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” lit. Super High School Level Tennis Player). Despite his promising career, he killed a whole mafia organization and became a prisoner on death row before being shut in Gifted Inmates Academy, earning him the nickname Killer Tennis.

Appearance
Ryoma is the shortest character in Danganronpa V3. Contrary to his soft 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. He always has a candy in his mouth.

Personality
Ryoma has a coolness that common high school students don't have, heightened by his very deep, mature voice. He is the calmest, composed, and unperturbed person in the killing game. He isn't shaken even if he is personally harmed.

Ryoma is a hard-boiled dandy character. Though he looks like a child, it's been said that 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. However, he is also stated to have certain kindness in him. He feels other people shouldn't get close to him, because he is on a death row and thus likely to die soon, which would cause his close ones emotional burden. Because of similar reasons, he is very much willing to die for others. He isn't bothered by murders and in the bonus mode of Danganronpa V3, he is very amused by the idea of "crushing" Nagito Komaeda.

Younger Ryoma was a big animal lover with a positive and proactive nature, but he states that now he is just a shadow of his former self.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Ryoma was a tennis player with a promising future, world famous since middle school days and winning many international matches. He used to have a pet cat in the past, which is why he also likes animals very much.

He began to kill mafia members by hitting them in the head with his custom-made steel tennis ball. The entire organization was annihilated and as a result he earned the alias Killer Tennis and ended up 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.

Demo - Class Trial Ver.
Ryoma was first seen inside the lodging area along with Kirumi Tojo and Tsumugi Shirogane. After he introduced himself to Kaede Akamatsu, he warned her not to get close to a murderer like him.

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 small appearance while Daisaku has a very squeaky voice with a very bulky appearance.
 * Ryoma is the shortest character in Danganronpa V3, and the shortest human character in the entire Danganronpa series.
 * He shares his first name with Ryoma Echizen, the protagonist of the sports anime 'The Prince of Tennis'. The fact that he is the 'Ultimate Tennis Player' also pays homeage to this anime.
 * He loves animals very much, especially cats.