売り込んでいるらしい。
かなりの目立ちたがり屋​。**- Official Profile**

## Appearance

Miharu is a short girl, standing at 152cm. She has short, dark blue hair with long twin braids that are chest length tied with red bow hair ties and purple eyes.

Her attire consists of a brown coat over a white zipped collared long sleeved shirt and a dark purple bowtie on her white shirt. Worn with a short, dark purple pleated skirt and thigh high dark purple socks. Her shoes are dark purple boots with buckles on them. She also dons a brown and dark brown deerstalker hat on her head.

## Personality

Miharu is an outgoing girl who is also very analytical. Though, she is also quite immature even during serious situations during the Killing Game. She is fairly unconfident in her work and had to rely on others like Ryōhei Seki during the first chapter's investigation.

Upon seeing the first trial's execution, Miharu progressively becomes more paranoid and anxious after chapter 1 to the point she started questioning herself as a detective. She became more quiet and a little bit less involved during Daily Life investigation.

## History

### Early Life

Not much was revealed of her past, Miharu was born into the Kirigiri family, a family full of detectives. During her work as an assistant detective, she has frequently leaked private information about a client's case to her clients and has gotten in trouble for it. She claims she does this to be more truthful to her clients but it is more damaging than helpful.

### Killing School Life

Miharu was one of the 14 students who waited for Konoe Shimatate to wake up in class. Much like the other students, she also woke up in the classroom. Shortly after Konoe has woken up, she and the other students introduced themselves to each other. She was the 5th character to be introduced to the protagonist. After the introductions are done, everyone notices an anonymous announcement made on the monitor directing the students to go to the gym to start their opening ceremony. Upon their arrival, they were horrified to see blood all over the gym and learns that they are all held captive by an animatronic bear named Monokuma and the academy's A.I state-of-the-art program Hold Nova.

After the revelation about the situation they are in, the students were understandably shaken about it. The students decide to spend the few days investigating and exploring the place as well as bonding together. Monokuma eventually gets fed up waiting for the students to murder and decides to show everyone a video for a motive. That all of them have been replaced by Hope's Peak with new students with identical talents and the students trapped with Monokuma are labelled as missing.

At some point after the motive reveal, Miharu stumbles across a knocked out Konoe and brings her to her room, she waited for Konoe to wake up but falls asleep waiting for her. As soon as Konoe wakes up, Miharu informs her as to what happened and asks her if she could remember what happened. They both talk about Chisa and the girls were notified that a body has been found. The two followed Koin Hatoyama to go to the location of the body and found out that the victim is Yukime Ryō. She and the remaining students alive witness Tachihaki Hatami's and Konoe's feud where she was held knifepoint. After the feud, everyone investigates Yukine's body and the crime scene for the class trial. Miharu and Ryōhei Seki partner up in the investigation of the murder and found multiple clues and items. She and the other students identifies Issei Amagaya as the culrpit for the murder and gets it correct, watching his inevitable execution happen and is left in shock after his execution ends.

After the class trial, Miharu starts to doubt her talent as a detective and Ryōhei Seki finds her there. Although she likes finding clues to find the truth and perpetrator, she is horrified about the fact that the perpetrator gets brutally executed when caught and is on the verge of tears. Ryōhei hugs her to calm her down and soon after that, she runs off.

### Second Motive Reveal

A day after the class trial, many people including her are left feeling dejected. After breakfast, she and the other students investigate and discover new places on the academy. She pairs up with Miruku Hishimeki to investigate the library. Tachihaki and Ryōhei enters the library and she listens to Miruku talk to Tachihaki and chases Miruku away from the library, telling her that she wants to see the other new places of the library.

A day later, while she was in the dining room, she and the rest of the students watches Koin Hatoyama take something from Tachihaki that reveals his actual talent. Tachihaki falls down attempting to leave after taking back what Koin stole from him. Tachihaki feuds with Ryōhei and shortly after the feud, he gets taken away by Miruku.

Not long after the event, Monokuma and Hold Nova announces a second motive. He introduces the Bad Talk Box to the students, it plays audio collected from the security footage on the bad things the living students has said about each other privately. Koin presses the button that reveals Kinji Ueda's recording. Kinji snaps after hearing it and presses it three more times, revealing the recordings of Seiha Arumada and Konoe. Before Kinji could press it another time, Ryōhei gets very overwhelmed and begs Kinji to stop playing the device. Retsu Matsuoka destroys the Bad Talk Box and Monokuma leaves out of disappointment, reminding the students that someone will commit a murder soon. Once everyone leaves the dining hall, a recording plays of one of the students in the building planning to kill a male student.

### Ryōhei's Plan and Her Ploy

Miharu, while everyone was away, secretly took the Bad Talk Box from the dining room and heard the recording that was planning to murder somebody. She goes to Ryōhei to talk about it and the two device a plan. She suspects Tachihaki to be the one who made that recording and after hearing about her theory, he secretly devices a plan to make her a "victim" and frame Tachihaki for a murder for revenge over the Super High School Level Misfortune case without her knowledge.

