Kokichi Oma

"Well, if I said something that important right away, that wouldn't be much fun."

- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo)

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

His title is Ultimate Supreme Leader (超高校級の「総統」 chō kōkō kyū no “sōtō” lit. Super High School 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.

Early Life
{{Spoiler/for|Danganronpa V3|
 * Before Joining Danganronpa

Kokichi Oma is a normal talentless high school boy who participated in the 53rd Season of Danganronpa, a famous worldwide reality show made by Team Danganronpa.

Kokichi and the other talentless fifteen students undergo the fabrication process, where all of their past memory and personality were heavily fabricated. He also received the talent and title of Ultimate Supreme Leader. All of this were done for the sake of satisfying Danganronpa's audience from all around the world. After the fabrication process done, Kokichi and the others entered the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles as a whole different person, officially commencing the 53rd killing game season known as the Killing Game Semester.

During his high school days, Kokichi attended Imperial Capital's Imperial High School (帝都大帝都高校). However, it is unclear if this memory of him is a part of the fabrication made by Team Danganronpa.


 * Fabricated Past

After he successfully participated in the 53rd Killing Game, Kokichi's memories and past were fabricated by Team Danganronpa as follows.

Kokichi's past is very unclear due to his constant lying and the fact that he strictly refuses to reveal anything personal about himself. However, he has claimed that nobody would care if he was gone, and it's been implied that he has no parents nor family.

It's known that he is the leader of DICE, a small group of young pranksters, who are the most important people and like a family to him. They have traveled around the world and commit "laughable crimes" for fun, which could indicate that they could be a group of orphans with no families nor parents to hold them back. Kokichi is also good at stealing, which might be due to his past.

During the killing game, Kokichi lies he is the supreme leader of a large, evil secret society. Obviously, there is no evidence of it and the Ultimate Detective, Shuichi Saihara, does not know any organization matching with Kokichi's one. During his free time event, Kokichi claims he became the supreme leader by killing his parents and taking their place. He then claims he lied, and that the one who killed them was his brother. He claims he lied again and that the real reason is a secret. Considering his tendency to have some truth among his lies, this could imply something about his past.

There is a scene in the bonus mode Ultimate Talent Development Plan which hints about his family situation, as Kokichi and Kaito won't go home for New Year's, Kaito due to his unconventional family situation of living with his grandparents. Kaito asks Kokichi why he isn't at home with his parents (and aren't his parents embarrassed of him being such a brat at his age). Kokichi only tells him that he shouldn't ask such personal questions when talking to the supreme leader.

However, it is unclear how much, if any, of Kokichi's past before participating in the 53rd Killing Game was real, and which fabricated by Team Danganronpa.

The Gofer Project
Part of the fake backstories created for Kokichi and the other fifteen students was The Gofer Project, which supposedly happened before the killing game started. It was initiated by the government after countless meteorites crashed into Earth. To try and preserve the last vestiges of mankind before the Earth’s destruction, the government decided to select a number of excellent human beings, put them in a spaceship, and have them escape.

Kokichi and fifteen other high school students were chosen to participate. Not wanting to abandon their loved ones, they attempted to escape from the plan.

Around that time, an extremist cult came into power. They believed that the meteor crashes were a punishment humanity brought upon itself, and having heard of The Gofer Project, they tried to stop it. As a result, the “Ultimate Hunt” started and spread throughout the world, and the sixteen students were hunted down.

The government then decided to counter the situation by faking the students’ deaths, calming down the “Ultimate Hunt” while providing protection to the students. The Gofer Project was then put into action while the Earth was being destroyed. Kokichi and the others went to the space in a massive colony spaceship, the true form of Ultimate Academy of Gifted Juveniles.

Kokichi who is secretely as a member of Junko Enoshima's Remnants of Despair declared that he is the mastermind behind the Killing Game who let Monokuma entered the spaceship, effectively forcing the fifteen students to participate in the Killing Game.

It should be noted that Kokichi has no complete recollection of the event, as he was not present when the complete memory about The Gofer Project was triggered by the Flashback Light in Chapter 5. }}

Killing Game Semester
{{spoiler/for|Danganronpa V3| Prior to Rantaro Amami's murder, Kokichi was in his room. He would later be among the last group of students to enter the library and discover his corpse after the body discovery announcement had played.

