Issei Amagaya

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## Issei Amagaya

* Illustration
* Sprite

## Characteristics

### Dislikes

* Prosciutto
* Melon

### Hair Colour

Blonde(Wig)
Purple (Natural Hair)

## Fangan Info

### Voice Actors

Mao Kagariya (篝屋 マオ)

**Issei Amagaya** (天賀谷 一生 *Amagaya Issei*) is a character featured in Danganronpa TheAfter, made by Kurono Pencil. He is the **Super High School Level Stage Actor** (超高校級の舞台俳優).

## Official Description

​彼の魅力的な歌唱力と演技力でブレイクした演劇やミュージカルは数多く存在する。自分が大好きで、​ゴーイングマイウェイな所がある。**- Official Profile**

## Appearance

Issei is a guy of below average height at 167 cm, with a pale skin tone with purple eyes and black eyeliner. He has an odd hairstyle, with short straight hair with flipped up parts of his hair on the top accompanied with middle split bangs with a short hair strand on the middle part of his bangs and 2 low twin braids that reaches to his shoulders.

His attire consists of a white long sleeved jacket that is tied at the ends of the jacket with a red tied band on his left arm over a teal shirt with a brighter teal piping on his collar and a black shirt pattern with a large triangle on it and a circle with a line on it. Complemented with long greenish-brown pants with orange leg straps. His legwear consists of beige pointed shoes with brown soles and toe cap.

As seen in the class trial of chapter 1, his blonde hairstyle was merely a wig. His actual hair is long, violet colored tied in a low ponytail along with straight, middle parted bangs. His hairstyle resembles Chisa's.

## Personality

Issei is a very flamboyant and egotistical person. He likes to talk a lot and is very optimistic of others and the things he talks about. He has high confidence in himself and doesn't seem to be affected by anyone's negative views of him. Whenever he talks in a conversation, he will mention himself in it in some way. He is also extremely perverted, his high confidence has him openly admitting other degenerate things. This side of him tends to make others around him very uncomfortable of his presence.

In the middle of the class trial of chapter 1, Issei's true colors are revealed as he reveals a more maniacal side of himself. Once he reveals that he has been faking his appearance with his blonde wig the whole time, his sanity starts to plummet and slowly reveals that he cannot discern between reality and fiction, thinking that the world is just a stage play and that he's the protagonist in it.

His confident and flamboyant personality was merely a facade to make himself appear "perfect". He actually does care about how people views him behind the scenes. He is a attention seeking coward who could not take accountability for his actions, he avoids them and even went as far as to murder Yukime for seeing through his guise. He blamed everyone around him for "ruining" his play when he gets outed as the culprit for her murder and deludes himself with false information, labeling everyone as villains in his eyes.

## History

### Early Life

No information of his early life has been revealed.

### Killing School Life

Issei was one of the 14 students who waited for Konoe Shimatate to wake up in class. Much like the other students, he also woke up in the classroom. Shortly after Konoe has woken up, he and the other students introduced themselves to each other. He was the 8th 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.

### Chapter 1

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.

### Issei's Plan

Issei becomes aware of Yukime's and Chisa's sudden tension towards each other and decides to take advantage of this. He disguises himself as Chisa using foundation to match her skin color and changes his clothes to match hers. He also wore high heels to add extra height to himself as he was shorter than her and took off his blonde wig. Miruku Hishimeki witnessed him approach Yukime's room moments before the murder but didn't do anything about it, thinking that "Chisa" was going to make things out with her. The lighting of the hallway also made the disguise of Issei's seem convincing. He kills Yukime in her room with the black bladed knife and attempts to make her murder look like suicide by writing a fake note. He removes the heels he was wearing and switched the key part of his room key to create a locked-room mystery. After he was done, he leaves the scene of the crime and removed his disguise elsewhere.

Because of Miruku's testimony of witnessing "Chisa" walking towards Yukime's room moment before the murder, his plan of framing Chisa initially worked. But after Chisa explained her testimony, Miruku and the others start to realize that whoever killed Yukime was not Chisa, but somebody who has disguised as her. They start to piece together all the items he used for the disguise and Konoe points out Issei as a suspect for disguising as Chisa via the photos David F. Masuda have been given during student introductions and Yukime's notebook. He admits that he does have long hair and takes off his blonde wig, but he is unaware that his plans are slowly about to get exposed because of his high confidence.

### A Killer Exposed

Once he shows that he actually has long hair and not the short blonde hair he was always seen with, he starts to get cocky defending himself. His sanity also starts to take a toll as his plans get unfolded right in front of him. Once he gets outed as Yukime's killer. We get a brief flashback of Yukime's and Issei's off screen interaction back in the prologue. He desperately tries to blame Konoe and the others for ruining everything for him. At the same time, his distorted views on what's fictional and what is real start to show. The others deduce that he did not murder for the motive, but rather, he killed her for "ruining" his "perfect self" and his so called stage. They all tried to help him realize what is wrong with himself but he keeps pushing everyone away, thinking everyone is going against him.

Before he gets executed, a question mark is shown at the end of his name showing that he has truly lost himself and he starts to question himself and his identity, which would never get resolved for him as he gets executed before he gets his answer.

### Aftermath

After his execution, the other students start to be more honest about themselves towards others. His death made others realize that they still have enough time to move forward from their past mistakes and that it's still not too late to help each other.

## Talent and Abilities

### Super High School Level Stage Actor

According to Chisa in the prologue, he's impressed audiences and critics alike with his stunning singing and acting on stages around the world. Unfortunately, nothing else is said or known about his talent afterwards. Other than that he used his talent to create a false view of the world around him and himself.

## Creation and Development

In a Tweet made by Kurono Pencil, Kurono mentioned that they have intended to make Issei live longer back when they were deciding the podium arrangement of the class trial.

## Relationships

### Konoe Shimatate

Something that struck Konoe's attention when they first met is how direct he is when talking. Despite just meeting her, he speaks to her as if they are friends. Much like most of the cast she got extremely uncomfortable when she first met him but he does admire how she managed to get chosen as a student at the academy.

### David F. Masuda

During student introductions, he keeps trying to give David some of his many perverted photos to him. David reluctantly accepts the pictures. This bites Issei in the back later on in the class trial as David was the one to make the connection that Issei was the boy in the picture of Yukime's notebook, one of the key factors of exposing him as the killer.

### Yukime Ryō

Yukime saw through Issei's confident facade when they and the other students were introducing themselves to each other. She managed to see through it by analyzing his handwriting on an autograph but he denies her and dismissed them as claims. She wants to know him better but before that could happen, her life has been cut short by him trying to take advantage of her and Chisa's tension towards each other in Chapter 1 and to prove himself that he is not a coward. He did reveal that the reason why he killed her was because of their meeting and how she tried to "defile his perfect self", as how he mentions it and not because of the motive.

## References

1. ↑ **Danganronpa TheAfter:** Issei's Character Profile
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/orikyararonpa/status/1241314600215171072