Kōsuke Kanzashīchi

**Kōsuke Kanzashīchi** known by his nickname of **Kōsuke**, is a supporting character featured in Danganronpa Kirigiri. Kōsuke is the member of the Myst'ry Research Society that attends Ōu Daitōitsu University and participates in the Kareobana Academy Case Duel Noir.

## History

### Prior Life

After enrolling in Ōu Daitōitsu University, medical department student student, Kōsuke joined a mystery club dedicated to the genre after being hounded by Gorō Anbō (Columbo). The other members were: Tōru Uchida (Tōru), Erī Wan (Ellery), and Rei Naruko (Gray). However, during this time, they would get into a feud with the Black Magic Club, since the room the mystery club uses for their club meetings was previously the Black Magic's room.

### Kareobana Academy Case

One day, Tōru presented a warning letter to the society to come down to the Kareobana Academy and was addressed by the Black Magic Club. If they failed to appear something bad would happened, so they left to the mountains for it thanks to a taxi funded by Ellery. There, they found the body of Gray in the gymnasium and proceed to blow out the candles around her body in fear of the gym catching fire and set up base in the one classroom with a working stove. They tried to go back down, but found the landslide blocking their way out.

When they came back, they met Salvador Fukuro Yadorigi and come to realize he is a detective once he shows them his DSC card (though this was done after Kōsuke blocked him from leaving). This makes Columbo freak out and orders the rest of his club to not touch Salvador, while also ordering his one hand to keep still. During their introductions, Kōsuke is rather reluctant to share his name due to disliking it. However, the society believes that the culprit has to be Saki Fushie. Saki is the leader of the Black Magic Club and has only let the women join ever since getting elected. Under her leadership, they claim that the Black Magic club casts curses on people and hold secret meetings, but are still around since no one can prove any wrongdoing. Salvador, however, dismisses the possibility and believes the culprit is just using the society's enemies as scapegoats. Thus, leading to the possibility of one of the society members being the culprit. The club members look at each other warily, but dismiss it under the basis that they all came together for the four hour trip to the academy. Gray was determined to have died about four hours before their arrival since Kōsuke and Ellery were both medical students. Thus, Salvador holds back on judgement of them.

The group heads back to the gymnasium to investigate, where an excited Columbo presents a burnt piece of string to Salvador. Once their investigation is complete, Salvador makes to leave, but is asked to reveal what he knows about the crime, to which Salvador jokingly asks if they really want to know. Back in the classroom with the stove, they discover that their heat source has run out. The society panics, but Salvador assures them by saying his boy scout knowledge has given him the knowledge on how to light a fire and orders them to round up the rest of the candles. This annoys Kōsuke enough to grab Salvador by the jacket and knock his shades off, but backs off upon seeing Salvador's eyes and getting a strange feeling.

As they go back to the gym to round up the candles, Salvador explains the trick of the case involved using a sharpened candle that would fly over the drugged Gray until the special wick for it would burn up and plunge the candle into the body of Gray, killing her. He says that this trick was done to likely give the culprit and alibi, which causes suspicions to arise, but the society do vouch again for the integrity of each other. As the group heads back to the classroom, they hear a helicopter outside, which is piloted by Licorne.

The group accepts the ride from Licorne who flies off, but notes that everyone but Tōru would be allowed to leave. That's because Tōru is the culprit, who killed Gray because she was a spy working for the Black Magic Club who cut the brakes of his sister's car, something that caused her to get into an accident and crash. Thus, fearing for his clubmates safety, Tōru accepted the Duel Noir. This causes the rest of the society to be frustrated with him for being tempted by strangers and not coming to them for help. During the helicopter ride, all four would eventually fall asleep.

### Libra Girls Academy Case

Wanting to assist Salvador further as he went to the Libra Girls Academy to meet with Yui, the society (minus Tōru), leave the helicopter as well. Initially, they were investigating and tearing down the boards that sealed the entrance to the academy. However, once inside, they ended up tripping the scales used for the trick that allowed them to meet a captive Yui Samidare being held up be the culprit, Sachi Mizuiyama, with a nail gun. Having mistaken Yui's warning as a cry for help, Columbo orders them to charge at Sachi. Sachi tries to fire at them, but Columbo's calls to Ellery who blocks the nail by opening her umbrella. Columbo then orders Kōsuke to attack, who obeys and knocks out Sachi with a running dropkick.

With Sachi defeated, the club apprehends her and they join with the two girls who had held onto an injured Salvador. Following the completion of the case, the society went to the police station to help report had transpired in the Duel Noir.

## Appearance

Kōsuke is a red-haired young man that has yellows eyes. He wears a bandanna with a skull on his head and his attire is described as being very punk-looking, such as wearing a leather jacket and have a bunch of chains hanging from such clothes.

## Personality

As his appearance suggests, Kōsuke is a rather rough and aggressive, openly challenging Salvador if he does something he deems suspicious or not taking things seriously. Such aggression even applies to his club president, who exasperates him with his excitability and slow-witted nature. That said, Kōsuke does listen to Columbo's orders, such as during their confrontation with Sachi, despite his own apprehension concerning the situation. Given that he was willing to jump into the fray even when Sachi was shooting at his group, it proves that he has a courageous heart. He was also downtrodden over learning Tōru had murdered someone, and wished that he could have done something to prevent it. Given that he and Ellery were able to discern the time of death for Gray, it shows he's rather proficient in his studies as a medical student.

## Trivia

* Kōsuke does not like his own name.
* Kōsuke's alias comes from Kōsuke Kindachi who is a fictional Japanese detective of his own titular series that spans over 77 novels.