During the class trial, he boasted about being an evil supreme leader and as such, used to situations like this. He would go on to pin the crime on Miu Iruma in the early stages of the trial since she constructed the cameras in the library, but Kaede Akamatsu and Korekiyo Shinguji were quick to defend her and said that she was in the cafeteria at that time with Korekiyo, Kirumi Tojo, and Tsumugi Shirogane. Miu acknowledged Kaede and said that she did good, but harshly belittled Kokichi for being a liar, to which he responded with by shedding fake tears.

Later on in the trial, he would be quick to jump onto Shuichi as the culprit after he claimed that he had forgotten to mention the camera intervals to Kaede. She was quick to defend him, but Kokichi would continue to push constantly and ended up being one of the main students who believed that Shuichi had commited the crime. He was very quick to see through Kaede's lie, being a liar himself, but left it up to everyone else to see if they would choose to believe in her. He eventually backed down along with the other students who were against Shuichi after Kaede and the students who defended Shuichi proved his innocence.

After Shuichi revealed Kaede as the true killer, Kokichi was intrigued and gladly went along in proving her guilt. He was one of the few students to show no sadness upon her demise and simply told her she fell straight for Monokuma's trap before she was executed.

In Chapter 2, Kokichi was the only student who believed not exchanging Monokubpads was a bad idea. He led a plan where he used Gonta to capture everyone and show them all the videos, but that plan was foiled by K1-B0 exposing his lie. He met Kirumi along the way, establishing an alibi for both of them.

After Kirumi is exposed as the killer, he exposes her plan to sacrifice the students while she makes an escape. After everyone leaves the trial room, he exposes Maki Harukawa's real talent and accuses her of having driven Ryouma Hoshi to suicide.

In Chapter 3, Kokichi is one of the students who oppose Angie Yonaga's Student Council.

During investigation, he trips on a replica of the killer's trap and starts bleeding from it. He decides to use this blood to fake a body discovery scene for himself.

Later in the trial, he is accused of the murder due to his ability to pick locks, but he openly accepts the accusation and even claims that he is the killer.

The New World Program
During the Killing Game Semester, the students of Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles enter a virtual world program to find out what has happened in the "outside world". Miu Iruma, being the Ultimate Inventor, tampered with the program such that it makes it easy for her to murder Kokichi in the program while setting Kaito Momota up to be the culprit.

However, Kokichi notices the trap and collaborates with Gonta Gokuhara to murder Miu by manipulating the changes she has made to the program. Gonta, having been implanted, or made to remember the supposed truth about the outside world whilst in the virtual world program, readily carries out the plan, as he wants to end everyone's suffering without ever letting them realize that by graduating, they would only be leaving one hell and entering another. Due to Gonta accidentally mixing up the "memory" and "consciousness" cords before he entered, he retains no memory of ever being in the virtual world at all. Despite Kokichi being the one who created the plan, he is not considered the culprit of the murder as he did not directly kill anyone.

After the trial is over, he asks to be executed together with Gonta, but the idea is rejected. After the execution, he madly declares that his motive was enjoying seeing people suffer. Later he gets a monologue scene stating it's time to end the game.

Kokichi's Plan
Following the fourth trial, Kokichi would disappear for a couple days and later reappear in the gym, bringing with him Miu Iruma's inventions and offering them to his classmates.

After the other survivors use these inventions to cross the Death Road of Despair, they came across a large metal hatch which they open up and discover the apparent state of the outside world. Shortly after, Kokichi appears and proclaims himself to be the ringleader behind the game and controls the Exisal's to take Kaito Momota hostage in the Exisal hanger.

A few days later, Kaito who was still being held captive inside the hanger, had Himiko Yumeno bring him a disassembled crossbow through the small bathroom window. He proceeded to assemble the crossbow and threatened Kokichi with it, not wishing to kill him, but at the very least overpower him. Kaito shot him in the arm and they got into a quarrel. It was at this time that Maki Harukawa rode an Exisal into the hanger, intent on ending the killing game, saving Kaito, and killing Kokichi due to believing that he was a Remnant of Despair from the false memory triggered by the Flashback Light.

Kokichi made a desperate grab for the remote control that Miu made to control any electronic device, but he was promptly shot in the back by Maki with a poison tipped arrow from her crossbow and brought to the ground. Despite the position he was in, Kokichi belittled Maki, asking her why a killing game that should have already ended is still continuing. He had no idea what she means by Remnant of Despair, and asked her whether or not she really enjoys killing that much. Maki would not hear any of it and proceeded to shoot the killing blow, only to have it intercepted by Kaito, stunning Kokichi and shocking Maki.



