Ryoma Hoshi

Ryoma Hoshi (星 竜馬 Hoshi Ryōma) is a character featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and a participant of the New Killing School Life.

His title is Ultimate Tennis Player (超高校級の「テニス選手」 chō kōkō kyū no "tenisu senshu"). He was a former assassin who killed mafia members and a prisoner before being shut in Gifted Inmates Academy. His nickname is Killer Tennis.

Appearance
Ryoma is the shortest character in Danganronpa V3. Despite his appearance, he has a very deep voice. He has black eyes with no visible pupils and pale rosy cheeks.

He wears a black hat with two points that has a picture of two blue tennis rackets on it. He wears a black leather jacket, and a black and dark blue striped jumpsuit underneath, similar to that of a prisoner. He wears brown shoes and has a metal cuff attached to his left leg with a bit of a chain attached to the cuff.

His legs are notably much more muscular than the rest of his body.

Personality
Ryoma has a coolness that common high school students doesn't have. He is very calm and unperturbed, even when being forced into a killing game. He seems as if he wouldn’t be shaken even if he was personally harmed or if someone was killed.

Though he looks like a child, his life experience would put an adult to shame. Due to his grand past as an assassin, he considers himself a killer, the kind of person other people should not get close to.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Ryoma is a famous tennis player with a promising future and has winning many international match since his middle school days. However, he became an assassin who killed mafia members by hitting them in the head using his custom-made steel tennis ball. The entire organization was annihilated, making him earned the alias Killer Tennis and ending up became a prisoner on death row. Because he was incarcerated before coming to Gifted Inmates Academy, he says that the Ultimate Tennis Player already is no more.

Trivia

 * His given name, 竜馬 Ryōma, is composed of the characters for "dragon" (竜) and "horse" (馬).
 * His last name, 星 Hoshi, means "star".
 * Unlike Daisaku Bandai, Ryoma has a very deep voice despite his child-like appearance while Daisaku has a very squeaky voice with a very bulky appearance.