Fujiko Yamada

Fujiko Yamada (山田 富士子, Yamada Fujiko) is a character featured in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. She is a manga artist and a Target for the Warriors of Hope's Demon Hunting.

Fujiko is the older sister of Hifumi Yamada and the closest person to him, which is why she became a Captive for Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc's first motive.

Fujiko's current location is around the Towa Integrated Book Store.

Appearance
Fujiko is a very small, chubby girl. She looks younger than she is and her real age is a mystery.

She has long, dark brown hair, with a small ahoge on top, which she ties in two big sidebuns; making her hairdo look very similar to her brother's when viewed from the front. She has huge brown eyes, thick eyebrows, a small cat-like smile (just like her brother), and odd swirl patterns on her cheeks. She wears a long sleeved school girl uniform along with black tights and white slip ons.

Personality
Fujiko is a kind and tender girl. She is also cowardly and easy to manipulate if her life is on the line, as stated by the Warriors of Hope in their Hit List entry of her. Since she is a very skilled manga artist, they plan to force her to draw comics of themselves before killing her.

Fujiko is apparently perverted, like her brother, and loves to draw pictures of naked boys. She can also draw food in a very detailed manner that makes them look extremely delicious to readers.

History
Like her brother, Fujiko is apparently a published independent release manga artist of a masterpiece four-panel series called ''Tara☆ Spa! ''

After Hifumi is sent to Hope's Peak Academy she continues on with her life. Later, she was captured by the Ultimate Despair and became a Captive for Monokuma's first motive in the Mutual Killing incident of Class 78. She was apparently enclosed in an apartment just like the other Captives.

She was later freed, only to become one of the people targeted by the Warriors of Hope. She hides in the Towa City Integrated Book Store, along with Fuhito Kirigiri.

Hifumi Yamada
Fujiko is both Hifumi's older sister and partner in fanfic and doujin creation. She is the closest person to Hifumi and thus, captured by Junko Enoshima as her brother's captive.

Creation and development
As shown in the official artbook of Danganronpa Another Episode, Fujiko was originally planned to be a very different kind of character.

She is described as "Hifumi Yamada's older sister, though not from the same mother, more of an older sister-in-law". She was a tall and slender, much more adult-like girl with a sailor uniform, glasses, long bright white twin-tails, a big forehead and big, darker eyebrows. She had "a natural gift of bullying" and she was a sadist. She had a habit of physically abusing her younger brother and she laughed with a strange, crooked expression. She was formerly named to be a manga artist and she is considered a Ultimate Grade "S" Perverted BDSM Bully.

The character was later drastically changed to be more of a tender type, and more similar to her brother. The finalized design seems to have originated from an early beta design for Kanon Nakajima.

The beta Fujiko's hairstyle and bullying nature were inherited to Kotoko Utsugi.

Trivia

 * Fujiko's name is a clear reference to Doraemon creator duo's pen name, Fujiko Fujio. Like Fujiko's works, Doraemon is well-liked by children.
 * Tara☆Spa! is likely a reference to the comedy manga Lucky☆Star by Kagami Yoshimizu, which is also a four-panel manga.
 * Fujiko's pen name for her book series is "Teacher Second Fry".