Maki panicked and rushed out of the hanger and made her way to Shuichi's Research Lab to retrieve the antidote, but Kokichi closed the shutter to the hanger to ensure she could not come back in. Later, Maki came back with the antidote and passed it to Kaito through the small bathroom window, but Kokichi immediately stole it and supposedly drank it, much to Kaito's anger, and Maki's horror due to there only being one antidote. Kokichi boasted that another class trial would start now where Kaito would be the victim and Maki would be the blackened, much to her shock. Kaito reassured her that she would be fine and told her to leave.

After Maki fled the scene, Kokichi used the electric bomb to disable the security alarm, and the safety mechanism of the press machine inside of the hanger. He then gave the antidote to Kaito, revealing that he only pretended to drink it. He forced Kaito to comply with his plan where he would kill him in order to create an unknown victim case so that Monokuma would not be able to create proper judgement during the class trial. Kaito initially refused, but when Kokichi made the point that Maki would be the blackened if he didn't, he had no choice but to go along with the plan in order save Maki, and stop the killing game as well. It is revealed here that Kokichi has actually been trying to stop the killing game from the very beginning. Pretending to be the mastermind and revealing the supposed truth about the outside world to the others was all done by him to discourage another killing from happening. He states that the idea of someone watching this boring killing game where they risk their lives pissed him off. Kaito couldn't tell if he was lying or not, but acknowledged that he was really pulling at his strings in order to get him to work with him.

Kokichi's Fate
Both Kokichi and Kaito acted quickly to ensure that the former would not die from poison that was circulating throughout his body. They both made their way to the press machine and began to go through with the plan. Kaito took off his jacket, placed it underneath the press machine, then lied down on it while Kokichi controlled the press machine and filmed the "time of death" with a simple video camera. Kokichi stopped the press machine and the video camera while only Kaito's sleeve was visible, then the two promptly swapped places. Kaito, now controlling both the press machine and camera, turned them both on once again, crushing Kokichi to an unrecognizable, bloody mess, with Kaito's jacket sleeve hanging out of the press as a false clue as to who the victim was.

Kaito would proceed to retrieve the video camera, snap the cords to the press machine to ensure it would not move again, and hid inside the red Exisal until the class trial began, where he imitated the Ultimate Supreme Leader himself thanks to the Exisal's voice changing function, as well as a book that Kokichi prepared for this exact moment that detailed his exact way of speaking and specific behaviors unique to him, essentially carrying on his will and plan until Shuichi is able to deduce that the person inside of the Exisal is not Kokichi, but Kaito.

After the Class Trial ended, Shuichi concluded that Kokichi was someone they could not understand all the way until the very end, and that he might be the physical embodiment of "lie" itself.

Uncovering the Truth
Kokichi's Research Lab would open up to everyone in this chapter. It is here that his motive video is discovered by Shuichi which reveals that Kokichi's supposed "evil secret society" was nothing more than a group of ten pranksters known as DICE that committed humorous petty crimes and had a motto of not killing anyone. This motivation video would later be used as evidence during the final class trial to disprove Kokichi being a Remnant of Despair, as well as evidence to prove the survivors own contradicting memories with the actual facts about Hope's Peak Academy.}}

Name
His given name kokichi (小吉) can mean "small luck", or can be a fortune telling reading for slightly good luck. His last name, ōma (王馬) 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.

Alternate Fates
In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version), Kokichi is first seen inside the storage room chasing and harassing K1-B0. He innocently asks K1-B0 to be his friend, unaware that his actions make the Super High School Level Robot feel uncomfortable. After that, he introduces himself to Kaede 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 K1-B0, such as asking whether he has a penis or not.

Appearance
Kokichi is a young man with an innocent look and a rather refined face. He has a short stature, a decent and thin build, and very pale skin. He has 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 an elusive and manipulative person who unabashedly tells lies and says whatever he's thinking. He is also 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. Among other things, his organization supposedly has covert agents in every country, control over all the mafias in the world, torture as a form of punishment, and Kokichi's defeated opponents apparently will get sent in Siberia. However, none of his claims have been confirmed, and the other students think he's either lying or delusional. In his love hotel fantasy sequence, it's shown that he likes to imagine himself as a legendary phantom thief who has a romantic rivalry with a detective.