She and the girls gets invited to a sleepover party exclusive to only the women in the killing game. She spikes the drinks of the sleepover and it knocks the girls out. Then, she arrives at David F. Masuda's dorm and threatens him with a photo of an unconscious Chisa Kōmyōin and Konoe to make him comply with her plans. Without Ryōhei's knowledge, she is secretly planning to betray him. Afterwards, she goes to the library to meet with Tachihaki and chases him to taze him, she catches him going to the male's changing room and tazes him unconscious. After knocking Tachihaki out she enters the male changing room to tell Ryōhei about it.

### Betrayal and Demise

Unbeknownst to her, Ryōhei was actually the one who left the forth recording and knocks her unconscious. He ties her up with extension cords with exposed wiring around her body and sets up a timing device with the cord and ties it to a soda can with a hole underneath and towel to make a balanced scale. Using Tachihaki's lighter, he uses it to burn the towel and the drink leaked from the can. He leaves moments before the fire alarm was turned on and set himself an alibi and waits at the corridor of the first floor to give himself an alibi.

Tachihaki wakes up upon hearing the fire alarm and leaves the male's changing room, David saw Tachihaki walk away from the changing room and decides to investigate by himself to see what happened. He sees Miharu inside, set up to be murdered and calls Hold Nova and Monokuma for a special request to help them "make the killing game more exciting" as long as they accept the conditions he offered, the two programs complies. He checks if she is still alive and notices that she still is. She wakes up and tries to take the taser, lamenting about her life, her choices and Ryōhei's actual plan, but David took the taser from her which leaves a skin rash mark on his hand. She saw him take the taser and they converse a bit about the killing game. She thanks him despite the threat she gave him and gets killed by him via electrocution.

### Aftermath

Chisa, Kinji, Konoe, Marin Momori and Ryōhei hears the fire alarm and searches for the source of the alarm's activation. They encounter Tachihaki and he tells the group to follow him. There they find the body of Miharu in the male's changing room and the other students are notified by Monokuma of her body discovery and was instructed to investigate her death and the crime scene for the class trial.

The students initially believed that Tachihaki was the culprit because of several incriminating evidence, but they find out that Ryōhei was the mastermind behind her murder and then the suspicion lay on him. However, after investigating for a while, Konoe deduced that despite him being the mastermind for her murder, he did not do the final blow for her murder and the suspicion went back on Tachihaki. Everyone was about to vote for him until he and Konoe managed to convince everyone to continue the trial and they eventually identify the true culprit of the case, David. David reveals more details about her murder case that was not disclosed to the others such as him being threatened to work with Miharu, the revelation of her secretly planning to betray Ryōhei and more information about the Super High School Level Misfortune murders. David soon gets executed for her murder.

## Talent and Abilities

### Super High School Level Assistant Detective

Although her whole family is full of detectives, Miharu is labelled as the Ultimate Assistant Detective since she is still inexperienced. She is very analytical when investigating and was quick to figure out connections between one or more things. She can also recognize behavioral and other patterns, as she memorized Tachihaki's pattern of not participating with his classmates unless if it is very important.

## Creation and Development

So far, no images of Miharu's design development has been released.

## Relationships

### Konoe Shimatate

Though they don't interact much during the Killing Game, Miharu gets very jealous of Konoe after the first class trial because she doesn't have to go through the struggle Miharu felt as a detective and the fact that Konoe is talentless and people kept helping her.

### David F. Masuda

They have only made one casual interaction towards each other in a Chapter 1 Free Time Event video where he asks her to switch rooms with him for a night. In Chapter 2 of TheAfter, Miharu blackmails David to comply with her plan to foil Ryōhei's plan. Moments after, he spots Miharu unconscious and set up to be killed in the boys locker room. Remembering that she has threatened him, he finishes her off but she thanks him before getting killed.

### Miruku Hishimeki

Miharu and Miruku pairs up together during investigation time in Chapter 2 and investigates the library. Upon seeing Ryōhei and Tachihaki enter the library she chases Miruku out of the library and leaves with her too.

### Ryōhei Seki

She and Ryōhei are very close. Frequently pairing up together during investigations and helped each other during the first class trial. When she broke down near the gymnasium, Ryōhei comforts her to make her feel better. She deeply cares for him as an investigation partner and friend.

In Chapter 2, she goes to Ryōhei about a forth recording of the Bad Talk Box and they both create a plan after both suspect Tachihaki as the speaker in the audio. She gets betrayed once she does her part of their plan as for the whole time, she is used by him to initiate a revenge plan on Tachihaki for an incident that involved Ryōhei's adoptive brother Miyuki Seiki.

## Trivia

* She is the shortest person of the Hope's Peak killing game cast in Danganronpa: TheAfter.

## References

1. ↑ **Danganronpa TheAfter:** Miharu's Character Profile