Kokichi Oma

Kokichi Oma (王馬 小吉 Ōma Kokichi) is a character featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and a participant of the New Killing School Life.

His title is Ultimate Supreme Leader (超高校級の「総統」 chō kōkō kyū no “sōtō” lit. Super High School Level Supreme Leader). He is the self-proclaimed leader of an evil secret society with more than 10,000 members, though it's unknown if it actually exists.

Appearance
Kokichi is a young man with an innocent look and a rather refined face. He has very pale skin, purple eyes and short, wavy purple hair.

He wears a white suit with multiple straps wrapped around his arms, two straps hang loose around his legs. His shirt is ripped at the hem. He has multi-colored buttons running down the middle of his shirt, and he has military badges on his right. He also wears black and purple slip flats and a checkered patterned scarf.

In his promotional art, he is shown with a dark flowing cloak and a leather peaked hat with a gold badge on top of it, giving him a more malicious look.

Personality
Kokichi describes himself as an evil supreme leader. He is strangely straightforward about his supposed evil nature, openly claiming to be a leader of a large secret society, admitting to being a liar, and saying he has done nothing but bad things. However, none of his claims have been confirmed.

He is an elusive and manipulative person who unabashedly tells lies and says whatever he's thinking. He frequently claims something only to shortly afterwards reveal that he was just lying, making it very hard to trust his word. He also tends to say whatever riles up the other students at the moment and tries to mess up conversations without any apparent reason. Indeed, neither because of impulsivity or the need to confuse others, he lies mostly because he feels he's free to do whatever he wants whenever he wants. Being a liar himself, he also sometimes seems to notice when and why other people are lying, and he himself claims his lies are told half out of kindness.

Because of his behavior, he is viewed as an antagonistic figure among the group. However, even though people find him suspicious, he is still somehow able to manipulate the class trials. He is often portrayed smiling slyly and laughing mischievously, though he may look very harmless and innocent at first glance. His voice can vary between higher and deeper note to fit the role he wishes to put on. He often behaves calmly and coolly in a way to torture the others, his voice turning deeper if he wishes to be especially ominous, but he can also try to use his looks to his advantage and sheds crocodile tears by crying loudly like a scared and threatened child.

Even though he enjoys to lie and stir chaos, Kokichi also addresses many valid points and main problems among the students. Despite all of his faults, he is also stated to have certain innocence which makes him hard to hate. This is seen in his occasional child-like excitement and the playfulness he shows towards Kiibo during their first meeting, making him seem more ignorant than actually malicious. He is also rather mischievous, enjoys pranks and seems to enjoy doing reckless things.

He refers to everyone including boys with the suffix "-chan", which is a suffix often associated with females; although, it is actually a tender suffix used for soft characters which are often female. Overall, he has a habit of referring to some other people in affectionate way, but it is unclear if he is being serious. He also has a unique laugh, which is "nishishi"—ironically, this is also the Japanese onomatopoeia for a horse, something which relates to his last name.

Ultimate Supreme Leader
Fitting for his title, Kokichi claims to be a leader of a secret society, with more than 10,000 members. His name, title and clothing also have references to dictators.

He has described himself as a liar and he appears to be very sly. He also seems to use his harmless and innocent looks to his advantage.

In his love hotel fantasy sequence, it's shown that he likes to view himself as a phantom thief type of a criminal.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Kokichi is the self-proclaimed leader of a large secret society. The group is shrouded in mystery and it's unknown if it even existsーeven the Ultimate Detective, Shuichi Saihara, does not seem to know any organization matching with Kokichi's one.

Demo - Class Trial Ver.
Kokichi is first seen inside the storage room chasing and harassing Kiibo. He innocently asks Kiibo to be his friend, unaware that his actions make the Ultimate Robot feel uncomfortable. After that, he introduces himself to Kaede Akamatsu and Makoto Naegi, claiming that he is the leader of a secret evil organization with over 10,000 members. However, he says that it might be a lie as he states that he is a liar. Throughout the conversation, he says things to offend Kiibo, such as asking whether he has a penis or not.