According to Kazutaka Kodaka, Kokichi is a trickster character in the truest sense of the word. He is very mischievous, and he enjoys pranks and teasing others sometimes in quite mean-spirited ways. 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. He often behaves calmly and coolly in a way to torture the others, at times turning very ominous to the point of having very unsettling, downright demonic looking expressions. He can also try to use his looks to his advantage and sheds crocodile tears by crying loudly like a scared and threatened child, telling the others they're being really mean, but this is always overly dramatic and obviously fake. There are also moments when he appears scared, tearfully mentioning that he is afraid of the killing game and doesn't want to die, but it's unclear if he is being genuine or just trying to get sympathy with his child-like appearance and behavior. At times, he also suddenly falls asleep and snores comically, angering the others. He is well aware that he is disliked, claiming that nobody would care if he died.

Particularly, Kokichi considers lying a big part of himself and appears either unwilling or unable to stop it. 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 sometimes seems to notice when and why other people are lying. Ironically, he appears annoyed if other people are lying, either to others or themselves, and he claims that he hates liars. He also appears to have little trust in anyone or anything, refusing to tell anything about himself besides his questionable supreme leader claims, and generally questioning the truthfulness of different situations. In general, he appears to be somewhat against cooperation, thinking it's not the correct way to act in the killing game.

Kokichi refers to everyone including boys with the suffix "-chan", 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 as his "beloved", but it is unclear if he is being serious. He is known to use this term of people he seems to like, but it also could be sarcastic or just flattery at times. He also has a very unique laugh, which is "nishishi"—ironically, this is also the Japanese onomatopoeia for a horse, something which relates to his last name. In the English localization, the laugh is translated as "nee-heehee".

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 other languages
Kokichi's talent as it appears in official translations of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Keen-Intellect
Kokichi is one of the most intelligent students.

Relationships

 * DICE:


 * Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles:

K1-B0
Kokichi enjoys teasing K1-B0 due to K1-B0 being oblivious and a robot, thus making him an easy target. K1-B0 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 K1-B0. 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 K1-B0 like a real person. He is excited about K1-B0, 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 get rocket punched by K1-B0, but the robot stated he doesn't have such function.

Kirumi Tojo
After learning that she is a great cook, Kokichi wants Kirumi to be his "mom" and keeps asking her about it. She is not fond of the idea, though.

Kokichi is later chased around and scolded by Kirumi. When disappointed in her behavior, Kokichi responds with "and she dares to call herself my mom" attitude.

Favorite Presents

 * Bubble Gum
 * Gyoza Shaped After Someone's Face
 * Autumn-colored Scarf
 * Commemorative Medal Set
 * Rock-Paper-Scissors Cards
 * Perfect Lasergun

Liked Presents

 * Immortality Root Beer
 * Solid Ice Cream
 * Ladybug Brooch

Neutral Presents

 * Stripped Necktie
 * Trainingwear
 * Cleopatra's Pearl

Hated Presents

 * Ketchup
 * Ouendan Head Coat
 * Bondage Boots
 * Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles's Bracelet
 * White Mustache for Robots

Quotes

 * -|DRV3 Demo=

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List of Appearances

 * -|Games=
 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version)
 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
 * -|Manga=
 * New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shin Gakki Comic Anthology
 * New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shin Gakki Comic Anthology Volume 2

Trivia

 * Kokichi Oma Trivia Six Fingers.png the early Japanese trailer released on October 24th, 2016, one of Kokichi's sprites was erroneously drawn with six fingers.
 * Kokichi's English voice actor, Derek Stephen Prince, also voices Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu in the Danganronpa series.
 * In his promotional art, Kokichi is shown holding Panta, which is a reference to the soda brand, Fanta.
 * 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.
 * In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Kokichi the 2nd most popular Danganronpa V3 student out of 16.
 * Kokichi's astrological sign is Gemini, which is often associated with lying and being a good liar in astrology due to their dual nature. Mercury, the sign ruler, is the god of tricksters and thieves in the Roman mythology.
 * He appears to have a fear of insects. He describes the sight of them crawling around as "nasty" and more or less jokingly calls Gonta's Study Center "Hell". He is also heard screaming in terror when Gonta forces him to be closer with a massive amount of bugs. According to Gonta, he then foamed at the mouth and passed out.
 * Danganronpa_V3_Demo_Ouma_Spelling.png the E3 2017 premiere of the Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Demo Version, the English translated opening intro included Kokichi Oma's name spelled as "Kokichi Ouma", which goes against typical NIS America localization spelling. NIS America confirmed this was an error that would be rectified by the release of the public demo, and it was later corrected in the full demo footage released by IGN on July 31st, 2017.

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