DICE
Kokichi is highly protective of the members of his group. When they are shown to be imprisoned and/or beaten, Kokichi is very distraught and plans his own death to save them. However due to the mind manipulation of Team Danganronpa, it is unknown if they actually exist.

Kiibo
Kokichi enjoys to tease Kiibo due to Kiibo being oblivious and a robot, thus making him an easy target. Kiibo is very uncomfortable with Kokichi because of this and repeatedly asks him to stop.

However, Kokichi does not really appear to have a malicious intent, as he seems genuinely interested in Kiibo. His behavior seems more like ignorance and innocent bigotry, as he seemingly considers robots interesting and "cool", but he thinks they aren't people, and thus he does not treat Kiibo like a real person. He is excited about Kiibo, wanting to be friends with "the robot" and childishly chasing him in an attempt to touch him, seemingly not realizing that his behavior is offensive and condescending. He also curiously asks about how the robot functions, like asking about his private parts, and seems disappointed if the answers are duller than he expected. He also wanted to be get rocket punched by Kiibo, but the robot stated he doesn't have such function.

Celestia Ludenberg
During Danganronpa V3's non-canon bonus mode, Kokichi and Celestia are students in the same school.

When Celestia is "elegantly sipping her tea", Kokichi rushes to tell her that Hifumi Yamada inflated himself and popped like a balloon. Celestia barely reacts to these news, only finding it inconvenient because Hifumi is the one who brews her tea. Kokichi is surprised by her nonchalant reaction and claims that the whole classroom is covered in blood. Celestia answers she finds no issue in that as long as her favorite purse is unstained. Kokichi remarks how cold she is and assumes it must be due to her experience as a gambler. He then tells her not to worry, revealing that he was just lying and both Hifumi and the purse are safe. Celestia says she is relieved and was completely tricked by him, but Kokichi knows she is lying and says that he hates when people lie. Apparently, her "I was deceived" gag is a thing between the two liars.

Kokichi wonders if Celestia is angered with him on the inside, but she claims that as a gambler she is used to being lied to, and unlike him she doesn't claim to detest lies. Attempting to annoy her, Kokichi then says that "Yasuhiro-chan" must hate people telling the truth much more than lying. Celestia stays composed despite the use of her real name, only having a quick pause, and then answers it's not like that at all because it would be tiresome if everything were lies all the time. Kokichi says that's just a joke and she's lying, and that's why he likes talking to people like her. However, Celestia assumes he is lying again.

The two decide to have a lying competition, betting on their lives and all belongings (the Japanese word "lying competition" has a pun on "date").

Quotes

 * “I'm Kokichi Oma. I'm the Ultimate Supreme Leader.”
 * “Do robots have dicks?” (to Kiibo)
 * “Even though you say we should all work together, do you doubt that the Mastermind is among us?”
 * “Because I'm an evil supreme leader, I've done nothing but bad things so far.”

Trivia

 * 小吉 Kokichi can mean "small luck", or can be a fortune telling reading for slightly good luck. 王馬 Ōma means "king horse", which could be a reference to his Ultimate talent.
 * While the characters "総統" may also be used to translate as "President", and still do in Japanese for President of Taiwan (中華民国総統) and in Chinese language, nowadays the kanji in Japanese is associated with "dictators". Ironically, the Japanese kanji for Presidents (of USA, for example), "大統領", means "junta leader" in Chinese language.
 * In his promotional art, Kokichi is shown holding Panta, which is a reference to the soda brand, Fanta.
 * He seems to be fond of torture according to his speech in the first character trailer's class trial.
 * Canonically, Kokichi has no connection or affiliation with Nazism, but some parts of his official art reference it as a way to compare him to a dictator.

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